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Pete Davidson and John Mulaney Just Announced New Tour Dates

Jon Stewart will join Mulaney on one date of the John & Pete tour in October and November.

Clear your calendars, comedy fans: John Mulaney and Pete Davidson just announced nine new tour dates across the United States and Canada—with comedian and talk show host Jon Stewart filling in for Davidson for one special engagement. The dates are in addition to Mulaney's  John Mulaney in Concert  tour, which is running concurrently.

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The  John & Pete  tour will make stops in the Midwest, Long Island, New England, and Canada, kicking off on October 5.

Mulaney, Davidson, and Stewart hit the road in early September, performing a string of shows in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Atlantic City before announcing the additional  John & Pete  (and Jon) dates. "Two Jo(h)ns and One Pete," Mulaney wrote in a September 13 Instagram post, sharing photos of the three behind the scenes and onstage. "The best."

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Mulaney, a former  Saturday Night Live  writer and five-time SNL host, has toured with fellow  SNL  alum Davidson in the past, in addition to their onscreen collaborations. Both Mulaney and Stewart appeared on  Bupkis ,  Pete Davidson's semi-autobiographical Peacock series .

John Mulaney and Pete Davidson's John & Pete Tour Dates

Thursday, October 5 – Rosemont, IL – Rosemont Theatre (with Pete Davidson)

Friday, October 6 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live (with Pete Davidson)

Saturday, October 7 – Muncie, IN – Emens Auditorium (with Pete Davidson)

Friday, October 13 – Westbury, NY - NYCB Theater (with Jon Stewart)

Friday, October 27 (two shows) – Providence, RI– Providence Performing Arts Center (with Pete Davidson)

Saturday, October 28 – Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena (with Pete Davidson)

Sunday, October 29 – Bangor, ME – Cross Insurance Center (with Pete Davidson)

Thursday, November 9 – Rama, Ontario, CA – Casino Rama (with Pete Davidson)

Friday, November 10 – Windsor, Ontario, CA – Caesars Windsor (with Pete Davidson)

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How to buy tickets to John Mulaney and Pete Davidson's 2023 comedy tour

Pre-sale tickets for the John & Pete tour began on Wednesday, September 13 at 10 a.m. local time on Ticketmaster with the code COMEDY. General ticket sales begin on Friday, September 15 at 10 a.m. local time on Ticketmaster —with the exception of the Gary, IN, date which is on sale now. Head to  johnmulaney.com for more details on the tour and tickets. 

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Pete davidson just extended his 2023 stand-up tour. get tickets now.

This isn’t bupkis.

Comedian Pete Davidson just added a few additional stand-up dates to his 2023 tour calendar .

He’s now slated to headline in Florida, North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia this August.

These additional dates come on the heels of the “Saturday Night Live” alum’s recently announced five-show tour with fellow comics John Mulaney and Jon Stewart on Sept. 8-10.

On that run, he’ll play two gigs at Atlantic City, NJ’s Etess Arena at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Sept. 10 with his funny friends.

Want to grab last-minute tickets cost to catch the “King of Staten Island” live?

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At the time of publication, tickets are available for all shows and some are going for as low as $70 before fees on Vivid Seats.

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Pete Davidson is at a facility for mental health treatment as stand-up shows are canceled

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Following a string of performances on his Prehab tour, Pete Davidson is taking a break from the stage.

The “Saturday Night Live” alum recently checked into a wellness facility for mental health treatment, People reported Wednesday.

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Mental health has “always been a priority” for Davidson, a source told the outlet, adding that for the past year the comedian has been focusing on his sobriety — a subject he has touched on repeatedly in his stand-up.

“I am fresh out of rehab, everyone,” Davidson said in September during a show with comedian John Mulaney and political talk-show host Jon Stewart. “I got that post-rehab glow. Seventh time’s the charm!”

The news of Davidson’s most recent admittance comes as venues in Florida and New Jersey announced the comedian’s upcoming shows there have been canceled due to “scheduling conflicts.”

Representatives for Davidson did not reply immediately Wednesday to The Times’ request for comment.

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Davidson underwent treatment last summer to address issues related to post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder, People reported. At the time, a source told the outlet, “Pete will often check himself into rehab to work on these issues. His friends and family have been supportive during this time.”

In a 2018 interview with Variety , the “Bodies Bodies Bodies” star said he had “been in and out of mental health facilities” since he was 9 years old — but medication helped to stabilize him.

“The last few years have been real rough with me,” he said. “I took all these mental health classes and really spent a lot of time getting me good.”

Last year, Davidson was charged with reckless driving after he crashed a car into a Beverly Hills home . He was subsequently ordered by the Los Angeles Superior Court to complete an 18-month diversion program, which included 50 hours of community service.

He completed the 50 hours at New York City’s Lenox Hill Neurosurgery, where his sister works as a physician assistant, the Daily Mail reported.

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Davidson finished the program early, and on July 18 his misdemeanor charge was dismissed, Rolling Stone reported.

“Hooray? I guess,” he joked at his July 20 show in Atlantic City, N.J., a showgoer told the Daily Mail . “I did something bad. It’s not anything really to be celebrated.”

Later in the show, Davidson told the crowd that despite quitting “coke and ketamine,” he still smokes weed: “I’m holding on for a little bit longer.”

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Comedian Pete Davidson has canceled several shows, including a New York City gig just hours before he was to perform on Friday , news outlets reported.

Venues for his stand-up act attributed the cancellations to “ unforeseen circumstances .”

The former “ Saturday Night Live ” star was supposed to take the stage Friday to begin a two-night run at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. But fans got word a short time before the first performance that both were canceled, Page Six reported .

Gigs in San Antonio, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Louisville and Milwaukee have also been axed, pushing the cancellations into at least early January , USA Today reported .

HuffPost has reached out to Davidson’s reps for comment.

Davidson, 30, has struggled with his mental health.

In June it was reported that the “King of Staten Island” actor entered rehab to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.

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In October he hosted the season opener of “Saturday Night Live.” It was Davidson’s first appearance on “ SNL ” since his 2022 departure.

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Pete Davidson fans defend comedian for walking off stage in Omaha after ‘relentless heckling’

‘it’s just absolutely absurd. you’re ruining it for the whole show,’ said one fan, article bookmarked.

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Fans have defended Pete Davidson after the stand-up comedian reportedly walked off stage early at a show in Nebraska last week.

Davidson, 30, was performing at Steelhouse in Omaha as part of his ongoing “Prehab Tour”, but abruptly left when audience members refused to quieten down and continued to shout things like: “Ariana Grande!”

The Independent has approached Davidson and Steelhouse for comment.

On Reddit , one fan recounted their experience at the show and concluded that Davidson had been in the right.

“Good on Pete for disciplining the petulant audience that showed up like an attention-seeking 3-year-old demanding their presence noticed while the adults talk. Wasn’t the time,” they wrote. “Truly disappointing.”

Another wrote that Davidson was already coming to the end of his set by the time he left, and was still being consistently heckled.

“One of the s***tier things I personally heard was when Pete mentioned he had one more joke to deliver before sending us off. At this point, some lady near my seats yelled, ‘OH, you’ve got a joke?’,” they wrote, before adding: “Shame on Omaha for this one.”

On YouTube , fan Katelin Stivers said she’d also been at the show. She asked: “Where the f*** did decorum go at events because he shouldn’t have had to walk off stage because you guys don’t understand that because you see crowd work on TikTok that you think every comedian needs to be heckled to the point that they leave stage with one joke left.”

She added: “It’s just absolutely absurd. You’re ruining it for the whole show.”

Davidson and Grande’s whirlwind romance was the subject of widespread media attention. The pair got engaged in June 2018 after just two months of dating. The couple then broke up in October that same year.

Davidson later said during a radio show appearance that he knew the relationship was “over” when Grande’s ex-boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller, died.

“That was really horrible, and I can’t imagine what that s*** is like. All I do know is that she really loved the s*** out of him and she wasn’t putting on a show or anything.”

Davidson added that he “totally got it” when the couple split given the circumstances.

“I was like, ‘Listen, I get it, do whatever you’ve got to do, I’ll be here’,” he recalled.

Davidson has gone on to date a string of famous women , including Kate Beckinsale, Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor and Kim Kardashian.

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Pete Davidson's standup comedy shows canceled through early January 2024

A dozen of Pete Davidson's upcoming comedy shows has been canceled through early January.

The "Saturday Night Live" alum, 30, had been scheduled to perform at New York City's Beacon Theatre on Friday and Saturday night. Appearances over the next two weeks — through Jan. 4 — in San Antonio; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Atlanta; Pittsburgh; Louisville, Kentucky; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin have also been canceled, according to Ticketmaster's event listings .

The Beacon Theatre shared news of the cancellation on its Instagram Story several hours before the scheduled showtime. According to messages shared on the websites for Chattanooga's Walker Theatre , Pittsburgh's Byham Theater and Milwaukee's Riverside Theater , the cancellations were due to "unforeseen circumstances."

