Gillis was hired as a featured player in 2019 and fired days later after videos resurfaced of him making racial slurs on his podcast

"When he came back to the show last year [to host], we saw, 'Oh right, he’s really talented, and he would’ve been really good for us.'"

Lorne Michaels weighed in on comedian Shane Gillis' firing from 'Saturday Night Live' — and the backlash when he was brought back to host