'Twitter has been nuts. You try to stay off it when the whole country hates you,' Shane Gillis said in his first show since 'Saturday Night Live' fired him.
Sarah Silverman, host of the Emmy-nominated variety sketch series “I Love You, America,” calls “cancel culture” a “mutated” form of McCarthyism.
Gillis’ Wednesday gig comes on the heels of support he’s received via Twitter from past “SNL” comedians Rob Schneider and Norm Macdonald.“As a former SNL cast member I am sorry that you had the misfortune of being a cast member during this era of cultural unforgiveness where comedic misfires are subject to the intolerable inquisition of those who never risked bombing on stage themselves,” Schneider wrote in a four-part tweet Monday.
“I think a suspension would be appropriate for someone who is part of an organization that says something terrible in a podcast from a year earlier. An honest, sincere apology and also accepting it seems appropriate as well. Destroying someone does not,” Schneider went on, later adding that, “It’s not okay to say racist things under the guise of comedy. Just because you have a mic in your hand doesn’t make the racist things you say any less racist.
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