In a recent interview, Lorne Michaels finally spilled the tea on why Shane Gillis was actually canned by 'Saturday Night Live ...

During Shane's opening monologue to kick off ... shocking audience members with jokes about Down syndrome and race. Gillis's uncanny impression of presidential hopeful Donald Trump seemingly ...

Lorne Michaels revealed once and for all that it was NBC’s decision to fire Shane Gillis from “Saturday Night Live” after the comedian’s past homophobic comments and racist remarks about ...

In a Wall Street Journal feature about the landmark 50th season of sketch comedy institution “Saturday Night Live,” executive ...

During an appearance at the Skankfest comedy festival in Las Vegas that coincided with SNL’s 50th season premiere last weekend, comedian Shane Gillis told the crowd that he turned down an offer ...

28, and Mechanicsburg native and comedian Shane Gillis ... he turned it down to [expletive] here tonight,” said Gomez, eliciting cheers and excitement from festival goers. Gillis recalled ...

Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels has some regrets — and one of them was not getting comedian Shane Gillis to stay on the show as a cast member. Back in 2019 ...

Michaels still thinks the controversy over Gillis was overblown: “He said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world.” Michaels also admits, “I was angry. I thought ...

Read about those events and more as we break down what's going on in the Philadelphia area from Friday to Sunday. Shane Gillis at Wells Fargo Center Stand-up fan favorite and Pennsylvania native ...

Comedian and Mechanicsburg native, Shane Gillis, will perform on Friday, Oct. 18, in Philadelphia. The 8 p.m. show at the Wells Fargo Center is sold out. The Oct. 18 show is the only one on his ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live, has said that he didn’t want to fire Shane Gillis from the show but was ordered to by executives at NBC. In 2019, Gillis was fired shortly ...

On Sept. 12, 2019, comedian Shane Gillis was announced as a new addition to the Saturday Night Live cast ahead of Season 45. Only four days later, Gillis was fired. Gillis' abrupt exit from NBC's ...