{"id":2144017,"date":"2025-11-09T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2144017"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:07:10","slug":"snl-pete-davidson-returns-to-explain-saudi-arabia-festival-gig-were-losing-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snl-pete-davidson-returns-to-explain-saudi-arabia-festival-gig-were-losing-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019: Pete Davidson Returns to Explain Saudi Arabia Festival Gig: \u2018We\u2019re Losing Millions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/tag\/snl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d<\/a> alum Pete Davidson crashed this week\u2019s edition of Weekend Update to explain his controversial participation in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/riyadh-comedy-festival-ethics-debate-comedians-controversy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Saudi Arabia\u2019s Riyadh Comedy Festival;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Saudi Arabia\u2019s Riyadh Comedy Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWell, the New York Times recently ran an article calling the Staten Island ferry that I purchased with Pete Davidson a \u2018money-losing fiasco,&#8217;\u201d Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost noted. He then introduced Davidson himself to further discuss the state of his and Jost\u2019s decommissioned ferry, which they originally purchased in 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/powerwomensummit2025.splashthat.com\/actress\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYeah, in case you\u2019re wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia\u2026 we\u2019re losing millions on this ferry,\u201d Davidson joked, after making his surprise \u201cSNL\u201d return. \u201cI assume that\u2019s what the article says. 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