Pete Davidson sacrifices gastrointestinal health to support Bill Murray on Hot Ones

The SNL alums star as gangsters in crime-comedy Riff Raff.

Pete Davidson sacrifices gastrointestinal health to support Bill Murray on Hot Ones
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SNL 50 saw cast members from multiple generations join each other onstage for all sorts of call backs, but the show simply didn’t have time for everything. Maya Rudolph did show up as Beyoncé during the Homecoming Concert, for instance, but the team couldn’t find a spare five minutes to make her drip sweat while eating hot wings. Luckily, Bill Murray and Pete Davidson gave us the next best thing: an SNL reunion on real-life Hot Ones.

Technically, it was Murray’s episode, but his fellow SNL alum and Riff Raff co-star, Davidson, popped up in a show of moral support—not that Murray needed it. The Lost In Translation star was the picture of stoicism as he braved the gauntlet without so much as a flinch (he even liked some of the sauces because they reminded him of P.F. Chang’s), while Davidson cried real tears from just one wing at the end. Put down whatever food you’re eating before you read the rest of this sentence, but Davidson also shared the horrifying update that he “shit black for a week” after his last visit to the show, and still decided to do it all over again for Murray. It’s honestly sweet, if you can get past the visuals.

Murray also got to laud the actors’ bond prior to Davidson making his cameo. The two clicked into a good rhythm from “the first lines we had to say” on the set of Dito Montiel’s crime-comedy Riff Raff, in which they play a pair of bumbling but deadly gangsters. “You can just feel it. There’s a humidity, almost, when someone’s timing is good. You go, like, ‘Ahh!’ It’s a great relief,” Murray continued. “I was like, ‘Oh, we can do this. This will even be fun.’ So we began having fun take one.”

Riff Raff is now playing in theaters.

 
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