

This undated image released by NBC shows Bowen Yang who, along with Chloe Fineman and Shane Gillis, will join the cast of "Saturday Night Live," premiering its 45th season on Sept. And the translation between you and the waiter is just such a (expletive) hassle."
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Gillis also complains in the video that Chinese restaurants are full of "(expletive) Chinese. In the clip, Gillis refers to a city's Chinatown as being "nuts" and used a derogatory word for Chinese people when he and McCusker marveled that the unidentified city allowed the building of predominantly Chinese architecture. A representative for Gillis couldn't immediately be located. NBC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.


Seth Simons, a freelance writer and editor covering comedy, re-posted a clip from the video on Twitter and brought it to the trade paper's attention, Variety said. The video apparently was posted in 2018 to a YouTube channel featuring Gillis and fellow comedian Matt McCusker, according to a Variety story. The clip of Shane Gillis re-emerged in a news report Thursday, just hours after NBC said that he and two others, including the show's only Asian American performer, were joining the cast as featured players. LOS ANGELES - A newly announced "Saturday Night Live" cast member posted a video last year in which he used a racial slur for Chinese people and derided Asians trying to learn English.
