Pete Davidson slams ex-fiancée Åriana Grande, Republican politician Dan Crenshaw, and more in his new Netflix stand-up comedy special, "Alive From New York."
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 , to Republican politician Dan Crenshaw, to disgraced comedian Louis C.K. Pete opened the special by recounting how 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 , 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, , 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
“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 “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
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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.” , and admitted last week to in another stand-up set. “She won Billboard’s Woman of the Year, and I got called by barstoolsports.com," he joked.