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Shane Gillis on ‘SNL’
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Shane Gillis’ triumphant return to the Saturday night live scenery This weekend was a mix of humor, some of which landed with a thud, like any episode of the long-running show, and a couple of good laughs.
Much of the show’s sketches took the comedian and podcaster’s white brother shtick and scaled it down a bit, ultimately finding a sweet spot closer to the line his routine crosses. Gillis made a big effort in his return to Studio 8H on Saturday night, but he struggled throughout his monologue and was visibly anxious as he moved on to new topics. Joking with his father, who sat down with his mother to support him in one of the most important moments of his career, was not well received; Yes, having a father who is a girls’ basketball coach may be a lot of fun for you, Shane, but it really isn’t. to everyone else.
Despite this rocky start, which followed a lukewarm and cold opening referencing Donald Trump’s victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, the show had some highlights. In a fake ad, Gillis introduced the Rock Bottom Kings betting platform, which instead of sports, allows users to bet on how low their friends’ lives could sink. In another mock ad, this time a movie trailer, the comedian portrayed young Gordon Dwyer, who doesn’t acquire the basketball skills he wants, but rather a Trump-style hairstyle and a strange relationship with the truth when the former president sends him a gold award. pair of high sneakers.
The podcasting sensation also earned some laughs with a sketch in which he played a game show guest. Floor, where you can’t remember the names of any famous black people in history while their faces appear on a screen; The same goes for her portrayal of an incel who casts Fugliana, the average-looking sex doll she doesn’t intimidate.
Other sketches, as will follow SNL, continued too much and stretched a single gag too much; one that was about human resources and workplace dating seemed to go on forever. And the show’s highlight, “Weekend Update,” was remarkably short and consisted mostly of a cast member dressed as a frozen embryo. Co-host Colin Jost perhaps even one-upped Gillis on the awkward racial joke front with a joke about waiting for Black History Month in a leap year.
The show’s musical guest, British-American rapper 21 Savage, brought the single “redrum” onstage bathed in blood-red light, but the audience didn’t seem to get it.
On Saturday, Gillis, the wildly popular co-host of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, returned to the show as host five years after being fired from the cast. In 2019, the 36-year-old was abruptly fired when racist and homophobic jokes he made on his show resurfaced.