Hodgetwins - Shane Gillis TORCHES Wokeness LIVE at the ESPYs The View MELTSDOWN
Aired: 2025-07-22
Duration: 11:03


=== Working The Room (08:30) ===

[00:00:01]  The biggest superstars in sports were in attendance at the Espy Awards last night, hosted by comedian Shane Gillis, who got a mixed reaction from the crowd.
[00:00:11]  Take a look.
[00:00:12]  Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn.
[00:00:16]  The last time he staged a fight in DC, Mike Pence almost died.
[00:00:20]  You don't have to do that.
[00:00:22]  It was fine.
[00:00:23]  I didn't write it.
[00:00:26]  Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but as it got deleted.
[00:00:31]  A bookie is what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime.
[00:00:41]  They do.
[00:00:41]  They read The Very Horny Caterpillar.
[00:00:46]  The little engine that could but needed a pill first.
[00:00:52]  Look at these hacks.
[00:00:54]  They don't think it's funny.
[00:00:56]  Did you see her face?
[00:00:57]  Whoopie, I think the other females might have thought it was funny.
[00:01:00]  Engine that could, but needed a pill first.
[00:01:04]  She just sent the crowd.
[00:01:06]  Y'all have no sense of humor.
[00:01:08]  Yeah, y'all just prudes.
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[00:01:40]  I mean, we got a lot of great stuff, but look like a pill push.
[00:01:44]  Like a like a, I ain't gonna say.
[00:01:47]  But anyway, Shane Gillis is probably one of the, yeah, more than like, no, he is like one of the top comedians right now.
[00:01:54]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:01:55]  Right?
[00:01:55]  And for them, for her to have this face, you know why she has that face?
[00:02:01]  Because she's pushing an agenda, a narrative.
[00:02:04]  He's a white male and he's straight.
[00:02:07]  Exactly.
[00:02:08]  And she's trying to attack him.
[00:02:10]  For what?
[00:02:11]  Because deep down, she is a racist.
[00:02:15]  Anybody that looks remotely conservative or Republican, or straight or white, they're going to attack you.
[00:02:20]  Yeah.
[00:02:21]  She's a comedian.
[00:02:23]  Yeah.
[00:02:26]  Look at Whoopi.
[00:02:29]  You know, hosting an award show is a tough game.
[00:02:32]  It really is.
[00:02:32]  Yeah.
[00:02:33]  They definitely not calling you.
[00:02:36]  And so I'll ask you, you think he read that room correctly?
[00:02:39]  No.
[00:02:39]  No, no, no.
[00:02:40]  He didn't basically win.
[00:02:41]  Wait a minute.
[00:02:41]  Wait a minute.
[00:02:42]  Read that room correctly.
[00:02:43]  That's impossible to read that room because you've got people from all walks of life.
[00:02:47]  That's not his audience.
[00:02:49]  There might be some fans of his in the audience, but overall, that's not his author.
[00:02:52]  That's going to be a tough one.
[00:02:54]  Did he read the room?
[00:02:55]  Does that make any sense?
[00:02:56]  What do you mean?
[00:02:57]  You think he's going to come up with jokes for that particular occasion?
[00:03:01]  No, he's going to be who he is.
[00:03:03]  He's not going to change who he is.
[00:03:05]  I think those jokes were neutral politically.
[00:03:08]  Yeah, so yeah, I think he read the room appropriately.
[00:03:10]  And I thought it was funny.
[00:03:12]  And there's a lot of jokes that they didn't put in there.
[00:03:14]  This dude was funny.
[00:03:17]  You do an award show.
[00:03:18]  They're there to hear their name called.
[00:03:20]  They are not there to laugh, number one.
[00:03:23]  And the first, I'll amend that.
[00:03:25]  Yeah.
[00:03:25]  The first five minutes is for you, whoever the host is.
[00:03:29]  The first five minutes of any award show is for you to get to know the audience.
[00:03:33]  And the rest of that time, people want to know, did I win?
[00:03:37]  Yeah, that's what they want to know.
[00:03:39]  And, you know, you watch all the shows, they're like this.
[00:03:42]  But this, this, but you know, stand-up comedy, I don't do it anymore.
[00:03:46]  I mean, I don't know how much you're doing still, but I put my creativity into my plays now because it's one of the hardest things that you do.
[00:03:53]  I did it for 30 years.
[00:03:54]  It's so hard.
[00:03:55]  It's like a high wire acting.
[00:03:56]  And I always say, it's like, I'm on the stage naked.
[00:03:59]  Everybody else has clothes.
[00:04:00]  That's how it feels.
[00:04:01]  Wow.
[00:04:02]  Yeah, women just have this warped view of the world.
[00:04:07]  I mean, everybody's looking at you, but do you feel naked?
[00:04:12]  I guess she's talking metaphorically, but pretty much saying she feels like she's being graped on stage.
[00:04:17]  Yeah.
[00:04:18]  But I wonder.
[00:04:20]  I sometimes wonder if it is received different in the room because it did.
[00:04:23]  See, I didn't see those clips.
