{"id":280728,"date":"2019-09-29T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1078056"},"modified":"2019-09-29T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T19:06:33","slug":"why-pete-davidson-missed-the-saturday-night-live-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-pete-davidson-missed-the-saturday-night-live-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pete Davidson Missed the Saturday Night Live Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201905\/rs_600x600-190105163636-600.pete-davidson-machine-gun-kelly.ct.010519.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.250344827586\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.955862068966\">\n<p>Now that&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/pete_davidson\">Pete Davidson<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is a movie star, is he too&nbsp;famous&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em>SNL<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old actor and comedian, who has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series since 2014, was noticeably missing from the season 45 opener on Saturday. Turns out he&nbsp;was at a screening of <em>Joker<\/em>&nbsp;in Atlanta with his co-stars from the new movie&nbsp;<em>The Suicide Squad<\/em>, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/why-pete-davidson-missed-the-saturday-night-live-premiere-133399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a><\/em>. The group has been filming their movie in the city in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Director&nbsp;<strong>James Gunn<\/strong> posted on his Instagram page a photo of Davidson and&nbsp;other <em>Suicide Squad<\/em> stars such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/margot_robbie\">Margot Robbie<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jai_courtney\">Jai Courtney<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nathan_fillion\">Nathan Fillion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of us are doing weird things in this photo,&#8221; Gunn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2-Z4wMAvCi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;After a screening of Joker (thanks @wbpictures!)&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"48.658536585366\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.4146341463415\">\n<p>During the&nbsp;<em>SNL<\/em> premiere,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/alec_baldwin\">Alec Baldwin<\/a><\/strong> reprised his role of President&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/donald_trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong> and the show&#8217;s cold open mocked the U.S. leader&#8217;s upcoming impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.342245989305\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.7433155080214\">\n<p>In another sketch,&nbsp;<em>SNL<\/em> alum&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/maya_rudolph\">Maya Rudolph<\/a><\/strong> played Democratic presidential candidate Senator&nbsp;<strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Larry Sanders<\/strong> returned to portray fellow contender Senator&nbsp;<strong>Bernie Sanders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Billie Eilish<\/strong> was the performer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1078056\/why-pete-davidson-missed-the-saturday-night-live-premiere?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&nbsp;Pete Davidson&nbsp;is a movie star, is he too&nbsp;famous&nbsp;for&nbsp;SNL? The 25-year-old actor and comedian, who has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series since 2014, was noticeably missing from the season 45 opener on Saturday. Turns out he&nbsp;was at a screening of Joker&nbsp;in Atlanta with his co-stars from the new movie&nbsp;The Suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-20 17:04:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}