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Woody Harrelson faces criticism for sharing COVID-19 conspiracy on SNL

Actor Woody Harrelson is coming under fire for sharing a coronavirus vaccine conspiracy during this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Harrelson, 61, who hosted the show, made the statement during his opening monologue. It was his fifth time on stage as an SNL host.

He began to share a story with the audience about the “craziest script” that he had ever read before the COVID-19 pandemic, but got distracted by mentioning a lot of other details — like smoking weed and what kind of tree he was sitting under.

“So, the movie goes like this,” Harrelson finally said. “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.”

He continued, “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 long.”

The Post reached out to reps for Harrelson and NBC’s Saturday Night Live.


Harrelson told a story about a movie script which some have criticized as “anti-vax.”
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After his monologue, many viewers took to social media to blast him for the “joke.”

“I just read Woody Harrelson’s monologue,” one person tweeted. “I guess I’m not a good sport, anymore because I don’t find anti-vax jokes funny while we lost a good chunk of America due to stupid people spreading it to others.”

Another agreed, writing, “Re Woody Harrelson and #SNL, whenever anyone spews anti-vax stupidity, I always think of the countless videos of traumatized/crying doctors, nurses and hospital workers who were climbing over bodies in Covid’s early days. So yeah, f– Woody Harrelson.”

Someone else joked on Twitter, “It looks like Woody Harrelson announced his retirement last night.”


Some were bothered by his monologue, while others weren't.
Some were bothered by his monologue, while others weren’t.
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However, others praised him for the rant, like Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, who re-tweeted Harrelson’s monolouge.

He wrote in response to the post, “So based. Nice work @nbcsnl!”

Singer Five Times August tweeted in his defense, typing, “Woody Harrelson just told the entire country on live TV exactly what happened over the last three years and people are still like ‘Yea right! Never gonna happen! Anti-vax conspiracy theory garbage!!’”

This isn’t the first time that Harrelson has spoken out about his thoughts regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, he shared a conspiracy theory that linked 5G networks to the pandemic in an Instagram post that has been deleted.

The former “Cheers” star posted a report “about the negative effects of 5G,” admitting at the time that he hadn’t “fully vetted” it but found it “interesting.”



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Rob Schneider says ‘SNL’ was ‘over’ after Kate McKinnon performed as Hillary Clinton

Actor Rob Schneider knew when “Saturday Night Live” was “over.”

The ‘SNL’ alum, who kickstarted his career as a writer on the show in 1989, said Kate McKinnon’s rendition of “Hallelujah” dressed as Hillary Clinton was the demise of the hit sketch show.

The 58-year-old, who later joined on as a cast member between 1990 and 1994, slammed the show’s infamous post-2016 election cold open.

“I hate to crap on my own show,” the “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” star said on “The Glenn Beck Podcast” Saturday.

“When Hillary Clinton lost — which is understandable. She’s not exactly the most likable person in the room. And then when Kate McKinnon went out there on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in the cold opening and all that, and she started dressed as Hillary Clinton, and she started playing ‘Hallelujah.’ I literally prayed, ‘Please have a joke at the end.’”

Kate McKinnon plays Hillary Clinton, as she sings Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” during the “Election Week Cold Open” sketch on SNL.
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“Don’t do this. Please don’t go down there.’ And there was no joke at the end, and I went, ‘It’s over. It’s over. It’s not gonna come back,’” Schneider added.

McKinnon’s performance of Leonard Cohen’s hit song has been viewed more than 13 million times on ‘SNL’s official YouTube page.

McKinnon, 38, portrayed a parody version of Clinton on the series throughout the 2016 election cycle. She left SNL earlier this year.

McKinnon told Esquire she thinks “Hallelujah” is “the most beautiful song ever written, one of my top three songs of all time my whole life.”

“I’d always understood ‘Hallelujah’ in the context of a romantic relationship, as had most of us,” MacKinnon told the outlet.

“And then this verse — in this moment when it was so emotional for everyone in the country, when no matter what side you were on, it was a moment of surprise and high-octane emotion –I suddenly understood it in a new light. It’s about love, and how love is a slog but it’s worth it.”

From left to right — Heidi Gardner, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, and host Natasha Lyonne appear on the Womens Commercial sketch for SNL.
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“I suddenly understood it as, like, the love of this idea that is America. That all people are created equal, and that’s the most beautiful idea in the world, but the execution has been long and tough and we’re still just trying to get it right. But that it’s worth it, and that it will always be worth it,” the comedian added.

McKinnon recently revealed why she quit the hit sketch show in May after 10 memorable years, saying her “body was tired, and I felt like it was time.”

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