Woody Harrelson

Harrelson's first episode as host saw the young actor come on in support of 'Cheers'. His musical guest was David Byrne. In 2023, Harrelson becomes the 24th SNL ...

In 2023, Harrelson becomes the 24th SNL host to join the Five-Timers Club. Harrelson’s first episode as host saw the young actor come on in support of ‘Cheers’. Harrelson’s first time hosting the show was in 1989, followed by subsequent appearances in 1992, 2014, and 2019.

Woody Harrelson hosts 'Saturday Night Live' for the fifth time since his first hosting gig in 1989.

[Bowen Yang](https://ew.com/person/bowen-yang/) work out together in a surreal sketch. [Mikey Day](https://ew.com/person/mikey-day/)) convenes his cast — they're filming a movie about obesity. [Heidi Gardner](https://ew.com/person/heidi-gardner/)) is a mother – she has four daughters and one son. Clearly this was inspired by [The Whale](https://ew.com/creative-work/the-whale/). [Ego Nwodim](https://ew.com/person/ego-nwodim/)) provides commentary, naysaying his promises. On the other side of the glass, [Kenan Thompson](https://ew.com/person/kenan-thompson/) dispels some of Carla Jean's white lies. [Michael Che](https://ew.com/person/michael-che/) calls Marjorie Taylor Greene the most "divorced woman" he's ever seen. And the segment concludes with [a nice tribute to Eugene Lee](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/arts/television/eugene-lee-dead.html), the legendary production designer who recently passed away at 83. [remaking movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clg20fxfXQc) he starred in decades ago. She remembers: "He was in our [Delta Delta Delta sketch](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/delta-delta-delta-finals-week/2724095) with David Spade and we couldn't get through the sketch without laughing. [Chloe Fineman](https://ew.com/tv/chloe-fineman-jennifer-coolidge-impression-the-black-lotus-snl-spoof/)) is brought out: the audience seems confused about who she is. That makes him a member of the Five Timers Club — nearly 35 years in the making, as the former Cheers star (and three-time Oscar nominee) first hosted way back in 1989.

Woody Harrelson referenced his controversial stance on the COVID pandemic in his opening monologue of "Saturday Night Live."

“I threw the script away,” Harrelson continued. “Who are going to have guest host next week, Scott Adams?” “So the movie goes like this,” Harrelson explains. 25 episode of “ [Saturday Night Live](https://variety.com/t/saturday-night-live/).” And when they returned to 30 Rock, several cast members opted to film their opening credits sequence with a mask. After several minutes of getting distracted talking about smoking weed, drinking and what kind of tree he was sitting under, the actor describes the aforementioned script.

Woody Harrelson hosted 'Saturday Night Live' for the fifth time but didn't end up getting his five-timers club jacket during his monologue as he was ...

Harrelson ended his monologue with no five-timer club jacket for now. Furthermore, he said that last year he went seven months without alcohol “and five glorious months.” Harrelson then got sidetracked for a moment and called out his manager for transporting the herb to NY from L.A. “I threw the script away. Harrelson said he had decided to quit smoking pot…. “The blue in me thinks – squirt guns. “You know, the red in me thinks you should be allowed to own guns,” he said.

He plays an actor who gained 450 pounds by eating “gristle loaf” — it's “compressed beef fat and corn syrup,” made into a loaf. “SNL” cast member Chloe Fineman ...

The movie here, however, is not called “The Whale,” but instead “The Hippo,” with Harrelson playing an actor named Keith who’s upset about how far he’s had to take himself for the part. [Saturday Night Live](https://www.indiewire.com/t/saturday-night-live/)” took advantage of the movie’s controversy-baiting narrative, with five-time host [Woody Harrelson](https://www.indiewire.com/t/woody-harrelson/) spoofing the Academy Award-nominated film in a new sketch. The two-time Palme d’Or winner’s scathing and scatological satire of the uber-rich isn’t likely to win any of the Academy Awards’ major prizes, but it’s been widely acclaimed since its Cannes 2022 premiere and release last fall. He plays an actor who gained 450 pounds by eating “gristle loaf” — it’s “compressed beef fat and corn syrup,” made into a loaf. Harrelson stars in “Triangle of Sadness,” which is nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund. [The Whale](https://www.indiewire.com/t/the-whale/).” It stars Brendan Fraser as an obese online English teacher, with the now-Oscar-nominated actor wearing a [quite-heavy fat suit to play the role](https://www.indiewire.com/2022/11/brendan-fraser-defends-the-whale-fat-suit-accurate-1234786823/), coming to terms with the looming end of his life.

