Sitting next to Burr on the Lights Out panel was the Australian comic Jim Jefferies, who said that Gillis’s firing was “cancel culture” going after “a couple things back in his history.” The SNL alumni Rob Schneider and Norm Macdonald offered their support for Gillis on Twitter. Usually, though, he follows up such bits with actual introspection.īurr wasn’t the only comedian to defend Gillis in some form. It was typical button-pushing from the comedian: a hot take wrapped in a crude insult, delivered loudly and enthusiastically. “None of them care! All they wanna do is get people in trouble!,” Burr continued, eliciting laughs from the crowd. The stand-up was offering his perspective on Saturday Night Live’s hiring and rapid firing of Shane Gillis due to a plethora of racist material the latter had recorded. “This is fucking Millennials! You’re a bunch of rats, all of you!” he yelled, to audience cheers, on the talk show Lights Out With David Spade last week. When a comedian gets in trouble, Bill Burr believes he knows who’s to blame.
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