Last weekend, Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live. It was the third time he has hosted since being fired from the cast, because cancel culture is not real, especially if you are a celebrity and can make someone money. I rarely watch SNL anymore and, if I’m being fully honest, sometimes forget it is on the air unless a clip goes viral or a host accidentally swears. In this recent episode, Shane Gillis did both.
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When there is breaking news about comedy, there are two guarantees.
The first is that it’s never good news. There is never an article about John Mulaney curing some disease or Sarah Silverman winning Le Mans. It’s only a story about controversy.
Knowing that, the second guarantee is that for a few days, my Facebook feed becomes fucking insufferable. Between hot takes, juicy bits, and other nonsense, every comedian wants to lob out some nugget for all of social media to socially mediate. I’m also totally guilty of this myself, so I apologize if I’ve made your timeline insufferable.
So, if you are a comedian or know a comedian, or know anyone that has watched a Netflix special or has an opinion about free speech, your timeline these past 24 hours has no doubt been filled with stories of Shane Gillis.
And I’m about to make it worse.
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