Dan Levy says men who call women at the gym whores are misogynists
Dan LevyActor and co-creator of Schitt's Creek, in an Instagram video
Levy says women wearing shorts at the gym are not whores and that the men who call them that are misogynists. He says he is speechless that the remark could air on live national television and that more men need to stand up in opposition to it.
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Calling women who wear shorts at the gym whores, as Shane Gillis did in his Saturday Night Live monologue, is misogynistic.
“It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. There’s a difference there.”
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Shane Gillis's SNL joke that women at the gym dress like "whores" draws criticism as misogynistic and defenses from commentators
Hosting NBC's Saturday Night Live on October 10, 2026, comedian Shane Gillis said in his monologue that he had not been to the gym in so long that he didn't know women just dressed like whores now, and went on to describe women's workout shorts. Actor Dan Levy said men who call women at the gym whores are misogynists, and other entertainers criticized the joke online. Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che called it comedy that some people don't find funny, and commentators Braeden Sorbo and John Doyle said Gillis was describing real behavior.
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Newsweek report on a White House post on X about gym clothes after Gillis's monologue. It quotes the joke, Dan Levy's Instagram video, Michael Che and posts by Grace Brassel and Ego Nwodim, and gives view counts for the monologue and Levy's video.
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TheWrap report on Michael Che's TODAY interview. It also quotes Dan Levy's Instagram video and Ego Nwodim's Instagram story responding to Gillis's joke.
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In an Instagram video, Levy said women wearing shorts at the gym are not whores.
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He added that he was speechless that something like this could exist on live national television and that more men need to be standing up in opposition to it.
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The reference point is Shane Gillis's joke in his October 10, 2026 Saturday Night Live monologue that women at the gym now dress like whores. Levy says the men who call women at the gym whores are misogynists, which Newsweek describes as calling the joke misogynistic, and he calls for more men to stand up in opposition, so we labeled it Condemned. No competing label fits; he offers no defense or qualification of the joke.
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Read the full caseJohn Doyle says Gillis is under fire for accurately describing female behavior
“Comedian Shane Gillis is under fire for accurately describing female behavior, which is, of course, the highest blasphemy one can commit in 2026 America.”Read statement
Braeden Sorbo says Gillis's gym joke was an observation and the reaction proves his point
“The funniest thing about Shane's joke is not that it was a joke, it's that it was an observation and the hit dog hollers and boy oh boy are they hollering”Read statement
Michael Che calls Gillis's monologue joke comedy that some people don't find funny
“That’s comedy. It’s like, you think it’s funny and then some people don’t”Read statement
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