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Shane Gillis is lumpy.  He can be very funny, he can be very not funny.  The awkward delivery style doesn't always help.  The act the other night had its moments (the friend's wife as WNBA star in particular went hard) but he's no Ricky Gervais.  

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57 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

I don't like him,  seen small bits and just didn't find him funny or even thought provoking, seemed like he focuses on low hanging fruit, 

he’s easily one of the most intelligent and thoughtful comics out there. he was a history major at west point, and lots of his stand up bits and things that he talks about on various podcasts are about history. you, like so many others, have fallen for his shtick, and the ease with which he offends you is funny to the rest of us who are in on the joke. 

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1 hour ago, PGFrog said:

Based upon what you described and from what people describe his comedy it seems this was a situation he would relish because he would get to insult and offend as many people as possible

maybe try actually watching more than a couple of short clips of his before jumping to such strong conclusions? your whiny, hypersensitive, uber offended opinion of him is so off base it’s stupid. he’s literally the opposite of what you think he is, you’re simply too easily offended to go behind surface levels opinionss and find out what type of comedian he actually is.

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2 minutes ago, Derka said:

he’s easily one of the most intelligent and thoughtful comics out there. he was a history major at west point, and lots of his stand up bits and things that he talks about on various podcasts are about history. you, like so many others, have fallen for his shtick, and the ease with which he offends you is funny to the rest of us who are in on the joke. 

I'm not anti Gillis but point of order....depending on the source Gillis lasted somewhere around a couple of weeks at West Point so that's not the point you think it is.  

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this x/post is obviously needed:

shane gillis is the funniest, most self aware, relatable comedian today and it’s not even close. and it is hilarious how many people with only surface level knowledge of him hate him, and think he’s maga, because they haven’t ever actually watched one of his specials or seen any of the thousands and thousands of podcast episodes he’s done. he’s so opposite of what they think he is it’s hilarious. he’s self deprecating, self aware, and he likes to rile people up with a wink and a smile. the people who fall for it and get all upset over him or claim he’s not funny are only further proving how funny he is. 

i mean, on his very first special he straight up came out and said that he did not vote for trump, and then made fun of trump voters by going, “i know, it’s surprising, look at me, i’m his target demographic. they’re just like, “hey, are you fat and stupid?”, i’m like, “yeah! hell yeah! what are we doing? we building a wall?”, and yet here we are years later and half the population still thinks he’s a maga guy and are all upset about it.

remember when maga cancelled bud light? what did shane do? he kept drinking it so publicly that they made him their spokesperson. he did that, despite everyone around disavowing bud light for being “woke”. hell. earlier this year he actually got seriously upset on his podcast (which is super rare for him when he’s sober lol) at how ridiculous trump’s cabinet were all acting at some ufc event. he was legit pissed and kind of disgusted at how unprofessional and unbecoming it was for all of these trump appointees to be acting like idiot frat bros while front row at a ufc fight. and still, half the country thinks he’s maga because they’re too dense to understand that he’s making fun of maga and doing a bit. 

the bottom line is this: every person i’ve ever known or seen who has actively disliked shane gillis is someone who i would derisively refer to as a SJW. everyone on this site knows my politics and what a i stand for, but really do hate the  “perpetual uber victim” faction of left wing people who are triggered by everything, and straight up, if you actively dislike shane gillis then there’s a 95% chance that that’s you. if he’s not your cup of tea, that’s one thing. not every comedian is for everybody. but if you actively dislike him, you’ve probably never given him an actual look, and you’re probably the type of person who is just triggered by everything. lighten up.

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7 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

I'm not anti Gillis but point of order....depending on the source Gillis lasted somewhere around a couple of weeks at West Point so that's not the point you think it is.  

yeah he was at west point for like three weeks, it’s one of the first things i mentioned in my OP.  @PGFrog seems to think that shane gillis is a modern andrew dice clay, that he doesn’t have anything thoughtful to say, and i cited the fact that shane gillis went to west point as a history major as some pretty strong proof that PGFrog is wildly off base. Shane’s self aware comments on his time at west point only further prove this. 

people like @PGFrog see one clip of gillis and immediately write him off as this hateful maga guy who only wants to be mean to people and who goes after low hanging fruit. they get all upset about and proclaim they don’t like him when they don’t actually know anything about him. this is the same shane gillis who volunteers at the special olympics; the same shane gillis who went on andrew schulz podcast and straight up stopped the show and chastised the entire crew when they started making fun of people with down’s syndrome. the same shane gillis who is wildly outspoken against donald trump and his cabinet. he’s the only modern comic i can even name who is totally tuned into and informed on american and global politics, and he has countless hours of thoughtful conversations about all of this. yeah, that guy is shallow, hateful, thoughtless, and maga. give me a break. 

