Of Course Bill Maher Helped Woody Harrelson Write His Controversial 'SNL' Monologue
Saturday Night Live appearance. Because of course he is.
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When Maher was a significant influence behind Harrelson’s rant.
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On yesterday’s episode of the podcast Club Random with Bill Maher, the Real Time host told David Spade that he had worked closely with Harrelson leading up to the SNL appearance in order to finely hone a cutting indictment of the COVID-19 vaccine. Maher claimed that he and Harrelson have discussed vaccinations for "too many hours" – most of which were presumably spent rolling ts.
Maher bragged to Spade about Harrelson’s monologue, “I worked on that with him," explaining how he and Harrelson have spent significant time discussing vaccines without a single doctor present. "What a ballsy move," Maher cracked, “It's the plot of certain movies: 'It's live. They can't stop me. I'm going to do this.' And this guy did it in real life.”
Spade speculated that Harrelson must have added the anti-vax punchline after running the monologue by Michaels, saying that spreading conspiracy theories at the top of the show is “not really what they do there.”
“I don't know how much they knew about what the ending of that story was, but it was also a brilliant way to make that point," Maher responded, saying that he shares “90 percent” of Harrelson’s opinions on vaccines, though “I certainly don't go as far as he does."
Maher detailed how his long-standing vaccine skepticism is based on a general distrust of Big Pharma due to the clearly intentional and comprehensively documented effort by groups such as the Sackler Family to get millions of Americans roundly debunked myths concerning vaccines and autism.
With all this in mind, it should surprise no one that these two cooked this nonsense up together. It's as predictable and unoriginal as your average SNL sketch, so in that sense, right at home.
