Shane Gillis didn't hold back during his opening monologue for the ESPY Awards, that's for sure. The popular stand-up comedian roasted WNBA star Caitlin Clark, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, President Donald Trump,

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.

Many are not thrilled with Shane Gillis after he made an unsavory joke about Caitlin Clark at the 2025 ESPY Awards. “Caitlin Clark and I have a lot in common,” Gillis, 37, told the crowd at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday,