Jeff Dye answers Dan Levy's Shane Gillis take by going at Eugene Levy

Dan Levy called Shane Gillis's SNL monologue misogynistic. TMZ posted the clip of the Schitt's Creek star doing it, pulled from Levy's Instagram. Jeff Dye answered, and he did not answer Dan.

Dye's first post on the clip was four words. "Says he's speechless, we wish." That was the warmup.

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Says he’s speechless, we wish.

Then he went after the dad

The follow up aimed at Eugene Levy. Dye wrote that Eugene Levy would "pretend to be a stereotype of a different race and then Objectify an indigenous woman," asked whether he thinks that is funny, and asked whether treating an indigenous woman as property for cheap laughs is acceptable. He attached a video. The whole thing is sarcasm, and the last line gives it away.

"His son must be so outraged."

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His son must be so outraged.

That is the bit. Dye is not actually mad at Eugene Levy. He is pointing at an old clip to argue that the standard Dan Levy applied to Gillis would land on his own father, and the mock outrage does the arguing for him. Five question marks in one post is not a man building a legal case.

Why Dye and not Gillis

Shane Gillis has said nothing. There is no Gillis response to Dan Levy in any of this, no statement, no post, no return shot. The monologue got criticized, a famous name criticized it, and the person who swung back was Jeff Dye, unprompted, on Gillis's behalf.

That is the shape of a lot of comedy fights now. The comic at the center stays quiet and lets the friends and the fans run the defense, which usually escalates faster than the comic would have. Dye went from a four word jab to dragging in a second generation of Levys inside the same thread.

Worth being clear about what is and is not established here. Dan Levy's criticism is on video via TMZ. Dye's characterization of what Eugene Levy did is Dye's characterization, written as a joke, in a post designed to be read as a joke. Nobody should read the indigenous woman line as a straight report of anything.

For now it is one side of a fight. Dan Levy made a point about a monologue, Jeff Dye turned it into a family matter, and the guy who told the jokes in the first place has not typed a single character about any of it.