{"id":15259,"date":"2025-07-17T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:18:08","slug":"shane-gillis-savage-espys-monologue-took-aim-at-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15259\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Gillis&#8217; savage ESPYs monologue took aim at everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Shane Gillis spared no one in his ESPY Awards opening monologue on Wednesday night, roasting everyone from Caitlin Clark to Aaron Rodgers to President Donald Trump and Mets star Juan Soto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The jokes were likely the most biting that have come from an ESPYs host since the 1998 show led by Norm Macdonald, to whom Gillis paid homage with his final joke before starting the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comedian poked fun at the current political fighting around the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/16\/us-news\/epsteins-lawyer-says-there-was-no-client-list-and-sets-record-straight-on-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supposed Jeffrey Epstein client list<\/a>, commenting, \u201cThere\u2019s supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but I guess it got deleted. It probably deleted itself, right? It probably never existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shane Gillis speaks onstage during the 2025 ESPY Awards at Dolby Theatre on July 16, 2025 in Hollywood, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Gillis commented on Clark, saying, \u201cWhen Caitlin Clark retires, she\u2019s going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The joke received a lukewarm reaction from the Dolby Theatre crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He took aim at Aaron Rodgers\u2019s refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccine and then tied Trump and Soto together in a wild joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAaron Rodgers did not take the vaccine because he predicted that it would be bad for him and then he joined the New York Jets,\u201d Gillis said. So maybe he wasn\u2019t right about everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Host Shane Gillis, top right, speaks at the ESPY Awards at the Dolby Theatre. AP<\/p>\n<p>Host Shane Gillis speaks at the ESPY Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.  AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Rogan actually wanted me to be here to host this award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because Joe thinks he\u2019s an alien,\u201d Gillis continued. \u201cAnd Donald Trump wanted me to be here to capture Juan Soto for the same reason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Shane Gillis spared no one in his ESPY Awards opening monologue on Wednesday night, roasting everyone from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7144,1760,12,14531,7842,349,14532,99,1625,434],"class_list":["post-15259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-donald-trump","tag-espys","tag-juan-soto","tag-nfl","tag-shane-gillis","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}