Shane Gillis and Danny Mcbride Face Off as Rival Weathermen in New Ad
WHO:
ComingSoon - Shane Gillis, described as a 38-year-old actor, stars as a weatherman.
ComingSoon - Danny McBride appears in the commercial with Gillis.
Variety - Shane Gillis and Danny McBride play rival weathermen.
Variety - McBride wrote the commercial and plays a meteorologist at a competing network.
WHAT:
ComingSoon - Gillis and McBride appear in a four-minute commercial for prediction market platform Kalshi.
ComingSoon - Gillis’s character is responsible for predicting the weather and gets most of the scenarios wrong.
Variety - The commercial is described as absurdist; Gillis’s weatherman cannot seem to get the forecast right, while McBride’s meteorologist is consistently accurate.
ComingSoon - The article says Gillis landed the project after backlash over Saturday Night Live.
ComingSoon - The article describes the commercial as Gillis’s latest skit with McBride.
WHERE:
Variety - McBride’s character works at a competing network.
WHEN:
ComingSoon - The commercial is four minutes long.
Variety - The commercial is four minutes long.
HOW:
ComingSoon - Kalshi is identified as a prediction market platform.
Variety - The commercial depicts the men as rival weathermen, with Gillis repeatedly getting forecasts wrong and McBride getting them right.
(UPDATED October 23, 2026 19:11 UTC)
Shane Gillis and Danny McBride star as rival weathermen in a four-minute commercial for prediction market platform Kalshi. Gillis plays a forecaster who repeatedly gets the weather wrong, while McBride’s meteorologist, working at a competing network, consistently gets it right. The ad takes an absurdist approach to the rivalry, with Gillis’s character struggling to predict the conditions as McBride’s forecasts prove accurate. McBride wrote the commercial, which is also described as the latest skit featuring him and Gillis. The project comes after Gillis faced backlash over Saturday Night Live. In the spot, the contrast between the two forecasters drives the comedy, as one misses the mark and the other delivers reliable predictions.