Dan Levy is not here for Shane Gillis’s awful SNL monologue & neither are we
Dan Levy might be a funny guy, but he’s not laughing now. The Schitt’s Creek star took to Instagram over the weekend to call out comedian Shane Gillis, who stirred up controversy with his monologue on Saturday Night Live, in which he made a handful of tired and lazy cracks about women at the gym. […]
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Dan Levy might be a funny guy, but he’s not laughing now.
The Schitt’s Creek star took to Instagram over the weekend to call out comedian Shane Gillis, who stirred up controversy with his monologue on Saturday Night Live, in which he made a handful of tired and lazy cracks about women at the gym.
How about we take this to the next level?
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In the uncomfortable opening, Gillis spoke at length about ladies’ active wear and called them all “wh*res,” and as Levy told his followers, he couldn’t believe “something like that can exist on national television.”
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them wh*res,” he said in a video captioned, “Ffs,” adding, “It makes the men calling them wh*res, misogynists.”
Watch.
While Gillis made digs at women who wear “neon” shorts with “wrinkles [that] go around the cheeks and all combine at the butth*le,” Levy pointed out that there’s clearly a double standard at the gym — and just about anywhere that women go.
“I’ve seen more men’s nipples at the gym than I’ve ever seen women showing their bodies off,” he pointed out.
Even more so, it’s these types of jokes and “complacency that has created the environment in which women are sexually assaulted,” he said.
The 43-year-old seemed to nod toward the larger cultural conversation around supporting women in the midst of the Cornell 7 allegations as he took Gillis to task for his harmful comedy.
“Men need to be defending women more,” Levy said.
“The more that men objectify women in the media, the more that other men seem them as objects and treat them as objects. They are not objects, they are superior human beings then men.”
It was a powerful and off-the-cuff defense, and one Levy admitted that might get him “in trouble with the internet.”
Still, the comments were filled with people thanking him for sticking up for the ladies in his life.
@usweekly Dan Levy >>>>>>>>>> Shane Gillis— Just Me
(@suisseme) October 12, 2026
“We gotta stop this caveman mentality when it comes to women, their bodies, and how we treat them,” one user wrote, while another quipped that Gillis “hasn’t seen the inside of a gym enough to be making these jokes.”
The video received over 13 million views and counting, though Gillis is yet to respond.
According to TMZ, the risqué comedian wrote the monologue himself and has “told the joke about women in short shorts before,” although the national audience of it all certainly changes things.
To be fair, we’re not totally surprised.
This is the same dude who got fired from the show in 2019 before he could even debut due to a longstanding history of homophobic and racial jokes on his Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast.
And why SNL continues to spotlight his offensive brand of comedy is beyond us.
But we appreciate Levy using his platform to speak up, and hope that the powers-that-be at Saturday Night Live are listening.
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