When Pete Davidson auditioned for Saturday Night Live, he mentioned he "didn't realize it was nonetheless on."

The comic stopped by The Breakfast Membership and shared his expertise engaged on the storied selection present. He was 20 years previous when he tried out for the solid, though at the moment he was not an avid viewer.

"I used to be so fortunate," he mentioned. "I used to be so younger. I used to be tremendous naive. So I simply was like, I'm simply going to smoke weed and discuss, , what's happening in my life."

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In the course of the audition, Davidson was requested which sketches he preferred essentially the most on the present. He mentioned he went to the toilet to lookup clips on YouTube to search out a solution.

"I used to be like, 'I just like the Californians or no matter,'" he mentioned. "However I had no thought what I used to be speaking about."

His unfamiliarity made him a fish out of water in Studio 8H. He admitted that it was onerous to get alongside together with his castmates, most of whom had been over a decade older than him. Lots of them had labored by means of completely different comedy establishments, corresponding to The Second Metropolis or ImprovOlympic, earlier than touchdown a job on the present.

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"Not saying I didn't work onerous, however I used to be solely doing comedy, like, three, 4 years," he mentioned. "And a number of what individuals preferred about me was like, 'Oh, that is, like, a child from Staten Island that's simply speaking s—.' So you bought to recollect all of those individuals are 10, 15 years older than me working so onerous."

Davidson had a newfound appreciation for the present after attending SNL50. Whereas he beforehand joked that the group was "horrible," he advised The Breakfast Membership that the occasion made him perceive how a lot of an "establishment" the present is.

"That is like, , the Harvard of comedy," he mentioned.

Take a look at the total interview with Pete Davidson on The Breakfast Membership beneath.

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