{"id":2144072,"date":"2025-11-09T06:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2144072"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:49:26","slug":"snl-pete-davidson-returns-to-explain-saudi-arabia-festival-gig-were-losing-millions-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snl-pete-davidson-returns-to-explain-saudi-arabia-festival-gig-were-losing-millions-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019: Pete Davidson Returns to Explain Saudi Arabia Festival Gig: \u2018We\u2019re Losing Millions\u2019 | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d alum Pete Davidson<\/a> crashed this week\u2019s edition of Weekend Update<\/a> to explain his controversial participation in Saudi Arabia\u2019s Riyadh Comedy Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the New York Times recently ran an article calling the Staten Island ferry that I purchased with Pete Davidson a \u2018money-losing fiasco,’\u201d Weekend Update<\/a> co-host Colin Jost<\/a> noted. He then introduced Davidson<\/a> himself to further discuss the state of his and Jost<\/a>\u2019s decommissioned ferry, which they purchased in 2022.<\/p>\n

\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<\/a>\u201d return. \u201cI assume…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum Pete Davidson crashed this week\u2019s edition of Weekend Update to explain his controversial participation in Saudi Arabia\u2019s Riyadh Comedy Festival. \u201cWell, the New York Times recently ran an article calling the Staten Island ferry that I purchased with Pete Davidson a \u2018money-losing fiasco,’\u201d Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost noted. He then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2144073,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2144072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018SNL-Pete-Davidson-Returns-to-Explain-Saudi-Arabia-Festival-Gig.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144072","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=2144072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144074,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144072\/revisions\/2144074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}