Lorne Michaels said the decision to fire former castmember Shane Gillis from "SNL," after his controversial comments were ...

“ Saturday Night Live ” creator and producer Lorne Michaels is speaking out on his recent show regrets.

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"You haven’t seen what we’re going to do, and what I’m going to try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real ...

"Obviously I was not on that side, but I understood it," the "Saturday Night Live" creator said of the network's move.

Gillis never made it to the SNL cast after online comments surfaced where he used a racial slur against Asians. In a ...

Lorne Michaels told The Wall Street Journal that he was “angry” when Shane Gillis got fired from “Saturday Night Live” in ...

Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live, has said that he didn’t want to fire Shane Gillis from the show but was ...

Shane Gillis ‘ stint on Saturday Night Live was more than just short-lived: The controversial stand-up comedian was famously fired from the show just days after his casting was announced. And while a ...

SNL EP Lorne Michaels discusses being "angry" about Shane Gillis being fired and how the decision to part ways with Gillis ...

He’s hinted at as much before, but Lorne Michaels is now making it crystal clear: if it had been up to him, Shane Gillis ...

Michaels asserted that SNL is, at its core, a show that's willing to mock and tolerate on both sides. He slammed the notion that SNL takes sides, and has tried to maintain balance when possible.