Well, at least Elon Musk liked Woody Harrelson’s Saturday Night Live monologue
After Woody Harrelson referenced an anti-vax conspiracy theory in his Saturday Night Live monologue, Elon Musk praised the show
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Depending who you ask, having Elon Musk in your corner is either a great blessing or a major red flag. When it comes to anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, Musk’s support probably says more about him than the person spouting it. (Though how many more puerile, contrarian opinions Tesla’s CEO has to spout before the “genius” label gets dropped is anyone’s guess.) In the case of Woody Harrelson’s Saturday Night Live monologue and Musk’s subsequent stamp of approval, let’s just say there are no winners here.
Harrelson’s controversial joke had to do with the “craziest script” he ever read (which he did while stoned, natch). “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,” he said. “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.”
It’s a stoner joke, sure, but one perilously entwined with a popular COVID-19 anti-vaccination conspiracy. And Harrelson is no stranger to those: early in the pandemic, he posted and deleted from his Instagram a conspiracy theory connecting COVID-19 to 5G. As recently as May of 2022, he told Vanity Fair he feels masking protocols on set are “absurd” because he “doesn’t believe in the germ theory” and hasn’t gotten coronavirus (or any other illness in the last seven years) because he’s “internally clean.”
Suffice it to say, his monologue faced lots of online criticism when it circulated Twitter on Sunday, but he did receive support from Twitter’s overlord. “Good one,” Musk commented on a video of the monologue, before retweeting it to his own page with the praise, “So based. Nice work @nbcsnl!” He further encouraged other conspiracy theorists who pointed fingers at The Media over headlines about Harrelson’s comments. “Maybe they don’t realize that their propaganda is wrong?” Musk tweeted about the outlets.
Neither the media nor pharmaceutical companies (or “drug cartels,” per Harrleson’s dig) are above criticism, but there’s a world of a difference between valid criticism and pure fantasy, like “For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians,” which is another of Musk’s tweets from Sunday. Scarlett Johansson may have been the one to induct Harrelson into the Five Timers Club, but Musk was the one waiting with open arms to welcome him into the controversial hosts category.
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Oh that’s what that was. Harmless bs
Do people think Woody wrote that joke himself?
Big Pharma must pay a lot for articles like these.
I’m less upset with Harrelson for delivering an anti-vax monologue than I am that he delivered a monologue so incoherent, nonsensical, and hard to follow that I didn’t even catch the anti-vax sentiment because nothing he said made any fucking sense. So to any anti-vaxxers (or anti-mandaters for those who like to split hairs) cheering Woody on – really? He’s not helping you look any less foolish. Any reasonable person would come away from watching this thinking, “Those anti-vax people don’t make any sense.”But hey, at least the AV Club thought the episode was enjoyable.
That monologue was so, so painful. Had to stop myself from yelling, “Get to the fucking point!” at the TV.
I think the premise was a rambling stoner story, but it didn’t land.
I got it. But then I’m a bit of a stoner myself… clearly we need to legalize it federally for the joke to land better. So legalize it, wait a year or two for the wider population to get acclimated, get Harrelson to host again… have him deliver the same monologue. Change some of the facts or the COVID related stuff to something more current. Or don’t. Keep it word for word. Either way. But most importantly, legalize it.
And I & I mon will advertise it.
…so a rambling stoner story.
Long-term user of prodigious amounts of weed is incoherent and smugly unfunny – film at eleven 🙁
Please stop covering Elon Musk.
You could cover his face with plastic until he stops talking.
I think he’d still welcome the attention.
It’s all they exist for. A few select folks that they disagree with is their major obsession in life. It’s all they have going on.
The fuck? Harrelson doesn’t believe in germ theory? Somehow his being an utter nutjob stayed off my radar until I just read the linked VF article.
That made my tilt my head like 90 degrees. What… does he think the Four Humors is how diseases spread?
I mean, he thinks you can catch a virus from radio signals, so…
He’s the kind of person who thinks veganism is a cure-all. He hasn’t been sick in 7 years? I wonder how much his wealth has helped in keeping him “socially distanced” from everyone in the real world then.
