This liberal-pushed "cancel culture" will be the death of comedy in this country.

So the guy hasn't even had one show yet and he's already gone because...OMG...he said "Chink" on YouTube.

Eff off, SNL. You're completely dead to me. Dead and buried. I had given up watching you regularly after you went crazy anti-Trump 24/7/365 but would occasionally watch clips and such later. No more. You're done and I suspect you won't last all that much longer in this super-PC climate you've helped create. I will now go out of my way to avoid you and anyone associated with you.

I love the shot this guy took at them when he was forced to "apologize"

SNL Fires New Cast Member Shane Gillis Over Racist Asian Jokes


Shane Gillis
@Shanemgillis

Maybe if enough of these liberals become victims of the left's cancel culture, then they will begin to fight back. Good start with Chris Rock, Bill Barr and a couple others.

SNL hasn't been funny (or relevant) since this era. And it likely will never be again.

Almost everything that was really funny from the '60s (when comedy became "edgy") through somewhere around 2010, when the "woke" tyrants got their strangle hold on American culutre, would be disallowed now. But that earlier humour made an assumption that we-- the audience-- were friends sharing a joke. For example, when the sheriff in Blazing Saddles says "Hey, where da white wimmen at?" Mel Brooks expected blacks to laugh at that right along with whites-- and everybody else. (And they all did, back then.) It was a shared joke, a joke that parodied racist stereotypes and fears. It's the kind of thing that brings people together as we laugh at ourselves together.

The assumption now is that we are all at odds with one another, if not at outright war with one another. Everybody is poised to be offended and angry, vigilant, just waiting. Nobody has identified this more insightfully-- and hysterically-- than Dave Chappelle in his latest for Netflix, "Sticks and Stones."

Cowards. Caving to the politics of offense.

Humor, almost by definition will offend someone, unless you like knock-knock jokes.

Straight white male = evil incarnate and must be defeated

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Humor, almost by definition will offend someone, unless you like knock-knock jokes.

Probably why Blazing Saddles is one of, if not my favorite, movie(s). Mel Brooks went out of his way to make sure the script offended every person and group alive. Most liberals today would descend into utter mental shutdown if forced to watch such a movie.

I quit watching sometime in the late '90s. The show was mainly about how cool it is to be gay and much of the "humor" centered around older men coercing younger men / boys to have sex with them.

HAHA! Like the shot across the bow he gave NBC.

I can't even remember the last episode of SNL I watched. I believe it was probably around the time the "More Cowbell" skit came out, because my brother bought me a t-shirt referencing that hilarious skit...that was in 2000. Something about eating fecal matter and dying came to mind when I read that article. Anything SNL, Conan O'Brien, Samantha B, Jimmie Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, et. al. can pretty much FOAD, as far as I'm concerned. Haven't wasted one SECOND of my time watching any of that "comedic" drivel.

I've not watched SNL since the Dan Akroyd/Jane Curtin era of programming

its tired, thin and not at all funny

They definitely never really had the mojo since the original cast was mostly gone. Through the years though, they have had their moments.

I never quit watching SNL so much as I was off doing other stuff on Saturday nights. My girlfriend and I were at another couples' house in 1986 right after Reagan sent FB-111's to bomb Qaddafi. This was the really long mission flown from the UK on a circuitous route to avoid French airspace since they refused us their permission.

We got back and switched on the TV in time for Dennis Miller to start weekend update. After the applause died down he said "I'd like to wish one and all a pleasant evening unless of course, you're French, in which case you can...just go to hell"

I will likely never forget that.

https://www.newsbusters.org/bl...chneider-slam-cancel

‘Rats, All of You!’ Comedians Bill Burr, Spade, Schneider Slam Cancel Culture

Shane Gillis’ immediate firing from Saturday Night Live over one year-old insensitive Chinese jokes has generated serious discussion about how our society should deal with being offended by entertainers and other members of the media. Granted there’s a whole swarm of people putting out credible arguments about how Shane was offensive, but fellow comedians see his decisive termination as a symptom of something worse: a culture that seeks to destroy what it disagrees with, which signals trouble for comedy, and ultimately free speech at large.

On his new Comedy Central show Lights Out, SNL legend David Spade discussed Gillis’ situation with fellow comedians Bill Burr, Rob Schneider, and Jim Jeffries. All of them were in agreement that Gillis’ swift firing by the NBC was harsh, and were convinced that digging up the young comedian’s mistakes to ruin his career is not justice, but a bit of revenge politics.

Jeffries, host of his own Comedy Central program The Jim Jeffries Show, called it as he saw it. “This is just cancel culture,” he affirmed, elaborating that, “This guy shouldn’t have been fired. It was just a couple things back in his history.”

