Pete Davidson Says He Made ‘SNL’ Feel ‘Tabloid-y’

Is “tabloid” era of “Saturday Night Live” over? Pete Davidson thinks so. The sketch series alum said during a recent appearance on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, which you can watch in the below video, that his own celebrity status helped make “SNL” more of a “trendy” show during his tenure. Davidson joined the cast at age 20 in 2014 and stayed for eight seasons, departing in 2022.

Davidson explained that the “SNL” brass as a “whole loved” that “people are talking about” the series, in part due to his own highly publicized personal life. “I brought a lot of pop culture into the show. I made it sort of a tabloid-y, trendy thing, unintentionally,” Davidson said, adding, “I don’t want someone on YouTube to be like, ‘Motherfucker thinks he’s the reason.’”

The actor also shared he felt “embarrassed” to be less experienced than his co-stars, many of whom were “10, 15 years…