{"id":1949779,"date":"2025-08-08T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1949779"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:37:07","slug":"pete-davidson-slams-snl-50-star-studded-audience-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pete-davidson-slams-snl-50-star-studded-audience-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson slams &#8216;SNL 50&#8217; star-studded audience: Terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2Fpete.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tough crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pete Davidson revealed that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/16\/entertainment\/jack-nicholson-87-makes-surprise-cameo-on-snl-50-special\/\">the star-studded audience<\/a> during the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d 50th anniversary special was, well, \u201cterrible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday\u2019s episode of\u00a0\u201cLate Night With Seth Meyers\u201d Davidson, 31, said,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible audience. It\u2019s just famous people, and famous people only like themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Pete Davidson during an interview with host Seth Meyers on August 6, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Lloyd Bishop\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Paul Shaffer, Nancy Juvonen, Billy Crystal, David Letterman and Drew Barrymore in the audience at the \u201cSNL 50\u201d special. <span class=\"credit\">Todd Owyoung\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Pete Davidson in a sketch during \u201cSNL 50.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Holland Rainwater\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Davidson, who was on \u201cSNL\u201d for eight seasons, from 2014 to 2022, added that he\u2019s \u201cguilty of this\u201d too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/13\/entertainment\/inside-the-snl-50-anniversary-special-200-seats-added-sketches-and-more\/\">\u201cSNL50: The Anniversary\u201d aired on Feb. 16<\/a>, and commemorated a landmark half-century of the iconic New York sketch comedy show with a medley of musical performances and sketches from current and past stars \u2013\u00a0 including Davidson, Andy Samberg, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Amy Poehler, Kate McKinnon, and Will Ferrell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Davidson pointed out, the audience was mostly made up of stars, including Robert De Niro, Kim Kardashian, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Jon Hamm, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/09\/entertainment\/alec-hilaria-baldwin-left-kids-letters-before-rust-verdict-in-case-something-happened-to-us\/\">Alec Baldwin<\/a>, Drew Barrymore, David Letterman, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/16\/entertainment\/steve-martin-snl-50-monologue-has-martin-short-dragged-by-ice\/\">Steve Martin. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The house was so packed that the<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/13\/entertainment\/inside-the-snl-50-anniversary-special-200-seats-added-sketches-and-more\/\"> production designer told The Post they had to add 200 extra chairs<\/a> to accommodate all the guests.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Pete Davidson during \u201cSNL 50.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Holland Rainwater\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon Hamm and Alec Baldwin in the crowd at the \u201cSNL 50\u201d special. <span class=\"credit\">Todd Owyoung\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ryan Reynolds in the crowd at the \u201cSNL 50\u201d special.  <span class=\"credit\">Virginia Sherwood\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/16\/entertainment\/jack-nicholson-87-makes-surprise-cameo-on-snl-50-special\/\">Jack Nicholson, 88, <\/a>was also on hand to introduce an Adam Sandler segment \u2014 even though he\u2019s been spotted in public less frequently in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/16\/entertainment\/pete-davidson-expecting-first-child-with-girlfriend-elsie-hewitt\/\">revealed in July that he\u2019s expecting his first child <\/a>with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt, admitted not all of the guests were bad though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeryl [Streep] rules,\u201d he said of the 76-year-old Oscar winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get to my seat and I just look and I\u2019m like, \u2018This can\u2019t be right.\u2019 And it was Meryl Streep and I just sat down and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry that I\u2019m sitting next to you. You\u2019re the best.\u2019 And she was very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the special, Davidson appeared in a pre-taped sketch as his Chad character, along with Laraine Newman, 73, who was in the original cast when the show launched in 1975.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Laraine Newman and Pete Davidson in a sketch in \u201cSNL 50.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Holland Rainwater\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Paul Shaffer, Scarlett Johansson, Alex Moffat, Emil Wakim, Chloe Fineman, James Austin John, Paul Rudd, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Devon Walker, Taran Killem, Ana Gasteyer, John Mulaney, Kristen Wiig, Kenan Thompson, Pete Davidson, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon as Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Sherman as Michael Bloomberg, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis, David Spade, Adam Driver, Kyle Mooney, Cecily Strong, Beck Bennett, and Nick Jonas on February 16, 2025.  <span class=\"credit\">Theo Wargo\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lorne Michaels and the celeb guests at the end of the \u201cSNL 50\u201d special on February 16, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Theo Wargo\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fellow original cast member Dan Aykroyd, 73, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/25\/entertainment\/dan-aykroyd-finally-reveals-why-he-skipped-the-snl-50-special\/\">recently said he skipped the special<\/a> because he wanted to watch it from home. The most \u201cemotional\u201d moment for him was Newman\u2019s sketch with Davidson, which he called, \u201cbeautiful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my one character that I got to do. In eight years of \u2018SNL,\u2019 I had one character,\u201d Davidson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not a very flattering character. Everyone was so excited to see Laraine, and then I just have my shirt off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough crowd.\u00a0 Pete Davidson revealed that the star-studded audience during the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d 50th anniversary special was, well, \u201cterrible.\u201d\u00a0 On Wednesday\u2019s episode of\u00a0\u201cLate Night With Seth Meyers\u201d Davidson, 31, said,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible audience. It\u2019s just famous people, and famous people only like themselves.\u201d Pete Davidson during an interview with host Seth Meyers on August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,332337,24075,29333,21890,340910,22335,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1949779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-late-night-with-seth-meyers","tag-nbc","tag-pete-davidson","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-seth-myers","tag-snl","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pete-Davidson-slams-SNL-50-star-studded-audience-Terrible.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}