Do Asians Still Hate Shane Gillis?

comedian Shane Gillis will be the host of SNL this month and a lot of people who remember his comments about Asian people and other groups from about four years ago are not very happy and a lot of his old stuff is resurfacing right now so we got to talk about it yeah we got to talk about it because man Shane Gillis is probably the hottest comedian in the western world right now I want to say specifically America and uh this has the internet Andrew in a fury we're talking about hardcore Shane Gillis fans going against uh quote unquote wokey people other people are in the middle hoping for maybe you know maybe he's changed his ways so make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications check out SMA sauce at smas sauce.com it's sold out right now but it's still San of Sicily new badge coming soon I'll tell you this right off the bat uh I'm of two minds about this because I'll say this uh it seems like in the past four years Shane Gillis has done a ton of damage control he's shown himself to be incredibly talented Ed his comedy muscles are 10 out of 10 and obviously he stayed away from Asian jokes but the truth remains had he ever made those comments about any other group black latino he would not be able to come back from it so generally I'll say this it it shows more that America's really about who's hot and it also shows that making jokes on Asians don't really matter but I don't think that Shane Gillis is a bad person and he is clearly very talented okay so that's your take on it um I think that I understand why a lot of Asians are mad because just to rewind guys and to remind everybody and refresh everybody's memory this was during the pandemic this is before he blew up and got big there's a clip of him on this very very small obscure podcast but he's saying racist things about Asians he is for context in a racist character he said let me imagine what a racist person would say about Asians and he's saying all this racist stuff but it gets clipped up he says racist stuff about Andrew Yang in the same manner and then he loses his he us the c word call him in yeah yeah he uses the the CW um and he's also said like you know things are gay and other things like that you know like in a jokingly but ALS well Andrew let me tell you that podcast that it was small that got him canceled from SNL is making like $400,000 a month now so it goes to show you it's not a small podcast anymore uh so Andrew what's your feelings on it I mean he said it he got cancelled he got kicked off SNL a lot of people say it was the best thing that ever happened to him he rises up to be a huge some people say Center left some people say center right comedian in a time where comedy seems to be swinging back towards the right yeah like to me he represents like that hilarious witty football player buddy that you had back in high school you know and he's a very American dude uh he's got the American Stripes he went to West Point played college football he has those Mark he also makes fun of himself for like possibly coming from a Down syndrome family or whatever it's he's he's done a lot to prove that he is a hilarious comedian since then and he has not really offended people I guess too much since then but yeah he Still's got the strikes on him so I think I I don't really have a problem with him hosting SNL today I think him losing his previous SNL job was the right to do you can't give someone a job right after you say all that kind of stuff even if it's in a joking way so but for me I'm not like I'm not celebrating him but I'm also like not I I don't think I'm going to spend a lot of my energy fighting this right right that's just not he is funny I've seen a lot of his material since then yeah but he did he's like Anthony Davis he's like a beast at comedy but I will say this I don't I I probably would not be friends with a lot of Shane Gillis hard fans his fan base seems like I'm kind of like uh definitely some of you guys definitely might be kind of racist dude I don't think he is I actually think some of his opinions are Center left I think sometimes he's center right too but like he's pretty Centrist I would actually say funny because some of the fans are a little bit overzealous and being like a Shane can do no wrong he's hilarious he's the he's the next gen com he's the only representation of me in the mainstream media some people see him as like the savior of pure comedy you know I I don't know if I'd go as far to say that he is funny though he's funny guys trust me I've seen his Clips people are riding for him Andrew like they rode for Chance the Rapper when Acid Rap dropped like they're riding for him on that level like uh almost like uh Daniel Cesar like all right so two things are true I agree that had he said the n-word with the erer the really bad one even in a joking back or any version I think yeah I don't think he comes back and host SNL I think that's too hard of a hit say the cord he can he can rebound from it eventually well a lot of comedians have Sarah Silverman yeah bounce back from saying the CW word because isn't the truth that nobody takes it serious and I'm not going to blame Shane Gillis he toyed with the way Society is but in society people do not take racism against Asians serious at all and you can argue that even Asians are split on how serious he take I don't think Shane Gillis is the problem he's not the problem he's not the root problem he's just the symptom toying with the way Society is it was it was how it is you know it's a lot bigger issue to Asians I think Asians we have to decide on our own how hard and how militant we are as a group and I think a lot of Asians are split on it some Asians are very very militant and some Asians are willing to let stuff go and then there's a spectrum of in between so everybody just has to decide on their own because we're not all thinking the same you know so yeah I guess at the end of the day you know four or five years later after all that has happened I think people do deserve Second Chances I'd be interested to hear him address it yeah I don't know if he'll address it in such spe specificity but I would say that I do think people deserve second chances I would like to think that if we had said a bad joke in the past and it was a joke actually and then someone tries to bring it up from the past that you're seen with some empathy you