Shane Gillis Hit Bill Belichick & His 24-Year-Old Girlfriend Jordon Hudson With An Unhinged Viagra Joke During His ESPYS Hosting Gig
Shane Gillis wasn’t holding any punches when he hosted the 2025 ESPYS. Tonight, the ESPYS awards show took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and was broadcast live on ABC. ESPN’s annual event celebrates the past year of sports, and helps raise money for the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Gillis is the first comedian they’ve had host the show in a while, as ESPN has been going with athletes – or former athletes – to take over […] The post Shane Gillis Hit Bill Belichick & His 24-Year-Old Girlfriend Jordon Hudson With An Unhinged Viagra Joke During His ESPYS Hosting Gig first appeared on Whiskey Riff.


Shane Gillis wasn’t holding any punches when he hosted the 2025 ESPYS.
Tonight, the ESPYS awards show took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and was broadcast live on ABC. ESPN’s annual event celebrates the past year of sports, and helps raise money for the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Gillis is the first comedian they’ve had host the show in a while, as ESPN has been going with athletes – or former athletes – to take over the hosting duties as of late.
Here’s how the hosting gig has shaken out for the past decade:
2015: Joel McHale
2016: John Cena
2017: Peyton Manning (I’ll allow it)
2018: Danica Patrick
2019: Tracy Morgan
2020: Russell Wilson, Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird (Sheesh)
2021: Anthony Mackie
2022: Steph Curry
2023: No Host
2024: Serena Williams
As you can see, not a lot of comedians have hosted in the last decade. And after Gillis’ big night – which has already generated headlines and outrage – the “Worldwide Leader in Sports” could very well go back to their regular, safer ways after Shane Gillis wraps up his first (and possibly last) ESPYS hosting gig.
We should’ve known that the stand-up comic known for pushing the envelope would have used the stage on ESPN to continue on with his… let’s just say regularly scheduled activities. It was honestly a bit of a shock when the network that typically airs on the safe side of things went with Gillis to host their annual awards show, and I’m assuming that ESPN was probably thinking they’d get a buttoned-up version of the comedian.
That was not the case.
Nothing was off limits for Gillis. He rattled off a two-in-one COVID-19-Aaron-Rodgers joke, made a deportation comment about Donald Trump and Juan Soto, crafted a racial WNBA joke including Caitlin Clark, and even referenced the whole Jeffrey Epstein client list situation that’s been circulating online over recent weeks. It was pretty well executed, so I’ll include it below:
“There’s supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but I guess it got deleted. It probably deleted itself, right? It probably never existed.”
Hilarious… can’t believe that was aired on ESPN and ABC.
And in the most predictable joke of the night, Shane Gillis went after Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson. Because how could he not? It’s a broadcasted sports awards show, and the Belichick-Hudson saga has been one of the biggest sports stories (albeit it a weird one) of the past year.
Here’s how Shane brought the hammer down on the former New England Patriots and current North Carolina Tar Heels head coach:
“A bookie is what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. They do. They read ‘The Very Horny Caterpillar,’ ‘The Little Engine that Could But Needed a Pill First,’ and of course, the classic ‘Goodnight Boobs.'”
What’s funnier than the joke? The crowd having no clue how to react to Shane Gillis on a heater. Much like when he hosted SNL, the audience often deployed muffled laughter throughout the night, and especially so on this run of Bill Belichick jokes. But Shane Gillis handled the mixed reactions in the only way that he could:
“They let me do it. This is Disney. They allowed that.”