Watch Pete Davidson pass out pizza at writers’ strike after canceled ‘SNL’ episode
Watch Pete Davidson pass out pizza to writers at WGA strike after his Saturday Night Live episode was canceled
It’s Pete-za time!
In video footage posted on social media Saturday, the Bupkis creator can be seen handing out pizzas from L&B Spumoni Gardens to participants in the picket line in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.
“I got Spumoni’s for everyone,” Davidson says in the clip. “Gotta support the writers, man! No shows without the writers.”
Davidson was previously scheduled to host SNL this weekend before the writers’ strike shut down production of the sketch comedy show. While visiting The Tonight Show last week, the actor joked that the idea of the strike — which had not started at the time — leading to his episode being canceled was feeding the “weird story I have in my head like, ‘Of course, that would happen to me.'”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 5: Pete Davidson and Judah Miller join members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and its supporters to picket outside Silvercup Studios on May 5, 2023 in New York City. Writers Guild of America members have gone on strike in a contract dispute with studios and streaming services over lowering wages, residuals and the future of AI in entertainment. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/Getty Images)
Pete Davidson at a writers’ strike
| Credit: Bruce Glikas/Getty
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 5: Pete Davidson joins members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and its supporters to picket outside Silvercup Studios on May 5, 2023 in New York City. Writers Guild of America members have gone on strike in a contract dispute with studios and streaming services over lowering wages, residuals and the future of AI in entertainment. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/Getty Images)
Credit: Bruce Glikas/Getty
NBC’s The Tonight Show and Late Night With Seth Meyers have also rallied behind their writers by offering three weeks’ worth of pay amid the strike and health-care coverage until September, reports NPR.
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