On Sept. 12, 2019, comedian Shane Gillis was announced as a new addition to the Saturday Night Live cast ahead of Season 45. Only four days later, Gillis was fired. Gillis' abrupt exit from NBC's ...

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Lorne Michaels has opened up, again, about the decision to fire Shane Gillis from Saturday Night Live before he’d ever stepped on the Studio 8H stage. Gillis was fired in September 2019 ...

Lorne Michaels is putting the onus on NBC over the "Saturday Night Live" firing of Shane Gillis. The "SNL" creator said he was "angry" over the decision in a new profile in the Wall Street Journal.