Working in a supermarket and a pharmacy, I unfortunately ran into customers like that. “If I drink water, eat vegan, walk a mile each day, and wash my hands regularly, I’ll never get sick.” You could unfortunately do everything right, and still end up with a hereditary disease.
I haven’t paid much attention to Harrelson, but a quick search shows he has been this moron for quite a time. In a Bill Maher podcast last year he says, “Ivermectin got made into a horse tranquilizer. Hydroxychloroquine got made ridiculous, and there was only one thing that could work, and that’s the vaccine, and ultimately, because of that, billions of dollars were made.”Ivermectin was never “made into a horse tranquilizer” by “Big Pharma propaganda,” or anyone else. It’s a de-wormer, and never “made into” anything else by health officials. Other than don’t uselessly ingest de-wormers for no reason, and certainly don’t take the doses that are meant for large animals that you can get at any feed store. Hydroxychloroquine also doesn’t do anything for coronaviruses. The obvious question would be, if he doesn’t believe in germs then how would any application of any medication effect anything? What are ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine even fighting against?
Bill Maher and Woody Harrelson podcast is a mix of words that I never needed to know existed. Ugh.
It must be upsetting for liberals to occasionally hear jokes not intended exclusively for them.
Drown yourself.
Weirdo…
Yes you are. Maybe one day you’ll become normal though.
OK, Nazi.
it must be upsetting for you to be you
What is “germ theory”? Is he saying they don’t exist because he can’t see them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
I mean, it’s pretty easy to see them. Pat Smear is in like every band.
So Germs Fight Foo?
Yes, he apparently doesn’t think that pathogens cause disease, which is obviously moronic. At the same time, he was recently on podcast with Bill Maher complaining that Big Pharma lied about the effectiveness of ivermectin in treating COVID (it doesn’t) to protect their profits. So, putting aside that ivermectin doesn’t work, if he doesn’t believe in pathogens causing disease, then what exactly does he believe ivermectin was even doing? Basically, he’s a dolt.
It is self-evident that the media is racist against white people. we are constantly told that whites still oppress blacks and that we live in a white supremacist society. it’s absurd to deny this anti-white racism. the progressive left HATE white people, and they run entertainment, media, corporations, and academia. get real.
wah. anyway, shut up.
I want what their on…… Because that has to be some really good shit….
oh my god you came to our site from the BB one? How cute! welcome to the AV Club, I promise you’ll hate it. Now go back to the one where they all love your nonsensical ramblings about reverse racism
great rebuke. real stuff. you really devastated me. and this is “your” site? that must make you feel ill, this site is a cesspool. care to address any of my points?
Who told you that your racist nonsense deserved to be debated? You’re only here to be laughed at, bigot.
It’s racist to point our racism. Brilliant. It’s bigotry to point our shit like this:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651211008507
You’ve posted that twice now. As an example of how an entire population thinks and feels one thing.So the next mass shooter that happens to be white, and have a right-wing manifesto? Great. Next time that happens, it means that every white person on the right wants to (and WILL) commit mass shootings.That’s you. That’s how dumb you sound.
Can you be racist to white people? And again, do I have to use a fucking hashtag notall? Who sounds dumb again?
And again, do I have to use a fucking hashtag notall? Dude, you pretty clearly came in here to swing punches at “liberals” and have them fight you back. You’ve gotten exactly what you came for. If you had wanted something different, you’d have approached it differently. The fuck are you whining about, at this point?
care to address any of my points? You made no points. You whined about the “progressive left” in general terms.Make a point, I’ll work with the point. I work with what you give me.
I said the progressive left hate white people. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651211008507how many examples would you like?
Yep, that sure is one paper. One.Show me how that means “the progressive left” hates “white people.” You cannot – in any way, shape, or form – declare that a group of people you cannot even accurately *count* all feel the exact same way about a specific situation. “Left,” “right,” don’t give a shit. Cannot be done with any credibility. Aim lower.
