Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Pete Davidson Opens Up About Sobriety, Toxic Tabloids, Future Fatherhood, SNL, New Movie + More
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Every day a week ago, clicks up the Breakfast Club Finish.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Morning.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Everybody is d j Envyess hilarious, chelamage, the guy. We
- 0:11Speaker 3: are the Breakfast Club. Lonla Rosa is here as well,
- 0:14Speaker 3: and we got a special guest in the building. Pete Davison,
- 0:17Speaker 3: My guy.
- 0:19Speaker 2: How you feeling fantastic? How are you? Guys?
- 0:23Speaker 4: You get one woman pregnant, you start growing out your mustad?
- 0:25Speaker 2: Yeah, wildly insecure about it. I had to film this
- 0:35Speaker 2: thing and I had to grow a beard, and it
- 0:36Speaker 2: took me like five or six months, and then we
- 0:39Speaker 2: wrapped it. I was like, this, this took so long.
- 0:43Speaker 2: I can't just shave it off.
- 0:44Speaker 1: You look just like your father, I mean like I
- 0:51Speaker 1: look like an eighties dad.
- 0:54Speaker 2: No, I like it. MA, I'm good. Everything's good finally, Yeah,
- 1:01Speaker 2: just sober and you know, just a guy now in
- 1:08Speaker 2: my thirties. I got a stretch, wake up and yeah,
- 1:11Speaker 2: stuff hurts, you know. Oh, I'm meaning to tell you
- 1:14Speaker 2: you got the ineos. I heard my so my boy Mark,
- 1:19Speaker 2: we went to high school together, went to high school
- 1:20Speaker 2: the Ineos. Granted it's freehold. It's this crazy off roading,
- 1:27Speaker 2: like what is a French car or whatever?
- 1:29Speaker 3: So a billionaire who would The story is a billionaire
- 1:32Speaker 3: who loved the land the defender from land Rover wanted
- 1:36Speaker 3: to buy one, and they said they didn't make it anymore.
- 1:38Speaker 3: So he said, I'll buy the company.
- 1:40Speaker 2: That's some red shit.
- 1:41Speaker 3: They said, no, we're not going to sell it to you.
- 1:43Speaker 3: So he said, I'll make my own. He made his
- 1:45Speaker 3: own land Rover suit him. He won, and now he makes.
- 1:48Speaker 2: His own vehicles. Wow, he won, Yeah, he won.
- 1:50Speaker 3: So it's based off of his own styles.
- 1:53Speaker 2: He likes to go camping. So the car is.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Just really cool. Like I go through you can go
- 1:57Speaker 3: through damning anything, floods.
- 2:00Speaker 2: A video of you in Jersey right, it was Arono.
- 2:03Speaker 2: It was like four feet of water and you could
- 2:05Speaker 2: just go right through it, no problem. It was cool.
- 2:08Speaker 2: So I love the vehicles. It's pretty dope in and
- 2:10Speaker 2: now you got one? Yeah, yeah, that one. I just yeah,
- 2:13Speaker 2: I just had to Mark. Yeah. Mark told me to
- 2:16Speaker 2: say hello. It's like and I was like, I know
- 2:19Speaker 2: him before you before you?
- 2:21Speaker 4: Yeah, you in a new movie. Now, wasn't the movie? Yes, yes,
- 2:27Speaker 4: Murphy Palmer.
- 2:29Speaker 2: I was working with Eddie. I mean it's ridiculous. I
- 2:33Speaker 2: obviously I'm a huge Eddie Murphy fan Eddie Murphy is
- 2:37Speaker 2: like a reason that the reason I got in a
- 2:39Speaker 2: comedy and then I got sent the script and I
- 2:42Speaker 2: didn't read it because I just saw Eddie Murphy's doing this,
- 2:45Speaker 2: and then I saw Keky Palmer's doing this, and Tim
- 2:47Speaker 2: Story is a great director, and I just had a blast. Man.
- 2:51Speaker 2: He's he's such a star, you know, like there's very
- 2:54Speaker 2: few stars left, but when he's on set, even if
- 2:57Speaker 2: you can't see him, like he was a.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Star eighty celebrity was totally different than anything, totally that
- 3:03Speaker 1: we got.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Now know they were real, There were real movie stars.
- 3:06Speaker 2: You didn't know what they did all day. And he's
- 3:08Speaker 2: and he's you know, like you could just see what
- 3:11Speaker 2: Mark Wahlberg is doing right now. That's not a dig
- 3:13Speaker 2: at Mark Wohlberg, but like I know his whole morning routine.
- 3:16Speaker 2: I know what, Like I know his family better than
- 3:20Speaker 2: I know mine, And uh, I think that that ruins stuff,
- 3:24Speaker 2: Like you know, you don't know anything about Eddie Murphy. Really,
- 3:27Speaker 2: Tom Cruise, you don't really know anything about I mean,
- 3:29Speaker 2: he has an Instagram, but like you don't you know,
- 3:31Speaker 2: there's that sort of aura that you that that makes
- 3:34Speaker 2: you want to be like, Oh, I'm gonna go see
- 3:36Speaker 2: this movie, you know, like Christian Bale or whatever. He
- 3:38Speaker 2: doesn't have an Instagram, so when he has something out,
- 3:40Speaker 2: you're just like, Oh, I gotta go, I gotta go
- 3:42Speaker 2: see this.
- 3:42Speaker 4: When did you realize that? Because I remember when you
- 3:44Speaker 4: got rid of all your social media.
- 3:46Speaker 2: I got rid of it because mentally it was destroying
- 3:49Speaker 2: me because you know how they'll be like, you know, well,
- 3:53Speaker 2: for me, it actually wasn't like this, but they'll be
- 3:55Speaker 2: the there'll be like one hundred ice comments and two
- 3:57Speaker 2: bad ones. I would only see the two bad ones.
- 4:00Speaker 2: And I also just don't like anyone could just reach
- 4:04Speaker 2: out to you. You're very accessible, someone could DM you
- 4:08Speaker 2: or reach out to you, or if you're hanging out,
- 4:10Speaker 2: they're like, hey, follow me. And I just didn't like
- 4:13Speaker 2: all that stuff. So it's been tough, like with just
- 4:19Speaker 2: career wise, it's like a tough thing to be thirty
- 4:22Speaker 2: one and not have an Instagram. But I think it's
- 4:25Speaker 2: just better for me. But some people, I think it
- 4:28Speaker 2: may make sense, like if you're literally anybody else.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know you've always lived your life out loud,
- 4:35Speaker 1: because shit went from zero to one hundred for you
- 4:38Speaker 1: like that. I mean one moment, one moment you're on
- 4:40Speaker 1: Guy Cold, next thing, you know, you on FNL, and
- 4:42Speaker 1: then it's just like.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got a little out of control fast,
- 4:47Speaker 2: and I was really young and now I'm still I
- 4:50Speaker 2: feel like I'm still pretty young, but uh, you are.
- 4:53Speaker 2: I am right, But like, thank you.
- 4:57Speaker 4: He has a mustache, mustance, he has that eighty.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I got that the morning.
- 5:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 5:05Speaker 2: But you know, I've met you when I was like
- 5:07Speaker 2: sixteen seventeen and I'm almost sixteen years to do, so
- 5:11Speaker 2: half my life I've been doing this, so you know,
- 5:14Speaker 2: it's I'm glad all the bad, crazy stuff happened in
- 5:20Speaker 2: my twenties because it's just I don't know, I'm glad
- 5:23Speaker 2: I got it out of the way. But yeah, it's
- 5:25Speaker 2: tough when you're young and doing that. I'm jealous of
- 5:28Speaker 2: people who blow up and they're like thirty five because
- 5:32Speaker 2: they have a full life. They they have their family,
- 5:35Speaker 2: they have their friends, and they know who they are
- 5:36Speaker 2: as people. And when you don't know who you are
- 5:38Speaker 2: yet and you're just in the news all the time
- 5:42Speaker 2: for literally bullshit, it's embarrassing. It's like it sucks you know,
- 5:48Speaker 2: but I'm grateful that it was. You know, it's not
- 5:51Speaker 2: that it's excusable, but I was really young, so I'm
- 5:53Speaker 2: just like, you.
- 5:54Speaker 4: Didn't do dumb shit.
- 5:55Speaker 1: It's not like you were just like one of these
- 5:56Speaker 1: you know, child stars who did dumb shit.
- 5:58Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 5:59Speaker 2: I was just doing drugs, like trying to do comedy.
- 6:04Speaker 4: You know, it's not that like that's regular.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm not like, you know, I didn't
- 6:10Speaker 2: kill anyone or anything, but you know, it's still you
- 6:14Speaker 2: don't want that out, you know. You know, you want
- 6:16Speaker 2: to be able to grow. You know. That's what we
- 6:19Speaker 2: don't really have anymore, is like any form of privacy
- 6:23Speaker 2: I feel like for young people where like you get
- 6:25Speaker 2: to make those mistakes and learn your lessons and it
- 6:28Speaker 2: not be in page six. You know. That's what was embarrassing.
