LISTEN: ESPY Awards Score Despite Host Shane Gillis
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Gillis, a standup comedian and the co-creator and star of Netflix’s Tires, is probably best known for lasting like four hours at Saturday Night Live — Lorne Michaels felt compelled to fire Gillis after some non-PC clips of a 2018 episode of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast were resurfaced — though he has gone on to host the show, twice.
Shane Gillis roasted everyone from the NFL’s Aaron Rodgers to President Donald Trump in his ESPY Awards monologue on Wednesday, but not everyone loved it.
Veteran sports media personality Dan Le Batard had some choice words for comedian Shane Gillis after his controversial ESPYs performance.
Shane Gillis’ edgy monologue Wednesday night at the ESPYs made for some awkward moments inside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. No one was safe from Gillis, who stars in the Netflix series “Tires,” took aim at Donald Trump, Caitlan Clark and Bill Belichick to name a few.
Comedian Shane Gillis' opening monologue as host of the ESPYS went over awkwardly in front of some of the biggest names in sports on Wednesday night.
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“Shedeur Sanders had his jersey number retired at Colorado this year, and people are saying it’s because of nepotism, because of his father, and it’s not” Gillis said. “It’s because he went 13-12 over his career, and he almost won the Alamo Bowl. Definitely not nepotism, right?”
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Shane Gillis took a bite out of sports’ biggest names during his opening monologue at Wednesday night’s ESPY Awards. And it was a real sign of cultural health. The performance felt like an infusion of wheatgrass — cleansing out the residual crud left ...