Best Fan Tweets, Memes to Shane Gillis' Opening Speech at 2025 ESPY Awards

Comedian Shane Gillis hosted this year's ESPYS, and he certainly didn't hold back in his unfiltered monologue, making jokes about a host of topics and athletes including Shohei Ohtani, Caitlin Clark and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

Gillis certainly gets raucous ovations and reactions in response to many of his performances. The crowd at the ESPYS did not fall into that category.

Reaction on social media was mixed, ranging from fans loving his monologue and thinking the crowd needed to loosen up or people saying he missed the mark.

Gillis is a big sports fan who notably loves Notre Dame football. He also appeared on College GameDay last December for Notre Dame's win over Indiana in the first round of the College Football Playoff.

Gillis has broken out in recent years, hosting Saturday Night Live twice and doing stand-up for two successful specials on YouTube in 2021 (Live in Austin) and Netflix in 2023 (Beautiful Dogs). In addition, Gillis stars in his Netflix series, Tires, which was just renewed for a third season.