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Louis C.K. wasn’t exactly a beloved comedy figure when he was a 2022 guest on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast with hosts Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker. But that didn’t stop him from spending hours breaking down the U.S. Presidents — like, all of them — in a massive, four-part history episode. Gillis eventually took a break from discussing “fascinating dude” Lyndon B. Johnson because, in the podcast world, somebody’s got to pay the bills.

“Let’s do this,” Gillis said. “We’re going to read some ads, and then we’re going to switch over to the Patreon for the last part.”

C.K. couldn’t believe it. “Why do you switch?” he asked. “Why are you making them go on Patreon?”

“That way…”

“That way what?” asked an incredulous C.K. “You need the money?”

Gillis was no longer an up-and-comer at this point, with multiple...

Shane Gillis has been drafted to host the 2025 Espys, which will air live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 16.

The awards show will air on ABC at 8 p.m. Et and stream live on ESPN+. Following their live broadcast, the ceremony will be made available on demand the next day on Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+.

“I’m excited to be at The Espys this year,” the comedian, actor, and writer said. “I like sports so this should be a good time.”

The Espys recognize major sports achievements, remember unforgettable moments, and honor the leading performers and performances.

Craig Lazarus, ESPN Vice President and The Espys Executive Producer, said, “Shane is not only one of the top comedians today, but also a huge sports fan, which made him an easy choice to host The Espys. We are thrilled to work with him to create an entertaining show...

Comedian Shane Gillis played one season of Division I college football at little-known Elon University in North Carolina. On Wednesday, July 16, the former offensive tackle recruited by West Point (which he attended before quickly transferring out; Gillis is not really the Army type) will host the 2025 ESPYs, the ESPN awards show celebrating athletes that stuck it out a bit longer. It’s all good — Gillis is doing just fine for himself.

Gillis’ Netflix comedy Tires premiered its second season earlier this month; as of the latest available data from the streamer, the show is still hanging around in the top 10.

“I’m excited to be at The ESPYs this year,” Gillis said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “I like sports, so this should be a good time.”

They usually are.

The annual Espy Awards celebrate the best in sports. The ESPYs are co-produced by ESPN and Full Day Productions...

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Shane Gillis was fired from Saturday Night Live, after being fired five years ago.

In a vacuum, this decision by producers should not come as a surprise.

Gillis is a very successful stand-up comedian, whose special on YouTube in 2021 has garnered over 23 million views.

Gillis also filmed a Netflix special titled “Beautiful Dogs,” which cemented his place as a major comedic talent.

And most recently, he agreed to a partnership with Bud Light for a stand-up tour.

Shane Gillis performs onstage during the 17th Annual Stand Up For Heroes Benefit presented by Bob Woodruff Foundation and NY Comedy Festival at David Geffen Hall on November 6, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Bob Woodruff Foundation)

Gillis is a funny guy, and he did a solid job, but here’s the thing:

Shane Gillis Fired From ‘Saturday Night Live’ 5 Years Before Hosting Gig

Shane...

Exclusive: Shane Gillis has joined the cast of the Amazon MGM Studios film Madden. He will play an original character, one close to the Madden clan.

David O. Russell is directing the film, which stars Nicolas Cage as John Madden, Christian Bale as Al Davis, John Mulaney as Trip Hawkins, Kathryn Hahn as Virginia Madden and Sienna Miller as Carol Davis. Production is currently underway.

Russell is directing a script he wrote, following an earlier version by Cambron Clark. Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch are producing alongside Jonathan Shukat, Russell, Matthew Budman and Colin Wilson. Escape Artists’ David Bloomfield will executive produce alongside Smac Entertainment’s Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini. The film is produced in association with Skydance Sports.

The film follows Madden’s remarkable journey — from his Super Bowl-winning partnership with Al Davis and the Raiders, to creating the Madden NFL video game juggernaut,...

Edison Research announces the Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. based on reach for Q1 2025 among weekly podcast listeners ages 13+.

The list ranks podcasts based on total audience reach from Edison Podcast Metrics. Interviews were conducted continuously throughout the quarter in English and Spanish. Rankings are based on listening over the full period. All respondents reported listening to podcasts in the last week.

