How Louis C.K. Tried to Fire Pete Davidson off of SNL

Taken from Pete Davidson's 2020 Netflix comedy special "Alive from New York."

This is my 14th attempt at uploading this video. The reason being is that it kept getting copyright claimed. So, I kept cutting some of the video footage out so it wouldn't. After 14 tries, I found out that 2 minutes of footage is the most I can use without the video being copyright claimed. BTW, the copyright claim I got restricted the viewers of the video to only me, i.e. nobody, other than me, could view the video. And, where's the fun in that?

[brianshaetube]

The professionalism of Pete to continue his show even when the lights go out.

[somedipshtinthecomments]

The "that didn't happen." Line is such an accurate depiction of a number of experiences I've had that it's almost scary lmao

[FrenkTheJoy]

Man, everyone was on cocaine for the first few years of the show, Pete smoking weed right before leaving at the end of the day is nothing.

[williamhornabrook]

Louis could have told Pete that he thought his weed smoking was unprofessional privately and that would have been a relatively fine thing to do. To berate him in front of a bunch of other people and snitch to his boss is wack behavior.

[NxDoyle]

It would've been a strange move to fire Pete for smoking weed at work given that in its 40+ year history, SNL was responsible for consuming half of Colombia's main export.

[jax]

Pete and Lorne went on vacation to Jamaica together Pete’s first season. I think Lorne knows Pete smokes weed…

[melissasaint]

**My guess**: Louis did not care whatsoever that Pete smokes. He cared, with painful intensity, that Pete wasn't hurrying over to bask in the glow of his brilliance.

[kirk]

" I was so high I'm like. Nope that didn't happen" 😂

[sizier]

If someone hates you because you smoke weed, chances are they are an alcoholic.

[jvpublicrelationsny]

Funny how weed makes Louis CK “uncomfortable.” Imagine..if he saw someone whip out their junk.

[jefft]

"The rumors you've heard are true" is a line from NY Times Louie's confession; a hilarious callback that Pete uses in his dialogue with Lorne about smoking.

[ragamuffinm]

"They hired and fired you. . . They made two mistakes. . . "
Story of my work career.

[guitart]

Pete should call Louis, “You’re going to stroke away your career!”

[wilky]

"I can just creep in the back of Wild n Out and no one would notice" got no laughs and that's a damn shame.

[toknnomad]

The amount of drugs done on that set throughout the years is ridiculous. The fact that he even took CK's complaint half way serious is really strange to me.

[LifeTheExperience]

His Lorne story reminded me... I had a supervisor who told on me once.

Boss calls me into an office and says, "Did you fall asleep in the security car?"

And I said, "Yes, I did. I told him not to put me there after dinner, with the heater broken and all spewing heat with no way to turn it off, so it made me tired, but he ignored my requests. So yeah, he caught me sleeping."

He said, "Well, you're not actually in trouble. I just had to call you in here to make it official that I did something. When you go back out there, just pretend to be upset. To be honest, I hired you to give my supervisors trouble... it lets me know they are working and doing their jobs, so keep up the good work. Just try not to fall asleep in the vehicle again."

Good times.

[Jenisonc]

Him asking the audience for permission went right over almost everyone's head.

[darkmooninc]

SNL has always been like "Hey, stop doing the wrong drugs and do coke like the rest of us!"

[andwatifisedno]

"you're gonna smoke away your career"

Proceeds to try and end your career

[PerfectlyImperfct]

I can't imagine how it must feel for people who are chastised by someone of prominence and that person then has a very public downfall for something WAY worse . It happened to Pete with Louis CK and it happened to Eddie Murphy with Bill Cosby