Two weeks after an Instagram post that shocked fans, comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson returned to the stand-up stage in Boston on New Yearâs Eve. And included in his set was some new material about fellow comic Louis C.K.
âI got a Harry Potter tattoo. Then the next day Alan Rickman, the guy who played Snape, died and I was like, oh, what a weird coincidence,â Davidson told the crowd, according to a report from E! âThen I got a Willy Wonka tattoo. Next dayâGene Wilder dies. Now Iâm like, alright, thatâs a coincidence, thatâs weird. So Iâm thinking of getting a tattoo of Louis C.K., what do you guys think?â
Davidson then tagged the bit with, âThat joke used to be about Aziz Ansari, but Aziz has been nice to me recently.â
His relationship with Louis C.K., who shared the stage with Davidson when he hosted SNL as recently as April 2017âjust months before his history of sexual misconduct against female comedians became publicâis apparently more complicated.
The comic went on to tell the crowd in Boston that when Louis C.K. was hosting the show, he âtold all the producers in front of me that all this kid does is smoke weed and heâs gonna smoke his career awayâ and then told executive producer Lorne Michaels that Davidson âsmokes so much weed that it makes people uncomfortable.â
âThen five years later this motherfuckerâs been locking doors and jerking off in front of people,â Davidson added as a punchline.
These jokes come directly on the heels of a newly leaked hour from Louis C.K. during which, among other things, he attacks Davidsonâs generation for using gender-neutral pronouns and mocks the survivors of the Parkland massacre for speaking out against guns.
The latter bit drew a sharp rebuke from one victimâs father, who asked the comedian, âWhy donât you come to my house and try out your new pathetic jokes?â
