Shane Gillis stirs controversy with Trump, Bill Belichick jokes during edgy ESPY Awards monologue

Comedian Shane Gillis took the stage at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night and was firing shots at virtually anyone in the sports world with a monologue fit for a roast event It s not uncommon to see the host start to light up the crowd with various playful jabs here and there at award shows but Gillis biting humor drew specific jeers along with cheers inside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles One of his most-discussed jokes revolved around new North Carolina Tar Heels head football coach Bill Belichick as Gillis made a comment about his -year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COM A bookie is what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime Gillis prefaced his joke They read Very horny caterpillar The Little Engine That Could But Needed A Pill First and of class the classic Good Night Boobs The divide in the crowd started to come when Gillis mentioned Joe Rogan with a joke about NBA Commissioner Adam Silver but it fleetly turned into something aimed at President Donald Trump COMEDIAN SHANE GILLIS CRACKS CAITLIN CLARK WAFFLE HOUSE JOKE AT ESPYS Joe Rogan literally craved me to be here to host this award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because Joe thinks he s an alien Gillis announced And Donald Trump longed me to be here to capture Juan Soto for the same reason Gillis didn t stop there with the Trump mentions as he poked fun at the th president for in the last few days saying he wants to stage a UFC fight at the White House Then it got into the current political argument around the supposed Jeffrey Epstein client list Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn The last time he staged a fight in D C Mike Pence almost died Gillis disclosed Indeed there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here but I guess it got deleted Possibly deleted itself right Perhaps never existed Let s move on as a country and ignore that Gillis also mentioned WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark which didn t get the best of reactions after what he predicted when she retired She s going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves majority of fist-fighting Black women Gillis commented to a mixed reaction Definitively another compelling joke choice was taking a shot at the late O J Simpson which was an ode to the late comedian Norm Macdonald the host of the show in Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy this year Gillis mentioned He s the first defensive participant since Charles Woodson to win the Heisman Congratulations Travis Hunter winning the Heisman that s something they can never take away from you Unless you kill your wife and a waiter in which incident they can take that away from you Gillis who stars in the Netflix series Tires also took aim at Aaron Rodgers Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and more in what particular view as off-color while others thought it was just for laughs Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter