'SNL' castmember Shane Gillis apologizes for resurfaced audio 'to anyone who's actually offended'
"I'm happy to apologize to anyone who's actually offended by anything I've said," Gillis said via a Twitter statement.castmembers announced Thursday, is seen using a racial slur in a since-deleted video on a YouTube channel called "Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast."
"Chinatown’s fucking nuts," Gillis says in a segment of the video. "Let the fucking ch---s live there." Original audio of the Sept. 26, 2018, podcast and the YouTube video has since been deleted. Freelance writer and editor Seth Simons shared a clip on his Twitter account. Gillis also discusses Chinese restaurants in the video, saying, "The translation between you and the waiter is just such a fucking hassle."
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