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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.

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.

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.

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.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticScott Carlin (Pete Davidson), the loser hero of “The King of Staten Island,” is a 24-year-old trash-talking punk stoner who lives with his mother in Staten Island and has no plans whatsoever — for a career, a life, or the next five minutes. He’s a slacker, a lout, and a self-pitying anger-management case who has never gotten over the death of his firefighter father 17 years ago.

2 stars (out of 4)“There’s, like, something wrong with me,” Pete Davidson says to a girl early in The King of Staten Island. The two friends-with-benefits have just slept together, and now she wants a legit relationship.

Judd Apatow knows talent when he sees it. For years, he has made a career out of giving cinematic showcases to comedians.

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

Pete Davidson’s new film is deeply personal.

June isn’t off to a particularly great start, following the already awful events of the rest of the year so far, but if there’s anything to look forward to it’s some terrific films scheduled for release this month. From the latest films by Spike Lee and Josephine Decker to festival favorites that built buzz in the last year, there’s plenty to engage in.