Shane Gillis hired and swiftly fired by Saturday Night Live in 2019 over racist, sexist, and homophobic comments, has returned to Studio 8H as a host, wasting no time alluding to his controversial history.
“I was fired from this show a while ago. Don’t look that up, please. If you don’t know why, please don’t google that,” he said.
“I probably shouldn’t be up here.”
Instead, Shane Gillis said, he should probably be a high school football coach.
“God molded me perfectly to be a high school football coach, slash ninth-grade sex education teacher.”
He then repeatedly mentioned that his father, who was in the audience, is a volunteer assistant girls high school basketball coach.
“I thought it was funny,” Gillis shrugged, apparently unhappy with the audience’s response, “You don’t think that’s funny? To bring my dad here to make fun of him for being a girls’ high school basketball coach? Alright. I thought it was great, never mind.”
After talking about “dodging” Down syndrome, Gillis once again called out the fact that his monologue wasn’t landing.
“Look I don’t have any material that can be on TV, alright? I’m trying my best. Also, this place is extremely well-lit, I can see everybody not enjoying it,” he said.
That doesn’t account for the people watching at home, but at least they were able to turn it off.
