Shane Gillis continued his historic rise with the announcement that Netflix will pick up his independent scripted comedy series as well as host a stand-up comedy special.
Gillis has made huge strides in just a few weeks, landing a sponsorship deal with Bud Light and returning to “Saturday Night Live.”
To cap off a great month, Netflix picked up Gillis’ self-financed project “Tire,” which Gillis starred in, produced and wrote. bar stool sport report.
This totally unawake sitcom features a character named Will, a “nervous and inept heir to an auto repair chain” played by comedian Stephen Garven. The character is trying to rebuild his father’s repair shop despite “constant torture from his cousin and now employee Shane.”
The six-episode show is produced by Gillis and his longtime comedy partner John McKeever, who runs Dad Sick Productions with Gillis. The duo has racked up over 80 million views on his YouTube channel. ”ghillie and keeves” features just 20 videos.
Their comedy sketch of the same name averaged 4 million views per video in just a few years.
Netflix also decided to do another stand-up special with Gillis after the initial success of the special.Shane Gillis: beautiful dogs2023. That special was directed by McKeever. variety It received a lot of attention and stayed in the top 10 on Netflix for several weeks.
This followed the highly successful YouTube release of Gillis’ 2021 special.shane gillis live in austin‘ has been viewed over 24 million times.
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Bud Light approaches Gillis’ most loyal comedian for ‘March Madness’ marketing campaign tied to NCAA basketball as it looks to make a big marketing impact after a year of record losses .
Gillis then returned to her former job at SNL, where she was fired in 2019. Gillis’ monologue caused a ripple in left-wing media, which took offense to Gillis’ use of the words “gay” and “retard” and his jokes. His family discussed Down syndrome.
The sketch included a commercial of an insurance agent with a gun ostrich As well as his performance as a fan favorite impression Donald Trump’s. The sketch featured Gillis in a fake movie trailer that poked fun at President Trump’s recently released luxury sneakers.
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