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31 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

I'm not anti Gillis but point of order....depending on the source Gillis lasted somewhere around a couple of weeks at West Point so that's not the point you think it is.  

Yea he talked about that on his podcast. He lasted 3 weeks and said fuck this 

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5 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Yea he talked about that on his podcast. He lasted 3 weeks and said fuck this 

it came down to west point and some other school, maybe temple? anyway, shane was down to his final two schools (he was on a football scholarship), and his uncle was like, “yeah you’re not going to west point. you ain’t bout that life” (in so many words). so shane got a chip on his shoulder about it, went to west point, and then found himself crying while marching lmao. his uncle was 100% right lol. 

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He does have some funny bits, but to me his jokes/observations aren't really ground-breaking.  I don't see him being any more than he already is, and only for a few more years.  He grabs on to the dumpy, not-quite-white-trash-but-borderline-incel vibe and holds on.  

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2 hours ago, Derka said:

this x/post is obviously needed:

shane gillis is the funniest, most self aware, relatable comedian today and it’s not even close. and it is hilarious how many people with only surface level knowledge of him hate him, and think he’s maga, because they haven’t ever actually watched one of his specials or seen any of the thousands and thousands of podcast episodes he’s done. he’s so opposite of what they think he is it’s hilarious. he’s self deprecating, self aware, and he likes to rile people up with a wink and a smile. the people who fall for it and get all upset over him or claim he’s not funny are only further proving how funny he is. 

i mean, on his very first special he straight up came out and said that he did not vote for trump, and then made fun of trump voters by going, “i know, it’s surprising, look at me, i’m his target demographic. they’re just like, “hey, are you fat and stupid?”, i’m like, “yeah! hell yeah! what are we doing? we building a wall?”, and yet here we are years later and half the population still thinks he’s a maga guy and are all upset about it.

remember when maga cancelled bud light? what did shane do? he kept drinking it so publicly that they made him their spokesperson. he did that, despite everyone around disavowing bud light for being “woke”. hell. earlier this year he actually got seriously upset on his podcast (which is super rare for him when he’s sober lol) at how ridiculous trump’s cabinet were all acting at some ufc event. he was legit pissed and kind of disgusted at how unprofessional and unbecoming it was for all of these trump appointees to be acting like idiot frat bros while front row at a ufc fight. and still, half the country thinks he’s maga because they’re too dense to understand that he’s making fun of maga and doing a bit. 

the bottom line is this: every person i’ve ever known or seen who has actively disliked shane gillis is someone who i would derisively refer to as a SJW. everyone on this site knows my politics and what a i stand for, but really do hate the  “perpetual uber victim” faction of left wing people who are triggered by everything, and straight up, if you actively dislike shane gillis then there’s a 95% chance that that’s you. if he’s not your cup of tea, that’s one thing. not every comedian is for everybody. but if you actively dislike him, you’ve probably never given him an actual look, and you’re probably the type of person who is just triggered by everything. lighten up.

The only thing that bugs me about Shane Gillis is his association with Joe Rogan. He does have funny bits. I will say that I think stand-up comedy is in its worst era that I can remember.

The defense of him above is crying about the crying. He simply doesn't deserve that kind of white knighting. 

 

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23 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I will say that I think stand-up comedy is in its worst era that I can remember.

completely agree.

23 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

The defense of him above is crying about the crying. He simply doesn't deserve that kind of white knighting. 

i don’t see it is as white knighting, i see is as informative. there are so, so many people online whose opinions on shane couldn’t be more wrong and ill informed, and his performance at the espy’s has brought this discussion front and center. i’m simply giving a pretty decent list of factual information which shows that shane is not this hateful, “mean”, “likes to make other people feel bad” comic that people think he is. in fact he actively makes fun of those people and is a seriously sweet and caring guy.

with all of the people out there who are actually problematic, shane isn’t one of them. andrew schultz, joe rogan, theo von, etc- they all helped get trump elected. shane didn’t. shane did the opposite. if informing the misinformed of this fact = white knighting then so be it. i really like shane, and beyond that i really appreciate him being the one comic out there who is loved by maga, yet who disavows all of the stupid hateful suit that they stand for. maybe add bill burr to that very short list. and so it does bug me when people accuse him of being maga, or hateful, or anything like that, when in reality he’s the one comic from the Bro Rogan universe who is the total opposite of that.

