Pete Davidson's career is a fascinating one. After breaking through as one of the youngest Saturday Night Live cast members ever, the comedian became a trending topic for his personal life, which is only one of the many ways he has managed to exceed expectations.
Even before he left the sketch comedy series in Season 47, he made his horror movie debut in one of the best A24 horror movies, Bodies Bodies Bodies, became a comic book movie star as Blackguard in The Suicide Squad, and even began showing his deeper side in more serious acting roles. Find out where to check out these flicks and more Pete Davidson movies and TV shows that all fans should see here.
Saturday Night Live (1975-Present)
Starring: Various
What it's about: Live from New York, executive producer Lorne Michaels’ variety series remains the quintessential example of great TV sketch comedies after so many decades on air for its clever use of satire, strange (and strangely lovable) recurring characters, and memorable celebrity guest hosts.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: In 2014, Davidson became the first performer on Saturday Night Live (now in Season 50) born in the 1990s and, until he left in 2022, was a performer to look forward to, sometimes just to see what he will shock the Studio 8H audience with, despite showing up less and less near the end of his tenure.
How to watch Saturday Night Live
Dumb Money (2023)
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson
What it's about: Lower-middle-class financial analyst and YouTube commentator Keith Gill buys stock in a struggling video game retail chain and, much to his and the country's surprise, the investment proves to be a highly successful one.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: After Davidson appeared in an SNL sketch referencing Game Stop's skyrocketing stock, he was cast in a dramatization of the shocking story called Dumb Money — and provided some funny improv, according to the director — as Keith Gill's brother, Kevin.
Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli (2024)
Director: Jason Orley
Starring: Pete Davidson
What it's about: The comedian riffs on turning 30, trying to find a potential suitor for his mother, his childhood crush on Leonardo DiCaprio, and more.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Helmed by Big Time Adolescence director Jason Orley, Davidson's second Netflix special, Turbo Fonzarelli, is easily his most stylistically unique (being presented in grayscale) but also features some of his strongest stand-up material yet.
How to watch Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli
Fast X (2023)
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Vin Diesel, Jason Momoa
What it's about: Dom Toretto and his crew must contend with a sadistic drug kingpin.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Davidson officially became a part of the Fast and Furious movie franchise with his cameo in Fast X as an American computer hacker named Bowie.
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (2023)
Director: Steven Caple Jr.
Starring: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback
What it's about: Two young Brooklynites become wrapped up in a conflict between warring alien robots in the mid-1990s.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Pete Davidson lent his voice to the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts cast in the scene-stealing role of an Autobot named Mirage.
How to watch Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
- Stream Transformers: Rise of the Beasts on Paramount+
- Stream Transformers: Rise of the Beasts on Amazon Prime
- Stream Transformers: Rise of the Beasts on MGM+
- Buy Transformers: Rise of the Beasts on Blu-ray Amazon
Bupkis (2023)
Starring: Pete Davidson, Edie Falco, Joe Pesci
What it's about: Pete Davidson struggles to cope with his eccentric family, increasing fame, and insecurities.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Pete Davidson leads the stacked, star-studded Bupkis cast in this surreal, satirical Peacock original exaggeration of the creator and star's own real life.
Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery (2022)
Director: Laura Murphy
Starring: Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Maya Rudolph, Pete Davidson
What it's about: Detective Terry Seattle is partnered with Jason Bateman and Maya Rudolph to investigate the murder of Santa Claus.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Pete Davidson is brought in at the last minute as backup to help solve the case in Who Killed Santa? A Muderville Murder Mystery — a holiday special spun-off from Netflix's star-studded improv comedy series.
How to watch Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery
The Rookie (2018-Present)
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones
What it's about: A dangerous, life-changing incident inspires middle-aged John Nolan to pursue his dream of joining the LAPD.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Before participating in an improvised satire of crime procedurals, Davidson appeared on one of Nathan Fillion's best TV shows, The Rookie alongside his The Suicide Squad co-star, (who played TDK), in one episode of Season 2 and two from Season 4 as John's half-brother, who is also named Pete.
Good Mourning (2022)
Director: Colson Baker, Mod Sun
Starring: Colson Baker, Mod Sun, Megan Fox
What it's about: A young actor begins to suffer a crisis when he receives a foreboding text message from his girlfriend on the same day he vies for a life-changing movie role.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: In his most recent collaboration with Colson "Machine Gun Kelly" Baker, Pete Davidson plays Berry — an under-appreciated valet for the main character's building in this star-studded stoner comedy.
The Freak Brothers (2020-Present)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Pete Davidson
What it's about: After smoking an enchanted strain of marijuana in 1970, a close-knit trio fall asleep and wake up to find that 50 years have passed.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: One of Pete Davidson's first major TV shows outside of SNL was the star-studded, animated stoner comedy, The Freak Brothers, which sees the comic take on another comic book role and is also one of the first series made originally for free streaming service, Tubi, where it entered its second season in 2023.
