Shane Michael Gillis (born December 11, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster known for his Netflix comedy specials and series Tires.

Gillis co-hosts, along with fellow stand-up comedian Matt McCusker, Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, the most subscribed-to podcast on Patreon as of 2024. In 2019, the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal named Gillis one of its "New Faces".

Gillis had a controversial start to his career, when he was announced as a newly hired cast member on NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 2019, only to be fired five days later due to backlash over a 2018 clip from his podcast in which derogatory language, such as Asian ethnic slurs were used, sparking a discussion on context and intent when certain topics are used for comedic purposes.

In 2021, Gillis released his first comedy special, Shane Gillis: Live in Austin, on YouTube. Gillis frequently collaborates with filmmaker John McKeever on the online sketch series Gilly & Keeves. In September 2023, his second comedy special, Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs, was released on Netflix.

As of 2024, Gillis has starred in the Netflix comedy series Tires, which he co-created with McKeever. The first season premiered on May 24, 2024.

Gillis was born on December 11, 1987, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a town located outside of Harrisburg. His parents are both of Irish Catholic heritage. While attending Trinity High School in nearby Camp Hill, he played on the school's football team as an offensive tackle. He graduated in 2006. He went to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, but quit shortly into his first year. He subsequently attended and played a year of football at Elon University before graduating from West Chester University. After graduating, he spent six months teaching English in Spain.

Gillis began performing comedy in 2012. He regularly performed in Harrisburg and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. To further his career, he relocated to Philadelphia. In 2015, he placed third at Helium Comedy Club's annual "Philly's Phunniest" tournament, and he won the tournament the next year. In 2016, Gillis began Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast with Matt McCusker. In 2017, Gillis became a frequent guest on The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder, increasing his popularity. He also began a weekly show on Compound Media called A Fair One with Tommy Pope.

In 2019, after relocating to New York to further pursue comedy, Comedy Central named Gillis an "Up Next" comedian as he performed at Comedy Central's Clusterfest. That same year, Gillis was recognized as a "New Face" at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. During an interview for All Things Considered at that festival, Gillis was interrupted by stand-up comedian Robert Kelly, who said, "You're very funny, dude ... I mean, I wanted to hate it." The interviewer, Andrew Limbong, described Gillis's set at the festival, writing: "Shane Gillis gives off post-jock energy—like someone who used to play a sport in school, then had the self-awareness to realize he wasn't cut out for it and stopped—but he isn't bitter about it at all. His friendly demeanor distracts you, while he sneaks in just a whiff of social insight within a barrage of self-deprecating sex jokes."

Gillis's addition to Saturday Night Live (SNL) as a featured cast member was announced on September 12, 2019, along with Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman.

Later that day, however, several clips surfaced from a since-removed 2018 episode of Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, in which Gillis and co-host Matt McCusker jokingly discussed Chinatown, Manhattan in mock East Asian accents and used the word "chink", an ethnic slur for Chinese people. Gillis argued that although the jokes were regrettable, especially when taken out of context, the intent behind them had been misunderstood; in using the slur, specifically, he was imitating an imagined 1940s white landlord, not expressing a view of his own. In other clips, Gillis and co-host Matt McCusker ranked comedians by race, gender and sexual orientation, which included the use of gay slurs. Later that night, Gillis posted a tweet saying that "I'm a comedian who pushes boundaries" and that "if you go through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad, you're going to find a lot of bad misses. I'm happy to apologize to anyone who's actually offended by anything I've said." Four days later, a spokesperson for SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels announced that Gillis had been removed from the cast.

Afterward, Gillis maintained that the clips had been misleadingly divorced from their context, and that he was misquoted in the majority of articles reporting the story. Gillis also expressed regret for his "corny" description of himself as "a comedian who pushes boundaries", noting he had "literally 5 minutes of being pressured to write anything", and stating that he officially retracted it.

Five years after the incident, Michaels revealed that the decision to fire Gillis was not his, and it was forced on him by NBC executives.

In January 2020, Gillis was named "2019's Stand-Up Comedian of the Year" in Theinterrobang's Sixth Annual Comedy Awards. In December 2020, Gillis and comedian John McKeever launched the web series Gilly and Keeves, featuring comedy sketches starring Gillis and McKeever such as "ISIS Toyota", "Uncle Daycare", and "Trump Speed Dating". On September 7, 2021, Gillis released his first live comedy special, Shane Gillis: Live in Austin on YouTube. Comedy website The Laugh Button ranked Gillis's special in second place in their top 20 comedy specials of 2021. Since 2021, Gillis has made a series of appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast The Joe Rogan Experience alongside comics Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir, known as the "Protect Our Parks" episodes. Gillis released his second live comedy special, Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs on September 5, 2023, on Netflix.

In 2023, Gillis had a recurring role on the Peacock series Bupkis, starring Pete Davidson. In 2024, Gillis hosted the February 24 episode of Saturday Night Live (season 49, episode 12), nearly four and a half years after his firing from the show in September 2019. Gillis's hosting received mixed reviews. While appearing at the Skankfest comedy festival in October 2024, he said he had turned down an offer to play Trump on the show through the election.

In February 2024, Gillis struck a deal with Netflix for a scripted workplace comedy as well as his second special with the streamer. Gillis will serve as an executive producer, a writer and co-creator of the show Tires based on his pilot on YouTube. The six-episode series premiered on May 23 on the service. Tires was renewed for a second season on May 21, 2024. In 2024, Gillis also appeared in the music video for Eminem's new single Houdini.

Gillis appears in the upcoming movie Easy's Waltz, in a supporting role that was originally written for late comedian Norm Macdonald, who died before the film began production.

Gillis is a fan of Philadelphia sports teams, the Phillies, Eagles and 76ers.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Delco Proper	Voice	Episode: "For the Troops"
2020–2021	Gilly and Keeves	Various roles	Also writer; 12 episodes
2023	Bupkis	Gilly	2 episodes
2024	Saturday Night Live	Himself/Host	Episode: "Shane Gillis/21 Savage"
	Tires	Shane	Netflix series

Year	Title	Notes
2021	Shane Gillis: Live in Austin	YouTube comedy special
2023	Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs	Netflix comedy special

Gillis has stated that his stand-up influences are Louis C.K., Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, Patrice O'Neal, Bernie Mac, and Bill Burr.

• Official website
• Shane Gillis at IMDb