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Louis CK's Insight On The Left's Deplorable Mistake
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Louis CK's Insight On The Left's Deplorable Mistake

Why SNL screwed up by firing Shane Gillis, and what it tells us about the country

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Ben Domenech
May 06, 2022
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You may not know who comedian Shane Gillis is — except perhaps because you recall hearing about a comedian being fired before ever appearing on the new cast of Saturday Night Live because of jokes he made on podcasts.

His real crime was saying Judd Apatow is “gayer than ISIS”, which is pretty funny.

The SNL firing incident and his hilarious interviews af…

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