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

I just didn't understand the kerfuffle, only because 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. Two SNL legends are coming to Shane Gillis' defense. On Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade, the podcast host agreed the backlash was overblown. That said, Carvey, who famously played the priggish church lady, also admitted that Studio 8H might not have been the best place to call women whores, seeing as most of the audience is young women. As for Spade, who was a favorite in the 90s on Weekend Update, he called out Hollywood's double standard, for which topics are seemingly off-limits. There's people that say, oh, don't make fun of OnlyFans, don't make fun of strippers, These are sex workers. They need to be respected. And then everyone hates Sydney Sweeney. And it's like, which one is it? You know what I mean? Let's all decide what we hate. And how about we just relax? It's been nearly two weeks since Gillis' bit first blew up. And it seems like everyone has an opinion. Shane Gillis did his monologue on SNL. And I thought, for the most part, it's pretty funny. He just kind of goes at it. Got to respect that he takes chances up there. The debate over Shane Gillis' SNL monologue is raging on. That was radio star Bobby Bones on his 25 Whistles podcast defending the comedian. But former Saturday Night Live scene stealer Ego Wodum may be having the last laugh. She trolled Gillis with a gym selfie, saying she's, ahem, reporting for duty. Her next Instagram story joked, getting my 30 grams of protein in after hoeing. Spelled the French way, because she's classy. It was one of many spicy clapbacks coming for Gillis after his opening monologue on October 10th took aim at female gym-goers who wear skimpy shorts. Also, I haven't been to the gym in so long I didn't know women just dress like whores now. Those neon, they're like the only, they're like artificial bait colored. The wrinkles, the wrinkles go like around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole. Backlash was swift. singer Maren Morris, said, "'Leave my gym short wedgie out of it,' and flipped him the bird." She also reposted Schitt's Creek creator Dan Levy's takedown. "'Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. There's a difference there.'" Elsewhere on Gillis' third time hosting SNL, he accidentally dropped an uncensored F-bomb during a Dr. Seuss-inspired sketch. But he may like green eggs and ham. Bro, it's a non-starter. He told me, he said he doesn't cheese like them. The gaffe was censored in later versions of the show. However, SNL may skirt free from any FCC fines, seeing as it airs well past the 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. window, which is regulated by the feds. During his goodbyes, Gillis apologized, saying, sorry about earlier. And diehard SNL fanatics will remember when cast member Jenny Slate accidentally dropped an F-bomb herself way back in 2009. But back to Shane. This is far from his first controversy. In fact, earlier this year, his roast jokes rubbed many people the wrong way. Here's what Page Six reported back in May. It's just everything we know, that they're racist, that they're bigots, that they're sexist, you know, that they think they're invincible. Did you feel, I mean, did you like the sh-t they were saying out there, though? Chelsea Handler gave withering comments about fellow comedians Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe's polarizing jokes, following Netflix's The Roast of Kevin Hart, which aired earlier this month. During the latest episode of Dionne Cole's Funny Knowing You podcast, Handler labeled Gillis and Hinchcliffe bigots and specifically called out a joke that Roastmaster Gillis made poking fun at Hart's hype. He said Hart was, quote, so short they're gonna have to lynch him from a bonsai tree. Handler also revealed that Gillis's ex-girlfriends were blowing up her DMs ahead of the roast with dirt on him. Essentially that he believes himself to be uncancellable, Gillis was pulled from the Saturday Night Live cast in 2019 ahead of the premiere over racist, anti-Asian jokes that surfaced, but then returned to host the show twice. Since his SNL firing, Gillis landed his own Netflix show, Tires. Season 3 is coming in August. For Hinchcliffe's part, in 2021, he was dropped by his agents after this stand-up set in Austin, Texas went viral, where he made racist jokes aimed at the host, comedian Pang Dang. traders are pooping and hollering. I'm back there watching you puking in a f***ing bucket. Oh, we making a gunpowder. Oh, you want extra soy sauce. Oh, you borrow money from us. And you guys just beating it up, you f***ing b****. At the Kevin Hart roast, Hinchcliffe got heat for making a joke about Cheryl Underwood's husband's suicide, and one about George Floyd. Meanwhile, Gillis raised eyebrows during the special by labeling Handler a Zionist, and alleging she went to dinner at Jeffrey Epstein's house in 2010. In response, Handler called out Gillis' anti-Asian reputation. Shane has been accused of being anti-Asian, which is ironic, considering he has the complexion and physique of a steamed dumpling. The 51-year-old veteran comic is now ripping Gillis and Hinchcliffe's jokes about her at the roast as just plain lazy. Like, what were they going to say about me? They couldn't say anything other than that I'm a whore or my age. I think that was the other thing that they went in. And you're like, well, okay, those are jokes. That's not clever writing. And I knew they would be lazy because they do that for a living.