- 6:33Speaker 2: So then I had to, you know, you just have
- 6:35Speaker 2: to reframe your whole life, which is really tough, but
- 6:38Speaker 2: it's better now we've seen you struggle a little bit.
- 6:41Speaker 2: How did you deal with it to get through it?
- 6:43Speaker 1: Like?
- 6:43Speaker 3: Was it therapy? Was it deleting all the social media?
- 6:46Speaker 3: Was it friends? Was it family? Was it stepping away?
- 6:49Speaker 3: I was a big drug addict like I would go
- 6:51Speaker 3: to rehab and stuff. Uh, and I did have I
- 6:54Speaker 3: do have mental stuff, and I wasn't therapy.
- 6:58Speaker 2: But if you're a drug addict, like none of that works,
- 7:01Speaker 2: Like you can't go to therapy on a bunch of
- 7:03Speaker 2: drugs and expect it to work. So I think, yeah,
- 7:09Speaker 2: well you think you're like I'm like, I'm getting better.
- 7:15Speaker 2: I'm definitely getting better for sure, but uh, you know,
- 7:20Speaker 2: really what it was is I just I had to
- 7:22Speaker 2: I had to stop. I'm not a person who could
- 7:24Speaker 2: do things in moderation, unfortunately, and I think I was
- 7:28Speaker 2: kind of trying to fool myself and be like you
- 7:31Speaker 2: can do this or and then it just got to
- 7:34Speaker 2: a point where like people I really cared about where
- 7:37Speaker 2: like I will not fuck with you anymore. And some
- 7:41Speaker 2: of them don't. Still most of them, I would say,
- 7:45Speaker 2: came back. But it just was there were people that
- 7:47Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, if you're if you're saying this
- 7:49Speaker 2: to me, then like I should it's real. And I
- 7:53Speaker 2: also had a lot of I've said this before, but
- 7:56Speaker 2: I've been guilty of like having like you know, seventy
- 8:00Speaker 2: people in the green room and I only know like Tadam,
- 8:04Speaker 2: but they're all my best friends now, and you know,
- 8:07Speaker 2: you gotta be I didn't realize how careful you have
- 8:10Speaker 2: to be, how careful you have to move when there's
- 8:13Speaker 2: there's a lot at stake, there's a lot of money
- 8:15Speaker 2: at stake, there's jobs at stake, and you can't have
- 8:18Speaker 2: people you don't know know everything about you. Because this
- 8:22Speaker 2: sounds I don't want to sound a certain type of way,
- 8:25Speaker 2: but like, sometimes you're the most exciting part of someone
- 8:29Speaker 2: else's life. Yeah, so like whatever, you you might be
- 8:33Speaker 2: just like talking because it's your personal life, but that
- 8:35Speaker 2: person's like, oh, I just got like a little drinket
- 8:38Speaker 2: that I can bring to all my friends and then
- 8:40Speaker 2: they tell their friends and then before you know it,
- 8:42Speaker 2: it's it's all over the news and you're like, how
- 8:45Speaker 2: how does you know? So I just had to learn.
- 8:48Speaker 2: I just learned slowly.
- 8:49Speaker 4: But you know, he's always been so self aware.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Like one of the reasons I even started going to
- 8:52Speaker 1: Derby back in the day was because of people because
- 8:54Speaker 1: he was so young.
- 8:55Speaker 4: But he would just acknowledge I got to go into rehab.
- 8:59Speaker 1: I need to be sitting down talking to somebody, and
- 9:00Speaker 1: I'm like, well, if he can acknowledge his bullshit and
- 9:03Speaker 1: go out there and get some help for it.
- 9:04Speaker 4: My old ass definitely need to be doing the same thing.
- 9:07Speaker 2: Well, I feel like you've been always been super ahead
- 9:10Speaker 2: and on the right side of things and not afraid
- 9:12Speaker 2: to be like you're a very masculine guy, but also
- 9:15Speaker 2: just like, hey, it's cool to like talk about stuff,
- 9:17Speaker 2: And I think you've done a lot for a lot
- 9:19Speaker 2: of people because you know your status and who you
- 9:22Speaker 2: are as a person, Like it's important for a guy
- 9:24Speaker 2: like you to be able to say that stuff to
- 9:26Speaker 2: make other dudes be like, oh, it is cool, Charlotte
- 9:28Speaker 2: does that you know? So I think you were always
- 9:31Speaker 2: ahead of the game on that stuff.
- 9:32Speaker 4: Appreciate you.
- 9:33Speaker 5: It got you to the point where you were so
- 9:34Speaker 5: transparent about like the different things you were struggling with
- 9:36Speaker 5: and battling wit because eventually you were talking about I'm
- 9:39Speaker 5: checking myself in here and I'm.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Doing this well. You know, when I was on SNL,
- 9:44Speaker 2: it was kind of like one I didn't want anyone
- 9:48Speaker 2: to ever have anything on me. I always use the
- 9:50Speaker 2: eight mile approach where it's I saw eight mile when
- 9:53Speaker 2: I was like eight or nine, and I was like, oh,
- 9:55Speaker 2: he told everybody all all the bad stuff about him,
- 9:58Speaker 2: and then no one could say that against them, right,
- 10:01Speaker 2: So I always kind of took that approach. And also
- 10:03Speaker 2: when you're on a show like SNL where you have
- 10:06Speaker 2: to be it's live, it's week to week, it's very public.
- 10:12Speaker 2: I just didn't want anyone to know anything about me
- 10:15Speaker 2: or have anything on me. But also, like my job
- 10:19Speaker 2: at that show was it the traditional thing, Like I
- 10:22Speaker 2: wasn't an impression guy or even very much a sketch guy.
- 10:27Speaker 2: My whole thing was like I would go on Weekend
- 10:28Speaker 2: Update and do stand up and then after like my
- 10:31Speaker 2: first or second year, I burned through all my stand
- 10:34Speaker 2: up material and I was like, cause, it's week to week,
- 10:37Speaker 2: so I would just be like, what's going on in
- 10:39Speaker 2: my life this week? And then it just kind of
- 10:41Speaker 2: became somewhat therapeutic. But also again just like I don't
- 10:48Speaker 2: when someone knows what you're going through, or they are
- 10:50Speaker 2: aware of maybe some issues you have or stuff you're
- 10:53Speaker 2: dealing with, then they're not like, why is he acting
- 10:58Speaker 2: like that? You know what I mean? So they're not like, well,
- 11:01Speaker 2: they're like, oh, I know why he's acting like that.
- 11:03Speaker 2: He's sad or he's you know, so I just wanted
- 11:06Speaker 2: to be super transparent. And also everyone at SNL was
- 11:11Speaker 2: ten fifteen years older than me, and I had a
- 11:14Speaker 2: tough time. They weren't mean or anything. It's just hard
- 11:18Speaker 2: to you know, relate. Yeah, I would be like, hey,
- 11:20Speaker 2: you guys want to go smoke weed? And they're like,
- 11:22Speaker 2: we're having our first child and I'm getting married next
- 11:28Speaker 2: week and all this stuff, and I was like, oh,
- 11:30Speaker 2: you guys don't play video games. It's weird. So it
- 11:33Speaker 2: was my also a way of me trying to like
- 11:37Speaker 2: let them know what's going on with me because it
- 11:40Speaker 2: was tough to you know, it's just tough to make
- 11:42Speaker 2: it's tough to make friends.
- 11:43Speaker 4: Did that increase the connection?
- 11:45Speaker 2: I think so. I think there it became sort of
- 11:47Speaker 2: a I think when I first got there, like this
- 11:50Speaker 2: kid's just like loud. This is like a loud kid
- 11:54Speaker 2: wearing his whole life on his sleeve too. That's my
- 11:58Speaker 2: little brother. And then I felt that way. Keenan was
- 12:02Speaker 2: always big bro from day one, but I think everybody
- 12:06Speaker 2: you remember he does that was. Yeah, that was a
- 12:11Speaker 2: way to become friends very quickly. But it's also you
- 12:15Speaker 2: remember esens, it's competitive, it's not just like as not.
- 12:20Speaker 2: It's not like a team sport. It's who could be
- 12:23Speaker 2: the best this week and have their stuff on the show.
- 12:27Speaker 2: So there is this aspect of we all respect and
- 12:30Speaker 2: love each other, but at the end of the day,
- 12:31Speaker 2: like I'm trying to eat you a lot, like I
- 12:34Speaker 2: want to be better than you. So it's a very
- 12:36Speaker 2: competitive environment.
- 12:38Speaker 5: So you were one of the youngest cast members on
- 12:41Speaker 5: in the show's history.
- 12:43Speaker 4: Was the youngest, the youngest.
- 12:45Speaker 2: I think I'm third, but the list is crazy. It's
- 12:49Speaker 2: Robert Downey Jr. Eddie's first, Then it's Robert Downey Jr.
- 12:52Speaker 2: And I think Anthony Michael Hall was on it for
- 12:55Speaker 2: like a year, but yeah, we're all nineteen and twenty.
