Maren Morris responds to Shane Gillis’ controversial statement Saturday night Live Monologue by giving the comedian the middle finger.
Gillis hosted a late-night sketch show on Saturday nights. spent his monologue Commenting on how women dress at the gym. “I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like prostitutes now?” Gillis said. “Look, I’m sorry, there’s no other way to describe it. Have you seen it? I’ve seen it. You’ve seen the shorts? They’re artificial bait colored like neon. And the wrinkles go around the cheeks and get all over the butthole. And don’t look! You’re not allowed to look. In fact, don’t look, because they’re filming.”
Morris didn’t waste words in his reply. Instead she posted a video of herself on Instagram, writing, “I’m a bum in the gym.” The video was accompanied by her song, “Be a Bitch”, which includes the chorus: “Breaking my neck by turning my cheek / Killing me with kindness / If the truth means I’m a little meaner / Tried to pretend to be nice, but it couldn’t quite stick / I’d rather be a bitch.”
“Leave my gym short wedgie out of this,” the singer captioned the video, which concluded with her giving the camera the middle finger.
Several celebrities have responded to Gillis’s monologue, which has caused an uproar on social media, with many calling her misogynistic. East snl Star Ego Nwodim posted a gym selfie on her Instagram Stories on Monday with the caption, “Whore reporting for duty.” Meanwhile, Dan Levy shared an instagram video Saying he was “speechless that something like this could exist on live national television.”
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym doesn’t make them whores. It makes men call them whores, misogynists. There’s a difference,” Levy said. “By the way, I’ve seen more men showing off their nipples at the gym than women showing off their bodies.”
Gillis was fired snl in 2019 for racist and homophobic comments, but has since been invited back to host three times. During Saturday’s show, Gillis not only enraged the audience dropped an f-bomb During one sketch, a Dr. Seuss-themed bit titled “Green Eggs and Ham.” At the end of the sketch, Gillis apologized, saying, “Sorry about earlier.”