Kenan Thompson said a Shane Gillis return to host SNL would require some sort of real chat, telling Axios Media Trends Live that the episode was overshadowed by the monologue backlash, per Variety.
The mechanism is the panel. The cast member who will sit Gillis down like a little kid was at a media trends summit, and seated next to him was Peter Micelli, the CEO of the agency that represents Gillis, saying let artists be artists. The regret and the defense shared a panel, a program, and a day, and the industry called it balance.
Kenan said that if Gillis comes back, we would have to have some sort of real chat where people's actions don't wave pool the rest of us, the most honest sentence about this business all month, delivered in the tone of a parent after a rough game. So what do you think we could change there, pal. He said the internet fixated on one specific word while the rest of the show got swallowed, including his newest castmate's episode and the musical guest.
The rest is the usual chorus. Dan Levy implied the worst. Dana Carvey said he did not understand the kerfuffle. Two cast veterans shade the joke. The agency CEO defends a comedian's right to test boundaries as an economic necessity, because if they do not, nobody's going to watch them. The joke itself is one word long and you have probably forgotten it already. Nobody is going to forget the summit.
YOUR TURN: Is let artists be artists a defense, or a press release with a pulse?
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