{"id":492335,"date":"2026-10-11T06:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492335\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T06:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:18:13","slug":"shane-gillis-hosts-snl-colin-jost-welcomes-navy-back-to-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492335\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Gillis Hosts SNL, Colin Jost Welcomes Navy Back to San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tShane Gillis<\/a> returned for his third Saturday Night Live hosting stint, where he revealed the nickname Joe Rogan and Theo Von came up for him (\u201cgas station egg\u201d) and his gripes with his \u201cAdolf Hitler haircut.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe comedian started his monologue by talking about how he wanted to lose weight: \u201cI gotta lose weight. It\u2019s a bummer, you know what I mean? When you finally get so fat, you\u2019re like, alright, hit that fat rock bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGillis shared a story about how hiking wasn\u2019t for him, and then explained his contention with public gyms. \u201cGoing to the public gym as a fat guy, especially in New York, is a nightmare, dude. It\u2019s just the hottest gay guys you\u2019ve ever seen. They\u2019re jacked and they look at me, like, \u2018Yeah, right.\u2019 \u2018I know, dude,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAlso, I haven\u2019t been to the gym in so long, I didn\u2019t know women just dress like whores now,\u201d Gillis said. \u201cLook, I\u2019m sorry, there\u2019s no other way to describe. Have you seen it? I\u2019ve seen it. You\u2019ve seen the shorts? They\u2019re those neon, like, artificial vape-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<\/p>\n

\n\tGillis then raved about Rogan\u2019s own gym that is equipped with a sauna. He said, \u201cThe other day I was in the sauna, I\u2019m sitting there, I\u2019m by myself, no one\u2019s around, so I figured I\u2019ll get comfortable. I take my shirt off, I\u2019m in my underwear. About five minutes in, there\u2019s a knock on the glass door of the sauna that scared me. I thought I was alone. I look over and it was Theo Von and Joe, and they opened the door, and Joe just goes, \u2018Hey, Theo said you looked like a gas station egg.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe thing that hurt the most was when he closed the glass door, I saw my own reflection and I looked exactly like a gas station egg,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the meanest things anyone\u2019s told me: \u2018You look like a wet, bagged, hard boiled egg.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGillis said he was used to receiving insults growing up having two older sisters, who he called \u201cbig, fat-bitch sisters.\u201d He went on to note that \u201cthe thing that I\u2019m really bothered by is I\u2019ve balded directly into an Adolf Hitler haircut.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cAnd it\u2019s not good, because I give a lot of speeches and the front falls down a lot, and there\u2019s no way to adjust it without looking exactly like [Hitler]. It\u2019s the only way. I\u2019m not going to [move it], that\u2019s gay. That\u2019s it: You\u2019re either gay or you\u2019re Hitler, and isn\u2019t that where we\u2019re at as a country?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLater in the episode, Gillis accidentally said the F-word live on-air during a Dr. Seuss sketch where his character was stressing that his father didn\u2019t want to eat green eggs and ham. \u201cBro, it\u2019s a non-starter. He said he doesn\u2019t fucking,\u201d Gillis said, catching himself swiftly, continuing, \u201cJeez! Like \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of the night, the comedian seemingly apologized for the slip-up. \u201cSorry about earlier,\u201d Gillis said during his final remarks to close out the show. <\/p>\n

\n\tSNL<\/a>\u2019s cold open got the episode started with a greeting from Colin Jost\u2019s Pete Hegseth welcoming the USS Abraham Lincoln home after being deployed for over 300 days.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter seven months of war, you\u2019re back home safe in sunny San Diego, which the president just asked Iran to blow up. I couldn\u2019t be more proud of you,\u201d he said. \u201cOnly eight of you attempted suicide, two of you since I started talking. You executed over 3,000 combat missions and you did it with zero casualties, zero flight mishaps, and zero working toilets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis week, President Trump defended the Iran war at a campaign rally in Nebraska, calling it a \u201csmall price to pay for keeping the world safe\u201d and \u201ckeeping our country safe.\u201d He then said Iran could \u201ctake out\u201d a city in the United States if a nuclear weapon was developed. \u201cLet them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in the skit, Jost\u2019s Hegseth pointed out the Department of War\u2019s new logo. \u201cI also unveiled a new logo for the Department of War. Yeah, pretty sick, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSorry, is that a Nazi eagle?\u201d a sailor asked, prompting him to respond, \u201cIt\u2019s an American eagle with a Nazi vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSaturday night\u2019s episode marked Gillis\u2019 third time hosting SNL; he made his debut in February 2024, and returned again in March 2025. He notoriously was cast<\/a> as a featured player and quickly fired<\/a> when a video resurfaced<\/a> of him using a racial slur.<\/p>\n

\n\tRosalia was the night\u2019s musical guest, marking her second time on the show. <\/p>\n

\n\tSo far on season 52, Jalen Brunson<\/a> and Dakota Johnson<\/a> have hosted<\/a> the late night series. After Gillis, Inde Navarrette will next made her hosting debut for the special Halloween episode, alongside Gracie Abrams as musical guest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Gillis returned for his third Saturday Night Live hosting stint, where he revealed the nickname Joe Rogan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,2973,138211,11393],"class_list":["post-492335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-shane-gillis","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}