diff --git a/docs/sphinx/conf.py b/docs/sphinx/conf.py
index f3ead64481..308f5300ec 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/conf.py
+++ b/docs/sphinx/conf.py
@@ -28,11 +28,7 @@
 # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
 # ones.
 extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.mathjax']
-try:
-    import sphinxcontrib.gist  # NOQA
-    extensions.append('sphinxcontrib.gist')
-except ImportError:
-    pass
+# extensions.append('sphinxcontrib.gist')
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/requirements-docs.txt b/docs/sphinx/requirements-docs.txt
index 921f173352..dd22560a10 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/docs/sphinx/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-sphinxcontrib.gist
 -r ../../requirements-extras.txt