[00:04:25]  It looked like the audience didn't love it, but I saw online, he seemed like he was getting a ton of praise.
[00:04:29]  So I wonder if he was performing more for the audience at home.
[00:04:32]  And I'll say this: I think Shane Gillis is very funny, but I watch him like I watch horror movies like this because I'm like, what is he going to say?
[00:04:38]  Is it going to make me deeply uncomfortable or am I going to laugh hysterically?
[00:04:41]  Because he is known for pushing the line.
[00:04:42]  Like he's gotten himself in trouble before.
[00:04:44]  But I think we say it all the time.
[00:04:45]  Comedians have to be able to go there to keep comedy authentic and especially moments when you need it more.
[00:04:51]  In this political climate, it's so easy to just go over the line.
[00:04:55]  I know.
[00:04:56]  I mean, back in the day, you used to have to go up to the line.
[00:05:00]  But now, just anything, you're already over the line.
[00:05:03]  And this is how these women see his act at that show.
[00:05:07]  They feel like he went over the line.
[00:05:08]  I don't think he went over the line, but I don't think they're doing a fair critique because it's one perspective.
[00:05:13]  You're women.
[00:05:15]  Women have a totally different sense of humor when it comes to comedy.
[00:05:18]  Yeah, when you look at female comedians, who the audience is going to be?
[00:05:21]  Females.
[00:05:21]  You look at male comedians.
[00:05:22]  Who's the audience going to be?
[00:05:24]  It's going to be primarily men.
[00:05:26]  Yeah, but there's women, you know, it's like 50-50, depending on the comedian.
[00:05:30]  But if women, when you go see a woman comedian, that's all women in that audience.
[00:05:34]  Yeah.
[00:05:34]  Yeah.
[00:05:34]  I don't think they're giving them a fair critique.
[00:05:37]  Yeah.
[00:05:39]  We are the first line of defense against tyranny.
[00:05:42]  Yeah.
[00:05:42]  And all of this, you can't squelch the comedians.
[00:05:44]  Don't do it.
[00:05:45]  It's a mistake because they will go after you.
[00:05:47]  But one thing he did that I didn't like, and that was he said, I didn't write that joke.
[00:05:52]  Never do that.
[00:05:53]  Johnny Carson was on the air for, I don't know, 100 years.
[00:05:56]  Never once did he say the writer wrote that bad joke.
[00:05:59]  I think that was his joke.
[00:06:01]  That was his joke.
[00:06:02]  That's just a tag to that joke to get an extra laugh.
[00:06:04]  Yeah.
[00:06:05]  You call yourself a comedian.
[00:06:07]  Yeah.
[00:06:07]  You think he actually didn't write that joke?
[00:06:11]  Yeah.
[00:06:12]  You're a total airhead.
[00:06:14]  If I say a joke and when I'm on stage and it doesn't hit, I got something to back it up.
[00:06:19]  Yeah.
[00:06:19]  To tag it.
[00:06:20]  If it hits hard, I got this to tag it to make it hit even harder.
[00:06:24]  If a joke doesn't hit, every comedian, if you're seasoned, you're going to have something back up in case the audience doesn't laugh.
[00:06:30]  And it almost always works.
[00:06:32]  And when you hear him, when a joke, when you tell a joke and it's silence, you just say, man, I ain't write that joke.
[00:06:38]  Yeah.
[00:06:38]  And if people start laughing, people start laughing.
[00:06:40]  Yeah.
[00:06:41]  That I just bombed with.
[00:06:42]  And if you watch.
[00:06:43]  That's bad form.
[00:06:44]  I watched the whole clip and couldn't figure out like, you know, like it's hit and miss.
[00:06:48]  It's a little like you're looking between your eyes.
[00:06:50]  He uses that line.
[00:06:52]  Like, I didn't write it.
[00:06:53]  That was a bad joke.
[00:06:54]  That's a mistake.
[00:06:54]  What I realized is overall, first of all, if you're going to push the envelope, be brilliant and own the stage.
[00:07:00]  Like a Dave Chappelle can deliver things that I feel dirty laughing at.
[00:07:04]  Like he is, he is so, but he's in charge.
[00:07:07]  Like he's literally in charge.
[00:07:09]  I think Shane Gillis is on the level of Dave Chappelle.
[00:07:13]  Yeah, there's a lot of people on Dave Chappelle's level, but they give him more love because he's black.
[00:07:19]  Yeah, huh?
[00:07:20]  And for them to say, when he says, oh, I didn't write that joke, that's bad form.
[00:07:25]  That's not, y'all don't, y'all are not comedians.
[00:07:28]  You don't, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
[00:07:30]  It's a science to comedy.
[00:07:32]  Yeah.
[00:07:32]  Yeah.
[00:07:34]  What I felt about Shane and every time I watch him is I can feel his nerves.
[00:07:39]  He has ticks that say like, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, over and over.
[00:07:42]  It's like I'm in a speech.
[00:07:44]  That's part of his act.
[00:07:46]  That's his style.
[00:07:47]  That's who he is.
