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Woody Harrelson upset the Twitter mob with his COVID vaccine joke on Saturday Night Live this week.
While opening up the show, Harrelson began talking about smoking a joint against a tree in Central Park while reading the “craziest script” ever that was simply unfathomable. What made the dream so crazy?
“So the movie goes like this: The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes,” Harrelson joked. “And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.
“I threw the script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day.”
Sure, it wasn’t the most sophisticated joke, but it was funny and shows how crazy the world became during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you would have told anyone on earth that major cities in the United States would completely shut down for nearly a year due to a virus, the person would have looked at you like you were crazy. But it happened, and people were stuck in their homes. Even today, there are some parts of the country that are struggling to be fully operational.
Of course, some people on Twitter took offense to Harrelson’s opening monologue — like they tend to do with everyone — and began flexing their Twitter fingers to air their grievances. Who would have guessed that calling out Big Pharma is a bad thing?
Here is a look at some of the backlash:
Woody is a damn moron!… This is dangerous rhetoric and does damage to @nbcsnl as a brand!.. It is unconscionable after over 1 million covid deaths! https://t.co/VDA9CJeahd
— Dennis Buchholz (@Denis_Buchholz) February 26, 2023
Thank you, @nbcsnl, for Woody Harrelson's insipid anti-vax monologue. Who are going to have guest host next week, Scott Baio? Rob Schneider? Kevin Sorbo? Maybe invite Kanye back while you're at it.
— Lee Goldberg (@LeeGoldberg) February 26, 2023
How on earth did this get to air, honestly.
Quite aside from the conspiracy mongering in the last minute, the whole thing is a complete mess.
I can only assume nobody at SNL would write it for him. https://t.co/xHQUJPKA0T
— Matt Bevan (@MatthewBevan) February 26, 2023
I saw the woody harrelson thing live and I thought it was a bit. Fuck that bullshit. Anti vaxxers are a danger to society and should not be accommodated.
— FREE PALESTINE #AbolishNATO (@ama1_monstah) February 26, 2023
Just watched Woody Harrelson nervously stumble his way through a weird anti-vax metaphor on live tv, so that’s a fucking shame.
— Scott Collette (@ScottJCollette) February 26, 2023
So SNL is just cool with Woody Harrelson doing an anti-vax opening monologue?
— Antifa HQ Mail Room Associate (@D36imunhealthy) February 26, 2023
In the end, maybe Harrelson was right.
Woody Harrelson: "The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media…"
Media: pic.twitter.com/6qGOLpr6AQ
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 26, 2023
