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 ...

Bowen Yang is setting the record straight. On Feb. 26, a former background actor for Saturday Night Live commented on the teaser for the March 1 show—which Shane Gillis is hosting—and alleged ...

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 ...

By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Yang responded to Best, writing, “Didn’t do any of this but I wrote the sketch you were a background actor ... of the world,” the SNL boss said at the ...