Lorne Michaels recalls the controversy surrounding Shane Gillis' hiring and subsequent firing at 'Saturday Night Live', says ...

Asked if he’s more concerned about being politically correct now than when the show started in 1975, Michaels reflected on ...

"When he came back to the show last year [to host], we saw, 'Oh right, he’s really talented, and he would’ve been really good ...

Bowen Yang is pulling back the curtain on comedian Shane Gillis’ hiring and subsequent firing from Saturday Night Live in ...

SNL star Bowen Yang recalls apologetic phone call with fired cast member Shane Gillis Gillis was announced as a new featured ...

Bowen Yang is pulling back the curtain on comedian Shane Gillis’ hiring and subsequent firing from Saturday Night Live in 2019. Yang spoke about the situation in a profile in The New Yorker ...

Yang added that he spoke to Gillis just before it was announced that he was being fired from the show. Yang reportedly texted ...

Bowen Yang has shared tidbits from a phone exchange he said he had with Shane Gillis before the latter was fired ... as he was still processing the enormity of his new gig. After receiving the “SNL” ...

where he found himself making headlines alongside the likes of Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis. Yang and Gillis joined the cast of SNL at the same time in 2019, but Gillis was abruptly fired just ...