{"id":386934,"date":"2026-04-19T07:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:20:10","slug":"pete-davidsons-absence-from-snl-creator-lorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386934\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson’s absence from SNL creator Lorne\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson<\/p>\n

Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson is not in the Lorne Michaels documentary because of scheduling conflicts and a packed interview line-up.<\/p>\n

Lorne tells how the TV producer became a comedy legend – whom Pete regards as a mentor and father figure – and features chats with lots of former stars of the NBC sketch comedy series, including Mike Myers, 62, Chris Rock, 61, Tina Fey, 55, and 52-year-old Kristen Wiig.<\/p>\n

Director Morgan Neville, 58, explained why 32-year-old Pete – a show cast member from 2014 until 2022 – was absent in an interview with People.<\/p>\n

He said: “I interviewed so many people for the film, and at a certain point, after I’d interviewed [John] Mulaney and he had said everything he had said, I just didn’t know where we were gonna put more voices.<\/p>\n

“It just felt like it was full, you know?”<\/p>\n

Morgan said many other Saturday Night Live entertainers were also ready to share their stories about Lorne.<\/p>\n

He added: “That was the hard part. It was like an embarrassment of riches, that you could interview a thousand people about Lorne Michaels. So many people have stories.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Morgan’s main focus was not on the cast members but on Lorne himself.<\/p>\n

He said: “I was just trying to distill his essence into a film. A lot of those stories are not about Lorne, they’re about those people.”<\/p>\n

“I just wanted to make sure I was staying on Lorne\u2019s story and not other people’s stories because there are stories everywhere, and it’s huge. There are thousand-page books about the show.<\/p>\n

“So, it’s really just trying to get that essence of what makes him tick that I was just zeroed in on.”<\/p>\n

Pete left Saturday Night Live in 2022, but returned as a guest host the following year.<\/p>\n

However, he would make a comeback as a cast member if Lorne asked him to.<\/p>\n

In November 2025, Pete told People magazine: “I’d do anything for Lorne.<\/p>\n

“I had a great time hosting last time, and anytime you get that call, it’s an honour and a privilege.<\/p>\n

“It’s always relevant, it’s a hot show. People look forward to it, and the cast is great.<\/p>\n

“I owe that guy my life. He jump-started everything. So I’d do anything for Lorne, and he knows that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson is not in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,437,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-386934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-inkl","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-app","16":"tag-news-headlines","17":"tag-news-today","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-today-news","21":"tag-tv","22":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}