{"id":65056,"date":"2026-10-20T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=65056"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:03:57","slug":"love-is-blinds-morrey-doubles-down-and-calls-shane-gillis-hilarious-despite-snl-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/10\/20\/love-is-blinds-morrey-doubles-down-and-calls-shane-gillis-hilarious-despite-snl-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Is Blind\u2019s Morrey doubles down and calls Shane Gillis \u2018hilarious\u2019 despite SNL backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t exactly the best timing when Morrey talked about Shane Gillis in the Love Is Blind pods last week, fresh off the comedians awful SNL controversy. And whilst this season was filmed a year and a half ago, Morrey still stands by his love for the comedian, telling Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that he thinks “Shane Gillis is hilarious.”<\/p>\n

He told the outlet: “I didn\u2019t pick the timing. I don\u2019t think before I speak. I think you saw that a lot this season. I just say what pops into my head. I do think Shane Gillis is hilarious. I\u2019m not gonna hide that fact. I think if you think he\u2019s not funny, it\u2019s coming from a place of, like, hate almost. There\u2019s people I don\u2019t like that are still really talented, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Wow, they\u2019re still very, very good at what they do.\u2019 I mean, he\u2019s a comedic genius. Do I agree with everything he says? No, but I don\u2019t agree with anything anyone says, including myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morrey did admit that there were a lot of moments during Love Is Blind that did make him want to “throw up” upon a rewatch<\/p>\n

On the show, Morrey used Gillis as an example of an \u201cugly\u201d guy who \u201ccan still date hot girls.\u201d At the time of filming, Gillis was in a relationship with social media influencer Grace Brassel. More recently, Gillis made headlines for a joke in his SNL monologue about women \u201cdressed like whores\u201d at the gym.<\/p>\n

When asked if he had cringed watching the show back, he was brutally honest about himself. \u201cOh my God. I wanted to throw up every single time I\u2019m sitting in that s—– maroon hoodie and I look at Benita and I go, \u2018You want me so bad?\u2019 That girl\u2019s a 10. I\u2019m a f—ing six!\u201d he tells EW. \u201cI go back, like, \u2018Oh my God. Oh, I hate me too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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‘He’s a comedic genius’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":65060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1528,1438],"class_list":["post-65056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-love-is-blind","tag-netflix"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/10\/20\/love-is-blinds-morrey-doubles-down-and-calls-shane-gillis-hilarious-despite-snl-backlash\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Love Is Blind\u2019s Morrey doubles down and calls Shane Gillis \u2018hilarious\u2019 despite SNL backlash","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/10\/20\/love-is-blinds-morrey-doubles-down-and-calls-shane-gillis-hilarious-despite-snl-backlash\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/10\/20\/love-is-blinds-morrey-doubles-down-and-calls-shane-gillis-hilarious-despite-snl-backlash\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-8-2-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-8-2.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["love is blind","netflix"],"dateCreated":"2026-10-20T18:00:48Z","datePublished":"2026-10-20T18:00:48Z","dateModified":"2026-10-20T18:00:48Z"},"rendered":"