know what I mean right well Shane Gillis come on the Pod prove it why don't you boost some Asians up yeah if you're going to be ripping them down for comedy yeah not that I'm saying you fully meant it in your heart but clearly you didn't care about saying it because actually there is a clip of Shane Gillis from like 10 years ago saying uh yeah I've been noticing that crowds uh they're pretty much okay with you being racist towards Asians and they find it really funny but other groups are off limits so he's almost just talking about the nature of the audience right he's just almost looking at it just almost like a scientist like probing around Society where are the lines where are the electric fences that observed is that you know you can make fun of Asians um anyway let's just get into the comment section Andrew uh you got people who are quote unquote uh woke not woke you know pale skinned feminists versus these broy guys called nacho beef beef nachos uh Andrew literally pale skinned feminist versus beef nachos and they're going at it in a thread like ding ding ding ding ding ding ding one is a Shane Gillis fan one is against Shane Gillis I think most people are probably in middle somewhere well I think a lot of people are like dude we have to we have to stand by Shane Gillis cuz he represents comedy comedy in its purest form nothing's off limits you can say whatever yeah yeah I mean I think he represents almost the nor McDonald he reminds me of a of a more mentally sophisticated Will Sasso you know from uh from uh Mad TV um there was a lot of argument about where he stands politically do you think it matters that since then uh there was a New Yorker article that said that he is actually more like Steven coar politically cuz Steven coar is a very middle left guy so I'm saying that there have been liberal Publications that said we've analyzed him and he actually tracks as a younger more broish Steven coar I guess yeah I do think so I think so but it's so funny because you are fan base that can f i mean you know some people view us as left liberal and then but we also have a lot of republ Republican followers too to be honest like in the comment section that's what I gather from it so I don't know exactly what the split is but people view us a certain way but then our fans can be a certain way so I don't know that's a good point um ultimately what do you think man this is uh blowing up on the internet right now we can continue to watch Reddit threads that are elongating as we speak we're talking about thousands of comments going back and forth I I think overall in my opinion I guess he got his punishment back then he lost his big breakthrough D job he clawed back he built himself up he hasn't fully made another big mistake on that level he has proved himself to be funny he's a true comedian and so while I'm never going to Champion him you know like oh this is the god like I'm not he's not my favorite comedian but he is funny so he's made it back so what he did his time it's like you you you all so you committed a crime you went to jail for it you served your time gang podcast he did Andrew Yang's podcast whether or not you agree with what Andrew Yang said about it initially I disagree because Andrew Yang initially said I don't think Shane Gillis should have lost his job that I disagree with Andrew Yang about I think he should have lost the job which he did which was right but now since then if the people love him and he's been a good person since then whatever I don't know I'm not like tripping I'll tell you this man uh from what I've seen of him incredibly funny his comedy muscles are insane plus playing with how he looks and his family background everything there's just so much tension he strums the com comedy guitar in the room so beautifully but I will say this is that clearly America doesn't value racism against Asians they don't really care because America's about money and he's bringing the dollars back in and that's just what it is well I mean didn't they care I guess at first but they just they they don't care anymore no they don't care and I don't think that that's the way things have ever worked and you could say you know Dave Chappelle he got canceled by the lgbtiq community and he's back from it but is he back is he not like you know he's doing Shane Gillis is doing Budweiser now does it show there's a Monumental shift in the American narrative back towards the right because they went from Dylan Mulaney to Shane Gillis who's even though like I said analysts have said that he's Center left but obviously his fan base hardcore more right center right if not right so maybe but I I don't know I don't I I don't think all of his fan bases that I don't think you can plot his fan base necessarily because his fan base is going to be very uh saying relative to a average comedian more on the right side that's what I think in terms of where the Distribution on the plot chart is but like I I just think it's hard to say I just think you have to ask yourself did he do the time did he serve his time in com in career jail yeah in the sense of being out of the mainstream and now the mainstream's Willing because obviously anybody they can go do whatever they want independently whenever they want so I guess what I'm saying is he served his time he did what the judge sentenced him to he lost his job that's fine years have passed he built himself back up it is what it is to me that's how I view it so I guess ask yourself that does is this punishment enough or should he not be able to host hnl and get punished forever for his past comments I mean that's that's a personal thing yeah I mean I think it's just more reflective of the way things work and the way people handle Asian issues versus issues of other kinds but then of course that goes into a trillion other if this whole past few years in my opinion had he been making Asian jokes I would say no I really would I'd be like no dude you got to calm down this dude got to shut up but yeah again I guess like you know what I would say this man comedy muscles and the way use the comedy muscles it's so different man he is a beast I'm telling you just straight off I know unless you're really deep into comedy you can't like see the visualization of Comedy muscles his are incredibly big but anyway let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time we the hot pop boys we out peace peace