So much for Andrew Yang's outreach: Saturday Night Live said today that Shane Gillis, the stand-up comedian whose sexist, racist and homophobic slurs caused outrage last week after it was announced he would be joining the show for the upcoming season, has been fired.

An SNL spokesperson said, on behalf of Lorne Michaels, “After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL. We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as comedian and his impressive audition for SNL.  We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable.  We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard."

Gillis released a statement after the news came out, which you can read in full below: "I'm a comedian who was funny enough to get SNL. That can't be taken away."

Last Thursday, SNL announced that they had hired three new featured performers for the upcoming 45th season, including impressionist Chloe Fineman, stand-up comedian Gillis and writer/performer Bowen Yang. While the initial headlines all focused on the hiring of Yang, who will be the first Asian-American cast member, that quickly changed as more information about Gillis came out over the day—specifically, that he has a history of using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs on his comedy podcast.

After the announcement, comedian Seth Simons reposted two clips from an episode of "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast" released last September. In the clips, Gillis referred to Chinese people as "fucking ch*nks" and mocked a caricature of a Chinese accent. In another podcast clip, he used homophobic slurs to insult Judd Apatow and Chris Gethard. More and more instances of him using racially offensive language on podcasts came out, including one from last May in which he called Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang a "Jew ch*nk."

Gillis released a statement last week describing himself as "a comedian who pushes boundaries" but sometimes misses. "I'm happy to apologize to anyone who's actually offended by anything I've said," Gillis wrote. "My intention is never to hurt anyone but I am trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks."

Yang responded on Twitter over the weekend to the slurs, saying, “I prefer comedy that makes people think and doesn’t take cheap shots.” He later added that he didn't think Gillis should lose his job, though he seemed to misunderstand that Gillis never actually apologized in his first statement.