SNL Music Video: She’s Barbie; He’s Just Pete Davidson
It’s been a long six months since Saturday Night Live cut it’s season short due to the writers’ strike, and a lot has happened since. Fortunately, they brought back Pete Davidson to host – he was originally scheduled for back in May – and he is the ideal personality to tackle the Barbie phenomenon. (Watch how Davidson somberly opened the season premiere.)
It’s the perfect bookend for SNL. Their final pre-strike episode featured an American Girls doll sketch somewhat based on the Barbie trailer. Now they’ve got a spot-on parody of Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” from the movie, only with Davidson as the self-pitying dudebro.
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There’s plenty of material to work with: his underviewed Peacock series, Bupkis; his weird decision to buy an old Staten Island ferry with Colin Jost; and the relentless tabloid headlines. He pokes fun at his feud with Kanye West – although he’s probably not legally prohibited from saying his name since West’s face pops up for a brief moment during the video.
All the SNL Petes assemble — Mikey Day as First Update Pete, Bowen “I Was Almost a Ken” Yang as Met Gala Pete, Devon Walker as Black Pete (and yes, that gets the song-halting pause it deserves) — as they build up to the big dance number from the film. We also get a callback to that time Ariana Grande referred to Davidson’s Big D–k Energy and created a cottage industry of T-shirts and coffee mugs.
It’s a pretty wild piece all around. Much like Davidson himself, the tone swings wildly from boasting about all the hot chicks he dates to multiple references to darker moments about his stints in rehab and looking like a meth addict. The video ends with Pete driving off into the sunset with a Barbie played by Chloe Fineman.
Well, maybe not a sunset so much as into the front of a nearby Barbie Dream House. But hey, he’s just Pete.
Watch the “He’s Just Pete” video below, then weigh in on the SNL season premiere.
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