The top six podcasts remain in the same rank order as Q4 2024: The Joe Rogan Experience, Crime Junkie, The Daily, Call Her Daddy, This Past Weekend w/Theo Von, and Dateline NBC.

Regular Top Ten members This American Life and New Heights return.

Podcasts Detail 1 The Joe Rogan Experience 2 Crime Junkie 3 The Daily 4 Call Her Daddy 5 This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von 6 Dateline NBC 7 This American Life 8 Rotten Mango 9 SmartLess 10 New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce 11 Pod Save America 12 MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories...

Matt & Shane’s Secret Podcast is expanding to video on Spotify! Starting today, new video episodes will be available every week on Spotify and widely.

Hosted by comedians Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis, Matt & Shane’s Secret podcast delivers a no-holds-barred take on culture with relatable witty conversations featuring an all-star comedy line up.

The show continues to rise, consistently charting within the Top 15 on Spotify’s U.S. Top Comedy Podcasts chart.

Watch all new episodes and follow the Matt & Shane’s Secret Podcast feed for free on Spotify.

About Shane Gillis

Shane Gillis is a comedian, actor, and writer from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. In 2021, he released his triumphant self-funded debut Shane Gillis: Live in Austin, a breakthrough hit with over 30 million views. His 2023 follow-up, the critically-acclaimed Netflix special, Beautiful Dogs, reached the Top 10 in five countries. The highly-anticipated second season of his scripted series Tires will debut in 2025. Season...

Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and were very vocal about why they were annoyed by the presence of Taylor Swift during a slew of the Chiefs’ games. However, for all that they had to say, Joe Rogan was not in agreement with the criticism leveled at the Lover singer.

Taylor Swift in the music video for You Need to Calm Down || Credit: Taylor Swift on YouTube

Joe Rogan had a tough time seeing how Taylor Swift’s involvement in these games had any negative impact on the game or the experience that fans have while watching broadcasts of the game. However, there were some points that even Rogan agreed might be a little annoying to fans.

Joe Rogan believes the animosity towards Taylor Swift comes because of her popularity Joe Rogan in The Joe Rogan Experience || Credits: YouTube

When the topic came up, Joe...

On the heels of an eight-city sell-out arena tour this year, comedian Shane Gillis is hitting the road again.

The stand-up megastar will usher in the new year with “Shane Gillis Live,” a 27-city tour that will kick off on Jan. 10 at San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center. Marking his biggest tour yet, Gillis is set to hit some of the biggest venues across North America and Europe, including Dallas’ American Airlines Center and London’s O2.

Gillis’ tour, in partnership with Outback Presents, includes stops at arenas such as Tampa’s Amalie Arena and Dublin’s 3Arena. The shows come on the heels of Gillis’ Netflix special “Beautiful Dogs,” which landed in Netflix Top 10 in five countries and spent two weeks in the U.S. Top 10 list. Gillis also hosted “Saturday Night Live” in February.

The comedian was famously hired and then fired from “Saturday Night Live” in 2019 after...

Plenty of people have been fired from "Saturday Night Live" across the shows 50-year history. Whether it was Norm Macdonald being let go in the middle of a season because he refused to stop telling O.J. Simpson jokes or Chris Farley being sent off during one of the show's more tumultuous periods in the '90s, "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels has seen plenty of comedians come and go. However, only one person has ever been fired from "SNL" before they ever got to debut on the show.

Comedian Shane Gillis was hired for "Saturday Night Live" in September 2019, and he was meant to join the cast as a featured player for the show's 45th season, along with Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman. However, after some racist and homophobic remarks came to light from "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast," which Gillis co-hosts with fellow comedian Matt McCusker, NBC and "SNL" parted...

It’s been five years since stand-up star Shane Gillis spent a total of five days as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, but Lorne Michaels still can’t believe that the show’s fanbase didn’t want to spend every Saturday night watching Gillis awkwardly mumble slurs at his co-stars.

