‘Saturday Night Live’ Is Reportedly Considering Poaching A Comedian From ’Kill Tony’

According to comedy industry insiders, Saturday Night Live is weighing a second attempt at winning over the Manosphere audience. Apparently, the Shane Gillis incident didn’t completely turn SNL off of podcasts bros.

In many ways, right-wing stand-up and failed Trump stumper Tony Hinchcliffe’s live-streamed comedy variety show is the alt-right version of the moderate-to-liberal SNL: up-and-coming comedians dream of one day getting their typically brief time to shine on the Kill Tony stage, the show’s popularity only continues to grow despite harshly negative reactions from critics and the creator is the single least funny person involved in the entire operation. Now, one of Kill Tony’s brightest stars, 26-year-old stand-up Kam Patterson, is a serious candidate to join the cast of SNL in its 51st season, or so says a source with “direct knowledge” of casting process who spoke to TMZ earlier today.

Patterson, whose obscene, unpredictable stories about his upbringing in Orlando have made him one of the most beloved regulars in the Kill Tony crew, would be one of the most chaotic casting choices that SNL has ever made, and his addition to Season 51 would likely be a watershed moment for both Kill Tony and SNL, for better or for much, much worse.

When Hinchcliffe talked to Dana Carvey and David Spade on the Fly on the Wall podcast back in May, the Kill Tony creator suggested that his live variety show is a bit more high-wire than NBC’s flagship sketch series. “SNL has its own writers and producers and everything,” Hinchcliffe told Carvey and Spade. “A bunch of people clank their heads together.”

Meanwhile, the amateur live performers who test out their material on the biggest stage in conservative-leaning comedy “are out there sinking or swimming on their own," said Hinchcliffe, “so it’s really exciting. I get kind of nervous every time I bring up a regular because I do want them to do good. I want them to shine.” 

If Patterson made it to SNL, his ascension to the top of TV comedy through the ranks of Kill Tony regulars would legitimize Hinchcliffe’s podcast in the eyes of the mainstream entertainment industry even more than a few shows at Madison Square Garden — and it would invite fresh controversy into Studio 8H.

As is the Kill Tony style, Patterson’s brand of comedy is explicit, in-your-face and deliberately, flagrantly offensive. For instance, during one Kill Tony appearance, Patterson started a half-written bit with the line, “You gotta really be gay to like men, ‘cause women got assholes too.”

“‘Cause, like, you just wanting to go to hell, that’s on you, brother! They got the same asshole!” Patterson riffed. “You could blindfold a gay n---- and show him two different assholes and he wouldn’t know the difference! I first f---ed a girl when I was 17, and she told me to f--- her in her ass, and I told her, ‘No, that’s gay.’”

Later, Patterson added, “I will tell you this, though, I like lesbians. Lesbians is cool. ‘Cause, like, what’s better than one pussy? Two!”

It’s hard to imagine that Patterson would be able to clean up his comedy to fit into SNL’s strictly TV-14 content limitations, and it’s an even bigger stretch to think that that jokes like this one would endear him to the SNL cast and following. But, then again, Michaels has mourned how the show lost Gillis ever since that Kill Tony darling’s slurs went viral — perhaps the SNL don is ready to make amends with Manosphere.