Pete Davidson says he plans to be on Saturday Night Live for as long as the show will have him. Conflicting with previous statements from earlier this year, Davidson told Entertainment Tonight that he wants to stay on the show.

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“I will be there as long as they allow me to be,” Davidson said. “I think I’m very lucky to be on that show and I’m really lucky to have Lorne Michaels as, you know, not only a mentor and a boss, but a friend. I’ll be there as long as they allow it.”

Earlier this year, the comedian told Charlamagne tha God that he doesn’t enjoy being on the show, and is treated like a joke by the rest of the staff: “I should be done with that show because they make fun of me on it. I’m like, cold open, political punchlines,” he said. “… I have a weird feeling in that building, where I don’t know whose team they’re playing for — if I’m the joke or I’m in on the joke. I really wanted last year to be my last year, but I’m still around … Maybe I just shouldn’t be there. They think I’m fucking dumb. Like, I’m literally painted out to be this big, dumb idiot.”

Davidson is set to star in the upcoming film The King of Staten Island, which releases on June 12.

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It looks like Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is adjusting to the transition of taping the sketch comedy show from home quite well. The comedian joined his fellow SNL cast members over video chat on Saturday to perform their first episode since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. hard. Each cast member, along with celebrity guest and recently-recovered coronavirus patient, Tom Hanks, hopped on their computers in their respective homes to participate in some hilarious sketches together.

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As for Pete, he opted to go solo for a pre-taped sketch filmed in his mom's basement in Staten Island where he lives, parodying Drake's viral "Toosie Slide" music video/dance tutorial, which was filmed in the rapper's slightly more affluent home in Toronto.

About a month ago, Machine Gun Kelly got tongues wagging after he shared a video of himself kissing someone. The “person” can’t be seen on the camera, but news circulated that the rapper was making out with a “mystery woman” in the selfie clip. During his alcohol-fueled visit on Elle‘s Thirst Trap series, MGK was asked who this “mysterious woman” was. He had no idea what they were talking about but when the lightbulb came on, he revealed, with excitement, that it wasn’t a person at all and was his blunt.

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“People fell for it? Yes! This is so good,” he said. “People fell for that? I wondered. Everyone was freaking out. I posted this video with the caption, ‘Been waiting for a long time to share this with the world.’ And I am, ironically, actually seeing somebody right now, and it is new, but this was my blunt.”

The new lady in Machine Gun Kelly’s life is rumored to be Instagram Sommer Ray. Weeks ago, TMZ reported that the pair were spotted at the Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip in West. L.A. and even took an island vacation together with friends. Check out what else the rapper-actor had to say about whether or not he would hook up with a fan and what he considers to be a creepy habit that Pete Davidson has below.

After Pete Davidson revealed during his Netflix comedy special, Alive From New York, that he was “forced” to apologize to politician Dan Crenshaw for mocking him on Saturday Night Live, the Texas congressman has insisted that Pete just “can’t stop thinking about” him. Pete acknowledged the incident during his special, explaining that he “made fun of this guy with an eye patch and then, like, I kind of got forced to apologize.” The apology took place on the Weekend Update segment of SNL, in which Pete brought Crenshaw out in order to say sorry to him face to face. During the Netflix special, Pete also noted that the whole ordeal unintentionally made the lawmaker more famous. Crenshaw has since been made aware that Pete regrets making the apology and that he never really wanted to do it in the first place.

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Crenshaw was asked by host Brian Kilmeade about Pete’s comments in the special. “I can’t get out of Pete Davidson’s head. He’s been thinking about me a lot for the last year. I’m not sure his jokes always land, but it is what it is.”

“It’s a little sad,” the Republican lawmaker went on to say about the situation. “We had a really good moment, you know, at that time in 2018. America liked it. The left and right liked it. So, you know, we don’t really want to ruin that.” During the apology segment on SNL, Pete and Crenshaw paid tribute to Pete’s late father, a firefighter who died in 9/11. “The Pete Davidson I remember,” Crenshaw continues, “he went out to buy some cigarettes while we were rehearsing and he came back because he had found this lighter that said ‘Never Forget’ on it and he gave that to me as a gesture. He said this was kind of cool that this happened to come up as he was buying cigarettes.”

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“I think he meant well at the time,” he concluded. “You can never tell with comedians. Who knows how much he had to drink beforehand. I don’t know, we don’t have to take it too seriously…To be fair, if we took everything that comedians said on a Netflix special seriously, man our country would be in a world of hurt,” he noted. “I would like to remember the guy that I saw in person and hung out with that night.”

