Comedian and actor Pete Davidson hosted “Saturday Night Live” and surprised everyone by talking about the ongoing war in the Middle East in his cold open.
“I know what you’re thinking, who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson?” he said.
“Well in a lot of ways, I’m a good person to talk about it because when I was seven years old my dad was killed in a terrorist attack,” he continued. “So I know something about what that’s like.”
If you remember, Davidson lost his father, Scott Davidson, a New York City firefighter, on Sept. 11, 2001, during the attack on the World Trade Center.
During his opener, Davidson noted that seeing the “many terrible pictures this week” was triggering.
“Children suffering, Israeli children and Palestinian children. And it took me back to a really horrible place,” he said. “No one in this world deserves to suffer like that, especially not kids.”