Comedian Shane Gillis will host Saturday Night Live on February 24th with musical guest 21 Savage, the late-night sketch show has announced.
The booking of Gillis in an about-face for SNL; in 2019, Gillis was announced as a cast member but was fired before ever appearing in an episode after videos surfaced in which he used slurs and offensive language.
“After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL,’” a spokesperson for the show said at the time. “We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as a comedian and his impressive audition for SNL. The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard.”
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