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Jimmy Kimmel slams stars for doing ‘nothing’ about Will Smith slap in Oscars monologue
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Woody Harrelson’s delivered a strange, anti-vax ‘SNL’ monologue
Summarizing Woody Harrelson’s opening monologue for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live would be a near-impossible task. That’s because the actor and this weekend’s host really leaned into his stoner, kooky persona, telling a winding story that shifted direction countless times. Oh and somehow, it ended with an anti-vax joke that was greeted with crickets.
Long story short, the monologue centered on Harrelson smoking a joint and reading a script while sitting under a tree in New York City’s Central Park. Along the way, Harrelson talks about politics, his manager Jeremy, his new movie, and a script he read. And weed, lots and lots about weed.
Anyway, the monologue all ends with Harrelson making a joke that centers on the idea that the COVID vaccine and locking down in 2020 was some plot cooked up by Big Pharma. Harrelson said he read a script for a movie.
“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,” Harrelson said, in a clear nod to vaccine conspiracy theories.
“And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over,” he added. “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 long.”
Harrelson has before expressed some questionable thoughts about masks and 5G internet, so it’s not necessarily a shocker that he’d spout anti-vax theories.
Jerrod Carmichael’s monologue made the Golden Globes gloriously uncomfortable
Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael truly called out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with his opening speech at the award ceremony on Wednesday.
“I’ll tell you why I’m here. I’m here because I’m Black,” the comedian began.
In his monologue, Carmichael addressed some hard truths about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which runs the Globes and which faced scrutiny last February when the Los Angeles Times revealed that it is 87 members included no Black people. The HFPA subsequently refused to air the 2022 Globes ceremony.
“I’ll catch everyone in the room up,” Carmichael said in his speech. “This show, the Golden Globe Awards, did not air last year because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which — I won’t say they were a racist organization, but they didn’t have a single Black member until George Floyd died. So do with that information what you will.”
In October, the organisation the HFPA included six Black members in its new additions.
Carmichael spoke about being asked to host the show by producer Stephen Hill, and being “unfireable” as the first Black person to host the Golden Globes. “One minute you’re making mint tea at home, the next minute you’re invited to be the Black face of an embattled organization. Life comes at you pretty fast, you know?”
Carmichael wrapped up by joking about taking the gig despite thinking nothing had changed at the HFPA, and giving a genuine moment of respectful admiration for the nominees: “This industry deserves nights like these.”
Want to see who won the gold? Here’s the list of Golden Globes nominees and winners.