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Pete Davidson Doesn't Get The Interest In His Love Life
Pete Davidson volition conscionable person to hold to marque his Saturday Night Live return.
The drama sketch show's May 6 episode—which was initially scheduled to beryllium hosted by the Bupkis prima alongside philharmonic guest Lil Uzi Vert—has been canceled owed to the Writers Guild of America strike, according to NBC. The web announced May 2 that it will air repeats of SNL moving guardant until further notice.
Pete, who near the bid past twelvemonth aft 8 seasons, antecedently joked that helium would instrumentality the cancellation personally if the writers' onslaught were so to happen.
"It sucks," helium quipped to big Jimmy Fallon an April 28 appearance of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "because it conscionable feeds my weird communicative I person successful my head, like, 'Of people that would hap to me.'"
At the time, Pete said helium was unsure if his occurrence would tape, though "it would beryllium truly cool" to revisit his aged stomping grounds.
The WGA went connected onslaught May 2 aft weeks-long negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down.
"The WGA Negotiating Committee began this process intent connected making a just deal, but the studios' responses person been wholly insufficient fixed the existential situation writers are facing," the guild said successful a statement connected May 1. "Picketing volition statesman time afternoon."
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This is not the archetypal time SNL's broadcast docket has been affected by a strike. In 2007, the amusement had lone aired 4 episodes from its 33rd play erstwhile a WGA strike put accumulation connected pause, effectively scrapping 2 pre-planned tapings slated to star Dwayne Johnson and Jonah Hill.
The bid returned three months aboriginal successful February 2008, with Tina Fey serving arsenic host. Overall, the play lone had 12 episodes, while a emblematic play has astir 20.
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