Ticketholders will automatically receive refunds, according to Ticketmaster. Davidson is also scheduled to perform at Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater in Austin, Texas, on Dec. 27 and 28. USA TODAY has reached out to the venue for information on the status of the events.

USA TODAY has also reached out to Davidson's representatives for comment.

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Davidson also previously canceled a handful of shows , in which he would be "working out new material with friends," that were scheduled for July. That month, he was ordered to do community service and go to traffic school after he was  charged with reckless driving  for crashing his car into a Los Angeles-area home in March. In June, he reportedly checked in to a rehab facility, according to People magazine and Today.com .

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement to USA TODAY at the time that Davidson was placed on an 18-month diversion program, which includes a hospital and morgue visit — "or the New York equivalent" — 12 hours of traffic school, 50 hours of community service and restitution, all of which can be completed from New York.

In October, Davidson returned to Studio 8H as the first host of "SNL's"49th season. After a somber cold open about the Israel-Hamas war, "The King of Staten Island" star returned to his usual vulgar brand of humor in his monologue and thoroughly roasted himself in a parody music video for "I'm Just Ken" from the "Barbie" movie.

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The Attraction To Pete Davidson Explained According To Reddit

Saturday Night Live's Pete Davidson is steadily taking over the hearts of everyone, one crude joke at a time. Seemingly overnight, the comedian has become Hollywood's favorite heartthrob. Davidson has been racking up attention with his hilarious SNL sketches and comedy specials, and his  high-profile dating history , which regularly makes headlines.

The  New York Post credits his self-deprecating humor, bluntness, and approachability as a slew of reasons why Davidson has so many fans falling for him — and that's before you count his immeasurable talent as an actor and spot-on comedic timing. Throw in his down-to-earth personality, many tattoos and his desirability skyrockets. In typical Pete Davidson fashion, he joked about the world's collective crush on him during his stand-up set on January 18, 2022. Us Weekly reports that while performing at the 9th Annual Patrice O'Neal Comedy Benefit Concert, Davidson humorously questioned his "heartthrob status": "There seems to be a curiosity about me, is what my friends tell me," he started off. "I was trying to figure out how to explain myself to someone because I was doing an interview." 

The outlet reports that he continued the comedy bit by comparing himself to a discount DVD bin, and brought up classic movies that didn't deserve to be trashed. "I'm Tropic Thunder. I'm the diamond in the trash," he jokingly admits. "It's a steal." His admittance that he doesn't get the appeal ironically earns him more points.

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We investigated what makes Pete Davidson so attractive, once and for all. Our search led us to Reddit, where there's an entire  thread  dedicated to answering the question. After the original poster asked why people were attracted to the successful comedian, fans made compelling arguments explaining the appeal. 

One user cited his personality and emotional availability, writing "It's mainly his personality that gives him such broad appeal. He seems like he actually likes women, for one. Which is a lot less common in guys than guys seem to think it is. He's self aware, laid back, successful, funny, emotionally available. What's not to like?" Elite Daily affirms this idea that he's very personable. 

Another user said that it all boiled down to Davidson's openness about his mental health , writing "I find him wildly attractive. He is honest about his mental health challenges and has made announcements when he needs to be hospitalized; that is pretty brave considering the taboo against men seeking this kind of help. He is witty and doesn't take himself seriously, and he's tall and reedy."

Wherever you fall on the Pete Davidson poll, it's hard to ignore his genuineness and the fact that he doesn't take himself seriously. 

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• Dumb Money is a David vs. Goliath story based on the true events of regular people who took on Wall Street and got rich through GameStop stocks.
• The film explores the life of Keith Gill, played by Paul Dano, who starts a movement by investing in GameStop and gaining a massive following on social media.
• Dumb Money is a comedy that tackles serious themes, such as wealth disparity and the power of social media, while also including humorous moments and unconventional metaphors.

Dubbed The Big Short for the reddit generation following its premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival , Dumb Money is a film with a lot on its mind. On the one hand, it is about the very recent history where a group of everyday retail investors led by the real-life Roaring Kitty AKA Keith Gill ( Paul Dano ) came together to try to beat the wealthy at their own game. On the other, it is a comedy where Pete Davidson plays Gil's brother who he eventually runs around naked with in what ends up being one of the film's climactic scenes.

