'When I was 7 years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack. So I know something about what that's like.'
"When I was 7 years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack. So I know something about what that's like.""This week we saw the horrible images and stories from Israel and Gaza. And I know what you're thinking: 'Who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson,'" the formercast member began. "Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk about it because when I was 7 years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack.
He continued, "I saw so many terrible pictures this week. Children suffering. Israeli children and Palestinian children. And it took me back to a really horrible, horrible place. No one in this world deserves to suffer like that, especially not kids."The comedian's father, Scott Davidson, was a New York City firefighter who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
"When she heard the things Eddie Murphy was saying, she tried to take it away," he recalled. "But then she noticed something: For the first time in a long time, I was laughing again."sketches, he added, "I don't understand it. I really don't and I never will, but sometimes comedy is really the only way forward through tragedy.
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