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Cancel culture fired Shane Gillis — America hired him back

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In July, Shane Gillis made comedy history, selling more than 77,000 tickets and setting records for the largest audience for a comedian and the most tickets sold for a solo stand-up act. The achievement put him past names like Kevin Hart, Steve Martin, and German stand-up Mario Barth. It also came just seven years after cancel culture nearly killed his career. Shane Gillis did not beat cancel culture by becoming less offensive. He beat it by becoming too successful to cancel. In 2019, shortly after Comedy Central named him an “Up Next” comedian, Gillis landed the job every comic dreams about: a spot on “Saturday Night Live.” Then old clips surfaced of him doing a mock Asian accent and using a racial slur. Other clips featured supposedly unacceptable jokes about gay people. Within days, SNL fired him. Gillis later described the experience as painful enough to make it hard to “trust people ... for a while.” The timing was brutal. Gillis was fired during what we now recognize as peak woke

First report: Gillis shares goals for Scio Township following Democratic primary win — mlive.com, 6d