Shane Gillis Muddles Through Opening Monologue: “Look, I Get It, You’re Pretty Liberal Here”

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From joking about date rape drugs to exploring an extended bit about Ken Burns‘ The Civil War docuseries, Shane Gillis‘ second turn as host — from his previous and shortlived home of Saturday Night Live — featured some ham-fisted, self-deprecating humor poking fun at the audience’s politics and its lack of uproarious laughter.

The comedian began his 7-minute monologue by addressing politics, saying that president Donald Trump’s being in office is “funny” due to his “fifth-grade ideas.” “Greenland?

Ooh. Now I want Greenland. I never even thought about Greenland; now it’s all I think about,” he quipped. From across the aisle, he joked, “I miss Biden, Biden was fun — also hilarious.

My favorite thing about Biden was, anytime he was given a speech, in between teleprompters his face would go back to being dead,” completing the remark with a not-too-uncanny impression that got a couple chuckles. “Look, I get it, you’re pretty liberal here,” he said, making a quip about how being liberal makes a person feel “powerful like a Sith.” When that garnered wan laughs, he added, “All right now I’m going to lose you even more, for my next trick…” Gillis then segued into a joke about a “thing white guys do and it is racist,” eventually revealing that the thing in question was asking romantic partners if they have ever had sex with Black men before.