With the film now on VOD, we sat down again with co-writers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo to talk about striking this balance, what jokes they wrote for Davidson, the way they approached the ending of the film, and what is coming next for them with Cruella 2 .

David vs. Goliath tale about everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (the video game store) into the world's hottest company.

COLLIDER: When you both were working together as journalists did you think there would come a day where you would write a movie about an unprecedented moment in American history about Gamestop that also stars Pete Davidson saying aloud the words that you had written?

REBECCA ANGELO: [Laughs] I think, like, three days before we went into production on this movie we also didn't believe that that was actually going to happen.

LAUREN SCHUKER BLUM: I'm glad you asked that because we ask ourselves that exact question. We're like, “How did this happen?” [Laughs]

ANGELO: Yeah. I mean, we grew up just like middle-class kids in suburban America. We went to college and we needed jobs after we graduated. A screenwriter was not a profession, it was an absurd fantasy, so we went to college. We wanted to be storytellers. We love doing research, and we love telling true stories, so we got journalism jobs where you have, like, health insurance and a steady paycheck and, like, a 401k that you contribute pennies to every month. So the idea that 11 years ago, when we set out in our spare time to try to teach ourselves how to be screenwriters, that we would now be talking to you and have had this opportunity to work with these incredible actors, these incredible comedic actors and dramatic actors, it's beyond our wildest dreams.

BLUM: I think one of the things we loved about being reporters was the chance to talk to people who were really different than we were, right? You know, we’d write their quotes down, but like write their voices about stories that were far from our lived experience. Then when we became screenwriters, everyone kept telling us to write our story, which we found to be very boring. [Laughs] And it took us a while.

ANGELO: And also superficial, right? Because what we're looking for is the human connection, the empathic connection to every single character we're putting on screen, and it's just silly to think that those connections can only come from people who look like you and have lived the same or very similar lives that you do. Like the project of storytelling is empathy, is doing the hard work of putting yourself behind somebody else's eyes, especially somebody who seems to live a very different life than you.

BLUM: Which, we were then on a TV show, Orange is the New Black , and learn from Jenji Kohan’s example of what that was – to be a writer is to look at another person and research their life and get into their mindset and try to find the shared humanity.

ANGELO: And not to be afraid of the criticism and the feedback from people whose lives more align with the characters, to listen to them before, during, and after, and to have humility, but also to have the bravery to try.

BLUM: And so it was the experience of being on that show that we thought, like, we got into journalism to tell stories far from our own, to have this kind of like radical empathy with other characters, and let's do that in our own storytelling as screenwriters, too. So we started writing movies about people that had very different lives.

ANGELO: What are you talking about, Lauren? You've lived the same experience as Pete Davidson.

BLUM: [Laughs] Exactly. And we also got really interested in writing men, right? And writing men who speak very differently than us.

ANGELO: There’s a fun, subversive quality to that. I mean, I think when we started out in the business, people were like, “Oh, you're girls,” like, “Here's a movie about, like, a bridesmaid who really wants to get married.” And our instincts took us to very, very different stories, I think partly because we have a financial reporting background, but also just because we have that curiosity, and it's just how we're built. But there's something fun and subversive about women writing men's voices when, for millennia, men have written women’s.

BLUM: Particularly for a long time in Hollywood, men got to write the dick jokes, and we were like, “You know what? We want to write the dick jokes.”

Did you get to write any dick jokes for Pete Davidson or did he come to you?

BLUM: I think you've seen them in Dumb Money ! [Laughs]

So those were yours?

BLUM: Oh, yes, yes. We pitched out that very last scene running on the track to Craig Gillespie because we found an article about Keith Gill's brother…

ANGELO: Using the Wayback Machine. We found some stuff from their college newspaper, like these little blurbs about Kevin Gill, who by the way, is the coolest, funniest, best dude.

BLUM: An extraordinary person.

ANGELO: And a great Door Dasher.

BLUM: Oh yeah, we should say that everything in the film is true, we researched the hell out of it. The one thing we invented is that when we cast Pete Davidson in the role of Kevin Gill, who’s a real person, we realized nobody would buy Pete Davidson as a great Door Dasher and Kevin Gill has, like, a 99% rating, so we had to make…

ANGELO: He has a lot of pride in his work. He's really smart and funny. We don't know him at all, but we know him from social media.

BLUM: But Pete Davidson will never pass as an excellent Door Dasher, so we had to then make him like a bad Door Dasher. But Kevin is a great Door Dasher. Anyway, we found this article about [how] Kevin ran a mile naked in this lightning storm, and it was like legendary on campus, and so we pitched that scene at the end of the movie to Craig, and he was like, “What? Naked run?” And we’re like, “Craig, we’ll break the internet!” Like, if Pete Davidson runs naked in our movie, everyone will go crazy.

