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Shane Gillis Named Host of 2025 ESPY Awards

ESPN selected the comedian whose sports passion is expected to energize the annual awards show live on ABC July 16 with parallel streaming on ESPN+

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Comedian Shane Gillis reacts on the field prior to the College Football Playoff First Round game between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Notre Dame Stadium on December 20, 2024 in South Bend, Indiana.
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Overview

  • The 33rd ESPY Awards will be held July 16 at Los Angeles’s Dolby Theatre, airing live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET, streaming concurrently on ESPN+ and available on demand the next day on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+.
  • Gillis is the creator and star of Netflix’s Tires and co-host of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, drawing on his background as a former college football player and ardent Notre Dame fan.
  • ESPN vice president and ESPYs executive producer Craig Lazarus praised Gillis as one of today’s top comedians whose genuine sports enthusiasm made him an easy choice to emcee the show.
  • The comedian faced a 2019 controversy over a resurfaced 2018 podcast clip containing an anti-Asian slur that led to his dismissal from Saturday Night Live, but he has since returned to host SNL twice and maintained a thriving stand-up career.
  • Proceeds from the ESPYs benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research, continuing ESPN’s long-standing partnership founded by coach Jim Valvano in 1993.