Comedian Shane Gillis roasted sports' biggest stars while battling boos and silence from the Dolby Theater audience during his monologue at the 2025 ESPYS on Wednesday, July 16.

Gillis, a standup comedian and the co-creator and star of Netflix’s Tires, is probably best known for lasting like four hours at Saturday Night Live — Lorne Michaels felt compelled to fire Gillis after some non-PC clips of a 2018 episode of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast were resurfaced — though he has gone on to host the show, twice.

Many are not thrilled with Shane Gillis after he made an unsavory joke about Caitlin Clark at the 2025 ESPY Awards. “Caitlin Clark and I have a lot in common,” Gillis, 37, told the crowd at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday,