{"id":33739,"date":"2025-11-09T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33739\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:55:09","slug":"pete-davidson-returned-to-snl-with-a-ferry-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/33739\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson Returned to “SNL” With a Ferry Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2022, two Saturday Night Live cast members were part of a group that purchased a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry. Specifically, Pete Davidson and Colin Jost \u2014 both with roots in the southernmost borough of New York City \u2014 were involved with the project, which went on to host a Fashion Week event<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems there may be \u2014 pardon the expression \u2014 rough seas ahead for the project. The headline for a recent New York Times article<\/a> about the venture referenced \u201cthe Staten Island Ferry Fiasco.\u201d And the article itself, by Steven Kurutz, detailed both the logistical hurdles faced by keeping a massive decades-old vessel afloat and some legal issues that cropped up around it. So it wasn\u2019t necessarily shocking to see Davidson return to SNL this weekend to address the report.<\/p>\n

Davidson joined Jost on Weekend Update<\/a> to respond to the Times article, along with a few other nods to recent and upcoming<\/a> events.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn case you\u2019re wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia \u2014 we\u2019re losing millions on this ferry,\u201d Davidson said, alluding to his controversial decision to take part in a comedy festival<\/a> there. He also admitted that he hadn\u2019t read the article: \u201cI can\u2019t spend five dollars on a paywall when I\u2019ve got a kid on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely prefer having a kid to a ferry,\u201d Jost replied. (Though, let\u2019s be honest: it would have been very strange if he had said the reverse.) Things got very free-associative from there, with Davidson riffing on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the recent mayoral election and potential new names for the vessel. (Presumably, someone involved in the bit has read the article, given that both sketch and article include a gag about naming the boat Titanic 2.)<\/p>\n

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Also in the offering was a dig at Lorne Michaels. \u201cIf Lorne Michaels has taught us anything, it\u2019s that you never, ever give up \u2014 even if everyone says the time has come and Tina Fey is ready to take over,\u201d he said. That got some laughs, and at one point both Davidson and Jost gestured offstage \u2014 possibly to an offstage Michaels?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ferry? It\u2019s fine. Sometimes the news just makes things worse than they are,\u201d Davidson said \u2014 and then closed with a joke about the Epstein files. It wasn\u2019t the first time Davidson had discussed the ferry<\/a> on Weekend Update, and something tells me it won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n

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