It Feels Like a Good Time to Revisit Pete Davidson's Best 'SNL' Sketches
As Pete Davidson gets ready to turn heads on his new Peacock series, Bupkis, the comedian planned to return to his former stomping grounds and host an episode of Saturday Night Live! We were gearing up for some Weekend Update
As Pete Davidson gets ready to turn heads on his new Peacock series, Bupkis, the comedian planned to return to his former stomping grounds to host an episode of Saturday Night Live! Of course, that had us gearing up for some "Weekend Update" stand-up bits, pre-taped rap parodies, and maybe even Chad meeting the Please Don't Destroy trio. (Can you imagine?) But the Writers Guild of America strike has halted all late-night and live variety television programming indefinitely, meaning that Davidson's episode has been canceled for the time being.
Davidson left the SNL cast around this time last year, when some of the segments began to riff on his love life. Suddenly, Davidson's relationships with celebrities like Ariana Grande and Kim Kardashian took center stage, and things understandably became awkward for the comedian. "It’s your own show, and I’ll be sitting in the back watching the cold open and [it’s] topical political humor or whatever in the culture, and they’re making fun of you and you gotta walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark,” Davidson recently said on Jon Bernthal’s podcast, Real Ones. "The show just made fun of you, so why are they going to laugh at you? They just dogged you."
That said, the variety sketch show wasn't always out to just poke fun at Davidson—the comedian also led some amazing segments of his own. Below, we rounded up the best sketches from Pete Davidson's tenure on SNL.
Chad
Laid-back and unaffected, Chad was a character who walked around without moving his arms—sort of like a little gremlin. Chad was every young, 20-something man-boy with nothing going on in his brain other than Doritos and sex, like Animal from the Muppet. (On Xanax.)
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Short-Ass Movies
Are movies too long? Well, Gunna, Chris Redd, Dirt Nasty, and Pete Davidson seemed to think so when they appeared in a parody rap video. It was one of Davidson's last sketches on Saturday Night Live! The joke: I will piss myself in the theater if the movie is any longer than 90 minutes.
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Pete Davidson and John Mulaney Review 'The Mule'
After Davidson and John Mulaney became good friends, they appeared on "Weekend Update" together to review Clint Eastwood's latest film at the time, The Mule. In the film, Eastwood plays a 90-year-old Mexican drug cartel member who has to drive across the border. “And that’s not the weird part," Davidson joked. "The weird part is that he’s 90 and he’s driving!”
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Jasmine and Aladdin
This now-famous Disney parody sketch was the first real-life meeting between Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian, before their short-lived romance made for every tabloid headline. “If we go all the way, you might like break me,” Davidson quipped. But, you know, as Aladdin.
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Please Don't Destroy: Three Sad Virgins
Featuring the Please Don't Destroy boys, Taylor Swift and Davidson rap and sing about how the latter is so nice for bringing "three sad virgins" around with him at the club. "Quick question... is this about us?" the boys ask. Davidson replies, "Which part?"
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Pete Davidson on Staten Island
In one of his earliest "Weekend Update" appearances, Pete Davidson shined in a little stand-up segment talking about his upbringing in Staten Island. Colin Jost, who hosts "Weekend Update" alongside Michael Che, was also born and raised on Staten Island. "If Staten Island is so desirable, then why is it free to get there?" he joked. Good question!
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