You are delusional if you don’t think the left is rife with this shit. Look at the replies to my comments on this thread. How can you possible keep a straight face with that shit? Derrik Bell. bell hooks. Tim Wise. White Fragility. How’s this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9711437/Washington-Post-condemned-video-urging-Americans-set-white-accountability-groups.htmlHow’s this?
Look at the replies to my comments on this threat. This is the AVC comments section, my guy. This is not, in fact, an institution of higher education. Absolutely NO part of this website is “academia.”Look, do you WANT to be “persecuted” or whatever? Is that terribly important to you?
You edited your quote to remove the “academia” mention?Dude, what the fuck even is this? Do you need a hug or something?
Yeah, I just meant the left in general, of which academia is a part. Speaking of academia, who is calling for segregated housing, graduations, and workshops for black people? It ain’t white students. Dude, you are disengenous or a fucking cretin if you deny that the progress left (#notall!) hate white people. I posted an example of black academics (academia, oh no!) demanding that whites apologize *for their skin color*. I posted a sample of black people (notall!) sawing the most egregious shit imaginable about white people. I posted an academic paper saying that there is no cure for whiteness. I’ve been attacked non-stop for all the above. I’ve named critical race theorists whom I’ve read who DESPISE white people. You’ve done, what? Talk about Rwanda? The GI Bill? Ahem: ANCIENT FUCKING HISTORY. Read Thomes Sowell. He explicitly points out that black people were making economic progress even with systemic racism before we destroyed the black family with welfare. Can you be racist to white people?
Quit your whining.
“Read Thomes Sowell”lol. Go jump up your own ass.
I’m sorry for whatever went sideways in your life that led to you developing this “poor white me” persecution complex; god forbid you use some of the energy you’re pouring into arguing here fixing it.
“poor white me”more racial hatred. thank you for proving my point.
““poor white me”more racial hatred.”
That’s not hate, that’s pathos.
Yet another post proving how dumb you are.
“Yeah, I just meant the left in general, of which academia is a part.”
We get it. Stupid people don’t like intelligent people because they make the stupid people feel stupid.
And you should, because you are.
“How can you possible keep a straight face with that shit?”
GRRRRRRRRR, argh!!!! SO ANGRY!
LMAO? That you propose that an uncited paper in a Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, a crank publication to begin with, is an example of anything but you’re own stupidity is you’re own issue.
It’s not an example of race hate? That’s the way I presented it. Are you saying it’s not an example of racial hatred? Seriously? Jesus dude. Imbecilic.
no, go away
no, go away
What points, you made a non sequitur blaming black people for your total failure as a human being. Face it, your gene pool evaporated ages ago. You have no one to blame but yourself.
“What points, you made a non sequitur blaming black people for your total failure as a human being.”Um. What? When did I do that?
“care to address any of my points?”
Sure: they’re all bullshit.
More confused that they do actually understand how to capitalize as evidenced by HATE, but chose to punctuate like a drunk inbred instead.
“our site”Lol….
Yes, are you having trouble reading because you’re a stupid person?
Thanks, I need a good laugh this morning
Calling out blatant societal and structural issues is not being racist against whites. It is simply, finally, and appropriately calling out the issues. Your statement boils down to “criticisms against white dominated power structures = racism against whites” It is a toddlers level of understanding of the situation.
when did i say criticism against power structures means racism against whites? you’re reading comprehension is zero. And I’m talking about normalized, sanctioned, ubiquitous, red hot racism against white people.
when did i say criticism against power structures means racism against whites? You said it here:“we are constantly told that whites still oppress blacks and that we live in a white supremacist society”
i didn’t say that equals racism against whites. do you understand? can you understand that we are told that in 2023 AND there is virulent anti-white racism?
Here’s a simple question: do you think that systemic racism exists?We’ll leave off “in this country.” I want you to tell me whether you think the *concept* exists.
You didn’t address my point, why would I address yours?
actually, I’ll play. What is an example of systemic racism?
Extreme version? Rwanda: https://thesentinelproject.org/2020/06/30/the-violent-path-from-systemic-racism-to-genocide/Lower-intensity version? Black veterans being blocked from G.I. Bill funding*: https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits*And before you go all “that was decades ago!,” use your brain and think further. Think about the historical ramifications of that Federal choice. Get back to me.
