For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails This Saturday, Shane Gillis returns to Saturday Night Live with his head held high. The comedian and first-time SNL host is less a prodigal son than a prodigal guy-you-met-at-a-party-once – Gillis was infamously hired and then fired by the popular NBC variety show within a matter of days. This was back in 2019, after offensive jokes involving racial slurs he had made on a podcast the year before resurfaced on social media. Gillis’s return to the show, as its star for the week (alongside musical guest 21 Savage), represents a considerable eating of humble pie by SNL – and a smaller, markedly less humble slice of pie for Gillis himself, who once joked that he would shoot himself in the head on live TV were he ever to be invited back. News of Gillis’s comeback has caused some degree of discomfort among SNL devotees. Certainly, there’s an element of …