How to watch The Freak Brothers
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Director: James Gunn
Starring: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena
What it's about: Task Force X — featuring both returning members like Harley Quinn and new recruits, such as Bloodsport or Peacemaker — is assigned a new mission that proves to be bigger, bloodier, and more bizarre than anything they have taken on before.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: For his first taste of superhero movie stardom, Pete Davidson made a brief, but memorable and perfectly cast appearance as a bumbling criminal named Blackguard in the DC Extended Universe's new The Suicide Squad cast.
How to watch The Suicide Squad
- Stream The Suicide Squad on Max
- Rent or buy The Suicide Squad on Amazon
- Buy The Suicide Squad on Blu-ray on Amazon
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Director: Halina Reijn
Starring: Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova
What it's about: A hurricane party for a group of old friends in their 20s begins to take a morbid turn when a seemingly harmless party game suddenly becomes way too real.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: For his horror movie debut, Davidson gives a convincing performance as a self-absorbed rich kid in one of the best horror movies of 2022, Bodies Bodies Bodies — a clever, satirical whodunnit with a jaw-dropping ending from A24.
How to watch Bodies Bodies Bodies
- Stream Bodies Bodies Bodies on Max
- Stream Bodies Bodies Bodies on Paramount+ with Showtime add-on
- Rent or buy Bodies Bodies Bodies on Amazon
- Buy Bodies Bodies Bodies on Blu-ray on Amazon
Meet Cute (2022)
Director: Alex Lehmann
Starring: Kaley Cuoco, Pete Davidson
What it's about: After discovering a tanning bed that doubles as a time machine, a woman uses it to relive her first date with her boyfriend over and over again before realizing she could also use it to change a few things about him.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Out of the handful of romantic comedies Davidson has starred in so far, the time travel movie Meet Cute, which is available to stream with a Peacock subscription, is easily one of the more unique of the bunch.
Marmaduke (2022)
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé, Youngki Lee, Phil Nibbelink, Matt Philip Whelan
Starring: Pete Davidson, J.K. Simmons
What it's about: A family, fed up with their otherwise lovable Great Dane's unpredictable behavior, finds a potential solution in a snooty, famous dog trainer who believes he can make the rambunctious canine into a winner at an upcoming dog show.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: For his first lead role in a family movie, Pete Davidson lends his voice to the titular, iconic Great Dane in Marmaduke — Netflix's animated adaptation of the long-running comic strip that actually did well on the platform's trending page the week it premiered.
How to watch Marmaduke
Pete Davidson: Alive From New York (2020)
Director: Jason Orley
Starring: Pete Davidson
What it's about: The comedian riffs on his brief engagement to Ariana Grande, the time a pre-scandal Louis C.K. tried to get him fired from the Saturday Night Live cast, and other amusing personal anecdotes while performing his act in his home state.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: In Alive from New York, his first Netflix stand-up special, Pete Davidson finds plenty of ways to shock his audience almost purely by talking about himself, including his life following the tragic loss of his firefighter father on September 11, 2001.
How to watch Pete Davidson: Alive from New York
Pete Davidson Presents: The Best Friends (2022)
Director: Jason Orley
Starring: Pete Davidson, Colson Baker
What it's about: Davidson hosts a showcase of stand-up comedians, to whom he has a close, personal connection.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Filmed at the Netflix is a Joke Festival in Los Angeles, The Best Friends is the kind of stand-up special that feels a bit like a bunch of buddies just getting together to tell jokes (one person at a time) and also happens to end with a performance by Machine Gun Kelly.
How to watch Pete Davidson Presents: The Best Friends
Goddamn Comedy Jam (2016)
Director: Joel Gallen
Starring: Pete Davidson, Natasha Leggero
What it's about: A group of comedians take turns recalling their personal experiences with certain songs before performing them live.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Pete Davidson has "the time of [his] life" performing "Gangsta's Paradise" — the iconic song from the movie Dangerous Minds — with its original artist and his favorite rapper, the late Coolio, in the show-stopping special, Goddamn Comedy Jam.
How to watch Goddamn Comedy Jam
The King Of Staten Island (2020)
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei
What it's about: Years after the loss of his father on September 11, 2001, a young aspiring tattoo artist struggles to come to terms with adulthood when his mother starts dating a new firefighter.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Judd Apatow co-wrote The King of Staten Island (also one of the best Bill Burr movies) with Pete Davidson, whose own life served as the inspiration for this funny and heartily honest meditation on maturity.
