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Dan Levy

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Dan Levy is a Canadian actor, writer, director and producer. He co-created the sitcom Schitt's Creek with his father, Eugene Levy, starred in it as David Rose and won Emmy Awards in 2020 for writing, directing, producing and acting on the show.

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DI has documented statements by Dan Levy on Arts and Culture and Sexism. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Dan Levy

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Dan Levy

Role at the time: Actor and co-creator of Schitt's Creek, in an Instagram video

Condemned

Response to this claim

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.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)White House Wades Into 'SNL' Shane Gillis DramaFull article
Why we used this label

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.

Read statementShane Gillis's SNL joke that women at the gym dress like "whores" draws criticism as misogynistic and defenses from commentators

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