David Spade thinks people have gotten a little too comfortable being offended.

Spade defended comedians' right to push boundaries, even when their material doesn't land during an episode of his podcast,  Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade. 

Comedian Shane Gillis sparked backlash after he mocked women at the gym during his  Saturday Night Live  monologue.

 I haven't been to the gym in so long. I didn't know women just dress like whores now?  Gillis said.

 Look, I'm sorry, there's no other way to describe … Have you seen the shorts? Those neon, they're like, artificial bait-colored [shorts], and the wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole. And don't look! You're not allowed to look. 

Carvey wasn't buying the outrage surrounding Gillis' joke. Rather than viewing the remarks as an attack on women, the comedian argued that the backlash overlooked a fundamental part of stand-up comedy: saying things that aren't meant to be taken literally.

3 David Spade defended comedians' right to push boundaries on his podcast after Shane Gillis faced backlash over an  SNL  joke. Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade/YouTube

 I just didn't understand the kerfuffle,  Carvey said.  Only 'cause to me, I just saw it as what we call - I'll just say it - a joke. Like he didn't - when you say jokes, you're not literally saying women are whores. You are literally joking. Isn't that kind of the idea? No? Did I just get canceled? 

Spade's assistant and executive producer of the podcast, Heather Santoro, chimed in with a different take, arguing that offensive humor still needs to deliver laughs.

 The joke has to be actually funny,  Santoro could be heard saying off mic.  If you're gonna like call a woman a whore, it's gotta be funny. And it wasn't. 

3 Gillis sparked backlash after mocking women at the gym during his  SNL  monologue on Oct. 10. NBC

Carvey argued that in comedy clubs, he'd bet the joke  destroyed,  but  Saturday Night Live  simply was  not the right place  for it.

 He got some laughs, but, of course, I think he knows that one's gonna be a button p
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