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Anatomy of a Fail
Yes, Shane Gillis bombed on SNL, but not for the reasons you think.
“That’s wrong, as far as I’m concerned.” He then offers a quote from Andy Warhol: “Art is getting away with it.” You can talk about sensitive issues, like sexuality or disabilities, but the audience needs to leave happy. He awkwardly has to wait a couple seconds too long for someone to bring him the mic then stammers through his first joke, which is a vague acknowledgement of the controversy around his 2019 SNL hiring and firing. When he delivers the punch line (around the 1:10 mark) during his high-school football-coach joke, even though you hear laughter in the clip, Gillis awkwardly pauses, laughs, and says “All right” to himself.
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