Shane Gillis didn't hold back during his opening monologue for the ESPY Awards, that's for sure. The popular stand-up comedian roasted WNBA star Caitlin Clark, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, President Donald Trump,

Comedian Shane Gillis stirred major backlash at the 2025 ESPY Awards with a controversial joke about WNBA star Caitlin Clark during his opening monologue.

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.