In recent years, NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" has followed the late-night trend of waging a self-righteous "humor" war on President Donald Trump.Almost every show begins with a Trump-mocking skit, and the "Weekend Update" fake newscast is heavily laden with snide comments about Trump and his conservative coterie.What caused thumping outrage this week was comedian Shane Gillis, who was announced as an incoming "SNL" cast member in 2019 before getting canceled almost immediately for some anti-Asian jokes.
His opening monologue this week was denounced for joking, "I haven’t been to the gym in so long.I didn’t know women just dress like whores now.
Look, I'm sorry, there's no other way to describe.Have you seen it? I've seen it, the shorts.
Have you seen the shorts? Those neon, they’re, like, artificial vape-colored.The wrinkles go, like, around the cheeks and combine at the butthole."What drew less attention was the second half of it, Gillis mocking himself, or men in general: "And don’t look.
You’re not allowed to look.For real, don’t look, because they are filming.
I’m in the background of like 10 TikToks right now."ACTOR DAN LEVY BLASTS SHANE GILLIS' 'SNL' MONOLOGUE, CLAIMS MEN'S 'COMPLACENCY' FUELS SEXUAL ASSAULTThe first broadcast network to pounce on Gillis was actually NBC, on NBCNews.com.Reporter Rebecca Cohen lamented: "Gillis, who is known for his raunchy style of comedy, has a history of placing women — and other marginalized groups — at the butt of jokes.
Many people called it tone-deaf of Gillis to make such comments following the reports around a former Cornell University student who alleged she was gang-raped at an on-campus fraternity house in 2024."Host Shane Gillis performs his monologue on Saturday Night Live on Saturday, Oct.10, 2026.
(Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images)"Many people" were represented by feminist author Jessica Valenti: "This is his contribution to that conversation," she said."This is him telling us what he t...