- 12:58Speaker 5: I feel like when you were on it made like,
- 13:01Speaker 5: at least for me, I paid more attention to the show,
- 13:03Speaker 5: like I would watch it because I had two where
- 13:05Speaker 5: like certain things were happening, But when you were on there,
- 13:06Speaker 5: it felt like it was like someone I knew because
- 13:09Speaker 5: you were close to my age.
- 13:10Speaker 6: Did you ever feel pressure?
- 13:12Speaker 5: Yeah, like, did you ever feel pressure, because like to
- 13:14Speaker 5: a certain generation of people, you did make it more relatable,
- 13:17Speaker 5: like the things that you were bringing to the show
- 13:18Speaker 5: to topics they were able to touch because you were there.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Oh I appreciate that. First of all, thank you very much.
- 13:22Speaker 7: Welcome.
- 13:23Speaker 2: I was so young. I was super unaware of everything, thankfully.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Like now looking back, I'm like, oh, that's what I
- 13:32Speaker 2: was doing. But I was so young when I got
- 13:35Speaker 2: as Andel. This sounds terrible, but like I didn't know
- 13:38Speaker 2: it was still on d damn, and I didn't really
- 13:44Speaker 2: I never watched it. I was nineteen twenty years old.
- 13:46Speaker 2: So when I auditioned, I had to. They were like,
- 13:49Speaker 2: what's your favorite stuff? But I like just YouTube stuff
- 13:51Speaker 2: in the bathroom, and I was like, I like the
- 13:52Speaker 2: Californians or whatever. But I had no idea what I
- 13:55Speaker 2: was talking about. So luckily I walked into I didn't
- 13:58Speaker 2: realize the magnitude of that show. I was just like, oh,
- 14:02Speaker 2: this is another job. I'll probably do this two three
- 14:04Speaker 2: years and then get fired. And then it actually hit
- 14:07Speaker 2: me when I did the fiftieth this like fiftieth aniversary show.
- 14:11Speaker 2: I saw everybody in that room and I was like,
- 14:13Speaker 2: oh shit, that stuffs cool, Like this is this is
- 14:16Speaker 2: like institution. This is like you know, like the Harvard
- 14:19Speaker 2: of Comedy. It's like a comedy college. But I was
- 14:23Speaker 2: so lucky. I was so young, I was super naive.
- 14:25Speaker 2: So I just was like, I'm just gonna smoke weed
- 14:27Speaker 2: and talk about, you know, what's going on in my life.
- 14:31Speaker 2: But thank you for saying that that's cool.
- 14:33Speaker 8: Yeah, because that's the best shit of Like that was
- 14:37Speaker 8: like the best part of the shit that I saw,
- 14:39Speaker 8: because I never thought I said that it was funny,
- 14:41Speaker 8: you know what I mean? Like, I just never thought
- 14:43Speaker 8: it was funny. I would see my parents will watch,
- 14:45Speaker 8: but I never I never watched like that. But when
- 14:46Speaker 8: I did, I was like, Okay, this dry humor is cool,
- 14:49Speaker 8: but it's not really funny. You got on a yet,
- 14:52Speaker 8: like she said, you made it relatable for us, especially
- 14:54Speaker 8: like then when you came from wild'n Out. We were
- 14:57Speaker 8: very happy to see that you made it on there,
- 15:00Speaker 8: and you're like, yo, this is this nigga funny?
- 15:02Speaker 1: Was thank you fancy funny dude, Miss lady the face
- 15:07Speaker 1: so I can understand what.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the I think with the mustache and the
- 15:11Speaker 2: and my white eyed hair, now I have evolved into
- 15:14Speaker 2: a white guy. But for a while though, it was
- 15:18Speaker 2: it was up for debate for sure. For sure, nineteen
- 15:22Speaker 2: to twenty four anybody's ball game. I remember we went
- 15:26Speaker 2: to go buy the fake chains of course, gold plated. Yeah, yeah,
- 15:33Speaker 2: they were they were heavy. I remember, I was. I was.
- 15:36Speaker 2: I made like I think I had maybe ten thousand
- 15:39Speaker 2: dollars to my name, and I was like, I want
- 15:41Speaker 2: to go buy a ten thousand dollars chain. Charlemagne was like,
- 15:44Speaker 2: why don't you just get an eight hundred dollars chain
- 15:47Speaker 2: that looks exactly like it? All the rappers wear it,
- 15:50Speaker 2: No one has any idea, And it was this big
- 15:53Speaker 2: gold plated Cuban chain.
- 15:54Speaker 4: Like, nobody's going to question you.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Yeah, you're da.
- 15:58Speaker 3: The next day on the radio, he tells everybody, yeah, guys,
- 16:01Speaker 3: I got a fake change. One about Pete, Like yeah,
- 16:06Speaker 3: when he got a fake change, like that makes no sense.
- 16:08Speaker 4: It's crazy. It looked fire though it looks Yeah, it
- 16:11Speaker 4: was great.
- 16:12Speaker 7: How long did it last for?
- 16:15Speaker 2: I had it. I had it for four or five years,
- 16:18Speaker 2: and then I gifted it to a friend. Is it
- 16:20Speaker 2: think it's real?
- 16:21Speaker 4: No?
- 16:21Speaker 2: I told him, but I did the whole I was like,
- 16:23Speaker 2: no one's gonna know exactly.
- 16:25Speaker 4: It was exactly what you told me. I passed on.
- 16:28Speaker 2: I had I got to be you for a second.
- 16:30Speaker 4: It was nice question.
- 16:31Speaker 2: They know you got it, so it's like it's funny.
- 16:34Speaker 2: That's what I'm realizing now with all like the lab
- 16:37Speaker 2: not like it's a diamond that much, but like it's
- 16:39Speaker 2: like who gives a ship. They look exactly the same
- 16:42Speaker 2: and they're made in a you know, there is that
- 16:44Speaker 2: hole it's made in, but it's just man made. It
- 16:49Speaker 2: posted right today. Oh thank you, Yeah, thank you.
- 16:53Speaker 1: I want to ask one more question about an because
- 16:55Speaker 1: it's about you as an actor. When you to me,
- 16:58Speaker 1: you're like the last like really star that came from
- 17:01Speaker 1: SNL in more recently, thank you, But at the time
- 17:03Speaker 1: when you were like all in the tabloids for who
- 17:05Speaker 1: you were dating and everything else, was there any like
- 17:08Speaker 1: I don't want to say hate, but did anybody feel
- 17:09Speaker 1: you feel any animosity from them?
- 17:11Speaker 2: From the cast? I think they were just like because
- 17:15Speaker 2: you got to remember, like everyone there, did you know
- 17:19Speaker 2: Second City Improv like worked so hard, so hard. Not
- 17:25Speaker 2: saying I didn't work hard, but I was only doing
- 17:28Speaker 2: comedy like three four years, and a lot of what
- 17:31Speaker 2: people liked about me was like, oh, this is like
- 17:33Speaker 2: a kid from Staten Island that's just talking shit. So
- 17:36Speaker 2: you got to remember, all of these people are ten
- 17:39Speaker 2: fifteen years older than me, working so hard. SNL don't
- 17:43Speaker 2: pay great until you're like five six years in and
- 17:48Speaker 2: at the time you weren't allowed to do stuff outside
- 17:51Speaker 2: the show that was a payday because it was like
- 17:54Speaker 2: it was like the Yankees, like no beards. They're like, no,
- 17:57Speaker 2: you know, you got to dress up to go to
- 17:58Speaker 2: the after party all this shit. So I think I
- 18:02Speaker 2: did rub people the wrong way, and I think it
- 18:05Speaker 2: was just annoying for the cast. I think the show
- 18:10Speaker 2: as a whole loved it because they were like, people
- 18:12Speaker 2: are talking about SNL, not that they weren't. I want to.
- 18:16Speaker 2: I want someone on YouTube, like, motherfucker thing, he's there.
- 18:21Speaker 2: I brought a lot of pop culture into the show,
- 18:26Speaker 2: like I made it sort of like a tabloidy like
- 18:31Speaker 2: trendy thing unintentionally, and also I was embarrassed by it,
- 18:36Speaker 2: like because I was no one. Now it started to
- 18:39Speaker 2: change a little bit, but no one talked about any
- 18:41Speaker 2: work I was doing. They were just like, oh, that's
- 18:43Speaker 2: the you know, fuck stick Yeah, and like that hurt
- 18:47Speaker 2: so much, so like and they they saw I think
- 18:50Speaker 2: after like a year or two, everyone saw how sad
- 18:54Speaker 2: I was about it. Embarrassed because like I was never
- 18:56Speaker 2: on Instagram, like you know, flexing that sort of lifestyle
- 19:01Speaker 2: at all. I was very like embarrassed by it. So
- 19:04Speaker 2: I think after a while they they understood. But at first, yeah,
- 19:07Speaker 2: they're like, this kid's just like allowed and this has
- 19:09Speaker 2: nothing to do with essenal this is but no one
- 19:13Speaker 2: was like out, I just want to be No one
- 19:15Speaker 2: was ever outrightly mean or you know, by any means,
- 19:20Speaker 2: but it was sort of like a you know, just
- 19:24Speaker 2: like hey, what.
- 19:25Speaker 4: Were you embarrassed by it?
- 19:26Speaker 1: He was bringing a lot of hot chicken, had age penis, like.
- 19:30Speaker 2: You know, on paper, that sounds great, right, but it's
- 19:41Speaker 2: embarrassing because you know, first of all, it's Hollywood. Everybody
- 19:45Speaker 2: bucks everyone, everybody's dating everybody. Why are they focusing on me?
- 19:51Speaker 2: It's because it's I'm not you know, I'm not Glenn
- 19:55Speaker 2: Powell handsome. You know, I'm just this like dude that
- 19:58Speaker 2: tells dick jokes that look that as a drug addict.
- 20:00Speaker 2: So it was like a it was it was like
- 20:04Speaker 2: what it was like what Yeah, and it had nothing
- 20:07Speaker 2: to do with comedy, and like also like that stuff
- 20:10Speaker 2: affects relationships like seeing that and like trying to move
- 20:16Speaker 2: around and go on dates and like just be like
- 20:19Speaker 2: a young dude who's trying to figure out who he
- 20:22Speaker 2: is and like not to be like I don't want
- 20:27Speaker 2: to victimize myself in any way because I'm cool, but
- 20:30Speaker 2: like the sexualization of me, Like if that was a girl,
- 20:36Speaker 2: you know, like people would be like, there'll be a
- 20:39Speaker 2: march for it. Like you just.
- 20:45Speaker 1: You're just talking about my dick all day and people
- 20:48Speaker 1: talk about girls ass or girls cities or girls va.
- 20:51Speaker 4: It was, yeah, but.
- 20:52Speaker 2: It's like people do that on the internet, so like
- 20:54Speaker 2: you know, let's say Sidney Sween or whatever, but it's
- 20:56Speaker 2: people on it. There's no like radio hosts or like
- 20:59Speaker 2: news people being like this guy with the dick or
- 21:01Speaker 2: like they don't they don't talk about girls like that
- 21:05Speaker 2: professionally like it was professional. It was. It was like
- 21:10Speaker 2: pointed out on the street like it was embarrassed. Uh
- 21:15Speaker 2: it was. I think it was like the New York
- 21:17Speaker 2: Times or something when I started dating someone that I
- 21:20Speaker 2: guess they considered out of my league, which I think
- 21:23Speaker 2: everyone is out of my league, but you know, uh
- 21:27Speaker 2: they were like this guy must have big dick energy
- 21:29Speaker 2: And then and then someone confirmed it and then it
- 21:33Speaker 2: was just like, I don't remember, they'll figure it out.
- 21:40Speaker 4: Somebody called them my phone when they're screaming at me
- 21:42Speaker 4: about it.
- 21:42Speaker 2: Though, oh yeah, he was pretty upset about that.
- 21:47Speaker 1: It was a guy told the story already.
- 21:51Speaker 2: It was not me. It was not me, ladies and gentlemen,
- 21:53Speaker 2: it was not me. No, you do look at me
- 21:55Speaker 2: in the sweatpants. Though one time I remember that, you know,
- 21:58Speaker 2: it was yes, it was not the one that was
- 22:02Speaker 2: called you screaming. But I remember one time I wore
- 22:04Speaker 2: sweatpants and I was like, didn't you just look? And
- 22:07Speaker 2: then I was like, maybe he did it. And then
- 22:08Speaker 2: I went home and watched the interview. He's like d
- 22:11Speaker 2: C P. Davis's sweatpants. I was like, what the.
- 22:17Speaker 4: Before that Pete was up here? One day I forgot
- 22:19Speaker 4: what he was.
- 22:20Speaker 1: He was doing something no, and we were sitting in
- 22:22Speaker 1: the office and introduced you to Pete with somebody else.
- 22:25Speaker 4: It was like, thinking what I'm thinking?
- 22:27Speaker 2: Like, I was like, it's also, I don't think it's embarrassing.
- 22:34Speaker 4: You said.
- 22:34Speaker 3: I don't like how you're treating Pete right now. It's
- 22:36Speaker 3: not about his genitals.
- 22:37Speaker 4: You the thing?
- 22:40Speaker 7: Why was Pete breaked up in the meeting.
- 22:42Speaker 6: I mean sometimes I.
- 22:43Speaker 2: Think it was. I said, it's just a warm day.
- 22:49Speaker 2: It was just a good, good sweatpants day.
- 22:53Speaker 3: And he was checking me out to so made me
- 22:54Speaker 3: feel even if he was going checking me.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Out to, made me feel sometimes it looks good.
- 23:01Speaker 4: You know, I wouldn't know, I relate.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Did you do it?
- 23:05Speaker 6: Which ad was it where you kind of played into the.
- 23:07Speaker 2: Bed guys, I'm uncomfortable. No, No, I just did a
- 23:12Speaker 2: reformation sort of thing. I get Was it that one,
- 23:14Speaker 2: the recent one?
- 23:15Speaker 5: No, this was a while back. I believe it was
- 23:17Speaker 5: Calvin Klein or something like that. It was like the
- 23:19Speaker 5: first time you kind of played into it, into it.
- 23:26Speaker 2: I got it once I got sober, and I looked
- 23:28Speaker 2: out from like you know what my friend says, I
- 23:32Speaker 2: looked at it from the cheap seats. I was just like,
- 23:34Speaker 2: I have not capitalized on people talking about my dick
- 23:39Speaker 2: for over a decade. I was like, I should make
- 23:42Speaker 2: some money over over this, you know. So, uh. I
- 23:45Speaker 2: Actually I've been sent a lot of stuff over the years,
- 23:48Speaker 2: like big Dick sandwich, big Dick this, yeah exactly, and
- 23:54Speaker 2: I've been like, nah, like that. No, Well, they might
- 23:58Speaker 2: come up with a bag soon, so I might you
- 23:59Speaker 2: might see it kind of want a shit on them.
- 24:03Speaker 2: But I've over the years gotten a lot of offers
- 24:07Speaker 2: like that. And then Reformation came with. I thought a
- 24:10Speaker 2: really brilliant ad because there are girls clothing line and
- 24:14Speaker 2: they were like, we want you to be the face
- 24:15Speaker 2: of a girl's color. I was like, that's cool. And
- 24:17Speaker 2: then you know, I got most of my tattoos removed.
- 24:20Speaker 2: And the whole thing was kind of like at the time,
- 24:24Speaker 2: a year ago or a year in change, there were
- 24:26Speaker 2: articles that were like pizza crackhead that like lives with
- 24:29Speaker 2: his mom, and I was like, I'm a crackhead, but
- 24:32Speaker 2: like I don't live with my mom. Like that hurt,
- 24:35Speaker 2: and it was like Pete's career is over. You know.
- 24:38Speaker 2: I got in trouble for I canceled buck Gus and
- 24:41Speaker 2: I got in trouble for it because I didn't I
- 24:45Speaker 2: love that show. I loved doing I love doing buck Gus.
- 24:48Speaker 2: I had a blast, thank you for being in it.
- 24:50Speaker 2: It just got to a point where I was I
- 24:53Speaker 2: got really tired of my whole career just being like
- 24:57Speaker 2: my personal life and living thro that is it's sort
- 25:01Speaker 2: of traumatic. Like, I not to be like lame, but
- 25:04Speaker 2: like it's it's traumatic to live in your own crap
- 25:07Speaker 2: all the time. And it got to a point where
- 25:10Speaker 2: like we would write stuff that I was comfortable with,
- 25:12Speaker 2: and then I think the head of whoever was running
- 25:16Speaker 2: my show, who greenlit it, was gone, and then this
- 25:19Speaker 2: new person came in was like, I think Pete should
- 25:22Speaker 2: be banging Martha Stewart this season. I think Pete should
- 25:25Speaker 2: have more mental issues. And I was like, I was like, oh,
- 25:28Speaker 2: but like I wouldn't do that, and they were like, well,
- 25:29Speaker 2: Pete the character, and I was like, I can't do this,
- 25:32Speaker 2: you know. And I was like if I want any
- 25:34Speaker 2: shot at being in real movies or being seen a
- 25:38Speaker 2: certain way, I was like, I can't just play myself
- 25:41Speaker 2: all the time and be this like sack. You know.
- 25:45Speaker 4: So they'd been trying to exaggerate your trauma basics.
- 25:48Speaker 2: Yeah, which I get like I would too if I
- 25:50Speaker 2: was a studio head, I'd be like, let's you know,
- 25:52Speaker 2: that's what works with Pete. So I had to, you know,
- 25:55Speaker 2: step back and kind of take a little bit of
- 25:57Speaker 2: a like be in purgatory for a low bit. And
- 26:00Speaker 2: then Reformation came out was like, do you want to
- 26:02Speaker 2: do this? And I was like, okay, I could show
- 26:03Speaker 2: everyone that I'm sober and that I put a little
- 26:06Speaker 2: weight on and that like I'm an adult, and I
- 26:09Speaker 2: felt like they helped. It's corny, but I feel like
- 26:12Speaker 2: they helped me start to like switch the narrative a
- 26:15Speaker 2: little bit. So I love doing that.
- 26:17Speaker 4: How did NBC react when you just told them I
- 26:19Speaker 4: don't want to do this?
- 26:20Speaker 2: They were not pleased. Have you seen me in any
- 26:23Speaker 2: NBC any Universal? No, they were you know, they were upset.
- 26:28Speaker 2: I cost people jobs, and like, you know, I took
- 26:32Speaker 2: care of the writer's room, and you know, anyone who
- 26:35Speaker 2: didn't you know, get paid that needed to. I took
- 26:38Speaker 2: care of it, which also hurt. But you know, it's funny.
- 26:44Speaker 2: It's like I worked, you work for a company for
- 26:47Speaker 2: over a decade. I'm pretty sure I brought in a
- 26:50Speaker 2: lot of money, you know, you know, worked hard on
- 26:55Speaker 2: that show, was a good boy, you know, like promoting
- 26:59Speaker 2: and whatnot. And then like you're it made me realize
- 27:02Speaker 2: a lot about the business where I was like, hey,
- 27:04Speaker 2: I'm gonna like I'm gonna probably die if I have
- 27:07Speaker 2: to keep doing this, and like that's a problem. And
- 27:12Speaker 2: it just made me realize, like before I got back
- 27:16Speaker 2: into doing stuff, because I was chilling for like a
- 27:18Speaker 2: year or whatever before I started working, I was like,
- 27:22Speaker 2: this can't be my whole life anymore. This is just
- 27:25Speaker 2: a job. You have to have something outside, Like this
- 27:28Speaker 2: is just something that we get to do, which is
- 27:30Speaker 2: very lucky, and I'm very lucky. But it did kind
- 27:33Speaker 2: of open my eyes where it's just like, oh, like,
- 27:36Speaker 2: no one actually cares about you, Like studios, networks, they
- 27:41Speaker 2: don't really care about you. They want you to do
- 27:44Speaker 2: the thing, which I get, but like I just wasn't
- 27:48Speaker 2: in a place. Now it's all good, like, but there
- 27:51Speaker 2: was like a time where it wasn't, and like that
- 27:54Speaker 2: was tough important. Yeah, But also what I realized is
- 27:57Speaker 2: like if if you're good enough, like they'll always come back,
- 28:05Speaker 2: like if they're if you're worth doing something like there
- 28:08Speaker 2: might be off a little bit, but if if you
- 28:11Speaker 2: could produce or if you could do like, you'll be back.
- 28:15Speaker 2: But while you're not there, it hurts and you're very confused.
- 28:18Speaker 2: But yeah, but I just wanted to no, no, no,
- 28:22Speaker 2: I think I think I would No, I think I
- 28:26Speaker 2: think we're cool. I talked to everyone over there. Now
- 28:29Speaker 2: we're cool. There was a little time where there was
- 28:31Speaker 2: some heat and it wasn't all good, but I think
- 28:36Speaker 2: like now it's there was a time where it wasn't
- 28:40Speaker 2: and and I understand why, but it just hurt because
- 28:45Speaker 2: it was a place I worked for over a decade.
- 28:47Speaker 2: So I was just like, I'm having trouble, and like
- 28:51Speaker 2: they're like, you know, get it together kind of sort
- 28:54Speaker 2: of thing. Yeah, you just like there's these lessons that
- 28:58Speaker 2: I had to learn. But everybody there's been nice and
- 29:01Speaker 2: we've been cool and everything's been on the right foot now.
- 29:03Speaker 2: But yeah, there was a time where everyone I was like, oh,
- 29:07Speaker 2: it might be a rap, you know, But then I
- 29:09Speaker 2: realized there's another studio and they liked me, so like,
- 29:13Speaker 2: you know, like that's why it's it's all good now.
- 29:16Speaker 2: You said you removed all your tattoos. What made you
- 29:18Speaker 2: want to do that? And what was that process? Like
- 29:20Speaker 2: my tattoos sucked. They were all drug fueled, you know.
- 29:25Speaker 2: I got all my tattoos in a span like two years,
- 29:29Speaker 2: and I was just looking at myself in the mirror
- 29:31Speaker 2: once in rehab, I just for the first time when
- 29:33Speaker 2: I was sober, and I was just like oh no,
- 29:37Speaker 2: Like what did I do? And I think tattoos are cool.
- 29:43Speaker 2: I realized most people's tattoos are meaningful and mine just weren't,
- 29:48Speaker 2: so I started burning them off. Burning them off sucks.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Ever got a tattoo, So you go to this doctor
- 29:54Speaker 2: that have this big laser and they numb me up
- 29:58Speaker 2: a little bit and they burn I don't know if
- 30:01Speaker 2: this is the technical. Essentially they burn off a sheet
- 30:04Speaker 2: of your skin and then it got a heel for
- 30:07Speaker 2: like six to eight weeks. And then once that and
- 30:11Speaker 2: the healing thing is you have an open, open gash
- 30:15Speaker 2: on your arm, and then you got to put all
- 30:17Speaker 2: this stuff on and keep it out of the sun.
- 30:19Speaker 2: And then after six eight weeks you gotta do it
- 30:21Speaker 2: like ten more times. So it takes years, you know,
- 30:24Speaker 2: and if you work, you know, can't be on set
- 30:27Speaker 2: with like an open so like you got to schedule
- 30:29Speaker 2: it in between. So I'll be removing them till I'm
- 30:31Speaker 2: like forty. But it sucks. If anybody is actually thinking
- 30:35Speaker 2: about it, it gets tattooed. I would recommend thinking about
- 30:39Speaker 2: it for a couple of years because your feelings change,
- 30:42Speaker 2: you know. When I was twenty three, I was like,
- 30:44Speaker 2: who tang forever. Yeah. No, no, I'm still there. I
- 30:49Speaker 2: kept my woud tag tattoo. But you know, there's certain
- 30:52Speaker 2: things that like, you know, like a dire wolf from
- 30:55Speaker 2: Game of Thrones, like.
- 30:58Speaker 7: Would you want that?
- 30:59Speaker 2: Yeah? But when I was season seven, I was like,
- 31:02Speaker 2: I gotta get this Hillary staying. I love Hillary. I
- 31:06Speaker 2: got Hillary after she lost because I one, I know
- 31:10Speaker 2: her personally and she's a lovely lady, but also just
- 31:14Speaker 2: like she's tough man. That's like she like really was
- 31:19Speaker 2: at the forefront of some bullshit, and as someone who
- 31:22Speaker 2: has been at the forefront of some bullshit, I was
- 31:25Speaker 2: just like, I just wanted to, you know, cheer up
- 31:29Speaker 2: a little bit. She loves it. When I was getting
- 31:33Speaker 2: what was cute was that I got him removed. She
- 31:36Speaker 2: hit me up. I was like, you're not removing me.
- 31:41Speaker 2: I was like, of course not, of course, Hillary stays.
- 31:45Speaker 7: Did you did you have to audition for the pickup?
- 31:49Speaker 2: No? I got? I got uh So. I hosted uh
- 31:54Speaker 2: Asid out like two years ago, and it was actually
- 31:58Speaker 2: a pretty crazy story. It was like the day after
- 32:02Speaker 2: the initial Israel Palestine Hamas stuff was happening, and it
- 32:10Speaker 2: was a season premiere, so they were like, you know,
- 32:13Speaker 2: we're gonna have to address this as a show, and
- 32:15Speaker 2: I was like, of course, you know, I've been there
- 32:17Speaker 2: before when stuff happens s, and I has always been
- 32:20Speaker 2: really good about getting ahead of it and just kind
- 32:23Speaker 2: of in a way being like, let's be funny, and
- 32:27Speaker 2: we can still be funny, but we have to obviously
- 32:31Speaker 2: acknowledge what's going on. So, like in typical Lauren fashion,
- 32:38Speaker 2: you know, he tells me we're gonna have to address
- 32:40Speaker 2: it as a show, and then like an hour before
- 32:42Speaker 2: the show, he's like, it has to be you and
- 32:44Speaker 2: I was like, oh, all right, and then the whole
- 32:48Speaker 2: cold open was just me. He was like, you have
- 32:53Speaker 2: to talk to the audience about what's going on. And
- 32:57Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know if I could do that.
- 32:58Speaker 2: And Lauren was like, well, you were born in tragedy,
- 33:01Speaker 2: so you could do it. But he said it kind
- 33:03Speaker 2: of like that was like some bane shit, like you
- 33:06Speaker 2: were born in the tragedy. Uh, and uh, you weren't
- 33:10Speaker 2: pointing tragedy happen. It happened, right, yeah, but he was
- 33:15Speaker 2: like you could do this, and so I just I
- 33:19Speaker 2: was like thinking about what happened to me when nine
- 33:21Speaker 2: to eleven happened, and uh, I just told this story
- 33:25Speaker 2: about how my mom took me to f Ye. Remember
- 33:27Speaker 2: f Ye for your Entertainment, And I bought h Eddie
- 33:30Speaker 2: Murphy Delirious DVD and I didn't know what it was.
- 33:34Speaker 2: I just loved Eddie Murphy growing up. And I put
- 33:36Speaker 2: it on in the car and my mom just heart,
- 33:39Speaker 2: fuck this, suck my dick. Fuck you don't look at
- 33:43Speaker 2: my ass all this. She was like, what the hell
- 33:45Speaker 2: are you watching. I was like, Donkey from Shrek, It's
- 33:50Speaker 2: this new movie that he did, because I you know,
- 33:53Speaker 2: Shrek just came out. And she was like, you can't
- 33:55Speaker 2: watch this. But I was laughing so hard at the
- 33:57Speaker 2: ice cream man did and him doing the barbecue bid,
- 34:02Speaker 2: and she saw how much I was laughing, and we
- 34:03Speaker 2: weren't laughing a lot, you know at the time. So
- 34:06Speaker 2: she was like, you can watch this, just like, don't
- 34:08Speaker 2: tell anybody. And it was our little secret. I used
- 34:11Speaker 2: to watch Eddie Murphy stand up in my house and
- 34:13Speaker 2: then and I was like, I'll just tell that story.
- 34:16Speaker 2: So I told that story. He saw it and they
- 34:18Speaker 2: were about to start shooting that and then he just
- 34:22Speaker 2: set the offer.
- 34:24Speaker 1: When you was on set and you were shooting with
- 34:26Speaker 1: him on the pickup, when did you realize like, oh shit.
- 34:28Speaker 4: This is worth Like there was a moment.
- 34:30Speaker 2: There was never a moment where it was not like,
- 34:33Speaker 2: oh my goodness. But we weirdly have a lot of
- 34:37Speaker 2: shit in common. I'm by no means Eddie Murphy level
- 34:41Speaker 2: in any way, shape or form. I don't think anyone is.
- 34:44Speaker 2: But we're both the youngest cast members ever. Both started
- 34:51Speaker 2: stand up when we were like fifteen, sixteen, I think
- 34:54Speaker 2: maybe he was even fourteen. Both lost our dads at
- 34:57Speaker 2: like seven or eight, so we immediately just bonded. Uh
- 35:01Speaker 2: and it was like you know, you know that Spider
- 35:04Speaker 2: Man meme. Yeah, it was kind of kind of like that,
- 35:08Speaker 2: and we just got along real well. But there is
- 35:10Speaker 2: sometimes where in certain takes where you're like, oh shit,
- 35:14Speaker 2: that's that's some that's Eddie Murphy. But we we just
- 35:18Speaker 2: had a good time. Man, he's the best.
- 35:19Speaker 3: You have to try to outfunny him because he is
- 35:22Speaker 3: such a legend, Like I have to impress him even
- 35:23Speaker 3: much more.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Or is it just so I've done that in the
- 35:26Speaker 2: past where I'm like, I'm just gonna try. You know,
- 35:28Speaker 2: when you you know, when you first meet a famous
- 35:30Speaker 2: person before when you first get into business and you're
- 35:32Speaker 2: just like and you take a selfie with them, and
- 35:35Speaker 2: then he realized like, oh, like, they will never like
- 35:38Speaker 2: me because then you become famous and someone does that
- 35:42Speaker 2: to you and you're like, oh, all right, it's corny, right.
- 35:46Speaker 2: So I, luckily at SNL had so many of those
- 35:49Speaker 2: moments because it's there's a new famous person every week.
- 35:52Speaker 2: And then like halfway through, I started getting noticed a
- 35:55Speaker 2: little bit and I was like, oh, this sucks. They're
- 35:58Speaker 2: just regular people and they want to be spoken to normally.
- 36:01Speaker 2: So I would just, you know, do that approach. And
- 36:03Speaker 2: there's nothing a comic hates more than someone trying to
- 36:06Speaker 2: be yeah, funny. So luckily it just was, you know,
- 36:11Speaker 2: very natural. There was sometimes Eddie would dunk, then I'd
- 36:14Speaker 2: throw it up, and sometimes he would throw it up,
- 36:16Speaker 2: and it was just fun. Man. It was just we
- 36:19Speaker 2: were in this little car, was in this truck for
- 36:21Speaker 2: like three months, and we were just screaming at each other.
- 36:23Speaker 2: It was almost like fan fiction, like if, like if
- 36:27Speaker 2: I could work with Eddie Murphy in the movie, not
- 36:29Speaker 2: only working with him, but it's just me and him
- 36:31Speaker 2: for three months in a car I was like, that's
- 36:33Speaker 2: it was really fun. It was super cool.
- 36:36Speaker 5: I saw helped you get your entourage together. You said,
- 36:38Speaker 5: watching him and how he moved change how you move.
- 36:41Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he has, uh you know, he's the biggest
- 36:47Speaker 2: star ever, not just in comedy, and he was super young,
- 36:51Speaker 2: so he he's been famous for fifty years. Yeah, you know.
- 36:56Speaker 2: So like when he showed up to set, it was
- 37:00Speaker 2: just two people or just three people, and as I
- 37:03Speaker 2: got to know these guys, yeah, but I asked him
- 37:09Speaker 2: and he's like, I was like, how do you why
- 37:13Speaker 2: do you move like this or whatever? And he was
- 37:15Speaker 2: just like at a certain point, I just was like,
- 37:17Speaker 2: you know, he's like I had everybody around too, and
- 37:21Speaker 2: then you know there's something weird about where like you'll
- 37:26Speaker 2: try and help your friends or do stuff with them
- 37:29Speaker 2: all and they like get mad at you. Oh yeah,
- 37:32Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And I'm like, how did
- 37:35Speaker 2: this get like so weird? Like I think it's just
- 37:41Speaker 2: you know, we obviously change a little bit, but like
- 37:45Speaker 2: I think the people around you really sometimes change when
- 37:49Speaker 2: this This is a hard thing to navigate. And I
- 37:51Speaker 2: don't even blame them, like it's it's it just happens
- 37:54Speaker 2: with some people. And when you're going from doing, you know,
- 38:00Speaker 2: twenty thirty people at a comedy club and then the
- 38:02Speaker 2: next day it's twenty five hundred out of nowhere, like
- 38:05Speaker 2: that fucking does That does something to your brain and
- 38:08Speaker 2: it does something to the people around you. And I
- 38:11Speaker 2: was just talking to Eddie and he's like, yeah, just
- 38:12Speaker 2: get like a couple people you could trust that like
- 38:16Speaker 2: you're you know, I don't know. I always thought you
- 38:18Speaker 2: had to have like forty friends, but like if you
- 38:20Speaker 2: have like three or four really good ones that you
- 38:22Speaker 2: could tell everything too, like you're very lucky. And then
- 38:26Speaker 2: I just looked around me and I saw who was
- 38:29Speaker 2: my favorite and who I could trust and tell everything too.
- 38:32Speaker 2: Because I was I went through my phone. I was like,
- 38:34Speaker 2: can I tell this person everything? And I was like no,
- 38:36Speaker 2: I was like delete.
- 38:40Speaker 4: That's a good way to.
- 38:40Speaker 2: Do it, you know, yeah, Like can I tell them
- 38:43Speaker 2: everything and not be like is he gonna tell other people?
- 38:46Speaker 2: Or well I read this in the daily mail and
- 38:47Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know. Bye, So now tested people like,
- 38:52Speaker 2: oh yeah, bullshit, just see yeah. And still once in
- 38:55Speaker 2: a while, I'll make up a lie and I'll tell
- 38:58Speaker 2: each one of them a different thing. And ever since
- 39:01Speaker 2: I cut everybody out, it hasn't happened. But I tell
- 39:04Speaker 2: everybody a different lie and see if it'll come out.
- 39:08Speaker 2: No as since I cut everybody out, I know.
- 39:10Speaker 8: But oh yeah, so that would have one of them
- 39:13Speaker 8: comes to you like you're a shitty liar, and I
- 39:15Speaker 8: know that I don't want to fuck with you.
- 39:19Speaker 7: Because you're alive.
- 39:22Speaker 2: They I think they would understand. I think that's that's
- 39:25Speaker 2: what I love about, you know, the people I have around,
- 39:28Speaker 2: like they just love me and they're here for me,
- 39:31Speaker 2: good or bad. You know. These were also people who
- 39:34Speaker 2: when no one was talking to me and I was
- 39:38Speaker 2: told my my ship was over, they were like, hey,
- 39:42Speaker 2: you want to just like go get food, go hang out,
- 39:43Speaker 2: and I I it fucked me up so much I
- 39:45Speaker 2: didn't know how to. I was like, I'm I'm out
- 39:48Speaker 2: right now, Like I'm not, I don't have anything to offer,
- 39:51Speaker 2: and they were, yeah, so we're friends friends, Yeah, yeah,
- 39:54Speaker 2: So those were people who showed up for me.
- 39:57Speaker 7: Real question, are you happy now?
