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\n For the premiere of its 49th\u00a0season, Saturday Night Live<\/em> skipped its regularly scheduled sketch parodying the week\u2019s news<\/a>. Instead, host Pete Davidson delivered, in a rare staid demeanor,\u00a0a solemn cold open addressing the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis week we saw the horrible images and stories from Israel and Gaza. And I know what you\u2019re thinking, who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson?,\u201d says Davidson, who shared a personal connection to the ongoing trauma. \u201cWell, in a lot of ways I am a good person to talk about it because when I was seven years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack. So I know something about what\u2019s that like.\u201d (Scott Davidson was a New York City firefighter who died on Sept. 11, 2001.) \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Davidson did not break and continued speaking, returning to his take on the violence in Israel and Gaza. \u201cI saw so many terrible pictures this week of children suffering, Israeli children and Palestinian children. It took me back to a really horrible, horrible place. No one in this world deserves to suffer like that, especially not kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n He shared an anecdote about how he informally became a student of comedy. \u201cAfter my dad died, my mom tried pretty much everything she could do to cheer me up. I remember one day when I was eight, she got me what she thought was a Disney movie, but it was actually the Eddie Murphy stand-up special,\u00a0Delirious<\/em>. We played it in the car on the way home but when she heard the things Eddie Murphy was saying, she tried to take it away, but then she noticed something. For the first time, in a long time, I was laughing again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t understand, I really don\u2019t, I never will, but sometimes comedy is really the only way forward through tragedy. My heart is with everyone whose lives have been destroyed this week. But tonight, I\u2019m going to do what I have always done in the face of tragedy: and that\u2019s try to be funny,\u201d says Davidson.<\/p>\n

\n Then without missing a beat, he says, \u201cRemember, I said try.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Davidson\u2019s tasteful joke landed well with audiences. He took the app<\/a>lause and kicked off his first appearance as host, like so many before him. \u201cAnd live from New York, it\u2019s Saturday night!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n After SNL<\/em>\u2019s opening sequence, the comedia<\/a>n finally stepped on the storied Studio 8H stage as host after his May 6 show was canceled due to the writers strike. This week, Davidson went on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon<\/em> and shared how his second chance came about. He told Fallon, Lorne Michaels sent him \u201ca classic Lorne-y text\u201d where the executive producer wrote, \u201cThere\u2019s a rumor going around that you are the host for the premiere. \u2026 I guess it\u2019s true because I started it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The SNL<\/em> alum went on to open the show with a monologue about bonding with his sister by watching\u00a0Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0together for the first time. \u201cI think we should have a better relationship,\u201d says Davidson. \u201cYou know, me and my sister have nothing in common. You know, she assists brain surgery and I\u2019m a drug addict.\u201d As the siblings get caught up on the series<\/a>, he confesses he was surprised that there were \u201chardly any dragons\u201d but instead \u201cso much incest\u2026 tons of incest.\u201d In expected locker room humor, Davidson says he \u201cthrew out a feeler.\u201d He even broke at the\u00a0ludicrousness of the joke, which ended with him acknowledging \u201cAh, I probably wouldn\u2019t get her, I\u2019m too insecure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Switching gears, the New York native went back into his deprecating humor about growing up in Staten Island. \u201cIf you don\u2019t know what Staten Island is, it\u2019s the only island in the world with a worse reputation than Epstein somehow,\u201d says Davidson. \u201cBut in Staten Island, the kids molest the priests. Everything\u2019s backward down there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The 29-year-old then told his \u201corigin story\u201d as a stand-up comedian. \u201cI remember the first night I wanted to do a stand-up show. I used to have sex with this girl in my car because in Staten Island that\u2019s like a condo. My two-bedroom Cherokee, with a view! This girl was awesome. She was just a sex friend and it was her idea. You know, they don\u2019t make them like that anymore. Good old broads.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Davidson continues explaining that their situationship would normally end with a pizza, which he coined \u201cdoor to door with a slice.\u201d But as his, uhm, car date, was ending, he forgot he was due on a comedy stage in Manhattan. She then said to him, \u201cThe coolest thing anybody\u2019s ever said to me\u2026 \u2018Hey, maybe one day, I\u2019ll be watching TV with my husband. You\u2019ll pop on and then I\u2019ll turn to my husband and I\u2019ll go hey, I banged that guy.\u2019\u201d Deeply enthused by her candor, Davidson happily drove to his first gig knowing his dream was within reach. \u201cI remember being all hyped up like, I\u2019m going to be a comedian,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n Davidson ended his opening monologue with an unfortunate turn of events, but delivered in his deadpan comedic style. \u201cShe kind of predicted the future. I did get on TV, that\u2019s very cool. She tragically died of an overdose two years later. Yes. Very sad. She was one for two,\u201d says the actor. \u201cI found out, this was messed up, I found out because I was actually watching TV with my girlfriend and she popped up. Then I turn to my girlfriend and I went, hey, I banged that girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Classic Pete Davidson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n If there was a prize for winning the best sketch parodying the Swifties invasion of Monday Night Football<\/em>, SNL<\/em> scored the big win with a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-him appearance from NFL star Travis Kelce. He closed out the skit featuring Davidson as sideline reporter Kenny Ditullio, dressed in a pink, fur-trimmed hat and multiple Taylor Swift Eras Tour sweatshirts after he scraped his game analysis for updates on whether Swift was at the game or not. His fellow sports pundits, which included a lisp-y Michael Strahan played by Devon Walker, fumbled the broadcast by turning into a Taylor-fest discussing secret songs, brandishing friendship bracelets and an impromptu sing-along to \u201cBad Blood.\u201d Kelce was then teased in as \u201csomeone who actually wants to discuss football.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n That wasn\u2019t the only Taylor-adjacent sighting. The Eras Tour <\/em>movie queen came on stage to coyly introduce Ice Spice\u2019s second SNL<\/em> performance (but I\u2019m sure audiences were hoping for a live edition of their summer smash \u201cKarma.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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\n The first \u201cWeekend Update\u201d featuring Michael Che and Colin Jost circled back to the heightened tensions in Gaza with Jost stating that \u201cit\u2019s been a terrible week for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n In a segment, \u201cMiddle East Crisis,\u201d he transitioned to the publicly shared opinions from \u201crandom idiots who like to share unhinged thoughts, wherever they can.\u201d One joke set up that a 1000-word essay on \u201cHow I\u2019d Fix Palestine\u201d was left in a Yelp review of a Buffalo Wild Wings, and another referenced former President Donald Trump confusing Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group, with the name of the genie from Aladdin.<\/p>\n

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