After a season dominated by first-time hosts, Saturday Night Live veteran Woody Harrelson returned to the Studio 8H to join the esteemed “Five-Timers Club,” ...

It is the juxtaposition between the austerity of the American military with the absurdity of internet culture that makes this sketch work. - I wonder what the contingency plan is for a possible Biden-Trump debate. Harreslon is a contradiction - like he said a “Redneck Hippie” - and has a little something for everyone. Maybe it is all the yelling, but the ridiculousness of this sketch earned its runtime. As good as it is, it begs the question: Why not build a sketch around the character. Best sketch of the night The main point is that SNL should invest in and spotlight more character work for sketches. The issue with “Slingshot” is that it just feels lazy. The lenght of time is a testament to Harrelson’s enduring popularity in American culture. While Kenan Thompson’s physical comedy is funny, it will never eclipse the reality of original videos. Harrelson’s accomplishment is all the more astounding that it occurred over a span of 33 years. It is potentially dangerous for the world, but good material for SNL.

The sketch begins as the director of an upcoming film titled The Hippo tells his cast of four — including guest host Woody Harrelson, who played Keith, an actor ...

RELATED: It’s worth noting that Harrelson donned a fat suit for the sketch.

The actor hosted for the fifth time and clearly expected the customary jacket -- to no avail.

[Saturday Night Live](https://www.etonline.com/tv/saturday-night-live)airs live, coast-to-coast at 11:30 p.m. As he introduced White, Harrelson stopped the show briefly and asked, "You know what, he's been here five times too, does he get a jacket?" Well, we still got a great show for you tonight!" This is, until [Scarlett Johansson](https://www.etonline.com/people/scarlett-johansson) saved the day. "Still no jacket? OK, OK."

Closing out the segment, Harrelson talks about a film pitch that included one of the "craziest script" he's read, which included the "biggest drug cartels" ...

Woody Harrelson seemingly took aim at COVID vaccine mandates, lockdown measures in 2020 and recommended booster shots in his "SNL" opening monologue.

A September 2022 study by the CDC determined a [primary series of the vaccine in addition to a booster](https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccine-effectiveness) was significantly more effective at preventing hospitalization than only a primary series. He was awarded a jacket from Scarlett Johansson later in the show. I’m purple." Harrelson added: "I threw the script away. So, I’m red and blue which makes purple. "So the movie goes like this…

The Emmy winner launched his fifth hosting gig with a rambling, nonsensical monologue—and the show never recovered.

But taking the stage to float conspiracy theories disguised as provocative humor is both intellectually dishonest and tedious. The only way they can come out of lockdown is to take the cartel’s drugs… In doing so, they’re able to convince a vulnerable human race that it’s in danger and needs to quarantine for its survival.

His comments—which appeared to compare Covid-19 vaccine-makers to “drug cartels”—were applauded on Twitter by Elon Musk.

In a May interview with [Vanity Fair](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/woody-harrelson-anti-mask-anarchist-cannes-interview-triangle-of-sadness), Harrelson said he found having to wear masks on set “absurd,” as he is “one who doesn't believe in the germ theory.” Covid-19 is spread through airborne transmission of droplets, and [masks prevent](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.html) the “emission of virus-laden droplets” and “help reduce inhalation of these droplets” by the wearer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [saying](https://nypost.com/2020/04/05/woody-harrelson-sharing-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-tied-to-5g/) he hasn’t “fully vetted it [but] I find it very interesting,” according to the New York Post. This unfounded conspiracy theory [spread](https://www.bu.edu/hic/2021/01/04/5g-doesnt-cause-covid-19-but-the-rumor-it-does-spread-like-a-virus/) during April 2020, when much of the United States was in lockdown. Harrelson didn’t directly mention the coronavirus vaccines in his monologue, but his jokes appeared to be barely-veiled references to pandemic restrictions and vaccine-makers (in reality, many states Harrelson said he “threw the script away” because “who’s going to believe that crazy idea, being forced to do drugs—I do that voluntarily all day long.” During his monologue, Harrelson joked about having a read a crazy script in which “all 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 cartels’ drugs and keep taking them over and over.”

The actor, currently starring in the Oscar-nominated "Triangle of Sadness," and the new sports comedy "Champions," is as well-known for his affinity for ...

