It only took a few hours after “Saturday Night Live” announced its new cast members for one of them to come under fire. As per his own podcast and YouTube videos, new hire Sean Gillis has a history…
of cracking racist “jokes” about minorities that are so astonishingly nasty that I won’t repeat them here. When this came to light, fans of Gillis’ podcast as well as some frustrated comedians immediately claimed that the scrutiny was unfair, which makes no sense. His becoming a part of “,” one of the most prestigious and powerful comedy gigs in television, would put him at a whole new level of visibility.
As long as there have been comedians, there have been comedians who rely on hackneyed stereotypes to get kneejerk laughs. Minstrel shows didn’t become one of America’s most time-honored forms of entertainment out of nowhere; white people crafting offensive punchlines that depend on slurs is one of comedy’s most basic traditions. There have always been comedians who built a fanbase by catering to their fans’ basest instincts.
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