Look…I know Shane Gillis sells out stadiums, has appeared in Super Bowl commercials, and has leveraged his popularity into a popular Netflix comedy series. I know people dig his jokes and all-around “regular guy” vibe and I really can’t speak as to whether his humor is a reflection of his actual values or just an act that he knows appeals to a certain block of the population. He clearly has pretty good timing and presence, but I am simply not buying what he is interested in selling and based on the in-house audience’s reaction to much of the evening’s offerings of sketches, neither were they.

The evening took off on a rocky note from the jump, with a cobbled together cold open that tried to satirize the off-the-rails Oval Office meeting that took place on Friday between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio,...