After Shane Gillis was fired from Saturday Night Live after old jokes resurfaced that were directed at the Asian and LGBT communities, members of the media and many fans online looked for ways to incorporate Bowen Yang into the story. He’s a proud member of both of those communities and had been promoted from his job as a writer into a cast member at the exact same time. It only made sense in the minds of many to link the two together, but years later, Yang now feels like he and Gillis were both “used” to further cancel culture agendas.
