Shane Gillis talks ‘SNL’ firing during opening monologue: ‘I probably shouldn’t be up here honestly’
nypost.comaddressed his firing from “Saturday Night Live” last night by telling audience members that he “probably shouldn’t be up here.” “Thank you very much.
Yeah, I’m here,” Gillis, 36, told the crowd during his controversial appearance at Studio 8H. “Most of you probably have no idea who I am.
I was fired from this show a while ago. Don’t look that up, please. Please don’t Google that. It’s fine.” “Don’t even worry about it,” Gillis continued. “I probably shouldn’t be up here honestly.
I should be at home. I should be a high school football coach.”Gillis’ whopping eight-minute monologue included several bits from his “anti-woke” stand-up routine which included punchlines about his dad being a girls’ high school basketball coach as well as little boys being their “mom’s gay best friend.”The monologue also included a bit in which Gillis said that he “dodged” having Down syndrome like his niece.“My family and I, we actually opened a coffee shop in my hometown for people with Down syndrome to work at and it’s going — Don’t clap!” Gillis said. “It’s going exactly how you think it would go.
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