Vogue Critic Slams Shane Gillis's SNL Monologue as Misogynist and Unfunny

Key facts

• Vogue published an opinion piece criticizing Shane Gillis's SNL monologue as misogynist and unfunny.
• Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend and made jokes about women's gym attire.
• In his monologue, Gillis said, "I haven't been to the gym in so long, I didn't know women just dress like whores now."
• Gillis described neon, artificial bait-colored shorts with wrinkles that "all combine at the butthole" and said, "And don't look! You're not allowed to look."
• Dan Levy responded in an Instagram video: "Women wearing short shorts at the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists."
• The writer cites Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Ricky Gervais as comics whose misogynist jokes she learned to dissociate from as a child.
• She found alternative comedy in John Mulaney and Nick Kroll's Oh, Hello and Conner O'Malley's performance art as Richard Eagleton.
• The piece references Cornell's 2024 sexual assault case being litigated in public and survivors sharing stories online.
• The writer states that in 2026 she is done making excuses for male comedians who hate women more than they like writing good jokes.