Pills and booze are how he gets through every day.

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After almost dying, you would think this former late night actor would be more careful when it comes to his health.

He isn’t.

Pills and booze are how he gets through every day.

Pete Davidson

Why Pete Davidson’s Days on Saturday Night Live May Be Numbered

Pete Davidson is at a crossroads.

As the comedian kicked off what looks to be truly prolific 2020 with the release of Alive in New York, his first Netflix stand-up special, in February and Big Time Adolescence, which features his first starring role in a film, now available to stream on Hulu, he sat down with a wide-ranging conversation with Charlamagne Tha God last month wherein he was asked by the Breakfast Club co-host where he saw himself in five years.

“I want to be a father and I would like to be directing and just writing,” Davidson shared. “My dream is just to write stuff and be able to produce for my friends. That would be the ultimate goal.”

Noticeably missing from his projected future? Any mention of Saturday Night Live, the show that catapulted him to fame after he joined the cast in 2014 for the show’s landmark 40th season, making him both the first cast member ever born in the 1990s and, at just 20, one of the youngest ever.

That’s not to say there wasn’t any talk about his gig on NBC’s long-running comedy institution. However, nearly all of it made clear that he’s got one foot out the door, ready to say goodbye to Studio 8H for good.

“It’s a hard thing to do because you don’t want to pull the trigger too early,” he explained about the advice he’s received from former SNL stars like Adam Sandler, “but everybody’s always been like, ‘You’ll know when you know and it’ll all be alright.'”

And listening to Davidson speak about his experience there, especially the last few years after his high-profile engagement to–and subsequent split from–pop star Ariana Grande in 2018 made him a tabloid fixture, with perhaps more attention paid to who he was dating on any given week than anything he did on that Saturday’s episode, it sounds like he knows.

“Here’s the thing: I personally think I should be done with that show because they make fun of me on it,” he told Charlamagne.

The radio personality countered, “That’s the point. It’s a comedy sketch show.”

Davidson said he understood that, “but like, I’m cold-open political punchlines. I’m Weekend Update jokes. When I’m not there they’ll be like, ‘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.”

He continued, “I really wanted last year to be my last year, but I’m still around, trying to knock it away.”

Despite calling creator Lorne Michaels “the best” and “a father figure” to him who “has treated me with nothing but love,” Davidson wasn’t shy about his feeling about what he called a “cutthroat f–king show” where “everyone wants to be the next thing.”

“You’re not gonna get coddled over there,” he admitted. “They don’t give a f–k at the end of the day.” – Source