Shane Gillis Parents: Meet Joan And Phillip Gillis

Publish date: 2024-05-18

Shane Gillis parents-American comedian, actor, and podcaster, Shane Michael Gillis was born on December 11, 1987, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania in the United States of America.

Who are Shane Gillis’ parents?

Shane Gillis was born to Joan Gillis and Phillip Gillis. He has two sisters, Kait Gillis and Sarah Gillis.  His parents are both of Irish Catholic heritage. They are reportedly acquainted with one another in high school. Trinity High School was their final academic institution.

As of the time of filing this report, we have no further information about his parents’ private life, profession, and background.

Shane Gillis career

In 2012, Gillis started doing comedic roles. He gave frequent performances in Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In order to advance professionally, he moved to Philadelphia. He finished third in the annual “Philly’s Phunniest” event held by Helium Comedy Club in 2015, and he took first place the following year.

According to Gillis, Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, Patrice O’Neal, Bernie Mac, and Bill Burr are among the stand-up comedians who have influenced him.

Together with Matt McCusker, Gillis launched Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast in 2016. Gillis’s profile grew in 2017 when he started appearing frequently on The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder. Additionally, he started hosting Tommy Pope’s weekly program A Fair One on Compound Media.

After Gillis’s performance at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in 2019, Comedy Central named him one of their “Up Next” comedians. Gillis received recognition as a “New Face” at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal in the same year.

Along with Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman, Gillis was added to Saturday Night Live (SNL) as a featured cast member on September 12, 2019.

Theinterrobang’s Sixth Annual Comedy Awards recognized Gillis as “2019’s Stand-Up Comedian of the Year” in January 2020.

Gillis and comedian John McKeever debuted the web series Gilly and Keeves in December 2020. The series featured comedic sketches with Gillis and McKeever in them, including “ISIS Toyota,” “Uncle Daycare,” and “Trump Speed Dating.”

Shane Gillis: Live in Austin, his debut live comedy special, was uploaded on YouTube on September 7, 2021. Gillis’s comedy special came in second on The Laugh Button’s list of the top 20 comedy specials of 2021.

Known as the “Protect Our Parks” episodes, Gillis has appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast The Joe Rogan Experience with comedians Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir since 2021.

On September 5, 2023, Gillis’s second live comedy special, Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs, was made available on Netflix.

Nearly four and a half years after his dismissal from the program in 2019, it was announced on February 3, 2024, that Gillis would host the February 24 episode of Saturday Night Live (season 49, episode 12) with musical guest 21 Savage.

Gillis is a frequent guest on several podcasts, including “The Doug Stanhope Podcast,” “Legion of Skanks,” and “The Real Ass Podcast” on the GaS Digital Network. She also frequently appears on the Faction Talk show “The Bonfire” with Big Jay Oakerson, Robert Kelly, and, previously, Dan Soder on Sirius XM.

The Adam Friedland Show, a comedy talk show, has featured him as well. September 19, 2022, saw a profile of him in The New Yorker. Gillis appeared frequently in the Peacock sitcom Bupkis, which starred Pete Davidson, in 2023.

Gillis and Bud Light teamed up in 2024 to discuss a future sponsorship. Gillis has long been an outspoken supporter of the company, and on many of his podcast appearances, he has been known to promote them and sip their beer. His fellow podcast guests and hosts have joked that he ought to be their spokesperson.

Source: www.Ghgossip.com

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