"I wanted to be emotionally available," he explained, "to my family, to my friends. And the feeling of that – like they say, that feeling that you get from that applause – that's what makes you say, this is it." I'm the year of the ox, you know, just slowly I trudge along. "Yeah. He said, "People are just anxious to put you in a little box in this industry, you know? He's been at "it" ever since. It just kind of freaked me," Harrelson said. But it's the laugh he got one day in his high school library that hooked him on show business: "The guys on the football team who had heard me do it before, they're like, 'Woody, do your Elvis.' And I'm like, 'Kidding me? "It's just a little dream of what a great dispensary could be," he said. "I've always been much more partial to the more indie spirit, you know, the movies that have this kind of deep heart," he said. "To just throw things out and see how it goes? Harrelson plays a prickly but charming basketball coach with NBA dreams, who finds himself coaching a team of players with intellectual disabilities called "The Friends."

Harrelson, who has previously shared conspiracy theories about the pandemic, appeared to compare Big Pharma to drug cartels.

Are you?" I also like that we live in a society where we are open for him to express his opinions. [wrote](https://twitter.com/drjanaway/status/1629826489859309570): "I like Woody Harrelson in his film roles. "I mean, who was gonna believe that crazy idea? He "threw the script away," he said. After rambling about various topics, he eventually got to the gist of what was in the script.

Qué dijo Woody Harrelson en SNL? El actor es blanco de críticas tras el polémico discurso que dio durante su monólogo de apertura en el late show.

En el pasado, también tomó su cuenta oficial de Instagram para compartir una publicación que acusaba a las redes 5G de propagar el covid-19; no obstante, el post fue eliminado minutos después. Los carteles de droga más grandes del mundo se unen y compran a todos los medios y todos los políticos. ¿Obligado a consumir drogas?

Woody Harrelson delivers the least funny SNL monologue in ages, indicating the bad vibes for the rest of the show. A recap and review of season 48, ...

[introducing musical guest Jack White for the first time](https://youtu.be/OHp_h7RLfAU), is another hint that something went awry during the opening monologue. [ nosy prison guards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlKXYzYqxXY&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hKSlk9HSpAn8Cf3OZQN44Eb&index=3) who continue to be nosy, the guy who intermittently [ passes out during a theme park ride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLRIUeNX7pk&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hKSlk9HSpAn8Cf3OZQN44Eb&index=4) and keeps doing so, the mother who is [ creepily enamored with her son](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXq0rM_1VHk&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hKSlk9HSpAn8Cf3OZQN44Eb&index=8) and remains as such, and so forth. [ actually works](https://www.cologuard.com/using-and-returning-your-cologuard-kit), it sure seems weird that the anthropomorphic boxes from [ those commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHo7mK6mcQQ) are so chipper. Every fresh detail here is funnier than the last, especially Thomas the box’s preferred word for defecation: “unleash.” Also, as much as I dragged the monologue’s overdependence on Harrelson’s prodigious weed use, the meta-joke about it at the end of this sketch is a perfect grace note to end on. Harrelson has a right to [ his opinions](https://nypost.com/2020/04/05/woody-harrelson-sharing-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-tied-to-5g/), but it’s neither a defense of Big Pharma nor liberal priggishness to suggest that this bizarre and unfunny polemic should have been left out of the show. Che and Jost both deliver some of their jokes with genuine surprise and delight, like they’d either never seen them before or the jokes had been tweaked since they last saw them. In a morass of sketches that miss the mark, the most consistently entertaining part of this episode was the succession of goofy wigs Harrelson donned throughout the night. Harrelson has been a reliably funny presence in film and television for over 35 years, and the episode had nowhere to go but up. In any case, things got off to a rocky start with the fifth-time host emerging, arms akimbo, alluding to an imminent [ induction into the Five-Timers Club](https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/john-mulaney-gets-inducted-into-snls-five-timers-club.html) that didn’t happen. It would be a little funny if, in this sketch, Martin Herlihy and John Higgins were simply dating each other and excluding Ben Marshall from post-work hangs. This week’s episode, though, had the least funny and most discomfiting monologue in ages, which proved to be a prescient indicator of things to come. Post-monologue, the odds were still in the show’s favor.

Finally, at the end of the show, Scarlett Johansson came onstage to give him a jacket, thereby welcoming Harrelson to join the ranks of “SNL” five-timers. Other ...