ANGELO: And we were like, “You know, the thing about Pete, right? The thing people say about Pete,” and Craig was like, “What are you talking about?” And we were like, “Okay, boss, let us just try.” And we used that as a kind of metaphor for victory in this moment, and just wrote it and proved it out for Craig.

BLUM: Yes, we wrote this third-act metaphor to the movie about how being brave is like running with your dick out, and he read it and he was like, “This is good. I will shoot this final scene if it’s so important.”

ANGELO: You know, it's important to fight for what you believe in.

BLUM: Yeah, but this is why you have women write the dick jokes because then you get, you know, a scene like that.

Dick jokes as metaphors.

ANGELO: Yeah. On the flip side of that, one of the funniest and most unexpected pieces of feedback we've gotten since the movie came out is people saying that they've never seen a movie where men do so much childcare and domestic work and that it's funny that it maybe takes women to write that. We're super lucky our husbands take care of our kids, they help around the house, and it was like a piece of shared humanity that we found at this time when everybody, even the rich people, were locked in their homes or isolated. Like, you see the billionaires doing their kids’ dishes, and you see the regular folks doing their kids’ dishes and trying to quiet a crying baby while they're doing a business call, which is, I think, maybe the most relatable thing about the pandemic, at least for us.

BLUM: Yeah, it was important. We saw men doing those things, so we put into the movie.

Yeah, I wanted to ask, especially journalism, I was like, “Wow, you all have health care with journalism? What a time.” But I did want to ask about the specifics of capturing a moment in time with the pandemic that was so upheaving of everything we'd known and was also so recent because one of the things I was struck by is it doesn't feel like it was made just this year, it feels like it was made with enough time to have passed. It feels like it could have been made 10 years from now. So I was curious about the process and conversations you were having about bringing to life those details as a backdrop for all of everything else happening, too.

BLUM: I think we took a lot of risks that paid off.

ANGELO: Our feelings, basically, is that every movie, if done right, is a period piece. And this is a super recent period, and it's hard to be processed about a super recent period. One of the aspects of our work is that any kind of screenwriting, any kind of filmmaking is an iterative process. I think because Lauren and I are a partnership and because we have a background in journalism that that may be even more so for us. We do so many drafts, we work it, we push on every weakness and soft spot, we try every version to find the best version, and I think that helped us process in a shorter period of time this bizarre time capsule, out of human experience that we had just gone through for a few years.

BLUM: But I mean, we were sitting on set in masks and the characters are in masks.

ANGELO: Yeah, Lauren calls it method writing.

BLUM: It was like method because we were locked in our homes writing this screenplay. I mean, I think we knew, even the in the moment, that this whole story wouldn't have happened without the pandemic. It was so tied to the moment.

ANGELO: But at the same time, it wasn't anomalous. It was like the pandemic heightened all these things that we were experiencing as a civilization in the years leading up to it. I think everybody is lonelier. Social media has both brought us together and kept us apart. We have lost so many of the communal gathering spaces that we used to have. Then, you know, churches were closed, community centers were closed, schools were closed, so that ratcheted the lower grade experience up to an 11.

BLUM: It wasn't like Reddit came out of nowhere, right? It’s been with us for a while, but it reached this, like, fever pitch. I mean, even stock trading, right? It has never been higher than it is today, right? So that trend has just accelerated since this moment, it hasn't gone away in terms of retail stock trading.

ANGELO: Yeah, so we just did our best, right? I mean, it was a collective trauma, the pandemic, and you have to be selective, and you have to curate the experience for the audience. You have a responsibility to entertain and to educate and to take people on a ride. And if it's too much about the pandemic, you're going to push people away.

You didn’t want to make Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion .

BLUM: It was a way of talking about the pandemic without ever saying the word COVID, without seeing a lot of hospitals. But, you know, I think it was a huge challenge, and there were definitely risks. Craig Gillespie spent a lot of time being like, “Okay, can he have a cup of coffee so he can take off his mask? Can these characters be eating so that they're not covered the whole time?”