The ascension of Saturday Night Live’s shortest-tenured cast member from podcasting microcelebrity to bona fide streaming star following the events of his 2019 hired-to-fired speedrun makes us wonder whether Gillis could have accomplished nearly as much in his already-impressive comedy career had SNL retained him through its 45th season and beyond. Between his Netflix series Tires, his streaming special Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs and his deification among the vaguely conservative anti-woke comedy crowd, Gillis is currently in command of a larger following than those of all but the most all-time-beloved SNL cast members, and it’s hard to...

Unstable is a workplace comedy series created by Rob Lowe, John Owen Lowe, and Victor Fresco. Created by and starring the Lowe father-son duo, the Netflix series follows Jackson as he tries to save both his father and his father’s company after Ellis starts spiraling out because of his wife’s death. Unstable also stars Sian Clifford, Aaron Branch, Rachel Marsh, Emma Pilar Ferreira, Fred Armisen, Tom Allen, Jt Parr, Lamorne Morris, and Iris Apatow. So, if you loved the feel-good, workplace, and absurd comedy in Unstable here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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The Grinder is a legal comedy series created by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel. The Fox series follows the story of Dean Sanderson, a Hollywood star famous for playing a lawyer in a popular television series as he returns to his hometown to work as...

The 20th anniversary New York Comedy Festival this November will feature more than 200 comedians in more than 100 shows throughout the city, with a roster of headliners including Judd Apatow, Dave Attell, Bill Maher, Tracy Morgan, Jb Smoove and Jaboukie Young-White, among others.

With performances at venues throughout the city’s five boroughs, the festival runs from Friday, November 8 to Sunday, November 17. Other headliners include Jeff Arcuri, Zarna Garg, How Did This Get Made?, Gabriel Iglesias, I’ve Had It, Joe List, Matt McCusker, Nurse John, Ms. Pat, Adam Ray is Dr. Phil, The Rest Is History, Justin Silva, Dan Soder and Jimmy O. Yang.

The New York Comedy Festival is the largest and longest-running annual comedy festival in the United States. Launched in 2004, the event was founded by Caroline Hirsch and produced by Carolines, with the inaugural festival featuring a dozen stand-up shows over five days. Today, the Nycf has expanded its reach and impact,...

Shane Gillis recently revealed that the reason his Hot Ones episode was so boring is because he hated doing the show, and he told offensive jokes that he knew couldn’t make it into the final cut. Is it possible that he got himself fired from Saturday Night Live on purpose?

As the most notable entertainment-newsworthy incident of his career clearly demonstrated, Gillis’ sense of humor is not one that plays well on the industry’s most mainstream platforms. Even when Lorne Michaels invited the Pennsylvania stand-up to host SNL back in February, almost five years after the comic’s infamous hired-to-fired speedrun, Gillis was visibly uncomfortable performing on a live sketch show where he couldn’t punctuate each scene with some variation of the punchline “you’re gay.”

Despite his success in stand-up, every one of Gillis’ attempts to reach a broader audience who might bristle at the low-hanging-fruit-style...

Tires features a small ensemble cast of talented comedic actors, led by Shane Gillis and Steve Gerben. The Netflix series follows Will as he tries to revive his father's auto shop, facing obstacles from his cousin Shane. Tires season 1 is available to stream on Netflix, with six episodes and a second season already in the works.

The new comedy series Tires features a small ensemble cast of talented comedic actors. The Netflix limited series chronicles the story of a man named Will, who is trying to bring life back into his fathers dying auto shop. Along the way, Will encounters a variety of obstacles, most notably the antics of his cousin, Shane, who works in the shop.

Tires season 1 is currently available to stream on Netflix.

The first season of Tires debuts May 23 on Netflix. It has six episodes, and has already been renewed for a second season. Comedian Shane...

At this month’s Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Costner each unveiled passion projects they opted to finance themselves after institutional backers initially passed. This week, three auteurs make a trend — except instead of putting his own funds toward a deeply personal, sweeping epic, comedian Shane Gillis has made a lewd, bro-y workplace comedy set at a Pennsylvania tire shop.

