Pete Davidson returned to “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend for a shock look on “Weekend Update” along with his good friend, Colin Jost.
Jost kicked off the phase by updating the viewers on his and Davidson’s joint undertaking ― the retired Staten Island Ferry they bought collectively again in 2022.
“The New York Times recently ran an article calling the Staten Island Ferry that I purchased with Pete Davidson a ‘money-losing fiasco,’” Jost mentioned. “With more on this is Pete Davidson.”
The viewers cheered as Davidson entered the body and greeted Jost and his fellow co-anchor, Michael Che.
“So yeah, in case you’re wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia, we’re losing millions on this ferry,” he mentioned, referencing his controversial look on the Riyadh Comedy Pageant. “I assume that’s what the article says ― I can’t spend $5 on a paywall when I got a kid on the way, so…”
Jost, who shares a son with actor Scarlett Johansson, mentioned that he prefers “having a kid to a ferry.”
Davidson then added that the 2 “even gave the boat a new name” throughout their ongoing rebrand try.
“We thought the Staten Island Ferry sounded too depressing, so now it’s called the ‘Titanic 2,’” the 31-year-old mentioned.
Jost additionally added that every part is definitely “going very well,” as Nike has paid the 2 to position an advert on the ferry for the New York Metropolis Marathon.
“If Lorne Michaels has taught us anything, it’s that you never ever give up, even if everyone says the time has come and Tina Fey is ready to take over,” Davidson quipped.
Davidson has beforehand defended his look on the Riyadh Comedy Pageant, which happened in Saudi Arabia, on Theo Von’s podcast in September.
“There’s a lot of people that say people are getting paid by this Middle Eastern money right, you know, and that they can say this, or they can’t say that or that they are over there, they’re going to try to influence you guys in order to speak certain ways,” Von mentioned on his “This Past Weekend” podcast. “Are you part of that conspiracy theory, or is that nothing you’re on?”
“I’ve heard there’s subreddits of like, ‘I think all these people are in bed with that,’” Davidson mentioned. “I just, you know, I get the routing and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”
He added that he’s “been getting a little bit of flak just because my dad died in 9/11. So they’re like, ‘How could you possibly go there?’”
Davidson carried out on the competition, the place he was joined by fellow comedians, together with Dave Chappelle, Invoice Burr, Louis C.Ok., Hannibal Buress, Kevin Hart, and others.
The Human Rights Watch issued a press launch forward of the occasion, saying that the Saudi authorities was utilizing the competition “to deflect attention from its brutal repression of free speech and other pervasive human rights violations.”
The discharge added, “The festival dates include the seventh anniversary of the Saudi state-sponsored murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi and takes place just months after Saudi authorities executed a journalist apparently for his public speech.”