ANGELO: He never wanted to cheat in telling the story, right? And I think there's an impulse, especially trying to capture this really diffused, modern era where people aren't interacting in person, to force scenes where they're in a room together, or in a “pandemic movie,” do a scene in a hospital or a Gamestop store where they're not wearing their masks, and we never wanted to cheat. So, it ended up organically yielding, I think, powerful imagery. We made choices, for example, masks, and to use that as a kind of visual metaphor for status, like rich people don't have to wear masks when they're being driven by a chauffeur who does have a mask. And then, also, the mask becomes, like, over your nose, how many times you were told to put your mask back up over your nose? It becomes like a symbol.

BLUM: I think that ethos, too, of not cheating. We knew from the outset we wanted to tell a grounded version of the story. Not every screenplay we write is grounded—we're writing Cruella 2 —but I think with this story it was so important to us that you can see it in the movie in a few different ways in our approach to the pandemic. We have characters who don't meet, are never going to meet, are never in the same room, we didn't pretend they were. We worked very hard in the script to have them be in conversation…

ANGELO: And in conflict, building ideas, fighting each other…

BLUM: …fighting across scenes, but also having images that echo so that you feel like our hero and our villain are both running. We have a Wall Street guy washing dishes, and we have a retail trader washing dishes.

ANGELO: Or we have billionaires talking about how a company is worthless, and you play that in voiceover, intercutting over scenes of an employee of the store who is frustrated by his bosses, but also this is the center of his community and of his life. So you can show a conflict without having people argue at each other.

BLUM: And we even have it in terms of these like TikTok videos and wanting to show this was a bottom-up movement and not one that came from the experts telling people how to invest. The movie is really different than Wolf of Wall Street or even The Big Short in that way; this was a movement that was by the people for the people. In our research, we saw how they taught each other what a short squeeze was, like people were watching, they were on Wall Street bets reading about it, or they were watching a TikTok. So it felt to us really important, again, to not cheat that, to not do our version of Margot Robbie in the bathtub, but to actually take those real TikToks, put them in the script, and put them on the big screen, and say, “These people deserve the big screen treatment.”

ANGELO: And to be clear, we revere McKay, and we love The Big Short .

Oh yeah, I didn't take that as a criticism.

ANGELO: But just to underscore the point, like Margot in a bathtub explaining something that only geniuses saw, and, like, visionaries and prophets in this world saw, is exactly right, I think, for that. For us, it's not right at all because it's not about people on high looking direct-to-camera and explaining. It's about regular people saying, “No, these concepts aren't too opaque, they aren't too complicated. We're gonna participate in this, and we're gonna do it by teaching each other in really funny, dashed off, thoughtful TikTok videos, memes, YouTube videos…”

BLUM: But again, we don't wanna recreate those and make them glossy and Hollywood.

That would have been a disconnect.

ANGELO: Exactly. It would have been condescending, and, like, they don't need it. These people did it the best. [Laughs] We don't need to rewrite it. We don't need to put it in our own voice. We can elevate a dorm room TikTok video to the stuff of cinema where it belongs, right alongside a tear-jerk monologue from America Ferrera.

BLUM: And to his credit in editing, we had an extraordinary editor on this movie, Kirk Baxter, and he and Craig both, whenever we tried to recreate anything, they're like, “It doesn't have the same energy of that. There's an energy of this moment…”

ANGELO: Like an authenticity. I think viewers now have a bullshit detector, unlike anything we've ever seen. People know as soon as something is even the tiniest bit inauthentic, and we didn't want to make that mistake.

I definitely want to ask about people's bullshit detectors a little bit and how that factors into it. With what you were talking about, of wanting to have a balance between entertainment and truth, because the movie is out, I want to get a little bit into the ending of it. I was curious if you had written the end title cards as it has this underdog, “Ra ra, the dumb money won't be ignored,” and as a little bit of a complicated thing, is reality so simple? There are still people that are holding the line, there are still people that are invested in this, but there are still these inequalities. There was this great reviewer, [Adam Nayman], that I had read who said , “The house doesn’t always win, but it’ll always remain standing.” And I was curious about the balance you all had in approaching the ending.

ANGELO: Yeah, we have so much to say on this issue. Yes, we wrote those end titles, and it is the thing that we spent the most time – where do we want to end this story, and what note do we want to end on? So yeah, I think, first of all, the standard is not, “We only tell stories about movements that changed everything forever.”

No, absolutely.

ANGELO: There is something extremely important, especially at this time when it is so easy to look around and feel hopeless at how broken and rigged everything is, to tell a story of the victory in and of itself. It doesn't have to be a lasting victory, but it is worth celebrating moments where people came together, joined their voices as one more or less. These movements are messy, and people win and lose, and also people have different definitions of what it means to win and lose. But we thought it was worth memorializing this story in cinema because it is a little bit like a spark, right? And a spark can ignite a fire, or it can easily be snuffed out, but there's something beautiful about taking something as ephemeral as a single spark and and committing it to celluloid forever.

