David Spade tells critics to relax as Shane Gillis faces backlash over SNL joke

David Spade thinks people have gotten a little too comfortable being offended.Spade defended comedians' right to push boundaries, even when their material doesn't land during an episode of his podcast, "Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade."Comedian Shane Gillis sparked backlash after he mocked women at the gym during his "Saturday Night Live" monologue."I haven’t been to the gym in so long.I didn’t know women just dress like whores now?" Gillis said.

"Look, I'm sorry, there's no other way to describe … Have you seen the shorts? Those neon, they're like, artificial bait-colored [shorts], and the wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole.And don’t look! You’re not allowed to look."JOE ROGAN DEFENDS SHANE GILLIS FROM 'WORD POLICE' AFTER SNL JOKE SPARKS LIBERAL UPROARDavid Spade pushed back against outrage culture, suggesting that people have become too quick to take offense over controversial jokes.

(Alberto E.Rodriguez / Getty Images)Carvey wasn't buying the outrage surrounding Gillis' joke.

Rather than viewing the remarks as an attack on women, the comedian argued that the backlash overlooked a fundamental part of stand-up comedy: saying things that aren't meant to be taken literally."I just didn't understand the kerfuffle," Carvey said."Only 'cause to me, I just saw it as what we call – I'll just say it – a joke.

Like he didn't – when you say jokes, you're not literally saying women are whores.You are literally joking.

Isn't that kind of the idea? No? Did I just get canceled?"Spade's assistant and executive producer of the podcast, Heather Santoro, chimed in with a different take, arguing that offensive humor still needs to deliver laughs."The joke has to be actually funny," Santoro could be heard saying off mic."If you're gonna like call a woman a whore, it's gotta be funny.

And it wasn't."Carvey argued that in comedy clubs, he'd bet the joke "destroyed," but "Saturday Night Live" simply was "not the right plac...