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    Commentary: 'SNL' deserves the Shane Gillis backlash. It's been courting liberals for years

    by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times Sep 16, 2019 3 minutes

    It was no parody when "Saturday Night Live" announced last week that the cast for its 45th season would include Bowen Yang, an openly gay Asian American comedian, and Shane Gillis, a comedian whose portfolio includes bigoted jokes about Asians and gays. And Muslims. And pretty much everyone else who's not a straight white man.

    NBC's late-night institution took a public shellacking Thursday within hours of the announcement, when journalist Seth Simons drew attention to a September 2018 episode of "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast" in which Gillis uses a racist slur. (The

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