It’s hard to imagine a scenario for the show where the stakes could be any higher,” says James Andrew Miller, who wrote the book, “Live from New York: An Uncensored History of

Gillis was hired as a featured player in 2019 and fired days later after videos resurfaced of him making racial slurs on his podcast

Lorne Michaels has no regrets about hiring controversial comedian Shane Gillis — or bringing him back to host Saturday Night Live after he was fired for resurfaced racist and homophobic jokes. "We had a bad time when I added Shane Gillis to the cast [in 2019],