Comedian Shane Gillis let slip a NSFW word during a sketch on Saturday’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

During a “Green Eggs And Ham” sketch, Gillis, who played the son to Mikey Day’s the Lorax, was defending his dad from Andrew Dismukes’ Sam-I-Am, who was pressuring the Lorax to eat his green eggs and ham.

“Bro, it’s a non-starter,” Gillis said. “He told me, he said he doesn’t fucking — geez, like them.”

Gillis looked visibly shaken up. When the crowd laughed and applauded, he put his hand up to acknowledge the audience.

“You’re a loser, and you said a bad word!” Day’s character told Gillis toward the end of the sketch.

“Sorry about earlier,” Gillis said.

Censors didn’t catch the slip-up, but in videos posted online, the word is muted.

At the end of the night as Gillis was saying goodbye from the main stage and thanking the cast, he again apologized.

In 2009, comedian Jenny Slate was fired at the end of her debut season of “Saturday Night Live” after she said “fucking” live on air. However, in 2019, Slate told InStyle that wasn’t the reason she got fired.

“By the way, everyone always thinks I got fired for saying fuck,” she said. “I didn’t. That’s not why I got fired. I just didn’t belong there.”

Gillis returned to “Saturday Night Live” for his third time hosting. In 2019, he was fired from the show shortly after he was announced as a cast member for some past racist remarks he made that resurfaced.

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