How to watch The King of Staten Island
- Stream The King of Staten Island on Freevee through Amazon
- Buy The King of Staten Island on Blu-ray on Amazon
Big Time Adolescence (2020)
Director: Jason Orley
Starring: Pete Davidson, Griffin Gluck, Colson Baker, Sydney Sweeney
What it's about: A naive teenager struggles to come to terms with his approaching adulthood when he is taken under the wing of his older sister’s ex-boyfriend: a 23-year-old college dropout.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: In addition to once again playing an immature slacker in a movie released in 2020, Davidson also served as a producer on Big Time Adolescence — an endearing, Hulu exclusive coming-of-age story that earned a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival.
How to watch Big Time Adolescence
The Dirt (2019)
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Douglas Booth, Iwan Rheon, Colson Baker, Daniel Webber
What it's about: Four young musicians from Hollywood embark on a most gratuitous journey of sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll as they become one of the most popular and notorious hair metal bands of the 1980s.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Davidson plays band manager,Tom Zutaut in The Dirt — a Netflix exclusive adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s autobiography, which was a bestseller in 2001.
Set It Up (2018)
Director: Claire Scanlon
Starring: Glen Powell, Zoey Deutch, Taye Diggs, Lucy Liu
What it's about: A young man and woman who feel overworked by their respective bosses realize the answer to their prayers may lie in teaming up to play matchmaker for both of them.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: In his first Netflix original production, Davidson plays the very non-stereotypically gay roommate of the male lead in Set It Up — a fun, classically done romantic comedy and one of Glen Powell's best movies.
What Men Want (2019)
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Tracy Morgan, Josh Brener
What it's about: A female sports agent struggling to climb up in the ranks alongside her predominantly male colleagues suddenly finds a strange solution when an accident gives her the ability to read men's thoughts.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Davidson plays a non-stereotypically gay co-worker of the female lead of What Men Want — a gender-swapped reimagining of the romantic fantasy comedy What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.
Trainwreck (2015)
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, LeBron James
What it's about: A female men's magazine writer who has sworn off commitment since her parents' divorce finds her romantic philosophies challenged when she begins to fall for the subject of her latest article: a doctor specializing in treating star athletes.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Judd Apatow cast Davidson in an uncredited cameo as a patient of Hader's Dr. Aaron Conners in Trainwreck — a semi-autobiographical romantic comedy also written by Schumer that actually helped Davidson get hired on SNL.
Pete Davidson: SMD (2016)
Director: Joel Gallen
Starring: Pete Davidson
What it's about: Going to "prehab," Justin Bieber, and his own crazy experiences with psychedelic mushrooms are among the topics that Davidson pokes fun at while performing at New York City's Skirball Center.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: In his very first stand-up comedy special, and one of the best stand-up specials on Paramount+, Davidson also goes into his personal experiences since the death of his father, whose initials, "SMD," were the inspiration for the title and also happen to stand for a certain lewd phrase.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Director: Thurop Van Orman, John Rice
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad
What it's about: The flightless denizens of Bird Island must ally with their swine enemy King Leonard and his army when a tyrannical eagle threatens to cause problems for both of them.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Pete Davidson makes his animated voice acting debut as Jerry the Eagle, one of the funniest side characters of The Angry Birds Movie 2 — a sequel to the movie adaptation of the popular mobile gaming app.
How to watch The Angry Birds Movie 2
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's In L.A. (2024)
Starring: John Mulaney
What it's about: Host John Mulaney discusses various topics related to the City of Angels with comedians and esteemed local experts on a nightly, six-episode live-streaming event.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Pete Davidson reunited with his buddies, Mulaney and Bill Hader, as a guest on the "Earthquakes" episode of Everybody's in L.A., where he also reminisced with comedian Luenell about appearing together in his first movie, School Dance.
How to watch John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
School Dance (2014)
Director: Nick Cannon
Starring: Bobb'e J. Thompson, Patrick Warburton
A high school freshman (played by Bobb'e J. Thompson) struggles to prove he is worthy of joining the most popular dance clique on campus.
Why It’s A Must-Watch If You Like Pete Davidson: Davidson made his feature film debut in the small role of "Stinkfinger" in School Dance, which was co-written and directed by his Wild 'N Out co-star, Nick Cannon.
- Stream School Dance on Tubi
- Stream School Dance on Pluto TV
- Stream School Dance on Plex
- Rent or buy School Dance on Amazon
- Buy School Dance on DVD on Amazon
Since leaving Saturday Night Live (which he would return to host in Season 49), Davidson has been pretty busy. Keep an eye out for his upcoming horror movie, The Home, his upcoming A24 movie, Wizards!, and his upcoming collaboration with Eddie Murphy called The Pickup. Also, keep another another eye on the 2024 movies schedule, our upcoming 2025 movies schedule, and our 2024 TV premiere schedule for whatever else he may have dropping next.
