ANARCHY IN THE SNL

The party's over, time to call it a day...

 Yesterday marked a milestone in my background acting "career". For the first time in two years, I worked on a show that was "mask optional". Of the 75 or so of us (including stand-ins), roughly five wore masks when not filming. Every member of the crew was barefaced. While we were pretty close to each other on the set, it was a different story in holding, where we were spread out like mayo on a hero sandwich. 

What's the nasal version of "Say ahh"?

The mandatory covid tests are supposed to end in four weeks; while another extension is a possibility, I'm getting a vibe that these, too, will be a thing of the past by the end of the year, if not summer. I'm going to miss those easy paydays of sitting in a chair while a complete stranger swabbed my nostrils. (Although a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of having a six-inch long Q-Tip shoved all the way up each nostril to behind my optic nerve. Was it worth $100? Only when the check arrived.) 

Anybody who pays attention to this guy
regarding medical advice gets what
they deserve.

This coming end of mandates on movie sets should please Woody Harrelson, who riled up the usual suspects during his Saturday Night Live monologue over the weekend. What was condemned as an "anti-vaxx rant" in angry headlines, was actually a joke regarding a screenplay he allegedly passed on. The plotline, he said, went 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’s drugs and keep taking them over and over. 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.”

Politics aside, that was your typical meh SNL joke, not a rant. And because it was a joke, Harrelson was reading it off a cue card. Which it means it was written by, um, a writer. Now, there's a chance Harrelson suggested it to the writers; they, in turn, had to get the OK from producer Lorne Michaels. And since Michaels commands the good ship SNL with a hand similar to that of Capt. Hook, the joke was stamped APPROVED BY THE BOSS.

So why does Woody Harrelson alone get the blame? Well, he does have anti-vaxx history, claiming he doesn't need the shot because being a vegan makes him "internally clean". That's rich, coming from a guy who smokes dope the way most people drink water. What's richer is that he says he's against government-enforced vaccinations because he's an "anarchist."

Oh, Woody! You live in Hawaii, a state which was its own little kingdom until Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown in a coup staged by Sandford B. Dole of the you-know-what fruit company. There is no way a real anarchist would live in Hawaii unless he was planning to overthrow the current government and restore the royal family. 

Yup, Woody would be happy to give up the good
life for this.

Wait, anarchists don't like royalty, either. Seems like Woody should be living in
Portland where the real self-identified anarchists run entire swathes of the city. I'm sure that Harrelson, with a net worth of $70-million, would be welcome with open arms. 

Let's face it, Woody Harrelson's first definition of anarchist is "Rich celebrity mouthing off to divert everyone else from seeing that he's full of crap." Second definition: "Rich celebrity mouthing off to get attention to his new movie." If anarchists were this smart, they'd have taken over all of Oregon by now.

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