Judd Apatow has been the guiding force behind the big-screen success of numerous comedy stars, ranging from Seth Rogen to Amy Schumer to Steve Carell to Kristin Wiig and more.
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available Friday on demand, is at least partly autobiographical, with Pete starring as a lovable and awkward butt-of-jokes pothead trying to deal with emotional issues while searching for a place in the world.Written by Pete, his pal Dave Sirus and director Judd Apatow, it imagines how the “Saturday Night Live” star’s life might have shaken out if he had not hit it big in comedy.Pete plays an aspiring tattoo artist — named Scott, like Pete’s real dad — living with his mom, struggling over the
.Judd Apatow has been the guiding force behind the big-screen success of numerous comedy stars, ranging from Seth Rogen to Amy Schumer to Steve Carell to Kristin Wiig and more.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterComedian Ricky Velez has set up a comedy pilot at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively.Velez will serve as co-writer and executive producer on the half-hour project, with Judd Apatow also co-writing and executive producing. Judah Miller will serve as co-writer, executive producer, and showrunner.
Also Read: Pete Davidson Wanted 'King of Staten Island' to Be 'Love Letter to His Mom,' Judd Appatow SaysDavidson’s film career has started taking off in recent years, most recently starring in Universal’s “The King of Staten Island,” which he co-wrote with director Judd Apatow, as well as the coming of age comedy “Big Time Adolescence.” Jost last appeared in 2016’s romantic comedy “How to Be Single.”SNL creator Lorne Michaels will produce “Worst Man,” with Universal’s President of Production
“Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson has heaps of praise for Adam Sandler.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThough “The King of Staten Island” is based in part on the real life of Pete Davidson, costume designer Sarah Mae Burton (“The Big Sick”) knew she didn’t want Davidson’s character to look like the “SNL” cast member.“Pete has a distinctive style [“scrumbo” — logos, sweats, Hawaiian shirts and neon] in the media, and we wanted to make sure we weren’t dressing him like that,” she says. In the Judd Apatow film, which Universal is offering on VOD on June 12, Davidson
“The King of Staten Island,” director Judd Apatow tells The Post that total immersion was the only way to capture the 26-year-old comic’s life.Here the Syosset, LI-born director, 52, talks about his summer spent in the borough, hanging out with pal Davidson and his Staten Island neighbors.You know, it’s a place that a lot of people haven’t been to, unless you live there. It doesn’t really have an attraction to draw you.
Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineIt didn’t take much convincing to get Bill Burr to join the cast of “The King of Staten Island,” a comedy from Judd Apatow that’s loosely based on Pete Davidson’s upbringing in New York’s least glamorous borough.
Judd Apatow has said working with Lena Dunham on Girls helped him collaborate with Pete Davidson on a new film about his issues following the loss of his father.
Pete Davidson has said he hoped making a film that addressed his grief over the death of his father would help him “move forward, and find that new chapter in life”.
NEW YORK -- The first time Pete Davidson performed stand-up, he was 16. It was in front of a handful of people at a place called the Looney Bin Comedy Club in Staten Island.
Pete Davidson’s new film, The King Of Staten Island, helped him come to terms with the death of his firefighter father.The actor, who lost his dad in the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City in 2001, portrays an aspiring tattoo artist, struggling to process the death of his father 17 years prior in the comedy he co-wrote.“I really wanted this to be cleansing for me,” the Saturday Night Live regular tells CBS This Morning.
The Saturday Night Live cast member opened up about his mental health struggles and even dealing with suicidal thoughts! That being said, Pete Davidson revealed that he got as close as one can get to ending his own life! During a new interview for CBS Sunday Morning, the comedian talked about his upcoming movie Staten Island King, which is a semi-autobiographical project.
The King of Staten Island – this time to recount the story of grief-stricken tattoo artist Scott Carlin as he navigates life in New York, inspired by star Pete Davidson’s own life experiences.Troubled by the passing of his firefighter father when he was 7, now twenty-something Carlin (Davidson) spends his days getting stoned and practicing his sketchy tattoo artistry on his friends.
Pete Davidson is used to making fun of himself — whether it's peppering an interview with self-deprecating jokes or shrugging his way through good-natured anecdotes about drugs and therapy at 's desk.
Pete Davidson, 26, has had an exciting life, but it hasn’t always been easy. The comedian was promoting his new semi-autobiographical film Staten Island King, which comes out on June 12, when he gave a tell-all interview to CBS Sunday Morning, which aired on June 7. In the interview, he opened up about what he’s learned over the years during his time as a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live and revealed intimate details about when he contemplated suicide at the lowest time in his life.
The protagonists in Judd Apatow movies don’t generally have their stuff together. They are emotionally stunted, occasionally underachieving, unmotivated to change and often even border on unlikable.
borrows a lot of heavy realities from the “Saturday Night Live” star’s own life: his character Scott lost his firefighter father at age 7; he still lives on Staten Island with his mom; and he makes more brow-raising choices than Kanye.And, also like the real-life Davidson, there is nary a moment where Scott isn’t the most likable person on the damn planet.That’s director Judd Apatow’s signature move: taking a talent we love — Davidson, Steve Carell, Amy Schumer, tenderizing them with a cinematic
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a lovable loser in a state of perpetual arrested development. A group of friends that love and support, but are probably holding him/her back.
Also Read: Pete Davidson Spars - Then Bonds - With Bill Burr in Judd Apatow's 'King of Staten Island' Trailer (Video)And however much of Davidson’s autobiography is here, the movie still feels Apatow-esque.
Pete Davidson is opening up about what was undoubtedly the most difficult time in his life.