BLUM: And I think, you know, those titles, we were very aware when writing them that GameStop has a really complicated legacy, and some people are like Keith Gill. Well, no, almost no one's like Keith Gill. [Laughs] But there are the Roaring Kitties of the world, Keith Gill, who made millions and millions of dollars. There are college girls who made some money off this, there are people like America Ferrera's character who lost. So many people were like, “Oh my god, my heart was broken. Why did she have to lose?” It's important because we’re left holding the bag…

ANGELO: But also, she stuck to her guns, right? I think we are used to measuring success only in terms of money won or money lost, and there is a principle at stake here. We talked to dozens of these people, and yes, we heard regrets about people who bought too late or sold too early and didn't make out like bandits, but the most emotional and powerful regrets we heard were from people who sold and felt like they betrayed the movement. And there was something even more powerful than money at stake here; it was about being part of something, being responsible to other people, and making a stand against something predatory, something anti-American, something ugly, the worst aspects of capitalism, and that people are willing to pay money to express their beliefs.

BLUM: And that's what the end cards are getting at is this idea that, you know, who won, who lost. You can kind of tally up the money and you can say, like, “Well, Wall Street is back to business, and the hedge fund guys are still rich, and retail is, by and large, still not that rich.” But you could also look at this as, like, here's this group of retail who was basically reviled by Wall Street…

ANGELO: When they were seen at all.

BLUM: Right. They were seen as invisible, right? It's like retail doesn't matter. At least we have our characters say versions of that and kind of laugh at the idea of retail traders. And this group has become visible for the first time, like you open the Wall Street Journal, you see meme stocks in the headline, you see retail traders in the headlines, there are reporters. You know, when we worked there, nobody covered retail trading or meme stocks. Now you have reporters who their whole job is to do that.

ANGELO: There are analysts at every hedge fund whose job is to monitor and there are apps and services that you can subscribe to now that their entire company is that all they do is monitor.

BLUM: And you also see, you know, a few weeks after our film came out, the SEC came out and made this sweeping policy change, basically forcing hedge funds, like the hedge funds we have in the film, to disclose their short position.

ANGELO: To be much more transparent about this practice, which is a vital aspect of our economy, but also completely out of control.

BLUM: The change that’s happened since the film came out, basically means shorting now, you have to disclose every month so it’s actually much riskier to short and that's a very big deal. I think it's probably the beginning of some changes to come.

ANGELO: But these things are complicated, and this is a giant ship, and it's profoundly broken. So the notion that a one/two-month period in 2021 is gonna change everything is Pollyanna-ish.

BLUM: It’s proved that this group has become visible in a way that they weren’t.

ANGELO: And even, you know, we're emailing with Gary Gensler, the head of the SEC. This movie has become an opportunity to talk about this and to bring senators and congresspeople into a bigger conversation about how we wanna shape our financial markets. And to be part of the beginning of this new era of the conversation, I think, is like our highest aim and exciting.

BLUM: And even the title of the film, Dumb Money , that phrase was not around that much. And I think people are looking at that term and investigating it.

ANGELO: Well, it was accepted earnestly, right? Like Wall Street called themselves smart money and regular people were dumb money, and to embrace that insult as like a cris de coeur, as like an inspiration, like, “This is what they think of us. We are going to teach them a lesson,” that's cool.

As a last question, how do you all then shift—and I mean this sincerely—how do you all shift from this to something that is a little bit more, I'll say, heightened in the way that you had said it, with Cruella 2 ? I was curious where you all are at with that, and did you take anything from this into that, or have you begun writing on that, or where is kind of the status there?

ANGELO: Very much so, yeah.

BLUM: It's funny, doing this press tour for Dumb Money, people are like, “Alright, so tell us about your financial expertise and payment for order flow!” And we’re like, “We’re screenwriters! What?” [Laughs] I mean, we're storytellers, this is a story, that's a story.

ANGELO: Yeah, and we're always looking for the emotional story and the human connection to the characters, and we love a badass, rollicking, wild tone, and we love Craig Gillespie, and so there's a lot of surprisingly common DNA in the two projects. But the thing that matters most is serving this incredible character, giving her the greatest journey she can have, and having the most fun doing it. Yeah, it stretches different muscles, but the essential process is the same, which is just finding the best version of the story, the most outrageous situations, the most cinematic, giving the audience a wild ride. Our number one priority is telling a story that's fun and that’s going to move you. And beyond that, it's just bells and whistles, and Lauren and me sitting in a room just making each other laugh.

