ESPYs host Shane Gillis catches flak from Sarah Spain

Sarah Spain, a persona of sports activities media, hit the issues with Shane Gillis who cracked jokes about feminine athletes in the course of the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night.

Gillis’ jokes embrace a crack about Caitlin Clark who labored in a waffle home when she retreated from the Wnba to proceed “fist battles black girls”, former American girls’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe and the group mislead the group to consider that his buddy’s spouse was a former Wnba participant.

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Shane Gillis held in the course of the 2025 ESPY Awards within the Dolby Theater on July 16, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Christopher Polk/ By way of Getty Photographs)

“In a yr of loopy progress for girls’s sports activities that chooses an Espys host who doesn’t even attempt to make sensible jokes about feminine athletes (a minimum of he tried * for the lads), he goes with hacky ‘no person is aware of the wnba’ bits, ‘pinoe is a foul time’ and repeated black,” written in a speech, “written in a speech,” written in a spot, “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written in a message,” “written” in a spain, “” cool, “” written in a spain, “” written, “” written in a black.

For what it’s price, the Clark -joke didn’t appear to go properly with the group in Los Angeles within the Dolby Theater.

Comic Shane Gillis Cracks Caitlin Clark Waffle Home Joke at Espys

Sarah Spain lives the annual ESPNW: Ladies + Sports activities Summit Day 1 within the Lodge in Torrey Pines on October 18, 2021 in La Jolla, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty Photographs)

Gillis had jokes about President Donald Trump, Aaron Rodgers, Jeffrey Epstein and OJ Simpson additionally in the course of the night time.

Even he couldn’t consider that Disney allowed him to say a number of the issues he stated.

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The jokes of Shane Gillis had been hit or missed in the course of the night time with followers. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media through Getty pictures)

“They let me do it, I do not know,” stated Gillis after tearing in Belichick and his relationship with Jordon Hudson. “That is Disney. They stood that … sure, we should always have eliminated that. I had doubts about that. That did not work all week.”

Fox Information’ Scott Thompson has contributed to this report.

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