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What’s the Deal With Shane Gillis Hosting SNL?


The comedian was fired from the cast in 2019. Now he’s returning to host. Why?

Hours later, freelance comedy journalist Seth Simons surfaced a clip from Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast featuring Gillis and McCusker lazily riffing on Chinatown, its restaurants, and their inability to process its Chinese-ness. In Live in Austin, he paints a picture of his dad as a compulsive Fox News viewer foaming at the mouth in search of one cogent talking point he can shoehorn into every future conversation, then equates that to the behavior of liberals doomscrolling Twitter. His biographical material — everything from tragicomic bits about his sister’s opioid addiction to quick asides about “crushing milk” while visiting his parents — paints a picture of his upbringing as just blue collar enough to liberate him from some of society’s most stringent politically correct mores.

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