Woody Harrelson shares COVID vaccine conspiracies in ‘SNL’ monologue

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Saturday Night Live monologue last night (February 25), Woody Harrelson shared conspiracies about COVID vaccines, leading to debate online.The episode’s host has previously called mask wearing during the pandemic “absurd” and sharing articles linking supposed “negative effects of 5G” with the outbreak of COVID.At the end of his monologue, he used a film pitch with the “craziest script” as a metaphor for the COVID pandemic, lockdowns and rollout of vaccines, though never used the word COVID or vaccine.Harrelson said: “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.

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,” he laughed. “I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea?

Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day.”Watch the full monologue below.Woody Harrelson's monologue! pic.twitter.com/FAEcBDnIKu— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 26, 2023In response, many have debated Harrelson’s monologue online since the episode aired, with Twitter and Tesla boss Elon Musk responding: “So based.