Pete Davidson Hands Out Pizza on Strike Line Instead of SNL Writing Session

In another universe, Pete Davidson would have spent Friday night in the writers’ offices at 30 Rockefeller Center, making last-minute adjustments ahead of his planned first time hosting Saturday Night Live. The comedian was a cast member of the show for eight seasons, officially leaving the show just last May. Instead of taking his victory lap on the show as a graduated senior with a brand new sitcom of his own, the Bupkis star spent last night handing out pizza to striking Writer’s Guild members on the picket line in Brooklyn. 

“Gotta support the writers,” Davidson said in a clip captured from the drizzly scene, precious pies in hand. “No shows without the writers, man.” 

Davidson arrived in a dark hoodie with the hood up bearing stacks of pies from L&B Spumoni Gardens, an 80-plus-year-old Brooklyn institution in the Gravesend neighborhood. It’s a jaunt, but well worth it—Sbarro could never. Spumoni Gardens’ square grandma pies are a slice that demands respect. 

Saturday Night Live is among the shows that have halted production amidst the writers’ strike, and will air a rerun tonight instead of Davidson’s show as planned. The strike has halted nearly 12,000 writers’ work as they stand with their union, the Writers Guild of America, in the group’s first strike in nearly 15 years. 

Earlier this week, Davidson was spotted with signs showing SAG-AFTRA union solidarity with the WGA.

Last week, in an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon before the strike was authorized, Davidson told host Jimmy Fallon that he’d been working on his episode for two or three months, and that if a strike led to the cancellation of his hosting debut, “it just feeds my weird story I have in my head, like, ‘Of course that would happen to me.’” 

“It’s all about me,” he joked. 

As of yet, there have been no rumors about whether Davidson is dating the picket line, but only time will tell.