"You haven’t seen what we’re going to do, and what I’m going to try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing," Michaels remembered thinking.

Baldwin’s former Beetlejuice co-star Michael Keaton was our night’s host. It’s always worrisome when a monologue lunges to song or extra guests on stage; Keaton had barely gotten a joke off, a rambler about working as a PA on Mr.

Saturday Night Live’s head honcho is still fuming about a cast change he had to make years ago. In a new interview with WSJ. Magazine, SNL creator Lorne Michaels opens up about the controversial hiring and firing of stand-up comedian Shane Gillis,

In 2019, Saturday Night Live made headlines after firing Shane Gillis before he was ever able to step on stage. He was ultimately let go after jokes he made on a podcast that included racial and homophobic slurs resurfaced and went viral.

Lorne Michaels revealed once and for all that it was NBC's decision to fire Shane Gillis from "Saturday Night Live" after the comedian's past homophobic comments and racist remarks about Asians surfaced online.