Since getting fired from “Saturday Night Live” — before he’d even started — for offensive jokes on his podcast, Gillis has become the poster child for a decentralized, grassroots attention economy that allows some entertainers to build thriving careers without gatekeepers’ blessings. His 2021 special “Live in Austin” blew up on YouTube; the same podcast that cost him “SNL,” co-hosted with fellow comic Matt McCusker, continues apace; Gillis even self-produced his own sketch comedy series, “Gilly and Keeves,” which culminated with a feature-length special last year. (You can stream...

Shane Gillis drinks brews and poops in the customer restroom in the trailer for “Tires,” his workplace comedy series premiering May 23 on Netflix.

The six-episode scripted show follows Will (Steven Gerben), “the nervous and unqualified heir to an auto repair chain” who “attempts to turn his father’s business around despite constant torture from his cousin and now employee, Shane (Gillis),” according to the logline.

“We can sit in here and sulk in the dark, or we can crawl our asses out in the sun and sell some fucking tires!” Gillis says in the trailer in an attempt to motivate the staff of Valley Forge Automotive Center.

Additional cast members include Chris O’Connor, Kilah Fox, Stavros Halkias and guest star Andrew Schulz.

Gillis co-created the series with Gerben and John McKeever, who, with Gillis, forms one-half of the sketch comedy duo Gilly and Keeves. McKeever also serves as director of “Tires.

Saturday Night Live announced this weekend that Shane Gillis, the comedian who, just moments after being hired, was notably fired from the show for his history of making racist and homophobic comments, will host the Feb. 24 episode.

In 2019, Gillis was one of three new additions announced for SNL‘s 45th season, along with Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang. But within hours of that announcement, Twitter was flooded with questionable clips from Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast — which Gillis co-hosted with fellow comic Matt McCusker in 2018 — in which he used a racist slur to describe people living in New York City’s Chinatown.

Shane Gillis has been announced as the next host of Saturday Night Live, alongside musical guest 21 Savage.

This comes years after the comedian was quickly fired from the sketch comedy show in 2019 after using racial and homophobic slurs on a podcast.

Gillis had been one of three new SNL castmembers that were cast on the show at the time. But then he came under fire when he could be heard using a racial slur in a since-deleted 2018 video posted on the YouTube channel Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast.

“Chinatown’s fucking nuts,” Gillis said in the video. “Let the fucking ch—s live there.” Gillis was also seen mimicking a Chinese accent and mocking Chinese restaurants in the footage.

Then additional audio resurfaced from another 2018 episode of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, where Gillis and co-host Matt McCusker could be heard ranking how funny comedians were by race and using homophobic slurs.

A little less than four and a half years after being hired, and then quickly fired from SNL over the use of a racial slur in a 2018 YouTube video, comedian Shane Gillis will be making his way to 30 Rock to host the venerable late-night series.

The announcement was made during tonight’s show hosted by The Bear‘s Ayo Edebiri. Set to join him for the episode on February 24 is musical guest 21 Savage.

One of today’s most popular comedians, Gillis’ most recent comedy special, Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs, debuted on Netflix last September and charted in the streamer’s Global Top 10 TV (English). His debut special, Shane Gillis: Live in Austin, debuted on YouTube in 2021 and has thus far racked up over 16 million views.

An actor and writer, in addition to a stand-up, Gillis was set to appear as a new featured player on SNL before a...

Comedian Shane Gillis made his first public appearance Wednesday night since being hired and then fired from the cast of Saturday Night Live within a week after his past use of racist slurs drew controversy.

In his 11-minute set at the Stand comedy club in New York, Gillis – wearing a hoodie from Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, his show that drew ire for its racist and homophobic jokes – quickly addressed the controversy. “Everybody’s been like, ‘You can’t say shit and not expect consequences.’ I’m fine with the consequences.

Comedian Shane Gillis made his first public appearance Wednesday night since he was hired by “Saturday Night Live,” then fired from the show days later amid controversy over his use of racist slurs.

