# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shane-gillis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:14.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shane-gillis"
name: "Shane Gillis"
slug: "shane-gillis"
description: "Shane Michael Gillis is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. Gillis started performing comedy in 2012, and in 2016, along with fellow stand-up comedian Matt McCusker, began co-hosting Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, the most subscribed-to podcast on Patreon as of 2024. Gillis had a breakout year in 2019; the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal named him one of its \"New Faces\" in July, and in September he was announced as a newly-hired cast member on NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL). He subsequently became the subject of controversy and was fired after five days at SNL due to backlash over a 2018 clip from his podcast in which derogatory language, such as Asian ethnic slurs, was used. This controversy sparked a discussion about context and intent when certain topics are used for comedic purposes."
tagline: "American comedian and actor (born 1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shane_Gillis_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1987-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.83201466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5805772/"
    handle:    "nm5805772"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://shanemgillis.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Shane Gillis"
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    title: "Shane Gillis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شين جيليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%95%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "شەین گیلیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Gillis"
    title: "Shane Gillis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Gillis"
    title: "Shane Gillis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/963de1cf-c099-4c00-8d22-e0d262cf0407"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Gillis"
    title: "Shane Gillis"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67464067"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Shane Gillis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump