Saturday Night Live departed from its usual cold open with a heartfelt message from Pete Davidson about Israel’s war with Hamas.
Davidson opened by discussing the “horrible images” from Israel and Gaza and related it to his own tragedy, of losing his father when he was a child on 9/11. “I know what you’re thinking, who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson?
Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk about it because when I was seven years old my dad was killed in a terrorist attack.
So, I know something about what that’s like.” He pointed to the “terrible pictures” of children suffering this week and said “no one in this world deserves to suffer like that”.
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