Harrelson and Johansson – who is married to “SNL” cast member Colin Jost – are currently filming a movie together, titled “Project Artemis” costarring Channing Tatum. Finally, at the end of the show, Scarlett Johansson came onstage to give him a jacket, thereby welcoming Harrelson to join the ranks of “SNL” five-timers. [Woody Harrelson](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/opinions/eat-the-rich-the-menu-triangle-of-sadness-stewart/index.html) this weekend, when he returned to host “ [Saturday Night Live](https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2023/02/26/snl-cold-open-donald-trump-east-palestine-visit-emily-kohrs-mgw-orig.cnn).”

During his Saturday Night Live monologue, Woody Harrelson led with a rambling joke about COVID-19 mandates and conspiracy theories.

[Live Feed](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/e/live-feed/) [‘1923’ Star Brandon Sklenar on How That Heart-Wrenching Ending Will Shift the Tone for Season 2](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/1923-finale-brandon-sklenar-spencer-alex-cliffhanger-season-2-interview-1235334321/) [The Office](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/office/) [B.J. He went on to espouse that using masks would result in breathing in higher rates of carbon monoxide, that U.S. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to reps for Saturday Night Live for comment. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea?” he added. “So the movie goes like this,” he began. “The last time I did SNL was around Thanksgiving 2019, three years ago, and you will not believe what happened after the show,” he recalled. The joke began with Harrelson recounting how his last time hosting was right before the global pandemic kicked off a series of lockdown measures, along with corresponding vaccine and mask mandates to prevent the virus’ spread. “The next day was a Sunday as it always is the day after I do Saturday Night Live. 25 episode, the Champions star kicked off NBC variety show’s return with a winding joke that took on COVID-19 mandates and conspiracy theories. I do that voluntarily all day.” “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 home. Anyways, I went walking in the greatest part of this city, Central Park — laid against the tree and started to read the craziest script.”

Musical guest Jack White makes his fourth solo appearance on "Saturday Night Live." Read more at Boston.com.

Harrelson suggests they stake out the house to figure out what’s going on, and they find out that the guys are together — and they have children. Harrelson and his crew remain stoic and committed as they discuss the ridiculous new name, including how to pronounce the ASDFGHJKL;6969. It turns out the Cologuard boxes are anthropomorphic, creepy, and hound Harrelson relentlessly. Harrelson also recently starred in the dramedy “Triangle of Sadness.” But the prison guards (Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson) know that Fineman and Harrelson’s characters are telling each other stories. Other members of the five-timers club include Tom Hanks, Danny Devito, Bill Murray, and Scarlett Johanson.

The actor and marijuana entrepreneur spoke about the ups and downs of his career in Hollywood, including passing on "Jerry Maguire."

The actor returns for his fifth duty as host for a mostly meandering episode with only a handful of funny moments.

Combined with a nice insert paying tribute to the late, great Richard Belzer, who served as the warm-up act and an extra in the show’s first few seasons, things close out on a high note. Later, Colin Jost brings on Gina Bianchi (Heidi Gardner), “a woman with four daughters and one son.” The high-spirited mom doesn’t have the time of day for her girls – all doctors – but she can’t stop bragging about her beloved baby boy Anthony, a 38-year-old psychopath who constantly robs her (sometimes at gunpoint). He discovers that not only are his best friends lovers who’ve raised a secret family, but they’re holding auditions to replace him (they eventually settled on Harrelson). The self-described “redneck hippie” lays on the folksy charm, speaking briefly about his “purple” politics (“The red in me thinks you should be allowed to own guns, the blue in me thinks … The third straight segment in a row in which all the humor comes from long-winded rambling. Later, he brings out Emily Kohrs (Chloe Fineman), the weirdo foreperson of the grand jury investigation into his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election, whose shameless public statements have thrown a monkey wrench into the prosecution’s plans.

Woody Harrelson divided 'Saturday Night Live' viewers over a bizarre monologue that was seemingly spreading anti-vax conspiracies.

“It’s such an incredibly selfish & privileged position, the anti-vax, anti-lockdown, covid conspiracy one. [shared](https://twitter.com/HollHox/status/1629787722406666240?s=20). [tweeted](https://twitter.com/radiohouston/status/1629876227401039880?s=20), “Woody Harrelson ~actually~ admitted to being a drugged out redneck. [replied with a target emoji](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1629748454925692932?s=20). [tweeting](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1629746474496999427?s=20), “So based. Being forced to do drugs?