Woody Harrelson is not particularly funny. Known by most as the ultimate stoner, Harrelson ate some Doritos and took to the Saturday Night Live (SNL) stage last night and spouted a monologue of half-baked ideas…

Or were they? Harrelson, the Marxist pothead, floated the idea that Big Pharma was to blame for COVID lockdowns. Take a look-see:

Harrelson does not drop the line until about six minutes in but the monologue is more than his self-admission of being a pothead and a wee bit of a drinker. The premise of the monologue is how dumb people will believe almost anything that is put in front of them.

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.”-Woody Harrelson

Harrelson received quite a bit of applause and laughter until this point. The crowd laughed about substance abuse and Harrelson’s manager illegally smuggling blunts from LA to NYC, but the joke about the COVID response was no received the same way, strangely enough. You could almost hear the silence in the room after he dropped this and went on in an alcohol-and-Mary Jane-induced monologue.

Variety said Harrelson “blew it“. After all, Harrelson said before that mask wearing was (gasp) absurd.

It didn’t take long for Variety and other media outlets to pan Harrelson’s monologue. Anti-establishment, rock-n-roll, hippie magazine, Rolling Stone found it to be absolutely absurd. They got on their high horses right after hearing about Harrelson’s monologue.

Oh, Woody. Might be time to switch up the strain.”-Marlow Stern, The Rolling Stone

Oh, Marlow! How many iterations of the booster have you received? Do you have any superhuman powers yet?

hard day at work pic.twitter.com/NcgOp79TDF

— soz (@soz) February 26, 2023

But this is anti-vax conspiracy theory at its finest, according to Rolling Stone. The same magazine that glorified Harrelson’s insane benders in 2018, is having none of the anti-establishment, hippie, pot-head now. Illicit drugs are okay in their book. So is infidelity. But questioning the motivations of our establishment have all of a sudden become a no-no despite their anarchist, anti-Capitalism lens. More irony.

Rolling Stone was also the same magazine that spun the UVA rape store, and featured a picture of one of the Boston Marathon Bombers on its cover. Let’s not forget their article on “Why Cancel Culture Is Good for Democracy“.

Depends on who is being canceled, we guess.

There were some viewers who actually did applaud Harrelson:

How can anyone think the COVID vaccines were good after everything we know about them now?

— Invisible Voice (@silva0072) February 26, 2023

Now, I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am also not a Woody Harrelson fan. But, Harrelson does have a point. It’s not just about the vaccine, however, but about our society as of late. We saw first-hand, the masses being so pliable and willing to bend and listen to the government in 2020. From lockdowns, to wearing masks, to businesses and schools being completely shut down because local and state municipalities “said so”. As a result, our economy was completely thrown off. Mental illness skyrocketed. This allowed for an uptick in the production and prescription of anti-depressants. We went into 2021 thinking we could get back to “normal” if we just got a shot in the arm. In fact, some of our workplaces required it. So, some of did get that shot in the arm-for many reasons. For some of us, not only our livelihood was at stake. We had family members in a panic. Family members who wouldn’t see us until we had that shot in the arm. And, even after we all got shots in the arm, the goal posts kept moving. Strain upon strain of the virus. Booster upon booster.

In spite of his remarks, Harrelson was honored with his SNL Five Timers Club jacket at the end of the episode, presented to him by frequent host and two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson.”-Katie Real, Variety

He’s got five on it, we’re sure. All cannabis joking aside, we shall see if Harrelson will be invited back. In the meantime, he will wander the desert, barefoot, eating dandelion root and dreaming up his next great monologue. Hey, Woody? Do kids taking harmful hormones pushed by the drug cartels next.

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