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Lets discuss. former "snl" cast member, dean obeidallah. dean, thank you so much. we have a delay. hes in atlanta. the presidential hopeful you saw him. he didnt want gillis fired. you used to work at "snl" production staff. you say he shouldnt have been fired. how should it have been handled? >> to me, to be clear, first of all, i dont know how he got hired. my friends at "snl," there is this thing called google. you should use it for people youre going to hire. his podcast from last year. yang...

Is adored more than he is. and something else about his obsession with president obama which i find very strange, it shows the double standard of his ability to tell lies. he just lies about president obama, whether it was about him putting a spy into his campaign or whether it was about, you know, obama couldnt get -- was going to put us into war with north korea. like he lies about all kinds of things. he blamed the air-conditioning problems in the white house on obama for gods sakes. i mean t...

Fired one of its most recent hires. shane gillis is his name. fired him just days after videos of the comedian making bigoted and homophobic comments came to light. but i want you to listen to these brand-new comments tonight from democratic presidential candidate andrew yang himself, a target of gillis comedy. >> i thought if i could set an example that we can forgive people. particularly in an instance where in my mind it was in a comedic context or gray area. i thought it would be positive. b...

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And he didnt say it -- if he was doing a stand-up routine and he was making you think, and he was using offensive language in some way that it made you uncomfortable, but then it made you think, this was not that. this was a podcast, basically like me and you talking now. just having a conversation. theres no performance here. theres no whatever. were having a conversation and hes saying these words. >> well, he and the other guy were trying to be funny this their depiction of chinatown. >> i di...

This is that it has to be funny. >> yeah, somebody was just saying that to me. i dont agree. >> hold on. let me finish my thought. >> go ahead. >> what he said was not funny, and he didnt say it -- if he was doing a stand-up routine and he was making you think, and he was using offensive language in some way that it made you uncomfortable, but then it made you think, this was not that. this was a podcast, basically like me and you talking now. we were just having a conversation like theres no pe...

Allowed on television right now. and something is wrong with that because those were learning moments, teachable moments. >> who are we? what happens when were tested? how do we feel about it? how do we respond? what do we embrace? what do we reject? >> i think everyone is a little too sensitive, and i think going back in the past for every little thing that someone did, nobody would have a job. nobody. nobody, because everyone says stupid things. everyone does something thats boneheaded now and...

Say what you want to say. if people dont like it, get ready for the condemnation. you have the right to speak in this society, and you have the right to be judged for what you say. >> agreed. >> keep it pure. >> i just hate the whole cancel culture. i hate the whole -- and i hate going back and -- listen, think about this. think about if richard pryor or lenny bruce or even eddie murphy were coming up now. do you remember the you know what that they would say? >> you think "all in the familiar" ...

Point of view because he represents the company, and he represents a brand. "snl" has been around for a long time. >> it is, but its comedy. and comedy is more than just funny. in this culture, it tests limits. >> right. >> it pushes at sacred cows. it makes us laugh at ourselves sometimes. it makes us uncomfortable. it bothers us. we have a legacy, a history of being offensive in this culture. sometimes its funny. sometimes its just pushing what the normative values of a society that values fre...

"snl" admitted their vetting process could have been better. listen, dean, youre going to call people out when they say anti-muslim things or anti-black things, but not this person? this person shouldnt be fired? >> well, he actually did say anti-muslim stuff as i pointed out in my cnn article. for me the question was -- were adults, right, don? we know when someones being playful, when theyre being hateful. in the case of shane, i dont know the young man. andrew yangs point two days ago, he wou...