Pete Davidson's jokes about gay men who aren't "f*cking gay at all" in his Netflix stand-up comedy special, "Alive From New York," were not well-received by some folks. The special premiered on Netflix on Tuesday, and the comedian delves into some pretty controversial topics, including his relationship with ex-fiancée, Ariana Grande. However, the subject matter that has garnered him the most criticism is his approach to "gay dudes," in particular the ones who get too handsy with the women he dates.

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In the clip, which served as the trailer for the special, Pete discusses how he has "a lot of gay friends," bu that there's "always one gay friend" that he doesn't think is actually gay. “It’s that gay dude that’ll run up on your girlfriend and squeeze her boobs and slap her ass and be like, ‘Damn, girl, you look great!’ ”

“I don’t find that f*cking funny. Like, at all," he continues. "I’m sorry. Like, I’m all for the gayness, you know, it doesn’t mean I’m against gayness. It’s just like, you get to slap ass on a technicality? That’s not f*cking fair at all. Right in front of you, walk up, slap the ass and giggle. Just cause he could. I would never do that just because I could. I wouldn’t, like, walk up to his boyfriend and like tug his d*ck and be like, ‘Nice, Gary! Not for me, but cool!’”

Pete Davidson did not hold back in his new Netflix stand-up comedy special, “Alive From New York,” putting everyone on blast from his ex Ariana Grande, to Republican politician Dan Crenshaw, to disgraced comedian Louis C.K. Pete opened the special by recounting how Louis now-famously tried to get him fired from Saturday Night Live for smoking too much weed shortly after he made his debut on the show in 2014. “At the time, Louis C.K. was a very well-respected comedian,” Pete notes. “Like, at the time.” Pete has taken jabs at Louis, who has admitted to non-consensually masturbating in front of multiple women, in prior stand-up sets.

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The Saturday Night Live star also used the platform to retract his public apology to Dan Crenshaw, a Texas politician whom Pete made a joke about during the “Weekend Update” segment right before the 2018 midterm elections. At the time, Pete was warned not to roast the politician’s eye patch, as his friend informed him that Crenshaw “might have lost his eye in, like, a war or something like that.” However, Pete went on to do the joke about Crenshaw, saying he was “surprised he’s a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie.” Pete received some major flack from the media for what he said, though the comedian maintains that it was no big deal. “It was a very harmless ‘Saturday Night Live’ joke,” he says in the special. “I didn’t think anything of it.” Regardless, after receiving death threats, he explains that he was forced by his mother to apologize for the joke, and SNL went on to invite Crenshaw onto “Weekend Update” for a touching tribute to Pete’s firefighter father, who died during 9/11.

“The only thing I don’t like is people are, like, ‘It’s your fault that guy won’ and that’s not true,” Davidson says, referring to Crenshaw’s ultimate victory in the midterm elections. “I think like most of the votes were in and that guy is a Republican with an eye patch in Texas. So it was a lock before it even started. Pete goes on to address his former relationship with Ariana Grande, which ended after a few shorts months in 2018. “The only thing I did do, which I am guilty of and I apologized for, is I did make that guy famous, and a household name for no reason,” he said. “I did what Ariana Grande did for me.” The two were engaged at the time, but endured a highly-publicized breakup after Ariana’s ex, Mac Miller, tragically died of an overdose in September 2018.

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“I wasn’t going to do jokes about this, but then my buddy told me, he’s like, ‘Yo, I recently heard that Ariana said she had no idea who you were and she just dated you as a distraction,’” he revealed. “So now I just think it’s like fair game.” Pete received treatment after publicly declaring he was going to commit suicide following their breakup, and admitted last week to having spent time in rehab recently in another stand-up set. “She won Billboard’s Woman of the Year, and I got called ‘butthole eyes’ by barstoolsports.com,” he joked.

There may be a new romance in Machine Gun Kelly‘s life. As his best friend Pete Davidson’s name was in headlines over the comedian’s recent interview with Charlamagne Tha God, MGK was reportedly spending some time with a famous Instagram model. According to TMZ, Machine Gun Kelly was spotted at West Hollywood’s famous Rainbow Bar & Grill, a hotspot parked right next to The Roxy venue on the Sunset Strip.

The outlet shared a brief clip of the rapper as he enjoyed a performance while hanging out with Sommer Ray. The 23-year-old social media influencer and clothing designer boasts over 24 million followers and reportedly met Kelly years ago when they appeared on Wild N Out in the same episode. The two were on the same team together. 

