In 2016, three years before comedian Shane Gillis was hired and then immediately fired from Saturday Night Live, he told an interviewer that he was experimenting with his comedy to see what he could get away with. “You can be racist to Asians,” he said. “That’s what we’re finding out.” He was confronted by the absurdity of this claim in 2019, when SNL fired Gillis for calling other comedians “f**got comics” and referring to Chinese people as “fucking ch**ks” on his podcast the year before. Yet since then, Gillis’s fame as a comedian has only grown. He’s been a repeated...