Shane Gillis, Who Was Fired By "Saturday Night Live" In 2019, Will Return To Host The Show Later This Month
The best thing that ever happened to Shane Gillis was that he got fired from "Saturday Night Live." Yes, he got put through the cancel culture ringer for a little bit. Still, "Saturday Night Live" almost made a serious mistake when they hired Shane Gillis because they almost hired somebody who's actually funny and talented. I'm as big as Shane Gillis stan as anybody. I think he's the best young comedian working right now. Being asked to host "Saturday Night Live" at this stage of his career has to feel good because he's doing SNL a favor in many ways. He's bigger and better than that show right now. He'll add a level of comedy to that show that we haven't seen in years simply by being on there. One of the things the Internet age has exposed is the fact that there is so much sketch comedy all over YouTube that is 1 million times better than anything "Saturday Night Live" has done in a decade. "Gilly And Keeves" is a prime example of this. 
I don't know if Shane Gillis would've become some star on Saturday Night Live. SNL has a weird way of icing out some of their most talented people. Tim Robinson was only on the show for one season and has been wildly successful with his sketch comedy Show. That could have been the route that Gillis would've gone in, but outside of seeing him at SNL and hosting the show, the one thing I'm looking forward to is fresh ideas. Here's an idea: let's not get an unfunny political sketch to open the show for the millionth time in a row. I will make an exception if we get a Shane Gillis Trump impression because Shane Gillis has far away the best Trump. I'm not saying it's the most accurate; I'm saying that it's the funniest. Sometimes I watch Shane Gillis do a Trump impression when I feel like shit, just so I can feel better and get a nice laugh.
This is a huge victory for anyone like me who enjoys funny things, but I would argue with a victory for common sense. People's lives should not be defined by their dumbest moments. Shane Gillis was a comedian who, on a podcast, made a joke that got him fired from "Saturday Night Live." I'm not saying it was even that funny of a joke, and you didn't have to enjoy it. Still, the fact that "Saturday Night Live, a program that featured Darrell Hammond in blackface in their first episode after 9/11 (yeah, people forget that), believed that they were too righteous and morally upstanding to have somebody like that on their show, is a joke. I hope Gillis basks in the glory of this. Take a victory lap around Rockefeller Center. Ironically, the biggest star on that stage come February 24th will be the guy they fired.