Last month, MGK and Summer enjoyed a vacation in the Bahamas with a few friends including YouTube celebrity Brother Nature. The rapper has previously been rumored to be romantically tied to Noah Cyrus, Chantel Jefferies, Demi Lovato, and Halsey. Time will only tell if MGK has locked things down with Sommer, but for now, watch the episode of Wild N Out with Machine Gun Kelly and Sommer Ray below.

He’s rumored to have dated quite a few women in the past year, but Pete Davidson insists that he’s waiting on his “Princess Charming.” When Davidson was seven-years-old, his father, a firefighter and first-responder, lost his life during the September 11 attack while he attempted to help with rescue efforts. During his recent conversation with Charlamagne Tha God, Davidson revealed that he had fond memories of his childhood and can’t wait to become a father himself.

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“I love love. That’s how I grew up,” said Davidson, “Just my mom, my sister… I didn’t have a man around the house, so I was just like, ‘When am I going to find my Princess Charming?’ That’s all I’ve ever wanted.” The comedian said that having a child would be something that would bring balance. “I just want to have a kid, that’s it,” he said. “I think that would be awesome.”

“I want to be there for something or do something that I didn’t have growing up,” Davidson added. “That’s my biggest thing.” The Saturday Night Live star has been candid about being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and living with depression and anxiety. According to Davidson, having a child “would keep me around, keep my head up.”

“I’m at the point where I’m like, ‘Maybe I should adopt.’ Me and my mom or something, just adopt,” he said. Then he joked, “I think everybody is afraid of the Davidson seed.” Check out Pete Davidson’s interview with Charlamagne Tha God in full below.

While Pete Davidson doesn’t usually do much press, he has a stand-up comedy special premiering on Netflix this week (Feb. 25), so he sat down with Charlamagne tha God for a 50-minute chat. The discussion touched on the special, Alive From New York, and his other recent projects, like Big Time Adolescence and The King Of Staten Island. They also spoke about the other things that attract media attention to Pete Davidson, like his romantic relationships and his mental health. 

Around the 25-minute mark, Charlamagne asks Davidson what it was like to be dating Ariana Grande at the time she learned of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller‘s passing. Specifically, the radio host wondered how Davidson felt about Grande publicly grieving this loss and expressing her deep love for Mac. “I totally got it cause we were only together for a few – she would even tell you this – I was like, ‘listen, I get it. Do what you gotta do. I’ll be here,” he recalled. “I think I said, like, ‘I’ll be here until you don’t want me to be here.’ I pretty much knew it was over around after that. That was really horrible and I can’t imagine what that shit is like. That shit is just terrible. All I do know is that she really loved the shit out of him and she wasn’t putting on a show or anything. That was fucked up and prayers to his family and all of his friends, still. It’s still fucking everybody up.”

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In the interview, Davidson also addressed how he feels he needs the freedom to bring up his relationship with Grande – and whatever else happens in his life – in his stand-up. “I think genuinely being hurtful is off-limits or anything like being shitty or anything,” he said. “I wanna be cool with everybody but, you know, stand-up’s part of my life. That was a highly publicized thing. I feel like she got her fair run and her fair stab at it, and like I said, I don’t have social media and I don’t have an outlet really to express my feelings so stand-up’s just how i do it.”

During a Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live‘s Christmas episode, Pete Davidson hinted that he’d be spending the break at a rehab facility. The comedian has been open about his mental health issues – particularly his diagnosis of borderline personality disorder – and it was speculated that his breakup with Kaia Gerber triggered a rough period for him. While performing a midnight stand-up set on Sunday (Feb. 16), Davidson confirmed that he did go to rehab and made some jokes about his experience.  

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According to Page Six, he told the crowd at Carolines On Broadway that he traveled to the Sierra Tucson facility in Arizona, which is known to be “one of the nation’s premier residential treatment centers.” While he was there, he went by the pseudonym “Howard” and managed to whip up some stand-up material.

Some of the bits that Davidson did on Sunday will appear in his upcoming Netflix special, Alive From New York, which premieres on February 25. One of the jokes was an anecdote about Louis C.K. The disgraced comic apparently chastised Davidson for smoking backstage at SNL and even ratted him out to show’s head honcho, Lorne Michaels. After this incident, Davidson recalled CK being cancelled for sexual harassment as a “glorious day.”