‘SNL’ jab at boro’s ‘babies’
“Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, a native Staten Islander, said the anti-lockdown protests in his home borough make its residents look like “babies” — but joked that he’s glad that he’s no longer the “worst thing” about the island.
Appearing on the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday’s show, the “King of Staten Island” star riffed on the rallies held outside Mac’s Public House bar, which has declared itself an “autonomous zone” and has continued to serve patrons in defiance of a shutdown order and the revocation of its liquor license.
“People were outside the bar shouting about freedom, talking to cops, chanting that they should arrest the governor,” Davidson said. “But it’s Staten Island, so I just assumed that it was a typical last call.”
Davidson noted that the Grant City pub is in a ZIP code with one of the highest test-positivity rates in the city and that because the bar is in a state-designated orange zone, it is only allowed to serve customers outside.
“The owner said no one wants to do that because they’ll go out of business,” he said. “But the argument that people in Staten Island don’t want to drink outside can be disproven by going to literally any Little League game.”
Davidson said he was “kind of ” against the protests, but at least he’s “no longer the first thing people think of when they say, ‘What’s the worst thing about Staten Island?’ ”
He claimed that the protesters were making Staten Islanders “look like babies.”
“You know it’s bad when people in Boston are like, ‘Ahh, drink at home, you queers!’ ” he joked.