When Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson<\/a> advised a joke about an anti-vaccine conspiracy principle on Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> this week, the viewers was uncertain tips on how to react.<\/p>\n The joke, which has since created controversy on-line, was a part of Harrelson\u2019s SNL<\/em><\/a> opening monologue. Harrelson, 61, advised the viewers he\u2019d been despatched a film script with a transparent, real-world metaphor.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tRead extra:<\/span> \u201cSo, 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\u2019s drugs and keep taking them over and over,\u201d mentioned Harrelson.<\/p>\n Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The punchline: \u201cI threw the script away. I mean, who is gonna believe that crazy idea! Being forced to do drugs? I do them voluntarily all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n The New York viewers launched a spherical of tense laughter, clearly uncertain tips on how to reply.<\/p>\n Neither SNL<\/em> nor Harrelson has commented publicly on the monologue.<\/p>\n Harrelson, who received his begin on Cheers<\/em>, has been recognized to sometimes share conspiracy theories. In the previous, Harrelson has publicly questioned the legitimacy of 9\/11<\/a> as a terrorist assault, claimed there could also be a connection between 5G networks and COVID-19<\/a> and has referred to as carrying masks in the course of the pandemic \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\tRead extra:<\/span> Harrelson hosted SNL\u00a0<\/em>for the fifth time on Saturday and was honoured as a part of the Five-Timers Club.<\/p>\n Almost instantly after the episode aired, Harrelson\u2019s joke grew to become the topic of fierce debate on-line. Many social media customers with anti-vaccine beliefs praised Harrelson. Others felt the joke was a dangerous technique of spreading false, anti-science rhetoric concerning the COVID-19<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cRe 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\u2019s early days,\u201d wrote Twitter person Ballark<\/a>. \u201cSo yeah, f**k Woody Harrelson.\u201d<\/p>\n Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\")
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