Shane Gillis
American comedian and actor
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Oct 31, 2026
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Shane Gillis Explains How He Got into Comedy, Talks Netflix Show Tires ~ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Oct 31 · 5m
speaker_0UNKNOWN
But if you watch it, I am clearly the worst thing in it.
Shane GillisGUEST
... and he did like a family history thing, and my like great-great-great grandfather, one of them was from Ireland, came here, he was in ...
Shane GillisGUEST
Somebody stole his empty glass bottles in Chester County, and he w- It was a gypsy camp that stole it, and he took an ax and he went to the gypsy camp and started trying to fight people to find his bottles, and a gypsy clubbed him in the back of the head, and that's how he died.
12 MINS LATER
Shane GillisGUEST
... was, I think he wrote a pilot for it, like, in college as, like, a project.
Shane GillisGUEST
We should talk to Kanye." And I was like, "Yeah, please, obviously." And then Kanye comes and sits with us, and then walks away.
Shane GillisGUEST
I'd, uh, fucking, that'd be awesome." You hung out with him all night, you drunk fuck [laughs]
9 MINS LATER
Shane GillisGUEST
Can I tell you right now, that was the first time, I stink at sports, but I'm okay at neighborhood sports.
Shane GillisGUEST
I was pretty good at baseball when I'd be playing the neighborhood, and then I joined them.
Shane GillisGUEST
McDaniel got me to join Little League in eighth grade, and I was like, I'll play.
Shane GillisGUEST
cock rings are in your fucking house right now? Captain Planet jumping out at the family reunion.
Shane GillisGUEST
So like, "Do you want us to come remodel your house?" And they're like, "Yeah, sure." You, the dumbest people on Earth say yes.
28 MINS LATER
speaker_6UNKNOWN
[laughs]
Shane GillisGUEST
Like, you see a fucking old lady knocked out, you're like, "Holy shit." But she had purple from the wine and Oreos still in her mouth.
speaker_6UNKNOWN
[laughs]
speaker_31PANELIST
... like, the acting part of it all?
Shane GillisGUEST
Like, he loves s- like the first day I met him, he stays in character so he's talking like he's Al Davis.
Shane GillisGUEST
Which you don't even think of, because he's not, he doesn't stay in character, he stays in accent.
Shane GillisGUEST
So he was talking like Al Davis when I was talking, like, and then mid-conversation I had to think to myself, like, "This guy's from like fucking Wales." [laughs]
speaker_23UNKNOWN
Once you start talking, it's all good.
Shane GillisGUEST
Dude, there's a video I saw of Waylon Jennings Jr., I think it was him, and they're doing a, like a roast or like a barbecue.
Shane GillisGUEST
And they're like, "We're here, waiting for him to show up, and he's been barbecuing to this thing for the last, you know, 14 hours." And then they c- they come in and some lady's, like, interviewing him.
Shane GillisGUEST
She's like, "So we're ready for your roast." He goes, "Oh, that's not mine." [laughs]
48 MINS LATER
Shane GillisGUEST
'Cause Ro- 'cause Burr wanted to go up early, and I was like, "Oh, am I gonna go, like, a- like, m- before him and then Burr go up?" But then he was just like, "It's gonna go Poston, Burr, Lacey, and then Rogan." And I was like, "All right.
RoneHOST
No one even remembers because there was too many damn whiskeys.
42 MINS LATER
Shane GillisGUEST
What was the name of the restaurant? Do you want to say? I don't fucking remember.
1 HR 38 MINS LATER
Shane GillisGUEST
At Helium Filling, it was the first time I ever middled, and I was like, "That was a good show.
Shane GillisGUEST
I should..." And he, you know, he was drunk after the show, and he was like, "You should open for me." And I was like, "F- f- fuck yeah.
Shane GillisGUEST
One, one of us is a top Heisman contender, the other one's a fat guy that's drunk.
Shane GillisGUEST
And so I- I'm just glad that it, that it happened and everything came true that we knew was going to happen, so.
Will ComptonHOST
As in like saving, showing how bad of an ass beating it was type of deal? Like that he couldn't hang?
2 HRS 3 MINS LATER
speaker_5UNKNOWN
Yeah.
Shane GillisGUEST
And then it happens, and then in the moment, and I remember thinking, I'm like, "Oh, this is what, this is what I read abou- I read about.
Shane GillisGUEST
This is what I watched TV and this happened." So, so did that happen to you in that mo- do you remember that moment where you're like, "Oh, shit, this is what it feels like to kinda beco- become successful"? Uh, yeah, there's a co- yeah.
Shane GillisGUEST
I mean, hosting SNL, when I did that, was, that was, that was one of those moments.
Shane GillisGUEST
Anyway, I called him the night before I was about to go to West Point for boot camp, and he was playing football somewhere else.
Shane GillisGUEST
I was like, damn, I'm in a hotel room with my parents about to go to – boot camp at five in the morning and then i got there i cried cried about 10 times and then went home seriously yeah just walked around cried went home just had to march around and cry get down and get me 20 So how long did you
Shane GillisGUEST
Anyway, I called him the night before I was about to go to West Point for boot camp.
Shane GillisGUEST
And I was like, damn, I'm in a hotel room with my parents about to go to fucking boot camp at 5 in the morning.
speaker_26UNKNOWN
[laughs]
36 MINS LATER
Shane GillisGUEST
When you were, when you were in school and you're like, you were young and you were bad and he had to, like, hit you, did you just laugh?
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