# ‘Saturday Night Live’ Just Put Its Biggest Problem on the Wrong Person

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/saturday-night-live-just-put-its-biggest-problem-on-the-wrong-person/
- Published: 2026-11-02T19:02:13+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T19:35:19+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/snl-saturday-night-live-halloween-inde-navarrette-shane-gillis-comments-opinion/
- Topics: Film

## Key points

- Navarrette’s joke turned Gillis’s gym comments back on him.
- The article says SNL left its guest host to answer for the controversy.
- Cast members or Weekend Update could have addressed the remarks.

## Summary

Inde Navarrette’s joke about Shane Gillis’s remarks on women’s gym clothing drew a strong audience response during her Halloween episode hosting debut on Saturday Night Live. The article argues that, although the joke was sharp, the show left its guest host to address a controversy created by a previous broadcast, rather than responding clearly in its own voice.

Gillis had called women at the gym “whores” during an October 10 monologue and complained that men were expected not to stare. Dan Levy criticised the remarks as misogynistic, while Navarrette later echoed Gillis’s wording in a joke about preparing for her role as Rogue in Marvel’s X-Men reboot. The article says SNL’s cast, writers or Weekend Update anchors could have addressed the issue, and that Navarrette, 25, was not responsible for cleaning up after Gillis.

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