{"id":510,"date":"2026-10-13T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/dan-levy-calls-out-shane-gillis-for-misogynistic-snl-monologue-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:03:03","slug":"dan-levy-calls-out-shane-gillis-for-misogynistic-snl-monologue-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/dan-levy-calls-out-shane-gillis-for-misogynistic-snl-monologue-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Levy calls out Shane Gillis for \u2018misogynistic\u2019 SNL monologue &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Dan-Levy-calls-out-Shane-Gillis-for-\u2018misogynistic-SNL-monologue-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Schitt\u2019s Creek <\/em>co-creator and star <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/dan-levy\">Dan Levy<\/a> is criticizing comedian Shane Gillis\u2019 recent SNL monologue after he said women who go to the gym dress like \u201cwhores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gillis, who hosted SNL over the weekend, was fired from the sketch comedy show in 2019, five days after being cast as a regular when clips of him using racial slurs during a podcast interview resurfaced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_miniplayer\">\n<section id=\"miniplayer_6ace800831b4d-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 5 videos.\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div 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c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The stand-up comic, who has hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/snl\">SNL<\/a> several times since, said Saturday: \u201cI haven\u2019t been to the gym in so long, I didn\u2019t know women just dress like whores now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I\u2019m sorry, there\u2019s no other way to describe [it]. Have you seen it? I\u2019ve seen it. You\u2019ve seen the shorts? They\u2019re those neon, like, artificial bait-colored [shorts], and the wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole. And don\u2019t look! You\u2019re not allowed to look,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Levy called out Gillis\u2019 comments in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/instadanjlevy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram reel<\/a>, saying, \u201cWomen wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\" readability=\"5.3013698630137\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Dan-Levy-calls-out-Shane-Gillis-for-\u2018misogynistic-SNL-monologue-National-Globalnews.ca_-1.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\" readability=\"29.599315068493\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, I\u2019ve seen more men\u2019s nipples at the gym than I\u2019ve ever seen women showing their bodies off,\u201d he continued, adding that he was \u201cspeechless\u201d that a remark like that could make it onto live national television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore men need to be standing up in opposition to it because it\u2019s complacency that has created the environment with which women are sexually assaulted and it\u2019s a \u2018conversation\u2019 as opposed to a \u2018crime.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Women are \u201cnot objects,\u201d he said, \u201cthey are superior human beings to men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry if this gets me in trouble with the internet\u2026but f**k.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Emmy Award-winning actor and writer, who hosted SNL in 2021, said this was an \u201ceverybody\u201d issue because the more men speak about women this way in the media, the more men will treat them like \u201cobjects.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\" readability=\"0.49228130360206\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Entertainment<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The video, which has been viewed more than two million times, received praise from high-profile individuals including Viola Davis and Elizabeth Banks, who both commented in support of Levy\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNailed it,\u201d Banks wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Gillis also talked about his \u201cfriend\u201d podcaster and UFC commentator Joe Rogan\u2019s private gym, which he said he prefers because he can work out there with no one else around.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan is a controversial figure in the podcast space. He has been known to promote unproven treatments for COVID-19 and for repeatedly using racial slurs while hosting.<\/p>\n<p>SNL, which is currently in its 52nd season, has said goodbye to a couple of titular cast members in the past year, including fan favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11585396\/bowen-yang-exits-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowen Yang<\/a>, who ended his eight-season run last Christmas, and <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11969784\/chloe-fineman-exits-saturday-night-live-after-7-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chloe Fineman<\/a>, whose final episode was in May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Barrie, Ont., native Veronika Slowikowska joined the SNL cast in 2025 as a featured player; she is the first Canadian cast member since the mid-90s. The show\u2019s creator, Lorne Michaels, is from Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable Canadian comedians, including Martin Short and Mike Myers, have also appeared as regular cast members.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Myers returned for a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11063010\/mike-myers-snl-elon-musk-canada-not-for-sale-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surprise appearance<\/a> where he\u00a0showcased his impersonation of tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the closing credits, he was spotted wearing a black T-shirt that read \u201cCanada is not for sale,\u201d with a Canadian flag in the middle, beside <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/Shane-Gillis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shane Gillis,<\/a> who was hosting the episode, and musical guest <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/Tate-McRae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tate McRae<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"33\">\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schitt\u2019s Creek co-creator and star Dan Levy is criticizing comedian Shane Gillis\u2019 recent SNL monologue after he said women who go to the gym dress like \u201cwhores.\u201d Gillis, who hosted&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}