John Doyle says Gillis is under fire for accurately describing female behavior
John DoylePolitical commentator and host of The John Doyle Show, on YouTube
Doyle says Gillis is under fire for accurately describing female behavior, and that women are proving his point by advertising themselves and their bodies on social media. Later in the segment he calls the joke directionally correct but a bit overstated.
“Comedian Shane Gillis is under fire for accurately describing female behavior, which is, of course, the highest blasphemy one can commit in 2026 America.”
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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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Episode 125 of The John Doyle Show on YouTube. Doyle opens with the reaction to Gillis's monologue and spends the first segment on it before turning to other topics.
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Doyle opens episode 125 of his YouTube show with the reaction to Gillis's monologue.
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He says women are just proving Gillis's point by advertising themselves and their bodies on social media. Later in the segment he calls the joke directionally correct but says he thinks it is a bit overstated.
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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. Doyle calls the joke an accurate description of women's behavior and treats the criticism as unwarranted, so we labeled it Defended or excused. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, because he later says the joke is a bit overstated; it loses because he still calls it directionally correct and defends its premise.
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Read the full caseBraeden 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
Dan Levy says men who call women at the gym whores are misogynists
“It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. There’s a difference there.”Read statement
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