Canceled and Came Back Swinging.
They tried to shut him up before he even got started. SNL booted him for old jokes — the kind that hit close to the truth. But Gillis didn’t fold, apologize, or disappear. He went underground, then came back aboveground with a vengeance — telling jokes that cut deep into the fake gloss of modern America.
Shane’s comedy is unfiltered, unapologetic, and rooted in the dirt-road realness that makes elites twitch. His humor doesn’t come from a Harvard writer’s room — it comes from dive bars, football locker rooms, and pickup trucks.
He says what your uncle’s thinking — the one who’s fixed more engines than he’s read books.
Verdict: Full-blooded SphstRDnck. You don’t cancel a guy who never asked for your permission in the first place.