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Lorne Michaels Was ‘Angry’ Over Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Firing and Says NBC Made the Call; Refutes Claim ‘SNL’ Goes Softer on Democrats: ‘There’s Stupidity on Both Sides’
Lorne Michaels was angry when NBC decided to fire Shane Gillis from "SNL" in 2019 and says the show does not favor Democrats.
Lorne Michaels told the Wall Street Journal that he was “angry” when Shane Gillis got fired from “ Saturday Night Live ” in 2019 after offensive jokes he made on a podcast resurfaced online, including ones with racial slurs about Asian people. Michaels previously told THR in September that Gillis’ firing was a “bad time” and said the comedian “got beat up for things that he’d done years earlier and the overreaction to it was so stunning.” NBC’s decision to fire Gillis was partly due to advertisers threatening not to support “SNL,” with Michaels explaining: “200 Asian companies were going to boycott the show.” “And the velocity of cancellation — and lots of people deserved to not be liked — it just became not quite the Reign of Terror, but it was like you’re judging everybody on every position they have on every issue as opposed to, ‘Are they any good at the thing they do?
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