Bowen Yang insists he didn’t get Shane Gillis fired from “Saturday Night Live.” The “Wicked” star, 34, shut down that rumor after Michelle Best, who worked as a background actor on ...

“Background actors would generally go Thursday ... It’s safe to say the folks at “SNL” know what they’re doing. “The show has an electric atmosphere, and many of the technicians ...

On Feb. 26, SNL background actor Michelle Best wrote a comment on a joint Instagram post from SNL and Gillis accusing Yang of getting his colleague fired. The two were supposed to start on the ...

The commenter alleged that Yang "bitched" Gillis off the show in 2019, and he said he "didn't do any" of the things she was claiming ...

Yang responded to Best, writing, “Didn’t do any of this but I wrote the sketch you were a background actor in ... into the end of the world,” the SNL boss said at the time.