Shane Gillis Gave His SNL Monologue a C Minus

Shane Gillis is addressing his controversial Saturday Night Live monologue, and where else would he do it but The Joe Rogan Experience? Gillis called women who wear workout clothes to the gym “whores” in a set that angered many. On the podcast, Gillis said SNL was not to blame for his words. “Not to defend SNL, they don’t approve it. I mean, they could shut it down,” he said. “But you don’t write your set and give it to them.” Obviously non-comedians have their monologue written by the staff, with one notable exception being Taylor Swift. She wrote her monologue song in 2009. The SNL staff did ask Gillis for the gist of his remarks, and he thought it would be controversy-free. “The funniest part was, they were like, ‘What’s going on with the monologue?’” he said on Rogan. “And I was like, ‘It’s not great but I don’t say anything bad.’”

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Gillis did not think the whorephobia was his best work. Gillis called it “a solid C minus of a monologue” on the podcast, “but I promise there’s no controversy. I’m calling myself fat for fucking 10 minutes. That’s it.’” But that was not it, and Gillis provoked the ire of everyone from Dan Levy to SNL UK. This is a very valuable lesson for artists: shoot for the B plus. On the plus side, people have entirely forgotten that he said “fuck” live on NBC.

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