Woody Harrelson Sparks Controversy With ‘SNL’ Monologue That Has Elon Musk Calling It A “Good One”
27.02.2023 - 03:13
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Woody Harrelson divided Saturday Night Live viewers over his monologue as the actor hosted the NBC sketch show for the fifth time.
The True Detective alum took the stage and made remarks calling out mandates over the Covid vaccine.
“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, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over,” Harrelson said about an alleged film script he read.
Harrelson’s punchline followed with the host adding, “I threw the script away. I mean, who is going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day long.”
The actor ended the joke by saying he didn’t need the mandate to take the drugs the cartels were forcing him to take.
In the past, Harrelson has called out the government and pharmaceutical companies profiting from the Covid pandemic and many people on social media assumed his SNL monologue was another one of those instances.
Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, called Harrelson’s monologue a “good one,” as a debate sparked on social media following the late-night show airing.
In another tweet, Musk congratulated the NBC show tweeting, “So based. Nice work @nbcsnl!”
As the media reported on Harrelson’s monologue, social media users that are conspiracy theorists began to make note of it with Musk responding to a user saying, “Maybe they don’t realize that their propaganda is wrong?”
Another user pointed out the headlines saying Harrelson was spreading anti-vax conspiracies, to which Musk replied with a target emoji.
Good one
Although Musk liked Harrelson’s monologue, other users expressed opposing