Shane Gillis hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the third time on October 10, and part of his monologue riffed on women’s gym clothes, saying he didn’t realize “women just dress like whores now” before describing their neon shorts in graphic detail. The gym joke drew groans from the studio audience.

A day later, Daniel Levy answered in an Instagram Reel, framing the whole thing as everyone’s problem. “Men need to be defending women more. This is not a women’s issue, this is an everybody issue,” he said. “The more that men objectify women in the media, the more that other men see them as objects and treat them as objects.”

“Women wearing short shorts at the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists,” he said, adding that he’s “seen more men’s nipples at the gym than I’ve ever seen women showing their bodies off.”

Levy didn’t keep it to the joke. “I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television,” he said, arguing that “more men need to be standing up in opposition to it because it’s complacency that has created the environment in which women are sexually assaulted.”

Gillis was briefly hired as an SNL cast member in 2019 and let go days later after old podcast clips surfaced with racist and homophobic language, then built a large following through stand-up and projects like “Tires.” His return monologue also joked about “the hottest gay guys” at the gym and his own thinning hair.

Elizabeth Banks replied “Nailed it” to Levy’s video, with Hannah Einbinder and others backing him. Online reaction split between people praising the callout and people calling it an overreaction to boundary-pushing comedy.