“After my first year, I actually called for a meeting with Lorne.
“I was like, ‘I don’t belong here.
Everybody here is so talented and they don’t want to be my friend,'” he shared.
Lorne Michaels and Pete Davidson in 2023.Credit:Rosalind O’Connor/Peacock via Getty
“I was a child.
I was like, ‘Nobody wants to be my friend.'”
Thankfully, the show creator had more faith inSNL’s “Resident Young Person” than Davidson himself.
Pete Davidson with host Bill Hader on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2014.Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
“He was right,” admitted Davidson, who ended upstaying at the show for eight seasons.
“I grew up here.
SNLwas “a really tough job,” Davidson said.
Pete Davidson hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2023.Will Heath/NBC via Getty
This is a really difficult place to leave, but you don’t ever really truly leave.”
That plan was postponeddue to the Hollywood writers’ strike, and he returned tohost the season 49 premiereinstead.
“I just want to be known for doing good work,” he toldW Magazinelast month.
Thats when I want to be seen.
I dont want to be this f—ing loser who just dates people.
That’s not who I am.”
