Shane Gillis Faces Backlash for Caitlin Clark Joke
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Comedian and Eagles super fan Shane Gillis took a shot at the Dallas Cowboys and parodied the 'Tush Push' at the 2025 ESPYs.
During his roughly 10-minute opening, Gillis poked fun at just about everyone from popular sports figures to President Donald Trump.
An emotional Katie Schumacher-Cawley accepted the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance with her husband and children looking on. The Penn State women’s volleyball coach was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer in September. She continued coaching without missing a practice and became the first woman to guide a team to the NCAA national championship.
During the ESPYs, the former "SNL" star brought up the couple while discussing the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani‘s former interpreter.
“Shedeur Sanders had his jersey number retired at Colorado this year, and people are saying it’s because of nepotism, because of his father, and it’s not” Gillis said. “It’s because he went 13-12 over his career, and he almost won the Alamo Bowl. Definitely not nepotism, right?”
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The Cut on MSNWho Let Shane Gillis Talk About the WNBA?During his opening monologue, Gillis nodded to the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark, who couldn’t make the ceremony owing to her travel schedule with the team. After noting he and Clark had both “nailed a bunch of threes,
Shane Gillis sent a brutal shot to the WNBA when he introduced a player to the crowd at the ESPYs that never existed.