The triumph of Shane Gillis
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The triumph of Shane Gillis

Last night‚ stand-up comic Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live – America’s premier‚ if long-past-its-best‚ sketch-comedy show – a little more than four years after he was fired from its cast‚ in one of the swiftest and most savage cancellations the industry had ever witnessed. Gillis’s opening monologue‚ more of a club set than the usually tightly scripted fare‚ blew through a mix of material‚ new and old‚ about his relatives with Down’s syndrome‚ high-school football coaches...