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A Taxonomy of Problematic SNL Hosts
Saturday Night Live has been in a real mood as of late, platforming a series of transphobic, right-wing, and racist...
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Posted Thursday 3/19/20 at 4:57AM EDT
SNL's Bowen Yang recalls reaching out to Shane Gillis amid the comic's racial and homophobic slur controversy
In a profile of Yang, GQ revisited the groundbreaking moment Yang was hired as the first cast SNL cast member...
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Posted Sunday 1/26/20 at 3:37PM EST
Bowen Yang comments for the first time on SNL's Shane Gillis scandal, recalls his parents putting him in gay conversion therapy
Yang, the first Asian-American cast member in Saturday Night Live history, has become a breakout star in his four months...
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Posted Saturday 1/11/20 at 2:02PM EST
NBC boss on SNL firing Shane Gillis over racial and homophobic slur controversy: “We acted fast, Lorne did the right thing"
NBC Entertainment president Paul Telegdy addressed last summer's debacle this morning at the TV press tour.
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Posted Thursday 11/07/19 at 3:42AM EST
Judd Apatow: "I do think that comedians should be criticized"
Apatow tells The Last Laugh podcast that criticism of Louis CK mocking Parkland kids is justified because he was performing...
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Posted Monday 10/14/19 at 3:28PM EDT
Kenan Thompson on Shane Gillis' firing: SNL's brand is to not be offensive, "especially during these woke times"
"It's very touchy out there," Thompson said Sunday at the New Yorker Film Festival.
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Posted Friday 10/11/19 at 5:10AM EDT
Norm Macdonald appears to threaten the comedy journalist who uncovered Shane Gillis' racial slurs
Seth Simons, the freelance comedy journalist who drew attention to Gillis' racial slurs that led to the comedian's firing from...
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Posted Wednesday 10/09/19 at 11:05PM EDT
Ali Wong had no idea Shane Gillis' referenced her on his podcast -- she offers her take on offensive comedy
Wong heard about Gillis' racial slur controversy that got him kicked off SNL, but she had no idea that he...
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Posted Wednesday 10/09/19 at 4:31AM EDT
Marc Maron slams claim that "woke culture" is killing comedy
Maron, who appears in Todd Phillips' Joker, responded to the director's claim that "woke culture" is killing comedy.
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Posted Saturday 10/05/19 at 9:42AM EDT
Comedians have been essentially complaining about cancel culture since the 1980s and 1990s
"People fretted over political correctness back then, too, you know," Drew Magary says of the recent trend of comedians complaining...
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Posted Saturday 9/28/19 at 7:16AM EDT
Bill Burr's own career is the perfect counterargument to his "cancel culture" tirade
Burr stuck up for Shane Gillis after his SNL firing, saying on Lights Out with David Spade last week: "None...
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Posted Tuesday 9/24/19 at 3:21AM EDT
Comedians complaining about "cancel culture" have become the "the tiresome cowards they accuse their critics of being"
"As far as comedy is concerned, 'cancel culture' seems to be the name mediocrities and legends on their way to...
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Posted Monday 9/23/19 at 9:15AM EDT
Bill Hader on Shane Gillis' SNL firing: "I think it’s a good thing"
"You shouldn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, you know," the Emmy-winning Barry star told People at the Emmys.
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Posted Saturday 9/21/19 at 12:54AM EDT
"Cancel culture" has become a phrase that's almost meaningless, especially in the Shane Gillis SNL controversy
"Like many phrases and ideas in 2019, this one has been appropriated, bastardized, and misused to the point of not...
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Posted Friday 9/20/19 at 12:51PM EDT
A comedian who auditioned with Shane Gillis says "red-state appeal has been a thing that SNL has been looking for since Trump got elected"
An anonymous comedian spoke to Vulture about Saturday Night Live's audition process, saying: "I started hearing the term 'red-state appeal'...