Shane Gillis\u2019 monologue at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night has left plenty of people divided over the contents of the jokes, but the Disney-owned sports network isn\u2019t concerned about the reaction that Gillis\u2019 routine received, The Post has confirmed.<\/p>\n
During his roughly 10-minute opening<\/a>, Gillis poked fun at just about everyone from popular sports figures to President Donald Trump in a biting opening sequence to kick off the annual sports award show.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Worldwide Leader always knew Gillis\u2019 comedic stylings weren\u2019t going to be for everyone, as TMZ first reported<\/a>, but there were no worries about the \u201cTires\u201d star who has worked with the network on its \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d show.<\/p>\n Host Shane Gillis speaks at the ESPY Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 16, 2025. AP<\/p>\n ESPN declined comment when reached by The Post. \u00a0<\/p>\n Among the topics that Gillis touched upon were Trump, Caitlin Clark, Aaron Rodgers and Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n The well-known comedian received mixed reactions during his eyebrow-raising opening remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gillis asserted that women\u2019s soccer legend Megan Rapinoe was not a \u201cgood time\u201d in one of his first quips of the night and later joked that he and Clark, the WNBA superstar, had a lot in common because they were both \u201cwhites from the Midwest who have nailed a bunch of 3s.\u201d<\/p>\n Host Shane Gillis, top right, speaks at the ESPY Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 16, 2025. AP<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Caitlin Clark retires from the WNBA, she\u2019s going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n In one of his most well-received jokes of the night, he aimed Bill Belichick and girlfriend Jordon Hudson after making a Shohei Ohtani joke related to his disgraced interpreter Ippei Mizuhara.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cA bookie is what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime,\u201d Gillis said on stage before launching into a list of crude titles for classic books.<\/p>\n At least one former ESPNer didn\u2019t enjoy the show<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nick Sirianni, Josh Sweat, Jalen Carter, and Jordan Mailata accept the Best Team Award from Druski and Shane Gillis onstage during the 2025 ESPY Awards at Dolby Theatre on July 16, 2025 in Hollywood, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cIn a year of crazy growth for women\u2019s sports choosing an ESPYs host who doesn\u2019t even try to make clever jokes about women athletes (he at least *attempted* for the men),\u201d Sarah Spain wrote on X on Thursday, \u201che goes with hacky \u2018no one knows the WNBA\u2019 bits, \u2018Pinoe is a bad time\u2019 & repeatedly insults Black women. COOL.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Gillis\u2019 monologue at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night has left plenty of people divided over the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5723,48653,26203,62,1486,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-espn","9":"tag-espys","10":"tag-shane-gillis","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114871912698410545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}