March 20, 20232 yr his story is hilarious (he has an absolutely stacked resume full of stuff he never actually did), and all around he just seems like the most regular guy comedian ever. i love his style, just super relatable. his standup special from austin was great. this story of his kills me every time though: really really like this guy. i hope he becomes a mainstay in austin with joe rogan's new comedy club and running. i saw that he's already performed there once, so maybe it'll happen.
March 20, 20232 yr He's hilarious. On top of that he was "cancelled" from SNL after getting a spot based on some past tweets.
December 16, 20232 yr Author he’s coming to cedar park in april. just got two tickets through stubhub. $82 to have them text me my tickets. biggest racket currently running in this country. whatevs. really looking forward to this.
December 16, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, shadow_operative said: he’s coming to cedar park in april. just got two tickets through stubhub. $82 to have them text me my tickets. biggest racket currently running in this country. whatevs. really looking forward to this. $100 for a stand up show is up there as well
December 16, 20232 yr Author 6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said: $100 for a stand up show is up there as well i saw louis ck 10-11 years ago here and his policy was great: all tickets to all shows are $50, first come, first serve. anyone caught trying to sell tickets in a secondary market for more than face value loses those tickets. it was louie’s policy to make sure that his actual fans were able to get in the building for a reasonable price.
December 16, 20232 yr Author his podcast (MSSP, aka Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast) i also great, as is his sketch comedy stuff, Gilly and Keaves.
February 4, 20241 yr Author he’s going to host snl: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/snl-shane-gillis-host-fired-racist-jokes-1235896680/
February 5, 20241 yr Saw him back when he came to Houston....good shit. I love super offensive comedians. Crazy hes getting to host SNL seeing as though they fired him like 4 years ago. Now they come running back lol. His free youtube special from around that time was pretty funny also...i just watched it last week.
February 5, 20241 yr 16 hours ago, shadow_operative said: he’s going to host snl: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/snl-shane-gillis-host-fired-racist-jokes-1235896680/ Edited February 5, 20241 yr by MagicSoccerSpray
February 6, 20241 yr I’d agree it worked out for Gillis. Jost is probably the only bigger name on the current cast and that’s because of Scarjo.
February 6, 20241 yr I’d never heard of him until the SNL thing. Best thing that could’ve ever happened to him.
July 23, 20241 yr On 7/18/2024 at 11:12 AM, Scraps said: This episode of Kill Tony was great Seconded. I laughed my ass for the 2.5 hours. People at work were knocking on my door to ask if I was OK. Shane’s Trump impression is unbelievable. His bit in Beautiful Dogs had me slapping the floor.
September 3, 20241 yr 54 minutes ago, Derka said: hahaha to be fair to silverman, I vaguely remember that and I think it was funny. but of course she should shut the fuck up about "jew-face" or whatever it is
September 8, 20241 yr Just got home from his show in Atlanta. Pretty damn funny. He’s a big Notre Dame fan and he was pretty pissed about the NIU loss.
November 21, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, TexEx15 said: Is this a national commercial? It’s looks like Shane is wearing Texas gear.
November 23, 20241 yr He opened at the Texas One Fund event held in DKR in May. There were around 1,000 people there across a spread of tables on the floor of the stadium. It was a really awkward set-up for a comedian, with a ton on unfamiliar blue hairs not taking much interest in a bunch of his jokes. He literally says “fuck it” into the microphone and just starts hatefucking the crowd with comedy, including a bunch of political jokes and shit talk about Texas. Towards the end, he mentioned he’s not sure why he was asked to do this gig. He and the crowd were bewildered with one another. I was fucking howling. Making a fool of myself at a table because it was the funniest, most uncomfortable shit I had seen in years.
November 23, 20241 yr He brought that up on his podcast, said he completely bombed and the set up was odd.
November 24, 20241 yr 19 hours ago, Mac8111 said: He will be touring through TX in Jan If you call one date in SA and one in Dallas "through Texas" then ok...
March 25Mar 25 On 11/23/2024 at 6:11 AM, closetojumping said: He opened at the Texas One Fund event held in DKR in May. There were around 1,000 people there across a spread of tables on the floor of the stadium. It was a really awkward set-up for a comedian, with a ton on unfamiliar blue hairs not taking much interest in a bunch of his jokes. He literally says “fuck it” into the microphone and just starts hatefucking the crowd with comedy, including a bunch of political jokes and shit talk about Texas. Towards the end, he mentioned he’s not sure why he was asked to do this gig. He and the crowd were bewildered with one another. I was fucking howling. Making a fool of myself at a table because it was the funniest, most uncomfortable shit I had seen in years. This pretty much describes his opening monologue when he hosted SNL a few weeks ago. I guess hosting SNL is just an awkward situation for a stand-up comedian, right? He was pretty good on the skits but damn the monologue was brutal.
