-Welcome back, everybody! I'm here with Pete Davidson!
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-Thank you for doing
Random Instrument Challenge with me.
-Oh, thanks for having me. -I appreciate it, buddy.
-That was an experience I'll never forget, for sure.
[ Laughter ] -Before we talk about anything,
I wanted to ask you about this,
because I heard about this thing that Alec Baldwin --
-Yeah. -He asked you,
"How do you stay in shape?"
So he does 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups a day.
-Yeah. -Now, have you heard that,
and is it true, that you do 100 push-ups?
-No. So, I was on set,
and Alec was hosting, and it was a sketch
where I had to be shirtless and, like, you know,
I guess, like, I'm a little bit cut or whatever.
So he came up... [ Laughter ]
There's no, like, nice way to say that.
[ Laughter ]
Okay? -I've never said that.
[ Laughter ]
-So he came up to me, and he was like, "What do you do?"
And I didn't want to be rude and say, like,
"I just still have metabolism."
[ Laughter and applause ]
So... [ Laughter continues ]
I'm not in my mid-50s.
[ Laughter ]
I just wake up like this. [ Laughter ]
So to make him feel better, I was like,
"Oh, man, I do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups every day."
And he was like, "Got it."
[ Laughter ]
And then -- And then he got the Trump gig.
And so I would see him every week, and every time
we would run into each other in the hall, he would be like,
"100 a day."
[ Laughter ]
And he started to do it, and he lost like 100 pounds.
-Yeah, he looks fantastic. -Yeah.
And it says it's all 'cause of me.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-That is my favorite, dude.
I wanted to hear about that story.
-Yeah. -I wanted your opinion on this.
This is a very local story, but it's a big story.
New York City is now legal. They're legalizing weed.
-Yeah. -What do you think about that?
Any thoughts? And what --
-I think you can see it in my eyes how happy I am.
[ Laughter and applause ]
It's 12 years too late for me and my police record,
but other than that... [ Laughter ]
I think it's a great thing.
I think, like, you know, finally.
It's a cool thing for the city.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-Will anything change for you?
-Well, you're a giant pothead.
[ Laughter ] No, I'm just kidding.
-I mean, I'm just getting the contact.
I'm feeling something right now.
But I just find it interesting.
I don't know how much will change, I guess.
-No. For me, nothing.
[ Laughter ] -Yes.
-But it is, like, it's a great thing for,
you know, I think, for the city, so I'm excited.
-Good. How's everything going upstairs
on "Saturday Night Live?"
-Everything's great. We got Carey Mulligan
and Kid Cudi this week, which is awesome.
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah.
-You've had a great season.
You have a lot of good things happening
I want to talk to you about,
but earlier this year on "SNL," you had a great sketch.
This is you and Timothée Chalamet
with our very own Questlove in a sketch.
-Yeah. -That was a big deal.
This is one the most viral videos
to come from "SNL" this season.
Congrats on that. -Thank you.
-What was it like acting with Questlove?
-Oh, dude, total pro. -Wow.
-Also -- Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
It's also, like, really cool when someone who, like,
knows the show and watches the show and is involved with it.
And it was just so fun to work with him,
and he got to hit me, which was cool.
Yeah. -Yeah, I saw that part.
-I asked him if he would really hit me and he said no.
-He told you to hit him for real.
-Yeah. -No.
-He's like, "I don't feel it. Hit me for real."
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I thought it would be cool for the sketch.
-You can't have Questlove hit you on national television.
-Yeah, but, like, I don't know, you can usually tell
when it's a fake hit.
I wanted him to punch me in the face.
-Hey, can I get a go? [ Laughter ]
-Hey, hey, hey, hey! -Any time.
-It was just a sketch. Come on.
[ Laughter ]
-It would be an honor.
[ Laughter ]
-You have cool projects coming up I got to talk about
'cause I'm excited about this -- "The Suicide Squad."
-Yes. -The trailer came out,
and it broke a record for like the most --
it was like 150 million people saw this trailer.
And here's my man right here from the trailer.
-Hell yeah. That's right.
-Pete Davidson. [ Cheers and applause ]
Come on, now! -That's your boy!
-Come on, now! -That's your boy!
-Come on, now! -Yeah.
-You play the character of Blackguard.
-Yeah. -Do you know anything
about this character going in,
or how did you get involved with the movie?
-I love, you know, superhero movies,
and I'm a huge James Gunn fan.
And I got a call from James Gunn.
He was like, "There's this role for you in the movie,
and you play a guy named Richard Hertz."
I was like, "Dick 'Hurts'? I'm in."
[ Laughter ]
-Ah, I didn't even -- -Yeah, that's his real name.
My character's name is Dick Hertz.
-Yeah, there you go, yeah. Wow.
-Yeah, and I was like, "Dude, that's the greatest.
That's so awesome." [ Laughter ]
And, yeah, he was nice enough to let me be in it.
And, like, it's a thing I still can't believe.
It's, like, ridiculous.
-How does this feel when that comes out?
'Cause the world, globally, saw that thing,
and they're all loving it and so excited.
-Well, my family and friends, like, it was the first time
they ever got super-excited for anything I've ever done.
And I was like, "Thanks. I just put a movie out in June."
-Yeah. That was about --
-That was about me and the family.
[ Laughter ]
-They didn't care about that one.
They want to see this one. -Yeah, but they were like,
"'Suicide Squad,' the two seconds, man..."
[ Laughter ]
That two seconds in the trailer, bro..."
-Dude, congrats. -Thank you.
-I just want to say, I don't know if I told you.
But "King of Staten Island," you crushed it, dude.
-Aww, thanks. -It was great.
And there was some scenes where -- yeah.
-And you're funny in the whole thing.
-Thank you very much. -And it's funny.
There's a couple scenes, I'm like, "Go.
Go, Pete, go, man." It was awesome.
It was really great. I'm so happy for you.
I got talk about the Audible original, too.
"The Hit Job" right here. -Yes.
-Explain this to people. What is this Audible podcast?
-It is an Audible original.
So it's like a movie or TV show for your ears.
[ Laughter ]
Yes. [ Laughter ]
The person from Audible backstage is, like, sweating.
-Yeah, they're gonna be like... [ Laughter ]
-So it's pretty much a show with Keke Palmer, as you can see.
-Yeah. -And she gets a job at a company
that hires hit men to kill the world's most dangerous men.
And, you know, it's fun, and it's dark, and, like...
-Funny. -Yeah, it's really funny.
-And if you're in it, it's funny.
-It's funny, and you don't have to see my face,
which I heard is a lot of people's problem with me.
-No! What are you talking -- No, no.
-So you just get to just listen, and it's really great.
And it comes out August -- August -- No, April 22nd.
[ Laughter ] Yes, I'm almost done.
-That's good. -And there's 12 episodes.
-We just love having you. Pete Davidson, everybody.