Saturday Night Live breakout Bowen Yang looked back on the fervor surrounding the firing of Shane Gillis, sharing that the controversial comedian called him in the wake of it all to apologize "for the mess.

Bowen Yang has shared tidbits from a phone exchange he said he had with Shane Gillis before the latter was fired from “Saturday Night Live.” Yang and Gillis were both hired onto the comedy show’s cast in 2019.

Bowen Yang is pulling back the curtain on comedian Shane Gillis’ hiring and subsequent firing from Saturday Night Live in 2019.Yang spoke about the situation in a profile in The New Yorker published Monday,