Tough crowd.
Pete Davidson revealed that the star-studded audience during the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special was, well, “terrible.”
On Wednesday’s episode of “Late Night With Seth Meyers” Davidson, 31, said, “It’s a terrible audience. It’s just famous people, and famous people only like themselves.”
Davidson, who was on “SNL” for eight seasons, from 2014 to 2022, added that he’s “guilty of this” too.
“SNL50: The Anniversary” aired on Feb. 16, 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 – including Davidson, Andy Samberg, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Amy Poehler, Kate McKinnon, and Will Ferrell.
As Davidson pointed out, the audience was mostly made up of stars, including Robert De Niro, Kim Kardashian, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Jon Hamm, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, David Letterman, and Steve Martin.
The house was so packed that the production designer told The Post they had to add 200 extra chairs to accommodate all the guests.
Jack Nicholson, 88, was also on hand to introduce an Adam Sandler segment — even though he’s been spotted in public less frequently in recent years.
Davidson, who revealed in July that he’s expecting his first child with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt, admitted not all of the guests were bad though.
“Meryl [Streep] rules,” he said of the 76-year-old Oscar winner.
“I get to my seat and I just look and I’m like, ‘This can’t be right.’ And it was Meryl Streep and I just sat down and I was like, ‘I’m so sorry that I’m sitting next to you. You’re the best.’ And she was very nice.”
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.
Fellow original cast member Dan Aykroyd, 73, recently said he skipped the special because he wanted to watch it from home. The most “emotional” moment for him was Newman’s sketch with Davidson, which he called, “beautiful.”
“It’s my one character that I got to do. In eight years of ‘SNL,’ I had one character,” Davidson said.
“But it’s not a very flattering character. Everyone was so excited to see Laraine, and then I just have my shirt off.”
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