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And now for something completely different.
Following their nostalgic anniversary broadcast looking back at the show’s 50 seasons, “Saturday Night Live” continues to defy expectations and booked controversial once-fired cast member Shane Gillis to host the show for a second time alongside musical guest Tate McRae on Saturday, March 1.
In his February 2024 “SNL” debut, the edgy comic employed slurs toward mentally handicapped people, impersonated Donald Trump and spoke in a Jamaican patois.
“This was like them saying ‘sorry,'” Gillis said in an interview with Joe Rogan. “It was an admission of guilt.”
While the 37-year-old stand-up claims to have learned from his “offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable” on-air slurs, a 2024 Los Angeles Times article reports that he continues to work cruel stereotypes into his material.
Leading up to and after his return to Studio 8H in 30 Rockefeller Center, Gillis has a handful of stand-up gigs remaining on his tour that began in January.
While the “SNL” hosting spot is the only NYC show he has lined up, he does have a pair of upstate performances planned at Albany’s MVP Arena on Friday, May 2 and Buffalo’s KeyBank Center on Saturday, May 3.
As of now, tickets are available for all of his upcoming spots.
At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets was $48 before fees on Vivid Seats.
Other shows have seats starting anywhere from $50 before fees to $135 including fees.
For more information, we have everything you need to know and more about Shane Gillis’ stand-up tour below.
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Shane Gillis tour schedule 2025
A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.
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Tate McRae tour
Gillis isn’t the only headliner from his upcoming “SNL” episode mounting a tour this year.
Tate McRae announced her 2025 ‘Miss Possessive Tour’ back in November. The nationwide run includes a pair of shows at NYC’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, Sept. 3 and Thursday, Sept. 4.
Shane Gillis controversy
Once Gillis was hired by Lorne Michaels and “Saturday Night Live,” the floodgates opened. Anti-Asian slurs and offensive characterizations from his “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast” made headlines, which led to a swift falling out.
Rather than maintain a low profile, Gillis apologized, saying “it feels ridiculous for comedians to making serious public statements but here we are.”
“I’m a comedian who was funny enough to get ‘SNL.’ That can’t be taken away. Of course I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at ‘SNL,’ but I understand it would be too much of a distraction. I respect the decision they made. I’m honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a [‘MADTv’] guy anyway.”
And, while one might think that he’s learned from his mistakes, Gillis said “I definitely wouldn’t have changed what we did, our podcast,” in 2021. That didn’t stop “Saturday Night Live” from bringing him into host in February 2024 after the success of his Netflix stand-up specials. While on the show, he made cheap cracks directed at members of his family with Down syndrome.
Comedy critic Seth Simons, who has written about Gillis often, says his racist and anti-Semitic jokes “should horrify us not because they are hateful but because they are full of joy.”
Still, “Saturday Night Live” continues to let him off the hook.
“He said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world,” showrunner Lorne Michaels said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I was angry. I thought, ‘You haven’t seen what we’re going to do, and what I’m going to try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing.’”
Comedians on tour in 2025
Quite a few envelope-pushing, boundary-crossing comics will be out and about this year and next.
Here are just five that might be headlining at a club, theater or arena near you in the near future.
• Joe List
Who else is on the road? Take a look at our list of all the biggest comedians on tour in 2025to find the show for you.
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This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change.