“We’re gonna go through everyone’s history?” he added incredulously. Well it sure as heck seems like it.

Comedian Bill Burr asked, “Do they go back and also try to look at things the person might’ve done, or are they just looking for the bad stuff? he asked, adding, “I mean you could honestly do that to anybody. We’re not running for office, when is this gonna fucking end?”

He also directed some ire at the Twitter warriors and activists calling for Gillis’ career execution. saying, “You millennials, you’re a bunch of rats, all of you! None of them care. All they want to do is get people in trouble.” Burr, whose Netflix stand up special Paper Tiger just made waves for smashing PC culture and roasting hysterical groups like 4th wave feminists, is probably worried this could very well happen to him and his colleagues.

Even David Spade, who was less inclined to torch millennials or outright defend Gillis even admitted, “I think when I was younger on ‘SNL,’ when you got hired the first move wasn’t to rifle through your past to make sure you get fired right away.”

Rob Schneider, the comedian famous for his own SNL stint and for his appearances with Spade in Adam Sandler movies, felt that things are just going south with the political correctness. He described the cancel culture phenomenon as “this era of cultural unforgiveness where comedic misfires are subject to the intolerable inquisition of those who never risked bombing on stage themselves.” Ouch.

Schneider also made the diplomatic claim that Gillis should have been suspended, not fired, provided that he had made “an honest, sincere apology.” That whole situation would have been so much better than entirely eviscerating his career and social standing. But you know, for these wokies, it’s about tasting blood, not what’s right.

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But you know, for these wokies, it’s about tasting blood, not what’s right.

That is a big part of what is happening, not only with comedians, but with Kavanaugh and others who are in the cross-hairs of #me too, BLM, Antifa. There are dark souls, filled with resentment and anger, who just want to attack and hurt. They want to "taste blood." That's what they want, that's all they want.

Being part of a "movement" -- or even just a twitter mob-- is an open door toward their goal. It thrills them to bring people down-- because they can.

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Schneider also [said] "But you know, for these wokies, it’s about tasting blood, not what’s right."

"Wokies"

They probably would not repeat these:

...polishing his stinger...
...dead honky...
...a lot of Eddie Murphy...

Even humor is outlawed these days.

Where is Mel Brooks when you need him most!

If the left is going to dig up allegation about a sitting Supreme Court Justice and demand he be impeached then it is only fair to dig into the lives of the uber liberal entertainers and media people and treat them the same.

I love it when the left eats its own.

The guy had it going good with the Conservatives and then......he stepped on his dick.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...l-firing/2371104001/

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Gillis then went on to try and distance himself from the president by joking about a hypothetical assassination.

"I don't want you to think I'm too pro-Trump," Gillis said. "I will say this: Of all the presidents I've been alive for, Trump would definitely be the funniest one to see get shot. Like, without a doubt, that'd be funny. I'm not asking for that; I don't want that to happen, but it would be funny to see. He'd be on stage talking (expletive), the shooter would be coming at him, and he'd be like, 'Sit down.' He'd definitely make a funny noise when he got hit. … It would be funny."

Ummm...no, you anal sphincter. That's not funny in the LEAST bit. I wouldn't have even THOUGHT or WISHED that on Barry Hussein. Sorry Gillis...you just SWIFTLY turned into a chode. You and your subject matter are not funny at all. I'll put you on the same level with Samantha B, who is the EPITOME of UNfunny. Your 15 minutes of fame is up...FOAD, bruh.

WTF is WRONG with people?!?!?!?

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Originally posted by jhe888:

Humor, almost by definition will offend someone, unless you like knock-knock jokes.

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/zg4WuLr_xs4

Well, I think what happened is this: The guy lost his chance at stardom but in the process, he received press attention because of his past "controversial" remarks. He received a measure of support for being punished for his jokes, so he's now decided that he's going to become a "controversial" comedian. This is a safe move for him. Witness Dave Chappelle and his latest "controversial" comedy special.

In the idiotic parlance of today's job market, he has "re-branded" himself. Who can blame him? This is his 15 minutes and since he lost out on an SNL gig, which might be considered a pinnacle of comedy (not in my book, though), he's now going to become the super-edgy comic. He's an opportunist, but you can't swing a dead democrat without hitting an opportunist in this world.
What I wish for the guy is for him to either suffer the consequences or reap the benefits of the choices he is now making. IOW, I hope he gets whatever is coming to him, and I mean that. Look what holding up a severed head got Kathy Griffin. He might soar and he might crash. Either way, it'll be his doing.

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