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Sarah Spain, a sports media personality, questioned Shane Gillis, who broke jokes about female athletes during the ESPY awards on Wednesday night.
Gillis’ jokes included a crack about Caitlin Clark, who worked in a waffle house as she retires from WNBA to continue “fist matches with black women”, the former American women’s star star Megan Rapinoe and fool the crowd of believing his friend’s wife was a former WNBA player.
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Shane Gillis at the 2025 ESPY Awards held at the Dolby Theater on July 16, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Christopher Polk/ Via Getty Images)
“In a year of crazy growth for women’s sports who choose an Espys host who doesn’t even try to make wise jokes about female athletes (he at least * tried * for the men), he goes with hacky ‘nobody knows wnba’ bits, ‘Pinoe is a bad time’ and repeatedly offend black women.
For whatever it is worth, the clark’s accident doesn’t go well with the crowd in Los Angeles at the Dolby Theater.
Comedian Shane Gillis Cracking Caitlin Clark Waffle House Wit at Espys
Sarah Spain participates in the annual ESPNW: Women + Sports Summit Day 1 at The Lodge in Torrey Pines on October 18, 2021 in La Jolla, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty Images)
Gillis had jokes about President Donald Trump, Aaron Rodgers, Jeffrey Epstein and OJ Simpson as well.
Even he couldn’t believe Disney let him say some of the things he said.
Shane Gillis’ jokes were hit or miss with fans during the night. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)
“They let me do it, I don’t know,” Gillis said after taking up Belichick and his relationship with Jordon Hudson. “This is Disney. They allowed it … yes, we should have taken it out. I had doubts about going into it. It didn’t work all week.”
