Lorne Michaels has opened up, again, about the decision to fire Shane Gillis from Saturday Night Live before he’d ever stepped on the Studio 8H stage.
Gillis was fired in September 2019, ahead of Season 45 of the long-running show. At the time, it appeared to be a decision by creator Michaels, but in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, the Canadian said it was NBC’s call. “That was very strong from the people in charge.
And obviously I was not on that side, but I understood it,” Michaels told the newspaper. Gillis never made it to the SNL cast after online comments surfaced where he used a racial slur against Asians.
In a statement at the time, Michaels, via a spokesperson said “after talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL”.
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