Pete Davidson

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Pete Davidson, 2013

Peter Michael Davidson (born November 16, 1993 in Staten Island , New York City ) is an American comedian and actor . He appears regularly on the comedy show Saturday Night Live . He also had guest appearances on the MTV shows Guy Code , Wild 'n Out and Failosophy . He also performed as a stand-up comedian on Adam DeVine's House Party , Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Comedy Underground with Dave Attell and had a guest appearance on the television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine .

Life

Davidson is the son of Amy and Scott Matthew Davidson. His father is Jewish and his mother Irish ; Davidson was raised a Catholic. He has a younger sister. His father was a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department and was killed in rescue operations during the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001 . His mother works as a school nurse.

Davidson began his first attempts in stand-up comedy at the age of 16 years in a bowling alley in Staten Iceland , where a group of friends encouraged him to go on stage. Davidson has had Crohn's disease since he was 17 or 18; this made him unable to work for some time. He attended St. Joseph by the Sea High School, then Tottenville High School, and finally Xaverian High School in Brooklyn . He graduated there in 2011. After high school, he enrolled at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights , but dropped out after a short time.

Davidson was in a relationship with the singer Ariana Grande from March to October 2018 . After a month he proposed to her, which she accepted. The engagement was broken on October 14th. On December 15, 2018, he published a text on Instagram in which he spoke of suicide. Then he deleted his profile.

From January to April 2019, Davidson was in a relationship with Kate Beckinsale .

Career

Davidson's earliest appearance was in the third episode of the MTV comedy series Failosophy , which premiered on February 28, 2013. The following month he appeared on PDA and Moms , a third season of MTV2 reality television comedy series Guy Code , the first of four episodes he starred in. In June this year his first standup TV was in a episode of the second season of the Comedy Central telecast Gotham Comedy Live broadcast, the stand-up comedians in the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City shows. He returned to MTV2 the following month with an appearance on Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out , his first of six episode appearances on the show.

Davidson then appeared at Adam Devine's house party , Jimmy Kimmel Live !, Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, and made a guest appearance in Brooklyn Nine-Nine . In 2014 he got a role in the Fox comedy pilot Sober Companion , which ultimately didn't make it to the series.

Davidson premiered on Saturday Night Live on Saturday, September 27, 2014, with its 40th season . At 20, he was the first SNL cast member born in the 1990s and one of the youngest cast members of all time. The cast's first new addition this season, Davidson had the chance to audition for the show through regular Bill Hader , whom he met while filming a minor role in the 2015 Judd Apatow comedy film Dating Queen . Hader later told producer Lorne Michaels about him. His debut received positive reviews, with his most iconic skits of the season, including an Indiana Jones- style sketch of him and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson forced each other after being thrown with poison arrows Aspirating poison from each other's various parts of the body, an endeavor that eventually got them tangled in the "69" position. In another, Davidson was shot in the chest with an arrow by Norman Reedus .

In March 2015 Davidson was a presenter at the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber . Its boldest jokes belonged to one at the expense of fellow roaster Snoop Dogg and the host Kevin Hart and the movie Soul Plane of 2004. Davidson, whose father firefighter in response to the attacks of September 11 the worst died, described this film as " Experience of my life on an airplane ".

In 2016, Davidson was on the 30-by-30-list in Forbes . Also in 2016 Davidson recorded his first stand-up special Pete Davidson: SMD. The Comedy Central special was filmed in New York City . He appeared on the Jim Gaffigan Show .

In November 2018, Davidson was criticized for his comments mocking Republican Congressional candidate and veteran Dan Crenshaw , who wears an eye patch because of injury from the war in Afghanistan . Comparing Crenshaw to a "hitman in a porn movie," Davidson added, "I'm sorry, I know he lost his eye in a war or whatever." Davidson later invited Crenshaw for a weekend update segment on SNL . As a result, Davidson apologized to Crenshaw, and they made more jokes and hints that it was Veterans Day . Crenshaw and others have speculated that the joke may have helped Texas’s 2nd Congressional District win in the midterm elections.

In January 2019, Big Time Adolescence was released at the Sundance Film Festival, the first film in which Davidson played a leading role. It is the story of a boy named Mo (Griffin Gluck) who goes through life with the help of his sister's ex-boyfriend Zeke (Davidson) and his best friend Nick (Machine Gun Kelly) and learns to enjoy life in all aspects.

Davidson played the half-brother of Officer John Nolan ( Nathan Fillion ) in a guest appearance on the crime series The Rookie .

Davidson also wrote the script for The King of Staten Island , directed by Judd Apatow . The drama of a young man who has to deal with the new man in his mother's life is inspired by the biography of Davidson, who lost his father and struggled with depression during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pete Davidson Biography . TVGuide.com . Archived from the original on September 2015.
  2. ↑ Madeline Roth: Pete Davidson From 'Guy Code' Is Joining 'Saturday Night Live' Cast . MTV . September 15, 2014. Archived from the original on April 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Failosophy" . The New York Times . Retrieved on 13th 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Ariana Bacle: Pete Davidson Added to Saturday Night Live as Featured Player . In: Entertainment Weekly . Time Inc. . 15th September 2014.
  5. ^ A b Rob Bailey: Staten Island Native Pete Davidson, Son of 9/11 Hero, Joining Cast of Saturday Night Live . In: Staten Island Advance . Advance Publications . September 15, 2014. Archived from the original on September 16, 2014. Retrieved on April 5, 2015.
  6. ↑ Caramanica, Jon (October 1, 2015). "Pete Davidson Nuzzles Up to the Prickly Joke" . The New York Times .
  7. ↑ Arielle Dachille: Pete Davidson's Family Background Is A Favorite Joke Topic For Him, So Let's Investigate His History . In: Bustle . April 10, 2015.
  8. ↑ Steussy, Lauren (December 16, 2004). "'SNL' star Pete Davidson is proud of Staten Island bro: Tweets support for sister's basketball skills" . Staten Island Advance .
  9. ↑ Gary Buiso: Pete Davidson, Son of a Slain 9/11 Firefighter Makes His SNL debut . In: New York Post . News Corp . September 27, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  10. ↑ Lauren Steussy: Pete Davidson: 5 Things You Need to Know About the New Saturday Night Live Superstar . In: Staten Island Advance . Advance Publications. September 30, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  11. ^ Vaziri, Aidin (August 12, 2015). "At 21, Pete Davidson is a stand-up veteran" . San Francisco Chronicle .
  12. ↑ Michael Errigo: Pete Davidson: a comedian who's one of us . In: The Diamondback , Maryland Media, Inc., February 8, 2015. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. 
  13. ↑ https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/celebrity-couples/a21285444/ariana-grande-pete-davidson-relationship-timeline/
  14. ↑ https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/fahrten/fahrten/ariana-grande-und-pete-davidson-trendung-verlobung-geplatzt-57837304.bild.html
  15. ↑ https://www.grazia-magazin.de/hot-stories/people-news/ariana-grande-sind-die-saengerin-und-pete-davidson-reallich-verlobt-26200
  16. ↑ https://www.vip.de/cms/pete-davidson-schockt-mit-selbstmorddrohung-was-hat-ariana-grande-damit-zu-tun-4266557.html
  17. ↑ https://www.glamour.com/story/kate-beckinsale-pete-davidson-relationship-timeline
personal data
SURNAME Davidson, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davidson, Pete Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Staten Island , New York City