Pete Davidson's 'Alive From New York' feels like a rough draft, writes kvanaren
Pete Davidson in Alive From New York. Photo: Netflix In his new Netflix special Alive From New York, Pete Davidson is working through it.
There’s some score settling, especially when Davidson talks about the blowback to a joke he made on SNL about U.S. representative Dan Crenshaw, who wears a patch over one eye. There’s some frustration, too, about feeling at the mercy of Twitter crowds — Davidson has to talk about the aftermath of the Crenshaw situation in this special, he says, because he’s not allowed on Twitter anymore. Later, he makes an joke about starving kids in Africa and senses some pushback from the crowd.
The second thing to unpack, though, is less about what Davidson is working through and more about how. It’s good that he’s working through stuff, and it’s probably also good that he’s doing it by working — getting up in front of an audience and figuring out how to turn all this stuff into material. He is positioning himself in relation to all of it, and he’s hammering it into a story.
He lurches from one section to another, with transitions that could seem purposely unartful and instead feel slapdash. He cannot stop himself from giggling at his own work, which can come off as charming and sincere for more controlled performers , but for Davidson it’s more like when your friend remembers a funny story that’s not funny now because you really had to be there. It all feels raw and under-formed, even in the sections where there’s plainly more polish. It’s baggy.
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