It’s challenging having BDE.
While comedian Pete Davidson was a castmate on “Saturday Night Live,” he often found himself on the “Weekend Update” desk giving updates on — what else? — his love life.
But he wasn’t exactly in on the joke, the “Bodies Bodies Bodies” star confessed in a latest interview, saying all that negative attention made him feel like a “f – – king loser.”
“When your individual show [pokes fun at you],” Davidson, 29, began on Jon Berthnal’s “Real Ones” podcast on Patreon, “I’d be sitting within the back watching the cold open and — the cold open [is] topical, political humor, whatever’s within the culture. After which, making fun of you. You then’ve gotta walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark and the show just made fun of you. So, why are they gonna laugh at you? Like, they simply dogged you in front of everyone … And also you’re like, ‘I’m a f - - king loser, man.’”
The funnyman continued, “These are the people I’ve been with for nearly a decade. I grew up in front of those people. They’ve watched me through essentially the most difficult time in my life, and so they’ve been there for me. And no one ever showed more leeway and charm to me than Lorne Michaels, and I owe my life to that guy, but it surely was f - - king confusing cause the character of entertainment is the character of this business. At the tip of the day, that’s what it’s.”
“This was a extremely difficult thing to do. You’re feeling small. You’re feeling super insecure.”
Davidson joined “SNL” as a solid member in 2014 when he was 20 years old and left the show in May 2022.
During his time on the sketch comedy series, he was seen with Emily Ratajkowski, dated Cazzie David, was engaged to Ariana Grande and was in a really public relationship with Kim Kardashian, amongst others. He’s currently linked to his “Bupkis” co-star Chase Sui Wonders.
“I’m in my 20s and I’ve dated people. And for some reason, that’s very crazy and interesting to people. I don’t think it’s interesting,” Davidson said. “I’ve been in show business for, like, half my life almost — for 14 or 15 years and on a national TV show. In 12 years I’ve dated 10 people. I don’t think that’s that crazy, but to some people, that’s very interesting. That became all anyone would speak about.”
He clarified that the people he’s dated previously have been those he’s met through spending a lot time at NBC.
“I’m not, like, flexing, what I mean? And these those who I’ve dated, I met them at work,” he added. “I wasn’t in anyone’s DMs, nobody was in mine. I worked at one in all the five Hollywood epicenters of where you meet people and that’s the way it happened.”
Davidson’s hoping to achieve control of his narrative together with his upcoming comedy series “Bupkis” on Peacock — a dramatized version of his life — under Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, the production company behind “SNL.”
“Suddenly you’re on this zeitgeist and that has nothing to do with the work,” Davidson said. “And that’s a extremely shitty feeling. I became more known before the work was there, but I used to be all the time working.”
He concluded, “I’m cool with the joke. I get the late-night jokes.”
“Bupkis” premieres on Peacock on May 4.
