Social media exploded with outrage at Travis Kelce after the NFL star liked a post of Shane Gillis’ controversial Saturday Night Live monologue.While guest-hosting the latest episode of the NBC sketch show, Gillis, 38, performed a bit saying that female gymgoers ‘just dress like w****s now.’Kelce, 37, who married Taylor Swift this summer at a ceremony officiated by Adam Sandler, liked the video of the set shared on the series’ official Instagram page. He quickly drew howls of condemnation on X, where one user branded him ‘a d*****bag frat bro’ and another called him a ‘disgusting man.’A third took a swipe at his hometown, writing: ‘travis kelce liking that horribly misogynistic snl vid… maybe that’s just the kind of humor they have in cleveland.’Even Swift was unable to avoid the blowback entirely, with one observer demanding on Reddit: ‘Taylor, is this your king?? Come get your man girl.’The Daily Mail has contacted Swift and Kelce’s representatives for comment. Social media exploded with outrage at Travis Kelce after the NFL star liked a post of Shane Gillis’ controversial Saturday Night Live monologue; Kelce pictureed with Taylor Swift last year While guest-hosting the latest episode of the NBC sketch show, Gillis, 38, performed a bit saying that female gymgoers ‘just dress like w****s now’ Kelce, 37, who married Taylor Swift this summer at a ceremony officiated by Adam Sandler, liked the video of the set shared on the series’ official Instagram pageSome X users were far more blistering about Swift in reaction to Kelce’s like, such as one who wrote: ‘taylor is just as brainless for marrying this gorilla.’Others appeared to feel vindicated by the fracas, posting tweets like: ‘no but honestly, who’s surprised?,’ ‘Fork found in kitchen’ and ‘Nothing in that head of his.’Kelce, who held a brief role in Sandler’s Netflix movie Happy Gilmore 2, had his defenders as well, one of whom remarked: ‘Or maybe he didn’t watch the video at all and just liked it because it’s SNL. Not everyone is chronically online.’This June, Gillis was a celebrity guest at Kelce’s annual Tight End University training camp, as seen in a video for the sports comedy page JokeWRLD. Kelce was shown greeting Gillis with a warm hug, after voiceover narration referred to the comedian and the football player as ‘friends.’Gillis also proudly introduced Kelce to his father Phil, who shook the Kansas City Chiefs player’s hand and said: ‘It’s an honor to meet you.’ In his new monologue, Gillis mocked himself for ‘going to the public gym as a fat guy’ surrounded by ‘the hottest gay guys you’ve ever seen,’ before saying: ‘Also, I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like w****s now.’He continued with a smile: ‘Look, I’m sorry, there’s no other way to describe – have you seen it? I’ve seen it. The shorts? Have you seen the shorts?’ He quickly drew howls of condemnation on X, where one user branded him ‘a d*****bag frat bro’ and another called him a ‘disgusting man’ Kelce, who held a brief role in Sandler’s Netflix movie Happy Gilmore 2, had his defenders as well, one of whom theorized that ‘maybe he didn’t watch the video at all’ This June, Gillis was a celebrity guest at Kelce’s annual Tight End University training camp, as seen in a video for the sports comedy page JokeWRLD Kelce was seen greeting Gillis with a warm hug, after voiceover narration referred to the comedian and the football player as ‘friends’ Gillis also proudly introduced Kelce to his father Phil, who shook the Kansas City Chiefs player’s hand and said: ‘It’s an honor to meet you’Gillis earned laughs describing the activewear as ‘neon’ and ‘artificial bait-colored’ with wrinkles that ‘go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole.’He quipped: ‘And don’t look. You’re not allowed to look. For real, don’t look, because they are filming. I’m in the background of like 10 TikToks right now.’As a social media furor erupted over the monologue, Gillis was vociferously denounced in an Instagram video by Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy. ‘Women wearing short shorts at the gym does not make them w****s. It makes the men calling them w****s misogynists. There’s a difference there,’ said Levy.’By the way, I’ve seen more men’s nipples at the gym than I’ve ever seen women showing their bodies off,’ observed the son of SCTV icon Eugene Levy. ‘But I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television. And to be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up in opposition to this, because it’s complacency that has created the environment with which women are sexually assaulted and it’s a “conversation” as opposed to a crime.’Saturday Night Live alumna Ego Nwodim, who was a cast member on the show for seven seasons from 2018 to 2025, retorted to Gillis with jokes of her own.She fired up her Insta Stories and posted a mirror selfie at the gym with one arm raised, accompanied by the caption: ‘w**** reporting for duty.’ Saturday Night Live alumna Ego Nwodim issued a riposte to the controversial joke that Gillis made about women this past weekend The first response Nwodim posted was a mirror selfie she snapped at the gym with one arm raised, accompanied by the caption: ‘w**** reporting for duty.’ Her follow-up was a picture of what appeared to be a pulled pork eggs benedict, captioned: ‘getting my 30 grams of protein in after heuxing’Her follow-up was a picture of what appeared to be a pulled pork eggs benedict, captioned: ‘getting my 30 grams of protein in after heuxing.’ Gillis made headlines in 2019 when he was hired to join the cast of Saturday Night Live, only to be fired over resurfaced podcast clips of his politically incorrect comic bits, including one in which he used the ethnic slur ‘ch**k.’ Inasmuch as Gillis was hired at the same time as Bowen Yang, the first Saturday Night Live cast member of Asian descent, the jokes pulled even further focus.Gillis issued a statement noting he is a ‘comedian who pushes boundaries,’ while offering ‘to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.’He was defended by legendary Saturday Night Live veteran Norm Macdonald, who himself had been fired from the show over his OJ Simpson material. As a social media furor erupted over the monologue, Gillis was vociferously denounced in an Instagram video by Schitt’s Creek star Dan LevyIn 1997, an NBC executive who was friends with Simpson jettisoned Macdonald for repeatedly making fun of the ex-football player over his double murder trial. Macdonald tweeted his sympathies to Gillis, writing that the younger comic’s firing was ‘Unacceptable’ and telling him: ‘Please DM me, pal, when you have a moment.’ In the ensuing years, Gillis rose back to showbiz success, and by 2023 he released a stand-up special that made the Netflix Top 10 in five countries. Nwodim left Saturday Night Live last year after the 50th season, amid a cast exodus that included Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow and Emil Wakim.Yang sensationally quit the long-running series in the middle of the 51st season, while Chloe Fineman left after that season concluded.