- 40:00Speaker 2: I am really happy? Yeah. It's a it's a thing
- 40:03Speaker 2: you got to work on all the time because once
- 40:05Speaker 2: you're happy, like it's like that's when the real work
- 40:08Speaker 2: starts because you got to maintain it and do a
- 40:12Speaker 2: lot of maintenance. But like, I'm in a really good
- 40:15Speaker 2: place finally where I'm not like lie, well, I feel
- 40:20Speaker 2: like I've always been pretty honest about how I feel.
- 40:21Speaker 2: But like I'm not like putting on a Yeah, I'm
- 40:25Speaker 2: just like I'm okay, you know so, and I'll take it.
- 40:28Speaker 2: I'll take I just want to be mid all the time,
- 40:31Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like the mid is good, Yeah,
- 40:34Speaker 2: mid is very good.
- 40:35Speaker 1: So I'm just but yeah, but when you isn't weed,
- 40:39Speaker 1: This is why I quit weed.
- 40:40Speaker 2: It's too strong. Now. It depends, it depends. Now. There's
- 40:44Speaker 2: a comedian that I was I think it's a Dusty Sleigh.
- 40:50Speaker 2: I was watching a special, very funny guy, but he
- 40:52Speaker 2: was like he did this joke where he's like, I've
- 40:54Speaker 2: done milder acid than some weed I've smoked today, And
- 40:58Speaker 2: I agree.
- 40:59Speaker 4: Damn.
- 41:00Speaker 2: We used to just be smoke weed and then like
- 41:03Speaker 2: music would be insane, and you know, like movies or
- 41:08Speaker 2: whatever would be more fun to watch, maybe a little funnier.
- 41:10Speaker 2: Now you smoke, you're like having an existential crisis.
- 41:14Speaker 4: There's no reason for edible to be sixty five milligra.
- 41:17Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was one hundred.
- 41:20Speaker 7: I just get it just if you break it up
- 41:22Speaker 7: and small.
- 41:24Speaker 6: That is happening.
- 41:28Speaker 2: It's been hoanice to me. And then when I was
- 41:29Speaker 2: in rehab the last time, most of the young people
- 41:32Speaker 2: in there were all in there weed because there's this
- 41:36Speaker 2: study that's gonna come out, uh that they showed me.
- 41:40Speaker 2: So weed used to be like two to four percent THC, right,
- 41:44Speaker 2: so you get a little high sometimes it'd be a
- 41:46Speaker 2: little good, would be like six. The average weed you
- 41:49Speaker 2: get at a weed store nineteen percent. So it's just
- 41:52Speaker 2: like and that's the lowest. Everyone's putting butter on it
- 41:56Speaker 2: and all this goo and all this crazy shit.
- 42:00Speaker 7: I never knew that was only two to four.
- 42:03Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why, No, it's not killing. I had like
- 42:06Speaker 2: psychosis was because I was a daily, all day sort
- 42:10Speaker 2: of guy, and I got psychosist where you like, hear
- 42:13Speaker 2: voices and like you you don't you feel like you're
- 42:16Speaker 2: sitting next to yourself. He's not supposed to do that. No,
- 42:20Speaker 2: And it's because it's too it's too strong. So you're
- 42:23Speaker 2: out there.
- 42:23Speaker 7: Because I'm gonna lie.
- 42:24Speaker 8: I rolled with a nice ass blat and watched bodies
- 42:27Speaker 8: Bodies Bodies, that is my ship.
- 42:28Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. That's a fun one. It's it's a
- 42:31Speaker 2: very underrated film. I think it's a silly Goose film.
- 42:34Speaker 7: I like it, though.
- 42:35Speaker 5: Do you feel your I was going to say, you're
- 42:37Speaker 5: talking about being happy? I know you got your baby
- 42:39Speaker 5: on the way.
- 42:39Speaker 2: Yes, I couldn't be more excited.
- 42:45Speaker 6: Yeah, that's how you say that this is going to
- 42:47Speaker 6: be the best role you've ever played.
- 42:49Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's the only thing I've
- 42:53Speaker 2: ever felt since when I was young and my dad passed.
- 42:56Speaker 2: I remember I used to my mom used to be like,
- 42:58Speaker 2: what do you want to be when you grow up?
- 43:00Speaker 2: I used to be like a dad. I always wanted
- 43:02Speaker 2: to be a dad because I felt so crappy and
- 43:06Speaker 2: I wanted to like make sure that a kid didn't
- 43:08Speaker 2: feel that way or have to go through like what
- 43:10Speaker 2: I went through. And then well, my girl told me
- 43:13Speaker 2: she was pregnant. I felt exactly how I felt when
- 43:16Speaker 2: I was like seven or eight years old, and it
- 43:18Speaker 2: was so nice, because you know, when you're little, you're
- 43:20Speaker 2: like I want to be an astronaut or like I
- 43:21Speaker 2: want to be whatever. Like a lot of that stuff
- 43:24Speaker 2: fizzled out, but I felt the exact excitement that I
- 43:28Speaker 2: felt when I was little, and I couldn't be more stoked.
- 43:31Speaker 5: It's gonna be funny your decision to share the news
- 43:33Speaker 5: and all the things, just because of how much it
- 43:35Speaker 5: sounds like you went through with just like your own
- 43:37Speaker 5: battles with media and all that.
- 43:38Speaker 6: Why share the news?
- 43:40Speaker 2: Well, they knew for a while, and they were being
- 43:42Speaker 2: cool because you know, they found out. I think someone
- 43:46Speaker 2: saw us going into a doctor's office or something like
- 43:49Speaker 2: real early on. And then it was like it was
- 43:53Speaker 2: super stressful because one, I would ideally like no one
- 43:58Speaker 2: to know anything and I would just like to be
- 44:00Speaker 2: a normal human and be able to enjoy that process
- 44:04Speaker 2: with my lady, and uh, it became super stressful because one,
- 44:11Speaker 2: as you know, when you have a baby, you don't
- 44:13Speaker 2: know if you're actually having one for a while until
- 44:18Speaker 2: you make it to a certain point and then it's healthy.
- 44:21Speaker 2: And so they found out way before that. And luckily
- 44:26Speaker 2: the outlets that found out were super cool and for
- 44:29Speaker 2: the first time ever in my life, and I felt
- 44:33Speaker 2: very lucky. They were just like, you know, we'll give
- 44:35Speaker 2: you two three months and then well post a ship.
- 44:43Speaker 2: Some of them would be like that's how fucked up
- 44:45Speaker 2: the world is. Where I'm like, that'd be really nice,
- 44:48Speaker 2: but you know what I mean, Like what a nice
- 44:50Speaker 2: outlet I've I felt worse. I feel bad for my
- 44:55Speaker 2: girl because all this, like I've bring a lot of shit,
- 45:01Speaker 2: Like anything we do or she does now is gonna
- 45:05Speaker 2: be a thing. And I feel really bad because one
- 45:09Speaker 2: I don't like it either. I consider myself a private
- 45:12Speaker 2: person that's just stuck in that cycle. She's a very
- 45:17Speaker 2: private person and this is her. She's the one going
- 45:23Speaker 2: through that. Yes, she's the one doing all the work,
- 45:25Speaker 2: you know, and it's supposed to be a beautiful experience.
- 45:30Speaker 2: And like I she's never made me feel this way
- 45:34Speaker 2: or said anything, but like I feel so guilty and
- 45:39Speaker 2: horrible that like, in any way, shape or form, I
- 45:43Speaker 2: could not allow her to have the ideal pregnancy that
- 45:51Speaker 2: almost every woman gets to have it enjoy. So Luckily
- 45:55Speaker 2: she loves me and knows what comes with me, and
- 45:59Speaker 2: we've talked about it before we you know, fully were
- 46:03Speaker 2: in a relationship. But like if I really feel shitty
- 46:07Speaker 2: for her in that aspect that like you know, she
- 46:10Speaker 2: didn't want to post that, Like you know, first of all,
- 46:12Speaker 2: anyone that does that shit. You know, you see that,
- 46:15Speaker 2: you're like, this is corny, Yeah, you see, like they're like,
- 46:19Speaker 2: you know, the ultra sound like you. But we were
- 46:24Speaker 2: not given a choice and they held it off as
- 46:27Speaker 2: long as we could. And luckily, my girl's really funny
- 46:30Speaker 2: and she posted a good funny caption.
- 46:32Speaker 1: And I think people going to hell. I really do,
- 46:34Speaker 1: because I think that's so shitty. If your girl is pregnant,
- 46:37Speaker 1: you and her should be able to tell your friends
- 46:40Speaker 1: and your family on your term.
- 46:41Speaker 2: We couldn't tell anyone the time, you know.
- 46:43Speaker 4: And what you said earlier is true too.
- 46:44Speaker 1: What if it's a difficult pregnancy and she may not
- 46:47Speaker 1: want it exploded because anything can.
