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