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It's already been renewed I think. Shane Gillis is just printing money right now as the current face of counter-culture comedy, they'd be crazy not to.
His new special on netflix is also really good (though maybe a little too much "comedian miming jerking off as a punchline" for my taste)
I don't think I'd describe anything he does as being the face of counter-culture. He starts half his routines with extended "Aren't black guys way better than white guys at sports/sex/whatever" (Seriously, watch any of his specials or youtube clips, he can't go 2 minutes without complimenting black guys), went back to host the show that cancelled him, and even did some bud-light grovelling after the boycott controversy.
He's a safe progressive with edgy vibes, way closer to Bill Burr than Jim Breuer
He is still marketed as a counter-culture guy after getting canned by SNL. You might not agree that he is actually counter-culture or whatever but he is undeniably the face of counter-culture comedy.
He was hired by SNL and then fired quickly after in 2019 after some impressions of Chinese people and what was called "homophobic" humor surfaced from old podcast episodes. I can't remember the specific jokes.
I see his stuff occasionally and he's definitely not afraid of certain things, mental disability and even talking about different races in positive and negative ways. He's pretty moderate i would say, just wants to make people laugh
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The politics of Joe Rogan, more or less.
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