Dan Levy Blasts Shane Gillis Over SNL Monologue

"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy publicly condemned Shane Gillis on Sunday, calling out the comedian's "Saturday Night Live" opening monologue as misogynistic, according to TMZ.com.

Gillis hosted the NBC sketch comedy show this weekend. During the monologue, he said he had not been to the gym recently, then asked whether "women just dress like w****s now?" He continued with a graphic description of neon, artificial bait-colored shorts, saying the wrinkles go around the cheeks and combine at the b***hole, and adding that people are not allowed to look.

Levy responded in a social media post on Sunday, pushing back on the idea that women who wear short shorts at the gym are w****s. He argued that it is the men using that word who are misogynists, and he noted that he has observed more male nipples at the gym than women displaying their bodies, according to TMZ.com.

The actor also said the monologue left him speechless, and he expressed shock that such material could be broadcast on national television, TMZ.com reported.

Levy called on men to speak out against misogyny. "Because it's complacency that has created the environment in which women are sexually assaulted," he told TMZ.com. He further argued that when men objectify women in media, other men come to view women as objects and treat them accordingly, according to TMZ.com.

An "SNL" source told TMZ.com that Gillis wrote his own monologue and his own jokes, which the source described as typical for comics, adding that a comedian owns his own jokes. A second source told TMZ.com that Gillis has performed this set before and has told the joke about women in short shorts previously.

As of Monday, it remained unclear whether the show would take any action against Gillis over the monologue. He did, however, issue an apology at the conclusion of the broadcast for swearing during one of the sketches, according to TMZ.com.