NOTE: There is highly offensive language quoted directly in the story, which has been included verbatim because some of the source material appears to have been removed from the internet. Variety secured a copy of part of the offensive material prior to its removal from YouTube.
A video clip of Shane Gillis using an anti-Asian racial slur resurfaced on Twitter Thursday afternoon, just hours after he was announced as one of three new “SNL” cast members. A further look at his publicly posted works reveals a long history of denigrating women, Muslims and the LGBT community, among other groups.
In an episode of Gillis’ podcast, called Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, he tells comedian Matt McCusker “Chinatown’s f—ing nuts.”
“Let the f—ing ch-nks live there,” says Gillis. He later recalls a restaurant being “full of f—ing Chinee [sic] in there.”
The video recording of their podcast session has since been deleted from YouTube.
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