Pete Davidson ‘Felt Like a F—ing Loser’ When ‘SNL’ Joked About His Personal Life: ‘You Feel Small’ and ‘Super Insecure’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Tabloid attention focusing on Pete Davidson’s various romantic relationships has turned the “Saturday Night Live” alum into a frequent target for late night comedians and sketch comedy shows.
Davidson, who starred on “SNL” for seven seasons and left the show in 2022, recently told “The Walking Dead” and “The Punisher” actor Jon Bernthal on the latter’s “Real Ones” podcast (via People) that he could stomach all of the roasting until it hit too close to home. “Suddenly you’re in this zeitgeist and that has nothing to do with the work,” Davidson said. “And that’s a really shitty feeling.
I became more known before the work was there, but I was always working. I’m cool with the joke. I get the late-night jokes.” It’s when “Saturday Night Live” started cracking jokes at the expense of Davidson’s personal life that he took an emotional hit. “When your own show [pokes fun at you],” Davidson said. “I’d be sitting in the back watching the cold open and — the cold open [is] topical, political humor, whatever’s in the culture.
And then, making fun of you. Then you’ve gotta walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark and the show just made fun of you.
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