Bowen Yang gave a powerful “I don’t assume so, honey” to a Saturday Evening Dwell further’s accusation that he received comic Shane Gillis fired from the NBC present.
The social media flap began after one Michelle Greatest commented on an Instagram submit selling Gillis’ return as host tonight, Saturday, March 1.
“Can we acknowledge that Bowen Yang b*tched him off the present, and he’s the larger man to come back host after being unfairly ditched [because] of a whiny queen,” Greatest wrote in a remark. “SNL fired him as a hater. He’s not. He’s very variety and has good humor and stands as much as bullying. Good for him!”
Yang, a star of SNL since 2019, replied on Instagram, writing, “Didn’t do any of this, however I wrote the sketch you have been a background actor in.”
Greatest seems to have performed a small half within the 2019 SNL sketch “Style Coward,” Leisure Weekly studies.
Gillis, in the meantime, was employed as a a featured SNL participant in 2019 — alongside Yang and costar Chloe Fineman — and fired after his previous racist and homophobic slurs resurfaced.
On the time, Gillis provided a semblance of a public apology, saying he was “a comic who pushes boundaries” and “generally miss[es]” and that he was “completely happy to apologize to anybody who’s really offended by something I’ve mentioned.”
Yang informed The New Yorker in 2024 that Gillis referred to as him to personally apologize in the course of the scandal.
And SNL creator Lorne Michaels informed The Wall Road Journal in 2024 that it was NBC’s choice to fireplace Gillis.
“He mentioned one thing silly, however it received blown up into the top of the world,” Michaels mentioned. “I used to be offended. I assumed, You haven’t seen what we’re going to do, and what I’m going to attempt to convey out in him, as a result of I assumed he was the actual factor. … [The call to fire Gillis] was very robust from the folks in cost. And clearly I used to be not on that facet, however I understood it.”
Gillis returned to host SNL in 2024 and does so once more tonight, Saturday, March 1, at 11:30/10:30c.
Saturday Evening Dwell, Saturdays, 11:30/10:30c, NBC