Who Is Matt Mccusker? New Details on Co-Host of Shane Gillis' Podcast Who's Also Guilty of Racist and Homophobic Remarks

When Saturday Night Live announced their new cast members, the reaction was mixed. People were thrilled to see the show announce it's first Asian cast member, Bowen Yang, but people were less thrilled to learn that Shane Gillis was hired. The rising comic was eventually asked NOT to join the cast of SNL when words of his racist and homophobic comments on a podcast started making the rounds. Who is Matt McCusker? He's the co-host of the podcast where Shane made those comments, and he's said some not so awesome things himself. Let's break it all down now, shall we? 

1. Meet Matt McCusker

With his co-host Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker runs Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast. In 2018 the podcast released a controversial episode where Shane used a racial slur when talking about Chinese people. The episode might have never been seen by anyone had it not been for Shane's casting on Saturday Night Live. Seth Simons is reponsible for finding the clips where both McCusker and Gillis make fun of people who are Jewish and Chinese, and the abuse doesn't stop there. Matt claims that Chinese people were to blame for the invention of MSG (a naturally occuring compound) and then went on to mock people who are gay, thus completeing the trifecta of awful. 

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2. Matt's Comedic Chops

Matt McCusker's role in this entire debacle hasn't been as covered as his co-host Shane's involvement, and that makes a certain amount of sense. While he is a podcast host, he was not the one who was cast on Saturday Night Live, though Matt does have his own comedic chops. In 2014 he was named "Philly's Funniest" by the Helium comedy club. I was mugged and robbed about a block from that comedy club after living mugging free in New York City for 13 years, so make of that what you will. Matt has other credits as well, having appeared on the Comedy Central web series Delco Proper, which I have never heard of before and let's be real, you probably haven't either.