‘SNL’ should’ve fired Shane Gillis a second time
‘I probably shouldn’t be up here,’ the host admitted as he bombed his monologue, kicking off a train wreck of an episode.
“When is a gift not a gift?”
That’s the riddle Baron Harkonnen asks in Dune when questioned why his family has seemingly been betrayed by their Emperor. A gift isn’t a gift when it’s a trap, he hints.
After weeks of Shane Gillis’ fans rabidly predicting that his Saturday Night Live hosting gig would be the second coming of Norm Macdonald after he returned to host after being fired, Gillis found himself in a trap, revealing to the world in no uncertain terms that not only should Gillis not be hosting SNL, he never belonged on the show in the first place.
I’ve watched a lot of SNL. I’ve written a lot about SNL. This is one of the worst episodes I can remember.
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