“Saturday Night Live” veteran Kenan Thompson weighed in on Shane Gillis‘ controversial monologue, which sparked social media outrage due to a joke about women dressing like “whores” at the gym.
\n\n“I know Shane, and I don’t know him to be a mean person, necessarily,” Thompson said at the Axios Media Trends Live summit. “But if he were to come back [to ‘SNL’], I’m sure we would have a conversation of like, ‘How do you think that went?’ You know what I mean? And, ‘What do you think you could have done?’ Like a little kid, you know? I would just sit him down and be like, ‘So what do you think we could change there, pal?'”
\n\nThompson said the monologue is about “finding the balance of both things — allowing creative liberties but also watching your step as far as harmful words are concerned.”
\n\nHe lamented that while the internet was focused on “one specific word,” the rest of the monologue and the rest of the episode was “overshadowed” by the backlash.
\n\n“Grace [Reiter], one of our newest cast members, had a phenomenal show, and it’s sad because nobody’s even talking about it,” Thompson said. “Even [musical guest] Rosalía is…
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