Name: UHOH! Shane Gillis Andrew Yang SNL Controversy, Lilly Singh's Mixed Reviews, & The GM Strike
Uploaded: 2020-01-12T19:03:43.000Z
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And the first thing that we're gonna talk about today,

I can't believe we're having to talk about this again

and since apparently everybody else on the internet

once again I will preach it from the rooftops,

I mean, it was an honor just to be nominated.

No, but the reason I'm doing this bit again

you had SNL announcing three new cast members

Shane Gillis, Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang.

to be the only Asian-American regular on the show.

But then the focus shifted to Shane Gillis

and that is because of a series of podcasts

that he made with fellow comedian Matt McCusker

called "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast."

One of the first of these clips that went viral

was Gillis talking about Asian people living

And the translation between you and the waiter,

- Which actually on the note of the video being

and so in those now not-so-secret podcasts,

Gillis can be heard making comments about Latino people,

from a different podcast where reportedly on May 27th,

at Democratic Presidential candidate, Andrew Yang.

- [Gillis] Give me your next candidate, Dems.

- You also have people calling Gillis homophobic

where he repeatedly used an anti-gay slur.

In one of those instances, he uses the slur

right after doing a caricatured Middle Eastern accent,

who talk about their depression in their stand-up routines.

- [Gillis] Those guys are fucking gayer than Isis.

"after we blow ourselves up, we get a bunch of pussy."

that Gillis used to perform at telling Vulture,

"Good Good Comedy Theater stopped working with him

"within the past few years because of racist, homophobic

"and sexist things he's said on and offstage."

we saw Gillis kind of apologize on Twitter, writing,

"If you go through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad,

"you're going to find a lot of bad misses.

"who's actually offended by anything I've said.

"but I am trying to be the best comedian I can be

there were criticisms because it's not like a lot

with a number of them being from the past two years

seemingly, at least according to reports,

The main point, the reactions and the debate,

they continued over the weekend until yesterday

when you had SNL put out a statement saying,

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