May 1May 1 that luis j gomez roast is one of my top 3 favorite toast performances ever. it was almost like he really didn’t want to be there, so instead of coming up with a bunch of really creative and on-topic jokes for the panel, he did a few of those, and then mostly just crushed their souls with really mean stuff about them followed by uproarious laughter. so good.
May 5May 5 shane gillis and the bros just sitting around talking is funnier than 90% of the specials that other comedians are putting out.
May 10May 10 8 hours ago, ztejas said: Who is Bob in Houston? Also "I knew that's what they were doing" got a lol from me. he was one of the two main people who inadvertently led the mass exodus from hornfans with his incredibly overbearing, straight up fascist ways as a site mod. people viscerally hated this fucker, even though several other posters swore he was an ok guy in real life. still, he and katy agnor were the two people who drive everyone away from HF back in the day, and the impetus for shaggy being a free speech/self policing site.
May 10May 10 also for some reason that gillis clip was edited to not show what he actually said. when he was first bringing up how they “need to chill” with these commercials, he stopped and let Lemaire (a black comedian) take it away and explain the commercial, but it wasn’t the jalen green commercial, it was the one where the family is playing jenga and then they dangle some fried chicken in the dad’s face and he gets distracted and topples it structure. the jalen green talk was a follow-up to that.
July 19Jul 19 shane talking about setting girl picks (it’s around 2:30 or so) is killing me. Edited July 19Jul 19 by Derka
July 19Jul 19 I thought he was going Norm MacDonald on that Espys monologue, intentionally bombing with (mostly corny) jokes he knew that audience wouldn’t appreciate.
July 19Jul 19 He had been saying for a couple of weeks that’s how he thought it would go in front of that crowd.
July 19Jul 19 The podcast below is 2 years old but it's a cool look into his personality and background. It's when I started digging him as he seemed grounded, self aware, no filter and humble. It's cool to see in comedians, particularly when they are take no prisoners on their comedy. I have maintained for a long time great comedians are society's canary in the coal mine for social and political issues/tropes/liberties going back to Carlin and Pryor. Even before but those certainly jump out in my own history. I like to think Shane is among those. Edited July 19Jul 19 by BurntEyes
July 19Jul 19 I’ve seen the espy clips going around and there was some good stuff but even on good jokes his delivery felt weird, like super stiff and strange. I also heard a radio clip of him doing the Norm joke about OJ, felt odd. Fuck Philly though.
July 19Jul 19 6 minutes ago, 'stache said: even on good jokes his delivery felt weird, like super stiff and strange. look i don’t using this word in the pejorative, because it makes me sound like a right wing turd, but shane knew just how “woke” that crowd was going to be, and that a lot of his jokes weren’t going to be embraced by that particular crowd. it’s something he talked about leading up to the event. he talked about how difficult it was and how many jokes he had to reject because he knew they wouldn’t go over well. so he’s in a tough spot- he’s not going to turn down the gig, but he also knows that a lot of the audience already doesn’t like him (because like so many other people they think that he’s maga), and that his style of jokes is just not well received by people who easily get offended. the awkward, stiff, out-loud self awareness bit is part of his act, even on his specials. it simply goes over a lot better when the audience is actually excited to see him. when they aren’t, yeah, it can get awkward. he’s a lot like norm in that sense.
July 19Jul 19 6 minutes ago, Derka said: look i don’t using this word in the pejorative, because it makes me sound like a right wing turd, but shane knew just how “woke” that crowd was going to be, and that a lot of his jokes weren’t going to be embraced by that particular crowd. it’s something he talked about leading up to the event. he talked about how difficult it was and how many jokes he had to reject because he knew they wouldn’t go over well. so he’s in a tough spot- he’s not going to turn down the gig, but he also knows that a lot of the audience already doesn’t like him (because like so many other people they think that he’s maga), and that his style of jokes is just not well received by people who easily get offended. the awkward, stiff, out-loud self awareness bit is part of his act, even on his specials. it simply goes over a lot better when the audience is actually excited to see him. when they aren’t, yeah, it can get awkward. he’s a lot like norm in that sense. Why not turn it down if it is such a difficult needle to thread? I don't like him, seen small bits and just didn't find him funny or even thought provoking, seemed like he focuses on low hanging fruit, but each to their own. I also can't recall the last time I watched the ESPY's and found the network has gone from what it was in its early days to the presumption they are a new organization taking themselves WAY TOO seriously. Based upon what you described and from what people describe his comedy it seems this was a situation he would relish because he would get to insult and offend as many people as possible which I never understood that style of comedy. Responding to a heckler is one thing, but insulting others?
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