He’s actually pretty funny. Davidson just has that self-deprecating laid back slacker schtick that just makes it look so effortless you think that if he can do it, you or one of your idiot friends from high school could do it too.
That’s quite true. Shirley Jackson, an acclaimed author of numerous books including The Haunting of HIll House, wrote a hilariously charming book about her perfectly ordinary life in rural Vermont, Life Among the Savages.
Chauncey Gardener vibes.
Yes, that’s a good book—kind of like a slightly edgier Erma Bombeck.
You don’t find him incredibly handsome and witty?
I’ll take that literally just to move the thread along…
I mean, I wouldn’t go so far as to call him ugly, but at the same time, he’s not Rege-Jean Page or George Clooney or anyone like that.
I guess he’s a strange sort of charming- that’s sort of where I was going with the endearing part. He’s got something about his personality that’s interesting/charming/attractive to good looking celebrity women. My guess is that he’s not about the fame and being the center of attention, and that’s likely unusual for a comedian/performer. How many guys that Kate Beckinsale dates are either uninterested in her fame, or uninterested in their own fame? I imagine that sort of attitude combined with interest skates pretty close to her thinking he likes her for her own sake, not for everything else.
I don’t have anything to back that up, other than that just seems to be the way he is, and I could see that being his actual private persona as well. And I’m probably stretching pretty hard to second-guess how people think as well, so take that with a big grain of salt.
He’s also clearly quite intelligent, even though he seems to downplay it in his public persona.
Wasn’t that Harvey Pekar’s whole deal? Ordinary, unremarkable guy who discovered he had a talent for storyboarding comics about himself and finding people to draw them.
A couple of comics who know him since he was 17 starting out in clubs told a story about him asking them over to play video games. When they got there he said “I hope you don’t mind, Ariana is here.” He said it in a way that someone would say it about their unknown girlfriend not bragging that an international superstar was in their house. Their point was these women seem to like being with a guy that is comfortable going to the Met Gala but also just treats them as normal people when no one else around them does. It’s just his personality. And he has a giant hog.
For the most part King of Staten Island was a good movie. My biggest criticism is more of an Apatow problem than a Davidson problem. There was no ending. I also enjoyed seeing cameos by a bunch of NYC comics that most people probably wouldn’t recognize.
Pete Davidson says in one interview that he’s only dated 10 women in 12 years. According to other sources, nine of them are Carly Aquilino, Cazzie David, Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale, Margaret Qualley, Kaia Gerber, Phoebe Dynevor, Kim Kardashian, and Emily Ratajkowski. Is that a lot for a male between the ages of 17 and 29, considering that he was starring in a television show at the age of 20?
He first met Kim Kardashian when she appeared on SNL. They had a skit together where they kissed. But he didn’t show up to her wrap party. That apparently intrigued her and she ended up calling him a couple of weeks later. Plus, I believe that at that point sources were confirming she was DTF*, so the hog part surely played a part.
*DTF : Down to Fuck
I think it’s not so much the quantity, as their beauty.
Supposedly the reason Anne Bancroft fell for Mel Brooks was because he did not treat her like a big star who had already won two Tony Awards and an Oscar.
This might explain his attraction to women, but not why his life seems to be so interesting that he’s been able to trade off of it first on SNL, then a movie, and now a series. Well, good for him. I’d give his new series ‘Bupkis’ a try but I think it’s on a streaming channel we don’t have.
And an amusing anecdote RE: his well endowment: I believe it was Ariana Grande who first shared this news to the world. Pete was asked about it, possibly on one of his Weekend Update appearances, and he said, “it’s not that big- she just has small hands”.
He’s hardly the man who’s dated the most beautiful women. Just looking for a list of the ones dated by a famous man, I found the following website. I think that Mick Jagger dates much more beautiful women in a period of 12 years than Pete Davidson. And that continued well after Davidson’s present age. He had a child at 73:
He actually has a great-grandchild older than his youngest child, which is mind-boggling.
That’s true, and what you’d expect from the Rolling Stones’ frontman.
Dating Kate Beckinsale, Emily Ratajkowski, Phoebe Dynevor, Ariana Grande, and the rest is NOT what you would typically expect from an ok at best looking standup comedian whose claim to fame is that he was on SNL.
There was an unwritten “For him” caveat appended to that post of mine upthread. I wasn’t trying to imply that he was winning that particular race, only that he’s IN that particular race, when you’d think he wouldn’t even be let into the racetrack.
Trying to come up with criteria for what satisfies your subjective preferences and wondering why your tastes aren’t shared by literally everybody else in the world is a mug’s game.
Several reasons were given above and not all penis related. But somehow that’s not good enough? Different strokes for different folks. Some people like pineapple on their pizza, after all.
It sounds to me that that description fits Fred Armisen too. He’s dated Natasha Lyonne, Abby Elliot, Elisabeth Moss, Petra Haden, Martha Plimpton, Sally Timms, and Carrie Brownstein. It sounds to me that any SNL cast member who doesn’t care about remaining faithful over a long period to one partner can date a lot of moderately famous, moderately beautiful people.