Lorne Michaels felt that BDE.
Pete Davidson admitted to having main impostor syndrome when he first began at “Saturday Night Live.” The comic made the confession in Peacock’s docuseries “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” — which premiered Thursday and contains quite a few “SNL” alums wanting again on the iconic sketch present’s previous because it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary.
Within the doc, the “King of Staten Island” star recalled making a bizarre request to the present’s creator, Lorne Michaels, after his first season.
“After my first year, I actually called for a meeting with Lorne and I was like, ‘Please fire me,’ and he’s like, ‘Why?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t belong here. Everybody’s so talented and they don’t want to be my friend,’” Davidson recalled, per Folks.
As he laughed at himself, Davidson continued:
“Because I was a child. I was like, ‘Nobody wants to be my friend.’”
However plainly Michaels noticed one thing in Davidson that the comic hadn’t but seen in himself — and wasn’t about to let him go.
“And he said, ‘You don’t figure it out ’til your third or fourth year,’” Davidson recalled. “‘It’s just gonna suck for three or four years.’ And he was right.”
Davidson joined the present in 2014 when he was 20. He ended up staying on the present till 2022.
Throughout his closing episode, Davidson delivered a farewell message through the “Weekend Update” phase and gave Michaels a candy shout-out. (See the video above.)
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“I appreciate ‘SNL’ always having my back and allowing me to work on myself and grow,” Davidson stated on the time. “Thank you to Lorne for never giving up on me or judging me, even when everyone else was, and for believing in me and allowing me to have a place that I could call home with memories that will last a lifetime.”
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