Joe Rogan weighed in on the controversy surrounding Shane Gillis’ joke about women’s gym attire during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring Cody Tucker. The discussion began after Rogan and Tucker came across a Substack post by Casey Anthony criticizing Gillis’ comments on ‘Saturday Night Live’.
“Casey Anthony has chimed in on the Shane Gillis [ ] joke,” Rogan said.
Rogan explained that Anthony had written a lengthy piece addressing Gillis’ joke about women wearing revealing clothing at the gym.
“Casey Anthony wrote a long piece on Substack about the joke that Shane Gillis said about women dressing like [ ] on SNL.”
Talking about Anthony, Rogan stated, “I mean, this lady was if you wanted to use that term, was strangled their kids so she could go out and [ ] party. ”
Rogan then read a portion of Anthony’s statement, in which she defended women’s freedom to choose what they wear and criticized men who object to revealing gym outfits.
“Women can dress however they want. Women in the gym can dress however they want. Men who have opinions about how women dress need to all the way go [ ] themselves. This toxic masculinity trend needs to end. These fragile men need to get out of the way of women in totality.”
Rogan immediately challenged Anthony’s decision to weigh in on the controversy, bringing up her own past.
“This lady ended her kid,” he said. “And she feels like she could take the moral high ground and chime in about a joke on Saturday Night Live.”
The conversation then shifted to the joke itself and whether Gillis’ comments were being taken out of context. Rogan argued that the humor came from Gillis portraying himself as a creepy figure watching women exercise in revealing outfits, rather than from directly insulting the women.
He said, “Which is really the joke is on Shane because the joke is that he looks like a creep in the background of all these Tik Toks watching these ladies that are wearing nothing doing these exercises.”
Tucker also clarified that Gillis had not directly compared women to [ ], but had instead made a joke about how they dressed.
“Well, he also didn’t call them [ ]. He just said they dress like it,” Tucker stated. “Completely different thing.”
Despite defending Gillis, Rogan also made it clear that he had no issue with women choosing to wear revealing clothing at the gym. He acknowledged that people might notice such outfits but argued that there was nothing inherently wrong with wanting to show off one’s physique.
“You can dress however you want. Who cares?”
Rogan elaborated on his position by describing the revealing gym outfits he had seen and emphasizing that women should feel free to wear whatever makes them comfortable.
“I have no problem with women dressing like that. Have fun. God bless you. If you have a great body, especially, show it off to the world. Who cares?”
He then compared women wearing tight workout clothes to men choosing outfits that emphasize their muscles, arguing that both are simply ways of showing off one’s physique.
“There’s nothing wrong with that. And wants to wear like skin tight stuff to, you know, show off. Who cares?”
Ultimately, Rogan argued that the backlash against Gillis reflected a failure to distinguish between a comedian making a joke and someone expressing genuine hostility toward women. While acknowledging that misogyny is a real issue, he maintained that Gillis’ comments did not qualify as an example of it.
“Real misogyny actually exists,” Rogan said. “Shane Gillis is not one of them. And he’s a great guy. It’s just a joke.”