Appearing on stage at comedy club the Stand in New York City, Gillis performed an 11-minute set that pulled no punches when it came to his recent career turn. “Everybody’s been like, you can’t say sh–t and not expect consequences,” he said, wearing a “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast” hoodie. “I’m fine with the consequences. I’m not arguing. F–ck it. But I do want everyone to know that I’ve been reading every one of my death threats in an Asian accent.”

Social media and “cancel culture” were the major focus of Gillis’ set, during which he spoke about the backlash he’s received over the last week. “It’s been weird.

Rob Schneider apologized to fired “SNL” cast member Shane Gillis after the young comedian was let go over what the “Saturday Night Live” cast member from 1990-1994 called “the misfortune of being a cast member during this era of cultural unforgiveness.”

Gillis was fired Monday for using racist and homophobic slurs on his podcast. Shortly after his “Saturday Night Live” hiring was announced, videos of Gillis using the offensive language were resurfaced by Twitter users.

“As a former SNL cast member I am sorry that you had the misfortune of being a cast member during this era of cultural unforgiveness where comedic misfires are subject to the intolerable inquisition of those who never risked bombing on stage themselves,” Schneider posted to his Twitter followers on Monday evening, addressing and tagging Gillis.

Also Read: 'SNL' Fires New Cast Member Shane Gillis After Outcry Over Racist Jokes

“I think a suspension would...

Late-night tv viewing is getting significantly more intense.

In an era when audiences have become increasingly polarized by politics and their viewing habits have been fragmented by a dizzying array of streaming-video technologies, TV’s growing spate of late-night programs face new challenges. What’s funny to one crowd can be offensive to another. And with the internet and social media serving as universally accessible archives for a comic’s work, offensive statements can spark mass outcry long after they were initially made.

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on Monday reversed course on hiring Shane Gillis as a new cast member four days after racist remarks made by the comedian prompted protest. Gillis’ comments, delivered in a podcast, were resurfaced Sept. 12 by freelance journalist Seth Simons. “Let the f—ing ch–ks live there,” Gillis is heard to say in one episode about Chinatown. Though he and fellow comic Matt McCusker...

In the wake of comedian Shane Gillis’ firing from Saturday Night Live, Sandra Oh is cheering the sketch series’ decision to let him go.

“Glad 2 see @nbcsnl decision Not [to] legitimize/give platform 2 purveyors of racist homophobic content,” the Killing Eve star wrote in a tweet Tuesday morning. “Risks? Lazy Ass Unoriginal.”

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Gillis was fired from SNL on Monday, just four days after he was brought...

Minutes after it was announced that new cast member Shane Gillis had been fired from Saturday Night Live over his history of racist and homophobic comments, the disgraced comedian took to social media to speak his mind.

“It feels ridiculous for comedians to making serious public statements but here we are,” Gillis wrote on Monday, using what appears to be a notes app on his phone. “I’m a comedian who was funny enough to get SNL. That can’t be taken away. Of course I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction.

“Saturday Night Live” fired new cast member Shane Gillis Monday after videos of Gillis using racial slurs in a September 2018 episode of his podcast surfaced on Thursday.

“After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL,” an “SNL” spokesperson said on behalf of Lorne Michaels. “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 comedian and his impressive audition for SNL. We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days. 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.”

Gillis responded to the firing in a tweet Monday.

“I’m a comedian who was funny enough to get SNL.

Live from New York, it… won’t be Shane Gillis. The comedian, one of three new cast members recently announced for Saturday Night Live‘s upcoming 45th season, has been fired over a series of racist and homophobic comments that resurfaced online.

“After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL,” says a show spokesperson on behalf of SNL boss Lorne Michaels. “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 comedian and his impressive audition for SNL.

Newly announced “Saturday Night Live” cast member Shane Gillis has offered to apologize to “anyone who’s actually offended” by his history of using racist and homophobic comments, and he has since apologized to at least one of those people — fellow comedian Chris Gethard.

Gethard told the New York Times that Gillis called him on Friday to apologize after it was reported that Gillis once referred to Gethard as a “white f—-t comic.” The comment, as reported by Vulture, came on an episode of Gillis’ “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast” with co-host Matt McCusker in which he included Gethard and writer-producer Judd Apatow in a group of comics they described as “f—ing gayer than Isis.”

