Woody Harrelson had one cogent second in his mess of a monologue throughout final evening’s Saturday Evening Stay. In one of many hundreds of tangential asides, he described telling a good friend (True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto, whom Harrelson visited in Austin the week prior and is a meat eater—and none of this mattered to the monologue, however is an instance of how windy that seven minutes was) how he begins smoking pot round midday after which will get progressively dumber because the day goes on. This was about 11:40 pm EST.
Possibly the writers simply needed to ship up Harrelson’s repute as a blowsy stoner. And certainly, that was a joke in a number of sketches all through the present. That might imply the monologue’s crime was one among lazy writing that hung Harrelson out to dry. The journey to Austin; the shout-out to his single, good-looking supervisor/drug mule Jeremy within the viewers; the bushes in Central Park; his anarchist, Marxist, deconstructionist leanings; the seven months he stop ingesting final 12 months… It was chaotic and rambling and boring and, oof, embarrassing. Uncle Woody is speaking nonsense and must go to mattress.
However then issues took a gross flip. That VW-flower-stickered-bus of thought all led as much as his punchline about this unbelievable script he learn three years in the past. Get this: The most important drug cartels on the planet have purchased off all of the media and politicians. In doing so, they’re in a position to persuade a weak human race that it’s at risk and must quarantine for its survival. The one method they’ll come out of lockdown is to take the cartel’s medication… Uncle Woody is on YouTube and forwarding emails once more. Harrelson is such an affable determine. His blue eyes swim with good intentions. However taking the stage to drift conspiracy theories disguised as provocative humor is each intellectually dishonest and tedious. Who invited this man for a fifth time?
The present by no means recovered from that monologue. Every thing remained weirdly out of sync. Aside from Jack White, who could possibly be the daddy of Wednesday Addams and new solid member Michael Longfellow. He’s lengthy since traded in his pink and white palette for midnight blues. Nonetheless loud, extra attention-grabbing with age. One footage a red-faced Harrelson together with his arm slung over White’s shoulders on the afterparty making an attempt to get the person to loosen up.
