Days after NBC fired him from Saturday Night Live, Shane Gillis performed his first stand-up set since the ouster in New York on Wednesday night. During his 11-minute set, the comedian—who was axed from the sketch show after his history of making racist and bigoted remarks surfaced online—made clear he’s not exactly feeling remorseful. To drive the point home he even wore branded hoodie for Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, the show where he used the racial slur that got him fired.

Variety reports that the audience at the Stand comedy club in Manhattan greeted Gillis with applause, and that a couple people in the back of the crowd cheered his name intermittently throughout the set. “Everybody’s been like, you can’t say shit and not expect consequences,” Gillis reportedly said on stage. “I’m fine with the consequences. I’m not arguing. Fuck it. But I do want everyone to know that I’ve been reading every one of my death threats in an Asian accent.”

Throughout the set, Variety reports, Gillis weighed in on “cancel culture,” social media, and racism; at one point, he cited the difference between the way his hometown, Philadelphia, addresses race and the way it’s discussed in New York. “I’m from a shithole,” Gillis said, “and then I moved to the city and now all my friends are woke.… It’s funny to hear so many people these days be like, ‘I’m not racist.’ Are you sure? Being racist isn’t a yes or no thing. It’s not like you have it or you don’t have it. Being racist is like being hungry. You’re not right now but a cheeseburger could cut you off in traffic and you could get hungry real quick. You didn’t even know you were hungry for that type of cheeseburger. The cheeseburger’s not Asian in that joke.”

Hours after NBC announced it had hired Gillis, alongside its first-ever cast member of fully Asian descent, Bowen Yang, freelance comedy writer and editor Seth Simons posted a video from a 2018 episode of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast in which Gillis and his co-host, Matt McCusker, mocked Chinese cuisine, accents, and English abilities, as well as Chinatown, using an anti-Asian slur in the process. SNL reportedly recruited Gillis as an attempt to counter a perception of liberal bias and boost its appeal with conservatives—but by Monday the show had fired him. The ouster has set off yet another debate about “cancel culture,” with Gillis supporters framing the consequence Gillis faced for his comments as some sort of career-ending persecution. Within days, he’d found his way back in front of a microphone just fine.

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