Pete Davidson Asked Lorne Michaels to Fire Him After First ‘SNL’ Season; Michaels Said ‘It’s Going to Suck for Three or Four Years’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld After just one season of “Saturday Night Live,” Pete Davidson wanted out. In the new “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” docuseries, the comedian revealed that he asked series creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels to cut him loose. “After my first year, I actually called for a meeting with Lorne.
I was like, ‘Please fire me,'” Davidson said. “‘I don’t belong here. Everybody here is so talented, and they don’t want to be my friend.’ I was a child!
I was like, ‘Nobody wants to be my friend!'” As Davidson remembers it, Michaels told him, “You don’t figure it out until your third or fourth year.
It’s just going to suck for like three or four years.” Davidson, who ended up staying on as a cast member for eight seasons, added, “He was right!” Davidson joined “SNL” at age 20 in 2014 and left the cast in 2022, coming back to host in October 2023.
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