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Racist comedian Shane Gillis will no longer be joining Saturday Night Live.
- Thread starter Meg Cherry
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what is this lol
"I'm okay with some racism, but I didn't realize there was racism I'm not okay with!"
It's the other way around, Rob Schneider was lucky to make bank while this kind of racist shit was still mainstream.
People still watch SNL? lol
I came here to post the same thing. This probably will do more for his career than SNL ever could.
I came here to post the same thing. This probably will do more for his career than SNL ever could.
Good riddance to bad trash. Hope he toils in obscurity forever.
And fuck comedians who think their job title should inoculate them from public scrutiny. "Here's me saying a bunch of racist shit, but you shouldn't ever question me about it because I'm a comedian, and comedians should have the right to say whatever racist shit they want to say without fear of reprisal. if I say it's comedy, then it's comedy. Don't you dare fight me on that."
And fuck Andrew Yang. Lost all respect for him with this Uncle Chan appeasement shit he's pulling.
And fuck comedians who think their job title should inoculate them from public scrutiny. "Here's me saying a bunch of racist shit, but you shouldn't ever question me about it because I'm a comedian, and comedians should have the right to say whatever racist shit they want to say without fear of reprisal. if I say it's comedy, then it's comedy. Don't you dare fight me on that."
And fuck Andrew Yang. Lost all respect for him with this Uncle Chan appeasement shit he's pulling.
He's right-wing, but "far-right" is a stretch. He's basically a bog-standard 90s Republican, from what I've seen, unless he's repping "Siege" and "Camp of the Saints" and I just haven't seen it.
I think in the short term, maybe. But long term, people on SNL can occasionally get decent-sized movies. Gillis ceiling is probably things like that Loqueesha movie.
The thing that gets me is that the entire job of the comedian is to be able to get a chosen emotional reaction out of the audience. If they're able to do that, they're a good comedian.
But if they try to get laughs and instead the audience just thinks they're a racist, that's not the comedians fault, that's on society.
Hahahaha, the only time I ever laughed at Rob Schneider was when I was watching that awful movie where he swaps bodies with Rachel McAdams and I tweeted "Rob Schneider is a great actor" and he must have been vanity searching because within 20 minutes he'd like my joke tweet.
I did some googling and he seems very embraced on The_Donald, I wonder why.
The show has sucked for nearly 15 years now, and its not like anyone employed on such a popular, mainstream, show wouldn't easily find work anywhere. I wouldn't worry about their job security.
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I don't know, I think that failed revival from a couple years ago just hired people off the street.
Uhhh...I gotta ask, are you Asian?
Not yet anyways. We actually call them "Uncle Chan."
Some of you guys are cold as ice. The dude's dream gig explodes in a cloud of smoke and some of you won't even allow him a tweet to just rant about it.
Marlan...???
I mean, the thing that I can't help but point out is that all the comedians who are whining and crying about PC culture are comedians who I haven't found funny in years...if I ever found them funny at all. And it's no wonder to me that this group of comedians are begging and pleading for a return to what was "funny" in yesteryear. Society evolved, and they refused to.
Maybe he should, I dunno, show some contrition first.
You can rant all you want. You're not entitled to my giving a shit.
The thing I don't get from a lot of these people who decry society's rejection of racially tinged humor, why aren't they performing Mammy up in Blackface? I thought comedy was about pushing the boundaries? How can you not push boundaries like that when they exist? Well, primarily, hopefully, because, all cynicism about post-racial America aside, people by and large see black people as human beings not props to be mocked in general media consumption.
It's not like there's not gross and shocking comedy in this age. There's still poor taste. Tell The Aristocrats if you have to. That's funny af when done properly and involves no small amount of being edgy and boundary pushing. Just mindlessly using slurs as some good ol boy thing isn't really funny anymore.
It's not like there's not gross and shocking comedy in this age. There's still poor taste. Tell The Aristocrats if you have to. That's funny af when done properly and involves no small amount of being edgy and boundary pushing. Just mindlessly using slurs as some good ol boy thing isn't really funny anymore.
It's true that some people here are cold as ice. Unfortunately, he was willing to sacrifice his love of his career. He never took advice, so he paid the price.
Lol
He can rant all he wants. And we can laugh at this turd getting what he deserves.
Fuck him. He can catch my "Chinee" fists.
Da fuck motivates to stan for his racist bullshit?
Basically every old SNL alum caping for this dude needs to get slapped with a "shut the fuck up boomer" like this shit ain't cool anymore so move on with your sad old ass.
You wouldn't rethink if Bill Bellmy or Shucky Ducky Quack Quack showed support?
I dunno, doesn't seem like his dream gig if he's more of a MAD TV guy.
It's also cute to see people pontificate about how comedy is supposed to challenge people as a means of shielding comediams from being challenged themselves.
My guess is that this guy slipped through the cracks because Lorne Michaels, who is 74 years old, has final say in who gets cast on SNL. And I'm guessing ol' Lorne isn't exactly doing YouTube searches on potential cast members before hiring them.
Thank goodness. I was going to have a hard time watching the show with him on it.
I would be extremely surprised if Lorne was involved in any specific research done on candidates other than seeing the results.
I would be extremely surprised if Lorne was involved in any specific research done on candidates other than seeing the results.
Their whole world view is shaped by the SJWs, Cancel Culture, Censorship, and Progressiveness that they have so much. In their world the things I listed have already won and are mainstream. So what is cutting edge and pushing boundaries in their world? Being a racist shithead, and just being an asshole in general.
And fuck Andrew Yang and Gillis. Glad Gillis won't be on SNL.
If it was just that one moment, I maybe could see letting that slide but it sounds like a more consistent thing.
The entire reason we celebrate people who take risks is because failure is a possibility. That's the risk we're talking about. The whole idea is that the comedian who has the understanding and tact with which to tackle a difficult subject is a thought-provoking way is impressive, not that every talentless hack should stumble into the same territory for free pass to be a huge bigoted asshole.
If the risk and difficulty is just that you have to spend a little more time turning the bigot dial until you find the right amount you can get away with, what's special or noteworthy about these people?
Exactly. Besides, if we're talking about "funny" being a couple of white guys joking about ch---ks and fa---ts (literally what they were doing) then it's been done by grade schoolers in 1993. It's 2019, guys.
Yeah dude will get a short term bump, but will they be there in 6 months or a year?
"Comedic misfires" lol. Yes when no one laughs then yeah, maybe you should keep your day job. Who's the snowflake when its you that cant face the reality that you just. arent. funny.