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Woody Harrelson’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ COVID monologue riles elites; Musk calls it ‘based’


By: MICHELE BLOOD | February 26, 2023

Read more at https://www.theblaze.com/news/woody-harrelson-snl-monologue/

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Woody Harrelson’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue garnered instant backlash and praise over commentary hinting at government’s collusion with media and the medical industry to require COVID vaccines.

“So, the movie goes like this,” 61-year-old Harrelson begins. “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.”

Harrelson set up the bit by joking about a script he was reading in 2019 in Central Park while smoking marijuana. He concluded the joke with, “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.”

Twitter CEO Elon Musk was quick to add his thoughts as social media approached meltdown over Harrelson’s routine.

“So, based. Nice work @nbcsnl!” Musk tweeted.

Musk used a bullseye target emoji to respond to a post by @KanekoaTheGreat. @KanekoaTheGreat had joked about media’s apparent hypocrisy in its own response to Harrelson’s joke.

Musk also responded to users @EndWokeness and @ImMeme0 who commented on the media’s instant, negative response to Harrelson suggesting media had colluded with government and the medical industry.

“Maybe they don’t realize that their propaganda is wrong?” Musk tweeted.

Rolling Stone was out at 12:37 a.m. Sunday morning with a piece blasting Harrelson’s monologue as “bizarre.” In the piece, the author says Harrelson has a “history of strange anti-science remarks during the COVID pandemic.”

The outlet tweeted about Harrelson’s joke, saying it amounted to spreading “conspiracy theories.”

Rolling Stone was joined by multiple left-leaning outlets in panning Harrelson’s monologue. Others included Variety, the Daily Beast, and HuffPost. The tenor of the pieces was negative, and cast Harrelson’s jokes as “anti-vax.”

A native Texan and long time advocate of marijuana decriminalization, 61-year-old Harrelson was cast as character Woody on “Cheers” in 1982. He later starred in many hit films including “Doc Hollywood,” “White Men Can’t Jump,” “Indecent Proposal,” “No Country for Old Men,” and “The Hunger Games.”

Harrelson’s latest film, “Champions,” is coming to theaters on March 10, Movie Insider reports.

Watch Harrelson’s Saturday Night Live monologue below.

Woody Harrelson Monologue – SNL

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w8LX8MQMrag%3Frel%3D0

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Ohio high school abruptly cancels popular musical citing ‘vulgarity’ of dialogue, lyrics


By: MICHELE BLOOD | February 04, 2023

Read more at https://www.theblaze.com/news/ohio-high-school-abruptly-cancels-popular-musical-citing-vulgarity-of-dialogue-lyrics/

Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images

An Ohio school district’s board abruptly canceled a high school musical production that contained non family-friendly lyrics, an appearance of Jesus, and gay characters, several outlets reported this week.

“When we found out it was canceled, everybody was just heartbroken. Honestly, it was terrible. Everyone was just crying,” Riley Matchinga, a senior playing a lead role in the school’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” told Fox 8.

“The Cardinal Local School District has decided that its spring musical production will not be ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.’ Its dialogue and song lyrics contain vulgarity and are therefore not suitable for our pre-teen and teenage students in an educational setting,” Cardinal High School Superintendent Jack Cunningham said in a statement acquired by the same outlet.

Though two of the characters in the musical are gay male parents, the district denies the decision was based on discrimination, the outlet also said.

Middlefield Ohio’s Cardinal High School drama department had been working on the spring production for weeks when the Cardinal Schools Board of Education pulled the curtain on it, Geauga County Maple Leaf reported Tuesday.

“Cast members have invested hours of their time in rehearsals, characterization lessons, and group and individual voice lessons. The crew has spent equal time creating and building set pieces, scenery and props. The decision to shut this production down is heartbreaking,” Mandi Matchinga told the school board in a letter, as reported by Maple Leaf.

Matchinga is a volunteer assistant director for the musical, a former teacher in the district, and the mother of two participants.

The musical’s cancellation caught the attention of award-winning actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, best known for his roles in “Modern Family” and “Ice Age: Collision Course.” Ferguson was an original member of the “Putnam County Spelling Bee” Broadway company.

“The message that this sends to them, that that is not ‘family appropriate’ or ‘family friendly,’ rather, is toxic and harmful and kind of abusive,” Jesse Tyler Ferguson said in an Instagram video shared by Playbill Thursday.

Feguson also told the outlet he and other in the original Broadway cast members are “working on connecting with the [Cardinal High School] cast via Zoom.”

The musical’s director, Vanessa Allen, told Maple Leaf she was scheduled to meet with Superintendent Cunningham to select a different production for performance in late April or early May.

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