Posted on 09/17/2019 4:55:46 AM PDT by simpson96
Shane Gillis is a 31-year-old comic from Philadelphia. Id never heard of him till last week, when Saturday Night Live (which I hardly ever watch anyway) announced that he would be among the new members of its cast this fall. Within hours of his hiring, social-media users posted clips of Gillis recording a podcast in which he did some bits on Chinese people that indulged in some woeful stereotyping, mocked Chinese speech and used the word chinks. Of Chinatown, he said, Let the f***ing chinks live there. In other bits on Matt & Shanes Secret Podcast, Gillis used the word gay in a derogatory way, e.g. thats so gay. Gillis has also made some other questionable remarks. We dont use his kind of language around here but you can read more here.
Last week a lot of journalists, activists, and lower-tier comedy professionals joined a Twitter mob calling for Gillis to be fired. One of them was Jimmy O. Yang, which surprised me because Yang is best known for his character on HBOs Silicon Valley, in which Yang, through his character Jian-Yiang, does an absolute merciless stereotypical Chinese accent. (If you dont know his other work, you may be unaware that Yang normally speaks without a foreign accent.)(snip)
Gilliss bit was pretty awful. He shouldnt have said what he said. It also wasnt funny. On the other hand, firing someone is a drastic step, particularly for someone at this stage of his career. Gillis, had he made it to the SNL cast, would have overnight become one of the most recognizable comics in America. As it is he may find himself having difficulty getting work in the future. (Indeed one or two comedy clubs have reportedly already done so, finding his material offensive.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Shane Gillis, you here four hour! You go home now!
Serirusly? This is worse than the NY Times and loser Dem Presidential candidates fabricating hurtful libelous stories ? These folks are deranged.
But they sure are good at throwing around hate filled libelous claims.
THIS is the type of person that asks tough questions of authority, that makes it necessary for our rules to continually EXPLAIN their ideas.
The tribe that owns the entire media of the US:
Do they like that? No, they do not.
They want to rule in perpetuity behind high walls on comfy sofas, they want humble, cringing servants well-aquainted with a permanent ruling class ethnically different from themselves, a variation on Mexico, but further North.
The fact they hate Shane Gillis should immediately make you interested in him, want to find out more about him.
They also detest Dave Chapelle, who criticized one of the protected groups that THEY are allied with.
The PC crowd are going after him now. /s
“No, this guy is doing this stupid stuff in the last few years. Of course hes not going to get on SNL, its amazing that he got as far as he did.”
People a like you, who jump at the chance to enforce PC, is one of the main reasons why the left has any power at all. Shame.
The cancel culture has to stop.
Yet black comedians can call anyone nigga or cracker or whatever the flavor of the month slur is and no one does anything but laugh.
So tired of the double/triple set of societal rules for one race over another.
Every comedian has done the same so how about we fire them all. Woo hoo, no more of that awful SNL.
Chinese man who walks through turnstile sideways at the airport is going to Bangkok.
Dave Chappelle on an Asian person feeling trapped inside a black mans body: What if I was Chinese but born in this (expletive) body that’s not funny?” he said, squinting his eyes. “And the rest of my life, I had to go around making that face: ‘Hey, everybody, I’m Chinese!’ And then everybody get mad: ‘Stop making that face, that’s offensive.’ ‘What? This is how I feel inside.’
Dave Chappell is right.
My personal opinion is that this county is full of pu$$ys.
SNL Fires Comic over Chinese Jokes,so did they demand the web site Engrish be taken down?.
Now we’ll never learn which Republican he was going to portray as a fascist racist idiot.
“Yang, which surprised me because Yang is best known for his character on HBOs Silicon Valley, in which Yang, through his characterJian-Yiang , does an absolute merciless stereotypical Chinese accent.”
Jian-Yiang was my favorite.
they’ll soon have an all mime cast
don't they wear "Whiteface"? isn't that racist?
you outsmarted me
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