“He definitely let me know that he felt he had crossed some lines,” Gethard told the Times, giving Gillis credit for taking the time to call when he’s “got a lot of fish to fry.

Shane Gillis is one of the newcomers for Saturday Night Live's 45th season, but just hours after the casting news dropped, a video resurfaced of him using a racist slur.

“Chinatown’s f–king nuts,” the comedian said in the clip which was shared via Twitter. on Thursday.

“Let the f–king ch-nks live there.”

He went on to complain about eating at restaurants in the area.

“The translation between you and the waiter is such a f–king hassle,” he said to fellow comedian Matt McCusker. “I’m pointing at it.”

The footage in question comes from "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast" and appears to be from September 2018.

In another video, Gillis appeared to call the conversation "nice racism, good racism."

(to clarify I mean the YouTube page; you can still find audio files here https://t.co/Jpkyyqztor)

— Seth Simons (@sasimons) 12 September 2019

Gills took to Twitter shortly...

New Saturday Night Live cast member Shane Gillis has issued a statement defending his use of slurs in comedy, following a set of his old stand-up routines and podcast appearances resurfacing on social media.

“I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss,” Gillis wrote in a classic Notes app apology on Twitter. “If you go through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad, you’re going to find a lot of bad misses. I’m happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.

Shane Gillis has responded to the outcry over racial slurs, homophobic comments and similar remarks he made on his podcast that resurfaced after he was announced as one of the new cast members for the 45th season of “SNL.”

“I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss. If you got through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad, you’re going to find a lot of misses. I’m happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said,” Gillis said in a statement posted to his Twitter account. “My intention is never to hurt anyone but I am trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks.”

Shortly after it was announced that Gillis, Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang (the first cast member of Asian descent) were added to NBC’s long-running sketch show, freelance journalist Seth...

On the same day that NBC’s Saturday Night Live cast its first-ever Asian cast member, a video has surfaced in which Shane Gillis, another of Season 45’s new hires, uses racist slurs while critiquing Chinatown and its culture.

In a clip (embedded below) from “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast”, dated September 2018 and brought to light on Twitter by freelance writer Seth Simons, Gillis refers to “the f–king ch-nks” while riffing with cohost Matt McCusker on Chinatown’s architecture and restaurants. Gillis and McCusker also use racist pronunciations such as “dericious” and “nooders,” and go on about the...

Brand-new “Saturday Night Live” cast member Shane Gillis, whose casting was just announced Thursday morning, used a racial slur and stereotypes about Asians in a September 2018 episode of his podcast “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast.”

“Chinatown’s f–ing nuts,” Gillis says to comedian Matt McCusker in a since-deleted YouTube video from a September 2018 episode of the podcast. “Let the f–ing c—-s live there, huh?” Later in the same episode, Gillis imitates stereotypes about the way Asian immigrants speak English, and references stereotypes about Chinese culture.

Reps for NBC, “SNL” and Gillis did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Thursday.

Also Read: Meet the New Kids of 'SNL' Season 45: Chloe Fineman, Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis (Videos)

On Thursday night, Gillis issued a statement offering to “apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said,” but describing himself as “a...

Note: There is highly offensive language quoted directly in the story, which has been included verbatim because some of the source material appears to have been removed from the internet. Variety secured a copy of part of the offensive material prior to its removal from YouTube.

A video clip of Shane Gillis using an anti-Asian racial slur resurfaced on Twitter Thursday afternoon, just hours after he was announced as one of three new “SNL” cast members. A further look at his publicly posted works reveals a long history of denigrating women, Muslims and the Lgbt community, among other groups.

In an episode of Gillis’ podcast, called Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, he tells comedian Matt McCusker “Chinatown’s f—ing nuts.”

“Let the f—ing ch-nks live there,” says Gillis. He later recalls a restaurant being “full of f—ing Chinee [sic] in there.”

The video recording of their podcast...