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Topics: Stranger Things, TV And Film, Celebrity, Entertainment, Twitter, Social Media
Madison Burgess
Topics: Stranger Things, TV And Film, Celebrity, Entertainment, Twitter, Social Media
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard has come under fire for a joke he made during his Saturday Night Live monologue over the weekend.
The 23-year-old actor hosted SNL on Saturday (17 January) right off the back of Stranger Things coming to an end after five seasons and almost a decade.
Wolfhard has been part of the main cast for the entirety of the show's run, playing the role of Mike Wheeler, the Dungeons and Dragons group leader and love interest of Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).
Of course, hosting SNL meant he had to deliver an opening monologue - and Wolfhard centred his around growing up on one of the biggest TV shows on Netflix.
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His monologue was also playfully crashed by two of his co-stars, Caleb McLaughlin who plays Lucas in the show and Gaten Matarazzo, who portrays Dustin.
But the moment that's not gone down too well with people is when Wolfhard made a joke about what a woman looks like 'down there'.
He said: "My voice changed on camera, my first kiss was on camera, and I can't actually believe I'm admitting this, but the first time I learned what a woman looks like down there - was on camera as well."
The camera then cut to a clip of a howling demogorgon - you can see what was trying to be done here.
Viewers swiftly took to social media to slam the joke, with one person furiously penning on Twitter: "Our society is so comfortable with degradation of women’s bodies. I am expected to hear this and be a 'good sport'. I am supposed to feel a shame and disgust around my own body that allows me to laugh along.
"Instead I see this for the heinous misogyny it is."
While a second chimed in with: "Love that we've reached the point where 'vagina monster' jokes are considered edgy television in 2025."
And a third wrote: "Men call it a joke. Women hear it in a world where our bodies are already treated as public property. That’s the gap."
However, some fans did pipe up to defend Wolfhard, writing: "Bruh yall need to chill it’s a harmless joke don’t be cancelling Finn rn" and "Dude, come on.. That was seriously funny, okay?"
And someone else guessed that he might not have written the joke himself, chiming in with: "This is hardly funny I can’t believe they made him do this."
Another brutally wrote: "They seriously need to fire all of their writers because what a terrible joke."
Tyla has contacted a representative for Wolfhard and SNL for comment.