Shane Gillis

Shane Michael Gillis born December 11 1987 is an American standup comedian actor and podcaster Gillis started performing comedy in 2012 and in 2016 along with fellow standup comedian Matt McCusker began cohosting Matt and Shanes Secret Podcast the most subscribedto podcast on Patreon as of 2024 Gillis had a breakout year in 2019 the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal named him one of its New Faces in July and in September he was announced as a newlyhired cast member on NBCs sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live SNL He subsequently became the subject of a controversy and was fired after five days at SNL due to backlash over a 2018 clip from his podcast in which derogatory language such as Asian ethnic slurs were used sparking a discussion on context and intent when certain topics are used for comedic purposes In 2020 Gillis launched the online sketch series Gilly Keeves in collaboration with filmmaker John McKeever and he released his first comedy special Shane Gillis Live in Austin on YouTube in 2021 In 2023 his second comedy special Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs was released on Netflix As of 2024 Gillis has starred in the Netflix comedy series Tires which he cocreated with McKeever The first season premiered in May 2024 and a second season followed in June 2025 Description above from the Wikipedia article Shane Gillis licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia