Shane Gillis, the creator and star of the Netflix series Tires, played his only London show of 2025 at The O2 arena, his biggest date in Britain to that point.
Shane Gillis, the American comedian behind the Netflix series Tires, played The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Sunday 23 March 2025. It was his only London show of the year and his biggest date in Britain to that point.
Gillis was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1987 and began doing stand-up in 2012. He built his act in Harrisburg and Philadelphia, where he won the Helium Comedy Club’s Philly’s Phunniest contest in 2016.
That year he and Matt McCusker started Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, which became the most subscribed podcast on Patreon. His first special, Live in Austin, went out free on YouTube in 2021 and passed 30 million views.
Netflix released his second special, Beautiful Dogs, in 2023. Tires, the workplace comedy he co-created with John McKeever and Steve Gerben, followed on Netflix in May 2024, the same year he hosted Saturday Night Live.
The London night came after a run of sold-out arenas in North America. They included a ticket record at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and the largest comedy show held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.