[00:07:50]  Well, the problem is, though, still, if he then maybe redirected, because there were moments where you could give some genuine shout-outs, like where you call out some of the amazing greats in that room without a joke following everyone.
[00:08:01]  He had to be starstruck.
[00:08:02]  I was starstruck looking at, yeah, who was there.
[00:08:05]  Call out a couple, you know, quiet people.
[00:08:06]  Well, you have to know how to work the room.
[00:08:08]  I don't know if he's he was struggling with how to do that.
[00:08:11]  A lot of people.
[00:08:11]  Shane Gillis doesn't know how to work the room.
[00:08:14]  He don't do Shane Gillis don't know how to do crowd work.
[00:08:19]  Are you kidding me?
[00:08:24]  People are good.
[00:08:26]  Maybe I couldn't do it first and favorite.
[00:08:27]  Maybe I missed it because I thought some of it was funny.

=== Everything Is Politicized (02:32) ===

[00:08:31]  Epstein joke.
[00:08:32]  He said, you know, I guess it got deleted.
[00:08:34]  Probably deleted itself, right?
[00:08:35]  Probably never existed, actually.
[00:08:37]  Let's move on as a country and ignore that.
[00:08:40]  I thought that was funny.
[00:08:41]  And he actually has to fund Aaron Rod's story in order to get that job.
[00:08:44]  I think everybody knows about it.
[00:08:47]  Everyone knows that story.
[00:08:48]  A lot of the evidence against Epstein, I'm sure it's gone.
[00:08:51]  It's deleted.
[00:08:52]  Right.
[00:08:53]  But the Epstein story.
[00:08:55]  Never make that assumption.
[00:08:56]  The audio listeners.
[00:08:57]  You can't read what you read.
[00:08:58]  No, but Shane Gillis is kind of part of.
[00:09:00]  I don't like using these terms, like the manosphere-like comedy.
[00:09:03]  Like he's in a crowd.
[00:09:04]  A lot of MAGA guys follow him.
[00:09:06]  Manosphere.
[00:09:07]  I think it is, but I hate Manosphere.
[00:09:10]  That's a term you lefties came up with.
[00:09:12]  The Manosphere.
[00:09:13]  Now you act like y'all don't even know what that means.
[00:09:18]  People are so disingenuous.
[00:09:19]  They're not genuine at all.
[00:09:20]  Yeah.
[00:09:21]  They're white guys.
[00:09:22]  The people who follow him definitely knew that joke, and they're definitely mad about Epstein.
[00:09:27]  Okay.
[00:09:28]  Everybody's mad about Estonia.
[00:09:29]  Manosphere.
[00:09:30]  The Manosphere.
[00:09:31]  Is that only white men?
[00:09:32]  No, but it is straight.
[00:09:34]  There you go.
[00:09:34]  There you go.
[00:09:37]  They hate white men.
[00:09:39]  I'm telling you.
[00:09:41]  He's straight men humor.
[00:09:42]  Straight guys.
[00:09:43]  Yeah.
[00:09:43]  You know, straight guys were always funny.
[00:09:47]  Was.
[00:09:49]  No, y'all just don't want to laugh anymore because y'all so offended now.
[00:09:53]  Yeah, everything's political.
[00:09:54]  Everything's been politicized.
[00:09:56]  These jokes are not even political.
[00:09:58]  Yeah, it was down the middle.
[00:10:00]  Straight woman and I. Not all of them.
[00:10:01]  Yeah.
[00:10:03]  The best one.
[00:10:04]  Yeah, when I was a kid, they were always funny.
[00:10:07]  They were always funny.
[00:10:08]  But, you know, she probably thinks she's funny.
[00:10:11]  You go back to the past, you say they're always funny.
[00:10:13]  I guarantee you can't even show those jokes on TV.
[00:10:16]  I bet half of those shows was removed from Netflix.
[00:10:18]  Yeah, you can't even tell those same jokes.
[00:10:20]  Yeah.
[00:10:20]  Because of women like you.
[00:10:22]  Yeah.
[00:10:22]  People like y'all.
[00:10:24]  Let me see what this fool got to say.
[00:10:25]  White guys have changed.
[00:10:26]  Do we talk about John Rickles?
[00:10:28]  She's talking about Don Rickles and George.
[00:10:30]  Yeah.
[00:10:31]  I'm talking about George Carlin.
[00:10:32]  You know, these are straight white guys.
[00:10:34]  And, you know, I guess when you know how to do the material, you can make it work.
[00:10:40]  Yeah.
[00:10:40]  You can make it work without it being offensive and terrible.
[00:10:44]  You cannot.
[00:10:46]  Everything is a comedian.
[00:10:47]  Yeah, everything's offensive today.
[00:10:49]  You can't even.
[00:10:50]  Like, look at that old movie, Coming to America with Eddie Murphy and Arsenal Hall.
[00:10:55]  They did Coming to America too.
[00:10:57]  Yeah.
[00:10:58]  They couldn't be offensive.
[00:10:59]  Because of who?
[00:11:00]  People like this.
[00:11:01]  The left is destroying everything.
[00:11:03]  Yeah.