It was Woody Harrelson’s fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live this week, an accolade that often comes with star-studded induction into the coveted Five-Timers Club. Instead, the actor used his time on stage to ramble on incoherently for several minutes before finally delivering a not-so-coded anti-COVID vaccine message to the millions of viewers back home.
The actor began his opening monologue by describing himself as a “redneck hippie” who considered himself “purple” in his politics, a line that seemed to surprise him and drew no laughter or applause from the crowd.
After highlighting the fact that he didn’t seem to get the typical Five Timers tuxedo jacket, Harrelson began telling a bizarre story about a script he read in 2019 after he last hosted the show, but kept stopping to talk about his love of weed and the fact that last year he went seven months without alcohol… “and five glorious months.”
Eventually, Harrelson — who previously linked COVID-19 to 5G networks — reached the point he appeared to want to reach.
“So the movie goes like this,” he said. “The biggest drug cartels in the world are coming together and buying up all the media and all the politicians and forcing all the people of the world to remain locked in their homes. And the only way people can get out is if they take the cartel drugs and do them over and over again.”
“I threw away the script,” he continued, while the audience giggled uncomfortably. “I mean, who would believe that crazy idea? Being forced to take drugs? I do that voluntarily all day.”
As it turns out, there might be a reason the rest of the Five-Timers weren’t there to welcome him to their club.
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