Rwanda? I’d be open to compensating those denied funds from the GI bill. Happy.Simple question: Can you be racist to white people?
Can you be racist to white people? Sure.Is most of the gentle ribbing that white folks call “RACISISISSICM!!!!” actually that? No.If a white person were to go to a black-owned bank, and apply for a home loan in the service area of that bank, and they had the appropriate credit rating/actual need (let’s say blue collar), and the bank were not set up for a specific purpose (i.e., an employee credit union)? Sure.The latter situation is not even a fraction as common (to the extent that it exists at all) as the inverse has been, historically.Again: if you’re going to pretend to think about this shit, take the next step.
normalized, sanctioned, ubiquitous, red hot racism against white people.
Which is not an actual thing. My fellow marshmallows being exposed to the realistic of the system that have benefited them, is not racism. It is simply taking the fencing off around their privilege. Here are two videos to help you out.
This isn’t racism? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651211008507Or this?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9711437/Washington-Post-condemned-video-urging-Americans-set-white-accountability-groups.htmlOr this?Bryan Cranston? If he believes his bullshit he would give his roles to POC.
“Or this?”
Oh my god, did you just bring up a fucking YOUTUBE VIDEO to prove your point?
Awwwww, poor fragile white baby.
It is a toddlers level of understanding of the situation. Well, he’s presumably (or cosplaying as someone) in the right country for it. We have to be the dumbest fucking country on the planet, relative to our wealth and potential.
It is a toddlers level of understanding of the situation.THE MOTHER FUCKING AV FUCKING CLUB!
I don’t think “self-evident” means what you think it means. It does not, in fact, mean “things that I tell myself are evidence.”
would you accept as evidence a poll that found that a large portion of Americans do not think it’s okay to be white?
From you? No. No I will not accept any “evidence” from you. You are not a reliable source of information. You are a turd on the Internet. You are here solely for the purpose of stirring up shit and then complaining when nobody wants to play Calvinball by your made-up rules. So no, I will not accept anything from you.
It’s either evidence of racial hatred or it isn’t. I have nothing to do with it. Do you understand that, sunshine?
I have answered your question. I will not accept any “evidence” you provide. I do not accept you. Do you understand that, sunshine?
So you simply deny evidence, even divorced from the source? Big brain on you. Very wise.
Ok, one last time and then I swear I’m done: YOU are the source of this alleged “evidence” and I find YOU an untrustworthy source. Therefore, any “evidence” YOU provide (regardless of where it comes from) will not be accepted. There is no “divorced” here. YOU are posting and thus YOU are the source. I don’t know how to be any clearer. YOU are the problem.
We’re done here.
I find you to be an absolute dotard based on your responses, but I would still read sources you supplied because the SOURCE and the PERSON SUPPLYING THE SOURCE ARE DIFFERENT FACTORS, YOU FUCKING IMBECILE.Peace!
Jesus christ what a dipshit.
what you’ve essentially been saying is that if Tucker Carlson quotes the New York Times, you won’t believe what the Times reports.What a jackass, indeed.
Still not seeing it even though it’s right in front of you.
You were SO close for a second there.
You are the dullest person on here, I swear. Concentrate: I am NOT THE SOURCE. I’ve provided a source. How you fail to understand this is beyond me.I didn’t write the articles or record the videos. THOSE ARE SOURCE MATERIALS. I simply posted them, so you dismiss them. That’s what we like to call ignorance prior to investigation. Or just being a fucking cretin.Again, with your logic, you wouldn’t believe irrefutable evidence of Russian collusion if Andy Ngo simply posted an article about it. Fucking dense, dude.
“I didn’t write the articles or record the videos.”
No, you simply chose the articles and videos that you see as supporting your arguments. How you fail to understand this is beyond me. I mean, I guess it isn’t beyond me, since you’ve proved your ignorance time and again.
