For Davidson, the pandemic likewise required him into some considerable reflection. “I was at a really different place a year or two ago and I’m not exactly proud of how I handled or was handling things a few years ago,” he confessed. “Looking back on it, you’re like, ‘Ahh, come on, dude,’ but luckily, a pandemic happened and I got kicked in the balls and had to sit with all of my immature, irrational decisions.”
While he didn’t elaborate even more on the choices he was referencing, back in February 2020 right before the pandemic grabbed the United States, Davidson did reveal some discontent with the program that turned him into a star.
“Here’s the thing: I personally think I should be done with that show because they make fun of me on it,” he informed Charlamagne Tha God in a sit-down interview. “I’m cold-open political punchlines. I’m Weekend Update jokes. When I’m not there, they’ll be like, ‘Hahaha, but Pete’s a f–king jerkface.’ And you’re like, ‘Whose side are you on?’ I have a weird feeling in that building where I don’t know whose team they’re playing for really—if I’m the joke or I’m in on the joke. I really wanted last year to be my last year, but I’m still around and trying to knock it away.”
