A joke fell flat on the stage of “Saturday Night Live” a few weeks ago, but the reverberations are still being heard across the country. It happened when Woody Harrelson shocked the live audience with this short joke about a Hollywood script he had rejected:
"Okay, so the movie goes 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 is gonna believe that crazy idea?”
The audience fell mostly silent, with only a few nervous titters. Then, after letting what he had just dared to say hang in the air over his shocked audience a few seconds longer, Harrelson recovered by adding, “Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day long.” Finally, some real laughter erupted. But why was the initial response so tepid?...............To Read More....
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