SNL’s Newest Cast Member Isn’t Old Enough to Attend the Show's After Party
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 12:00 PM
This weekend’s Saturday Night Live season-opener
introduced two new faces, one of which borders on cherubic.
Twenty-year-old comedian Pete Davidson can't buy a beer (or rent a car)
to celebrate his ascension to sketch comedy’s highest ranks, but the consensus online is that he stole the show Saturday with his bawdy Weekend Update appearance as the show's “Resident Young Person.” He and Michael Che —
previously a writer for the show — are the only additions to a cast
that lost five members from last season. So why did Lorne Michaels clear
the bench to make room for someone too young to remember Chris Farley?
Despite his youth, Davidson has been appearing on TV for several years, including stand-up on Jimmy Kimmel Live and two seasons on MTV2’s brotastic reality TV-comedy fusion, Guy Code. He's only the fourth-youngest performer ever hired by SNL, and the other three are household names: Eddie Murphy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Robert Downey Jr.
Despite his youth, Davidson has been appearing on TV for several years, including stand-up on Jimmy Kimmel Live and two seasons on MTV2’s brotastic reality TV-comedy fusion, Guy Code. He's only the fourth-youngest performer ever hired by SNL, and the other three are household names: Eddie Murphy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Robert Downey Jr.
Davidson’s handful of moments in front of the camera were marked by
an “aw, shucks” shlubbiness that comes from his work in stand-up. He
uses that adolescent persona to get away with sophomoric jokes — about
male heterosexual squeamishness, say — that audiences might balk at. Davidson is clearly bait for younger viewers, and if he can make his dopey bro character appeal to the core audience of a show twice his age, Lorne Michaels will have picked another winner.
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