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1 minute ago, Derka said:

i don’t see it is as white knighting, i see is as informative. there are so, so many people online whose opinions on shane couldn’t be more wrong and ill informed, and his performance at the espy’s has brought this discussion front and center. i’m simply giving a pretty decent list of factual information which shows that shane is not this hateful, “mean”, “likes to make other people feel bad” comic that people think he is. in fact he actively makes fun of those people. with all of the people out there who are problematic, he’s not one of them. andrew schultz, joe rogan, theo von, etc- they all helped get trump elected. shane didn’t. shane did the opposite. if informing the misinformed of this fact = white knighting then so be it.

You've clearly done a deep dive on Shane Gillis. Glad you like him so much. 

From my limited view, it has felt like he's tried to ride that line a little bit politically, while also capturing the Barstool sports bro culture. He rose to fame through Joe Rogan's comedy circle and I've seen Gillis on a couple of painfully unfunny Kill Tony episodes that my BIL asked me to watch. I don't like Joe Rogan or the Kill Tony dude. I think they are really shitty. Gillis might be the outlier, but the company you keep kinda matters to me. So I've chosen to not pay much attention to him. 

 

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19 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

he's just a run-of-the-mill woke grievance comedian.

yeah, you really don’t know anything about him, and you’ve proven that you aren’t interested in changing your mind, which is truly ironic. you are actively doing one of the main things that you hate about right wingers: being close minded, judgmental, and dug in, with zero interest in having your mind changed.

ive posted way more than enough anecdotal evidence to prove that your post is nowhere near the truth, but you simply have zero interest in having your mind changed. you’ve decided that he’s a right wing, anti-woke comic, and you are not interested in hearing anything that might change your mind about that. all you want to hear is support of what you already believe. that sound familiar to you?

you leftists and right wingers are so much more similar than you realize when it comes to this shit. 

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2 hours ago, Derka said:

maybe try actually watching more than a couple of short clips of his before jumping to such strong conclusions? your whiny, hypersensitive, uber offended opinion of him is so off base it’s stupid. he’s literally the opposite of what you think he is, you’re simply too easily offended to go behind surface levels opinionss and find out what type of comedian he actually is.

Where did I say I was offended by him?  Didn't, what I said is I don't find him funny, that I don't find the things he has said in his in his comedy, and he tends to go for low hanging fruit, but believe what you want.

You admittedly live in your own little world and I really don't give a shit if he has a doctorate in advanced sciences.  Sounds like he would do great on celebrity Jeopardy.

Would close by telling you to fuck off, but I really feel sorry for you. Seems you crave the attention so much you create strawmen that fit the discussions you supposedly have, but never happened.  

Truly wish you the best. 

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6 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

You've clearly done a deep dive on Shane Gillis. Glad you like him so much. 

From my limited view, it has felt like he's tried to ride that line a little bit politically, while also capturing the Barstool sports bro culture. He rose to fame through Joe Rogan's comedy circle and I've seen Gillis on a couple of painfully unfunny Kill Tony episodes that my BIL asked me to watch. I don't like Joe Rogan or the Kill Tony dude. I think they are really shitty. Gillis might be the outlier, but the company you keep kinda matters to me. So I've chosen to not pay much attention to him. 

 

I found the one person who watches Colbert 

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15 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

You've clearly done a deep dive on Shane Gillis. Glad you like him so much. 

From my limited view, it has felt like he's tried to ride that line a little bit politically, while also capturing the Barstool sports bro culture. He rose to fame through Joe Rogan's comedy circle and I've seen Gillis on a couple of painfully unfunny Kill Tony episodes that my BIL asked me to watch. I don't like Joe Rogan or the Kill Tony dude. I think they are really shitty. Gillis might be the outlier, but the company you keep kinda matters to me. So I've chosen to not pay much attention to him. 

 

this is a good post, and it illustrates why people like you and me will have differing opinions here. shane has more than 1,000 hours of podcast footage out there, dating back years, from his own podcast and many many others, and it’s in watching those podcasts that you really get to know shane. to oversimplify it, he’s kinda like larry the cable guy- shane gillis the stand up comic is a hyperbolic, satirical version of the actual person. think along the lines of stephen colbert as well.

when you listen to shane day after day, year after year, there is no questioning who he is as a person. and again, i’ve laid out several great examples, from his volunteer work with the special olympics, to him shutting down andrew schulz and co. for making fun of people with down’s syndrome, to him disavowing trump and his cabinet and their behavior. his act is just that- an act. he knows how many people out there don’t understand that, and he enjoys it. so do i. it’s funny when it happens. it just goes from “funny” to something else whenever the people who have their minds made up about him refuse to open their minds to the idea that he’s actually a good guy. 

