Shane Gillis Just Had One of Comedy's Biggest Racists on His Podcast
His latest guest is Nick Rochefort of Million Dollar Extreme, whose Adult Swim show was cancelled over its use of Nazi imagery.
Fresh off the success of his Netflix series Tires, Bud Light brand partner Shane Gillis lent his platform this weekend to the racist and antisemitic comedian Nick Rochefort of Million Dollar Extreme, whose eponymous Adult Swim series was cancelled in 2016 over its use of Nazi imagery. Like his fellow Million Dollar Extreme members Sam Hyde and Charls Carroll, Rochefort has spent the last few years crawling his way back into mainstream comedy spaces, though he has not done so by reforming his act. In recent episodes of his own podcasts—including Perfect Guy Life, which he cohosts with Hyde, and Scuffed Realtor—he has used a certain slur for Black people, complained that there are “too many cornball Chinese people in Boston,” said that Jews “fetishize the fuck out of Asians” (and that they run Hollywood), described the Rothschild family as “blood-drinking psychos,” and co-signed various antisemitic comments by his cohost. His guest spot on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, which currently boasts 93,200 paying members, represents one of his biggest appearances since his Adult Swim days.
It is not, however, his first time working with Gillis. The comedian, who recently headlined the Netflix Is A Joke Festival, appeared on Perfect Guy Life last year, in an episode that featured Rochefort’s complaints about Lorne Michaels’ (nonexistent, as best I can tell) dual Israeli citizenship: “That dual citizenship with fucking Lorne Michaels fucking bothers me. Why is he a dual citizen of Israel? What did Lorne Michaels do to get dual citizenship in Israel?” In that same episode, Gillis said that he and McCusker were longtime fans of Million Dollar Extreme, a comment he also made in Hyde’s 2020 appearance on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast: “We’re both huge fans, me and Matt have been watching your stuff since day one.”
Hyde, for his part, assured Gillis and McCusker that he had been “calming down with the antisemitism lately.” If this was ever true, he’s recently ramped it right back up. Consider an exchange from a recent episode of Perfect Guy Life in which Hyde explains to Rochefort and Carroll that thanks to Israel's assault on Gaza, the tides of public are now turning against Jewish people. (Note that the clip features “Brazilian” dubbed over instances of the word “Jews” and “Jewish”; this has been Hyde’s codeword for some time.) As you’ll see, Rochefort and Hyde are very much on the same page:
