Like his favorite MADtv, Shane Gillis picked Asians to mock because they are an easy target for racial jokes

https://sethsimons.substack.com/p/yeesh

"As with Stephen Colbert and the Oscars, when it was time to make fun of a racial group, a comedian picked the Asians because they assumed there could be no meaningful blowback. Gillis was just too stupid to be clever about it," says Jeremy Gordon. He points to Gillis saying in a statement Monday that "I was always a mad tv guy anyway." As Gordon notes, MADtv has a history of mocking Asians, like with Alex Borstein's MADtv character, Ms. Swan, who was originally called Ms. Kwan. "To anyone of Asian descent," he says, "Ms. Swan was painfully recognizable as a crude stereotype. She had a severe bowl cut; her porcelain skin was flushed with rouge; she worked at a nail salon; she wore the sexless muu-muus of many grandmothers; and her accent immediately evoked every callous impersonation of an Asian woman."