“I find you to be an absolute dotard based on your responses, but I would still read sources you supplied because the SOURCE and the PERSON SUPPLYING THE SOURCE ARE DIFFERENT FACTORS, YOU FUCKING IMBECILE.”
Wow, you’re dumb. Like, really, really dumb, and you keep PROVING IT WITH ALL CAPS!
would you accept as evidence a poll that found that a large portion of Americans do not think it’s okay to be white?Scott Adams has apparently desperately found his way here.
Ah, that explains it. We’ve found Scott Adams. Surveys of 1,000 out of 331,900,000 often prove to be accurate and statistically relevant.
Sure, if you can produce a poll that surveys “a large portion of Americans”.
This is looking more and more like that whole “incels deliberately seeking the feedback loop of negative reinforcement that enables them to redirect their hostility and never grow as people” thing. Not the incel part (IDGAF), more the whole “I’ma wander in here and FITE SOME LIBRULS!” thing. He rang the dinner bell for the response he knew he’d get, largely got it, and then got to say “See!? SEE!?”It’s weak as shit, and utterly fucking pathetic, but I *suppose* there’s a certain appeal for those too weak to think about shit too hard.
The Daily Stormer called. Your mother is very worried, please go home.
White Men Can’t STFU
thanks for proving my point.
That you are a humorless twat completely devoid of self-awareness?You’re very welcome.
Yes Elon who grew up under apartide defended Scott adams being racist makes total sense. I bet Elon would support segregation again just like scott
Yes Elon who grew up under apartide defended Scott adams being racist
makes total sense. I bet Elon would support segregation again just like
scott
Well, we live in a world where decisions made exclusively by old or dead white men continue to oppress minorities, and where at least 74 million Americans are not turned off by white supremacist ideals. So, *something* is self evident
“we live in a world where decisions made exclusively by old or dead white men continue to oppress minorities”they are oppressed by ghosts? how are minorities oppressed by things that happened hundreds of years ago?
“how are minorities oppressed by things that happened hundreds of years ago?”
Thank you for this. Thank you for literally proving everyone correct about your sad, racist ass.
OK, Nazi.
get it straight we just hate you
Would you fucking kill yourself please?!???!
Literally could have mentioned any of this in the AI written review
FYI: The Dr. Emilio imposter account posting here is NOT the long-established account user known in the Giz family.
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How’s that working out? My comment’s not only still up, but out of the grays. LOL
RE Fakmilio: good for you, you sound like a child. Also, dismissed.
Does flagging that shit even do anything anymore? I doubt Kinja AV Club gives a shit.
I miss that show. Some of SirPatStew’s best work.
Oooof. Pedros monologe was sweet and heartfelt and this was… anti vax nonsense. Hilarious……… what did he see Dave Chappelle and felt he could one up the controversy?
I didn’t know about all the other anti-vax stuff from Harrelson, but just from the monologue quote that doesn’t seem like anything but a weed joke…
“Well, I WAS going to get a shot, but then the fourth male lead in the Now You See Me franchise said something on a show I don’t watch, so now I’m confused….”
Said no one ever.
Contrarian plague rats will always glom on to whichever C-lister as proof they have support.
It was a really disappointing episode. Thought Woody would add a spark of comedy and he was a mess. The reading off of the cue cards was awful. The Cologuard skit was the only decent one. And his monologue was a great opportunity that went way off course into full tinfoil hat mode. He looked and sounded like he needed therapy, which was sad and not funny. Woody is different and we’re used to that, but it was embarrassing and his agent should probably have come up with an excuse to get him out of it.
Can we solely blame Woody for this? Nothing indicates that he went off book here. The SNL writing staff and Lorne Michaels deserve some of the blame as well. Unless he did ad lib the whole thing… In which case they should throw him under the bus.
Truth hurts…Y’all, I say Y’all because AV has turned into a flaming liberal turd, just pissed because some dissenting point of view was shared on your SNL safe space. Same shot happens when Dave Chappelle host’s, y’all squawk like angry chickens.If anything SNL let him say what he said just to get all the libs to talk about the program…. because no one watches it.
his “dissenting point of view” was conspiracy theory stoner bullshit and you should be embarrassed