He’s back with a hilarious new comedy special, revealing that he attended Aretha Franklin’s funeral in 2018 while high on ketamine.
But Pete Davidson’s latest stand-up special for Netflix, Turbo Fonzarelli, is surprisingly lacking in material inspired by his late father, Scott Matthew Davidson.
Although the 30-year-old former Saturday Night Live star makes a number of jokes poking fun at his mother Amy for not appearing on the dating scene for decades after his father’s death, he is keeping the details surrounding his father’s tragic death quite light-hearted in the new version. attempt.
However, the comic has previously spoken in depth about the circumstances of his father’s death, which was fictionalized in the 2020 semi-autobiographical drama series The King Of Staten Island, which he starred in and co-wrote with director Judd Apatow.
More than 20 years after the death of his father Scott, DailyMail.com looks back at the tragic circumstances and investigates how Pete first discovered the loss.
Pete Davidson returns with a new stand-up special for Netflix, Turbo Fonzarelli, which features fewer references to his late father Scott Davidson than previous stand-up efforts; seen in 2016 in Wantagh, New York
DailyMail.com looks back at Pete’s father Scott, a New York City firefighter who died responding to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
Pete’s father worked as a firefighter in New York City when the future film and television star was just a child, and he was one of several first responders who rushed to the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when two hijacked passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers.
Scott had been a firefighter since 1994, according to the fire department National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
Scott was responding to the lesser-known Marriott World Trade Center, a 22-story hotel located between the two massive towers that was also known as World Trade Center 3.
Although the building was directly hit by a beam attack, it was completely destroyed during the collapse of the two taller towers.
Pete’s father, who worked at Ladder Company 118 in Brooklyn Heights, responded to the attack on the Twin Towers after a second hijacked plane crashed into the towers.
He helped out at the smaller hotel when the towers collapsed.
In April 2023, Pete appeared on Jon Bernthal’s podcast Real ones and talked about the initial confusion after his father’s death on September 11.
“My dad told me he was going to pick me up from school on 9/11. I was picked up by my mother,” he recalls. “She didn’t tell me what was going on for three days.”
“She kept telling me, ‘Daddy’s at work,’ ‘He’s coming home,’ whatever,” he continued. ‘I had no idea.’
Although Pete’s mother Amy may have feared the worst, in the confusion of the attacks they may not have known for sure that his father was dead.
Survivors were pulled out more than a day after the building collapsed, with the last person found alive in the rubble being rescued 27 hours after they were buried alive.
In April 2023, Pete told Jon Bernthal on his podcast Real Ones that his father told him he would pick him up from school on September 11, but then his mother picked him up when they lost communication with his father.
Scott had responded to the Marriott World Trade Center, a 22-story hotel sandwiched between the two towers, which was destroyed when they collapsed
“She didn’t tell me what was going on for three days,” Pete said. “She kept telling me, ‘Daddy’s at work,’ ‘He’s coming home,’ whatever. I had no idea’; still from Turbo Fonzarelli
In an effort to stop her son from drawing his own conclusions about his father’s absence, Amy “grounded him and forbade him from watching television.”
But the attempted punishment did not last and Pete learned his father’s fate through an act of rebellion.
“One night I turned on the TV and I just saw my dad on the TV,” he remembers. ‘I was like, “Oh, okay.” And they said, these are all the firefighters that are dead.”
“It was weird because we didn’t know he was dead for three weeks,” Pete continued.
“They were finding people, you know? They pulled people out of the pit, and there was just this kind of hope,” he continued, even though no one was found alive under the rubble after the second day. “Like, it was just up and down and no one knew how to deal with it.”
He also revealed that he was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
In the same conversation, Pete admitted that weeks of unresolved concerns about his father’s safety left him feeling abandoned for years.
“You know, Dad says he’s coming to pick you up, but he doesn’t,” he said. “For life, I think, I don’t believe anyone, and I’m trying to learn how to believe people — and Hollywood isn’t exactly the best place to learn that skill.”
However, he admitted that he eventually gained a better understanding of what his mother must have gone through.
Pete’s mother Amy “grounded him” to prevent him from watching TV, and he claimed they “didn’t know what happened to Scott for three weeks.” But when he dared to turn on the TV, he saw his father among a list of firefighters who died in the Twin Towers
Pete was later diagnosed with PTSD. In the same conversation with Bernthal, he pushed back against critics who claim he jokes too often about his father’s death; seen in 2022
Pete also pushed back against complaints that he often references his father’s death in his stand-up routines.
‘It’s like I’ve made two jokes about my father in the space of fifteen years. To act like this, ‘makes me feel bad’, they’re such bulls*** and it makes me feel so small and s****y,” he said of his opponents, adding: ” I’m I try to share little jokes about him here and there because I like to keep that memory alive. My father was a great guy. Why is that a problem? I get defensive, that’s my family.’
In October last year, a friend of the comedian said Page six Feeling down after Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 had reminded him of his father’s death on September 11.
That month he also returned to host SNL.