Star Wars actor Adam Driver joked that "wokeness killed Han Solo" during his monologue on Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
The statement came as part of his "Christmas list" for Santa, delivered in song as he played the piano.
“Hey, Santa. It’s me, Adam Driver, from the nice list. And also ‘Girls.’ I turned 40 this year, Santa, so I would like five pairs of chinos. I also want one of those giant metal Tesla trucks. I think it would pair perfectly with my teeny tiny micropenis.”
Driver played Kylo Ren in “The Force Awakens,” “The Last Jedi” and “The Rise of Skywalker.”
In “The Force Awakens,” Ren killed Solo, much to many fans' dismays.
“I would like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo!’,” he said. “I didn’t kill him. Wokeness killed Han Solo.”
“Oh, you know those TikToks, like those couples that do pranks on each other? Can you kill those people?” he continued. “What I want for Christmas is a gingerbread house. Do you think a gingerbread man gets scared when he realizes the house is made of his own skin? That’s a cute one. You can tell your kids that one.”
While many conservatives celebrated the statement, others pushed back declaring that it was a clear example of mockery. not the qts not understanding he was mocking the people who say that wokeness killed han solo, he literally made fun of dudebros immediately after this - he’s mocking the people that say this shit, yall are so fucking stupid and fuck variety for this clickbait headline https://t.co/9fTavCXYIu “I didn’t kill Han Solo… wokeness killed Han Solo!”
— 𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒 🇵🇸 (@gagadrivers) December 11, 2023
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— John Mark Harris (@johnmarkharris) December 10, 2023
Sarcasm or not, Star Wars has been widely criticized for taking woke pandering to an extreme.
Bounding Into Comics reported in July, "Disney’s upcoming High Republic-era live-action Star Wars series The Acolyte has found its lead the black, lesbian, and non-binary actor and intersectional feminist Amandla Stenberg."
The Acolyte is expected to be released next year.
