"You haven’t seen what we’re going to do, and what I’m going to try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing," Michaels remembered thinking.

“ Saturday Night Live ” creator and producer Lorne Michaels is speaking out on his recent show regrets.

Gillis never made it to the SNL cast after online comments surfaced where he used a racial slur against Asians. In a statement at the time, Michaels, via a spokesperson said “after talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL.”