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8 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

Would close by telling you to fuck off, but I really feel sorry for you. Seems you crave the attention so much you create strawmen that fit the discussions you supposedly have, but never happened.  

Truly wish you the best. 

lmao.

”man fuck you you piece of shit dog shit eating bitch, get fucked with a rusty spoon in the asshole you human paraquat.”

”seriously tho, praying for you.” 🙏🏼 

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3 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

You've clearly done a deep dive on Shane Gillis. Glad you like him so much. 

From my limited view, it has felt like he's tried to ride that line a little bit politically, while also capturing the Barstool sports bro culture. He rose to fame through Joe Rogan's comedy circle and I've seen Gillis on a couple of painfully unfunny Kill Tony episodes that my BIL asked me to watch. I don't like Joe Rogan or the Kill Tony dude. I think they are really shitty. Gillis might be the outlier, but the company you keep kinda matters to me. So I've chosen to not pay much attention to him. 

 

Nothing to add other than I went to some secret comedy show featuring a bunch of Kill Tony comedians… and honestly was

A. Not an all surprised by the all the white bro-y people I saw in the crowd. I think along with my friend, I could count on one hand the minorities on one hand.

B. Genuinely shocked by how diverse the comedians were.

C. Pleasantly surprised by how subversive some of the comedians’ jokes were at the crowd… with stuff like Yeah I’m from California but red states suck… or I’m gay/woke but here’s a series of lurid sex or weed jokes

D. Overall most of the set sucked but to be fair 99% of it was the comedians trying out stuff

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How in the hell has the Netflix show Tires not been brought up in this thread. It’s a very refreshing funny show. It’s stupid humor but funny. 

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also yeah, kill tony sucks, and tony hinchcliffe isn’t funny. almost none of the bro rogan guys are funny, but he’s one of the more annoyingly unfunny ones.

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I was curious about the comments upthread about him doing the Texas One fund thing at DKR and found him talking about it on their podcast.

 

 

 

He seems like he'd be a blast to hang out with but his stand-up is ehh. Him doing the Norm OJ joke at the end of his ESPY monologue was giving me second hand embarrassment. Also his meandering story about meeting Trump at the super bowl was weird.

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1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

How in the hell has the Netflix show Tires not been brought up in this thread. It’s a very refreshing funny show. It’s stupid humor but funny. 

season one had its bumps, but s2 was great.

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The best thing to come out of Tires was the press tour where Shane took Gerbs to everything and seeing how unintentionally funny that dude is.

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1 hour ago, Deej said:

Another thread where, if your opinion differs from Derka's, you're just flat-out wrong. 

yep. just like sam ehlinger, quinn ewers, game of thrones, rick and morty, shaka smart, ted lasso, jarrett allen, and on and and on. if you see me putting my foot down, you should probably get on my side, because i only do that when i 100% know what im talking about.

if shane gillis doesn’t make you laugh and you don’t think he’s funny, nobody cares; there’s no accounting for taste. but if you think he’s hateful, or right wing, or maga, or “mean”, or that he likes to punch down at low hanging fruit, then you are, in fact, 100% wrong. i know it’s hard for you to handle deej, but im certain you’ll eventually get over it.

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3 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

The best thing to come out of Tires was the press tour where Shane took Gerbs to everything and seeing how unintentionally funny that dude is.

oh my god he’s such an authentic sweetheart it’s so funny and endearing. they still treat him like one of the bros, but with kid gloves, because he really is just a very sweet and somewhat innocent guy. pretty much every appearance they made had me dying laughing.

good example of gerby being gerby:

 

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Hmm. I don't know if I like Shane or not. Sometimes I find him funny but sometimes I want him to be way more funny than he is. Sorry Derks. I get playing a character and I definitely get understanding a guy on podcasts that you don't get to see on stage. My disclaimer is that my favorite comedian is Anthony Jeselnik and it isn't close, and that's backed by listening to 4-5 years of the JRVP podcast. It hits you or it doesn't. 

Also, for posterity, you can't prove an opinion. Sometimes you just gotta roll with the fact that other people don't share yours. 🤷‍♂️

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