- 46:49Speaker 2: Happen one and three, one and three don't That's what
- 46:51Speaker 2: I'm saying. They don't go through, you know, and them also,
- 46:55Speaker 2: fuck heads, you're putting tremendous stress on my girl. Woman
- 47:01Speaker 2: who needs to carry that? Like, like that does a
- 47:04Speaker 2: lot to a person. And we couldn't tell anybody, just
- 47:08Speaker 2: my mom and like you know a couple of people,
- 47:11Speaker 2: and then like I couldn't tell like my uncles because
- 47:13Speaker 2: you know that they might be at the water cooler
- 47:15Speaker 2: and be like and then you know, yeah, they might
- 47:21Speaker 2: ruin everything. You know. So you know my grandpa, who
- 47:25Speaker 2: I love to death, you know, he just he goes
- 47:28Speaker 2: to like diners and be like, I'll have a bot.
- 47:31Speaker 2: Do you know who my grandson is? And then you know,
- 47:37Speaker 2: so it took it took away a lot of normal
- 47:40Speaker 2: experiences that we would like to have. But we are
- 47:42Speaker 2: very happy and very excited.
- 47:44Speaker 7: I love that, and you are aware of that.
- 47:47Speaker 8: You got some dads who just are just not or
- 47:51Speaker 8: you know, some boyfriendizes who are just not aware of
- 47:54Speaker 8: what the woman goes through and it's not their fault
- 47:57Speaker 8: all the time because they're not women. They don't get it,
- 47:58Speaker 8: but you get it, like you know, So she's a
- 48:01Speaker 8: lucky girl.
- 48:02Speaker 7: You're a lucky guy.
- 48:03Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 48:03Speaker 7: And I think that's very admirable of you.
- 48:05Speaker 2: Thank you. It's no joke, Like, it's no joke what
- 48:10Speaker 2: ladies have to go through with the pregnancy. I do
- 48:12Speaker 2: not envy envy them at all. They are magical heroes.
- 48:18Speaker 2: It's crazy, Yes, we are thinking.
- 48:20Speaker 5: It's crazy sitting here with you and hearing you talk
- 48:22Speaker 5: about like the other side of it, like in reporting
- 48:25Speaker 5: the news and in hearing you talk about like what
- 48:26Speaker 5: it felt like how it impacted you is so like
- 48:29Speaker 5: I'm sitting here like it's different. It's also like man
- 48:32Speaker 5: like because you're you're living your life every day and
- 48:35Speaker 5: it's news to people, but like you're really living this
- 48:37Speaker 5: life every.
- 48:38Speaker 6: Day human, I mean you do. But I think it's
- 48:41Speaker 6: so different.
- 48:42Speaker 5: And we covered every minute of your life, like I
- 48:46Speaker 5: could go down the timeline of stories and hearing you
- 48:49Speaker 5: talk about how it affected you in private, and sometimes
- 48:51Speaker 5: you would talk about it.
- 48:53Speaker 6: It's just so like I'm sitting here like Dan, that's
- 48:54Speaker 6: kind of messed up.
- 48:55Speaker 2: Well, it's also like it's also like you know, like
- 49:00Speaker 2: a like what the beabs is going through. It's like,
- 49:02Speaker 2: leave that fucking kid alone. I know, leave the fucking
- 49:06Speaker 2: kid alone. He had a kid, he's married, just trying
- 49:09Speaker 2: to fucking like all you should care about that he
- 49:11Speaker 2: does is music or like you know, yeah, if he
- 49:15Speaker 2: fucking kills somebody or something, you can't report it, but
- 49:17Speaker 2: like leave the kill alone. And yeah, it's it sucks.
- 49:22Speaker 2: Like there there becomes a point where you're like, well,
- 49:25Speaker 2: I guess that's their job, and then you're like yeah,
- 49:28Speaker 2: but it's it's fucking it's hard to live like that.
- 49:34Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard to because then you're like, for example,
- 49:38Speaker 2: we'll be like should we go out to eat? And
- 49:40Speaker 2: it's like, well, there's gonna be a lot of people there,
- 49:42Speaker 2: and then you know, someone has a phone and then
- 49:44Speaker 2: sends it to like whatever, and like you just want
- 49:47Speaker 2: to be on a date, and it's like, man, I
- 49:49Speaker 2: don't want to have to think like that.
- 49:50Speaker 4: I get.
- 49:51Speaker 1: I can see all the sideca there's people that be like,
- 49:53Speaker 1: I don't feel sorry for him. He's rich, he's young,
- 49:55Speaker 1: he's banging a bunch of chicks, like you know what
- 49:57Speaker 1: I mean, right, But then on the flip side, it's
- 49:59Speaker 1: like on pay I think about all the things you
- 50:04Speaker 1: have to give up as just a.
- 50:06Speaker 2: Human, yeah, you know, and then you got to move
- 50:08Speaker 2: a certain way like yeah, like I do well, but
- 50:11Speaker 2: like then you gotta get security, you gotta go to
- 50:14Speaker 2: the airport a certain way, you gotta travel a certain way,
- 50:17Speaker 2: you gotta get a pr guy. You gotta It's like
- 50:22Speaker 2: it's a lot, dude, it's exhausting, you know. But again,
- 50:25Speaker 2: I'm very lucky.
- 50:28Speaker 1: I am happy, and I can tell you're happy. I
- 50:30Speaker 1: can look at you and tell you thank you.
- 50:31Speaker 2: You pick up.
- 50:32Speaker 3: It's out right now. If you haven't seen Negotiate, it's
- 50:34Speaker 3: currently number two in US on Prime Video.
- 50:37Speaker 2: And thank you for joining us, Thanks for having me.
- 50:39Speaker 2: I watched Weapons for youself.
- 50:43Speaker 1: If people look back on your career in twenty years,
- 50:45Speaker 1: what do you hope they say about who you were
- 50:48Speaker 1: as an artistan person.
- 50:49Speaker 2: I hope it's like I don't want to compare it,
- 50:54Speaker 2: and I'm not this guy and I will not have
- 50:56Speaker 2: the same career this guy had. But I hope it's
- 50:58Speaker 2: like downy like where they're like, you don't remember. I
- 51:03Speaker 2: didn't even know, because he's just iron man to me
- 51:05Speaker 2: and more than that. But he's just a fantastic actor
- 51:08Speaker 2: to me. But like, there was a time where his
- 51:10Speaker 2: career was over. He was broke in jail and there
- 51:13Speaker 2: were articles like he's doing crack in jail and all
- 51:16Speaker 2: this crazy shit, and he turned his whole life around.
- 51:19Speaker 2: So I hope people will be like, oh, wow, he
- 51:23Speaker 2: turned it around, because there's two ways all this shit
- 51:25Speaker 2: could go. And I remember when I was very close
- 51:29Speaker 2: to like not being here because of drug wise, I
- 51:32Speaker 2: was like, it would be so Pete Davidson of you
- 51:35Speaker 2: to overdose and die. That's such an expected headline that's
- 51:40Speaker 2: so corny, Like that's exactly what everyone thinks. I was like,
- 51:44Speaker 2: wouldn't it be really cool if you like grew a
- 51:46Speaker 2: mustache and turned it around and became a man, Like
- 51:52Speaker 2: wouldn't be cool if like for one time and you're
- 51:55Speaker 2: like people were like, Oh, Pete's okay, he's a dude.
- 51:58Speaker 2: He's just a dude. And I hope all this shiit
- 52:01Speaker 2: just you know, but also it takes repetition, Like it's
- 52:04Speaker 2: not like you just do ten years of that and
- 52:07Speaker 2: then you do one press sort it's like, oh, pizza.
- 52:10Speaker 2: You know, it's gonna have to do ten plus years
- 52:13Speaker 2: and keep this going now. But I hope people look
- 52:15Speaker 2: back and they're like, oh, wow, he turned it around.
- 52:18Speaker 1: But you do a lot of work at the work
- 52:19Speaker 1: that they don't see, like you know what I mean,
- 52:21Speaker 1: Like they don't they don't know the work that you
- 52:23Speaker 1: have put into be with the beat, the version.
- 52:26Speaker 2: Of yourself now thank you. It is tough, but yeah,
- 52:29Speaker 2: it's worth it. It's worth it, and it's necessary, like
- 52:32Speaker 2: you gotta grow, you know, when you're doing drugs in
- 52:35Speaker 2: your thirties, it's just not cute, Like there's no excuses really,
- 52:39Speaker 2: and at a certain point, you just you gotta you
- 52:43Speaker 2: all have to grow, always about You're always evolving. Yeah,
- 52:46Speaker 2: you're always doing personal work and you just want to
- 52:48Speaker 2: be the best person you could be. So I hope
- 52:51Speaker 2: people will see that.
- 52:52Speaker 4: Yeah, Pete Davison's.
- 52:54Speaker 3: Thanks movie to pick up out right now, and we
- 52:56Speaker 3: appreciate you for joining us, Thanks for having Davison is
- 52:59Speaker 3: the breakfa Club.
- 53:00Speaker 2: Good morning, hold up every day I wake up, pack
- 53:04Speaker 2: your glass up the Breakfast Club.
- 53:06Speaker 4: You're finish for y'all dumb