More than a month after his Oct. 10 hosting stint on Saturday Night Live sparked backlash over a gym joke, Shane Gillis finally addressed the controversy on a Friday episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gillis said SNL did not approve or provide feedback on his material beforehand — 'they could shut it down,' he said, but comedians don't hand over their sets.

He told Rogan he had assured the show the monologue was safe, quipping that he was giving them 'a solid C minus' and just 'calling myself fat for 10 minutes.' Gillis added that he doesn't have a problem with how women dress at the gym.

The joke — in which Gillis said women at the gym 'dress like whores' — landed amid what USA Today describes as a national reckoning with sexual violence following the Cornell 7 case, and Gillis himself told Rogan the reaction 'obviously had a lot to do with the climate.'

Critics were specific and high-profile: USA Today reports former SNL cast members Ego Nwodim and Cecily Strong joined the criticism, while Dan Levy wrote that 'women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores.'

Inde Navarrette, who hosted the Halloween episode, needled the joke in her own monologue. Per inquirer.com, feminist author Jessica Valenti asked what 'rape culture' is, if not demeaning women.

The seven-minute monologue at the center of the storm aired live on NBC during Gillis's third time hosting the show, and it remains the clip driving the debate.

According to inquirer.com, the flub extended beyond the joke itself: during a Dr. Seuss-themed skit the same night, Gillis dropped an uncensored f-bomb on the live broadcast and later apologized.

The video is also the reason defenders like David Spade, Dana Carvey and Jimmy Carr rallied to his side, per The Hollywood Reporter — and why Kathy Griffin told Page Six, as USA Today reports, that she defends his right to say it 'and everyone else's right to think less of him.'

The stakes are familiar ones for Gillis, whose 2019 SNL cast announcement collapsed when past podcast comments resurfaced and he was fired before ever appearing on the show.

The Hollywood Reporter notes Lorne Michaels later clarified it was NBC that decided to remove him, while inquirer.com reports Gillis has maintained the remarks were taken out of context.

Since then his brash style has made him a superstar — inquirer.com notes his one-night-only special at Lincoln Financial Field broke Guinness World Records for attendance and tickets sold in July.

USA Today says the show has been contacted for comment, so the question now is whether SNL responds or the episode simply becomes part of his act.