BLUM: We do strive for authenticity or to be true to the story in Dumb Money , and here to be true to the character. Like what just happened yesterday, that really feels true to this character. And again, never to cheat or go for something that doesn't feel really good in our hearts.

So it sounds like you're in the midst of the process of it right now, of writing it.

BLUM: Yeah, our script is behind you.

ANGELO: [Laughs] Yes, on the screen.

Is there any time that you're planning to begin production on that now that the strike is over?

ANGELO: That’s above our pay grade.

BLUM: Great question for Craig Gillespie.

ANGELO: [Laughs] Yeah, or for many executives at Disney.

Dumb Money is available to stream on VOD in the U.S. now.

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Pete Davidson to perform with John Mulaney and Jon Stewart in first tour since entering rehab

Jon, John & Pete will include shows in three cities in September.

Pete Davidson will return to the stage for his first tour since entering rehab earlier this summer.

The comedian reportedly had gigs on Aug. 1, performing a pair of sold-out shows in Dania, Fla., reported TMZ . Now news comes that Davidson will do a short run of shows with John Mulaney and Jon Stewart , both of whom recently appeared in Davidson's Peacock show, Bupkis .

The comedians will start their run of four shows in Springfield, Mass., on Sept. 8 before doing two shows a night in Bethlehem, Penn., on Sept. 9 and in Atlantic City on Sept. 10.

Mulaney shared the details for the mini-tour — dubbed Jon, John & Pete — on his Instagram, revealing that the presale begins today and that tickets will go on sale to the general public on Aug. 4.

A representative for Davidson did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

The series of gigs arrives just more than a month after Davidson entered a rehab facility seeking assistance with post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder, a diagnosis he revealed on Marc Maron's WTF podcast in 2017.

A source close to the SNL alum told PEOPLE at the time, "Pete will often check himself into rehab to work on these issues. His friends and family have been supportive during this time."

No word yet on if the Jon, John & Pete tour will hit the road for more dates.

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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Comedian Pete Davidson ended his Omaha show early Friday after what some reported as “relentless heckling.”

The “Saturday Night Live” alumnus was performing at Steelhouse Omaha on Friday night as part of his Prehab Tour .

Some audience members attending the Omaha show that night told 6 News that others in the audience were loud and disruptive, particularly later into his act, prompting Davidson abruptly walk off stage before finishing the show.

Several people commented about the performance on X/Twitter and in a post on the Omaha Reddit , with a range of reactions from regret for the impression it left to irritation about their own experience watching an interrupted show.

“It’s just absolutely absurd. You’re ruining it for the whole show,” said one fan, according to a report in The Independent .

New York Post subsidiary Page Six said entertainment influencers came to Davidson’s defense:

“He shouldn’t have had to walk off stage because you guys don’t understand that because you see crowd work on TikTok that you think every comedian needs to be heckled to the point that they leave stage with one joke left.”

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Pete Davidson: Prehab Tour

• Date June 13 , 2024
• Event Starts 7:00 PM
• Venue The Riverside Theater
• Doors Open 6:00 PM
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Pete Davidson is the creator, executive producer, writer and star of Peacock’s critically acclaimed comedy “Bupkis.”

Davidson was a cast member on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” from 2014-2022, where his singular Weekend Update features and original music videos garnered millions of views.

Davidson shot his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central in 2016 and was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 the same year. In 2020, he released the stand-up special “Pete Davidson: Alive From New York.” Davidson was listed as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022.

In 2020, Davidson co-wrote, executive produced, and starred in the critically acclaimed film “The King of Staten Island.” Additional film work includes “Trainwreck,” “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” “Big Time Adolescence,” “Set It Up,” “Meet Cute,” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” Upcoming projects include “Dumb Money,” “Wizards!” and “I Slept with Joey Ramone.”

This event will be a phone-free experience. Use of phones, smart watches and accessories, will not be permitted in the performance space. Upon arrival at the venue, all phones, smart watches and accessories will be secured in individual Yondr pouches that will be opened at the end of the event. Guests maintain possession of their devices at all times, and can access them throughout the event only in designated Phone Use Areas within the venue. All devices will be re-secured in Yondr pouches before returning to the performance space. Anyone seen using a device (phone, smart watch or accessories) during the performance will be escorted out of the venue.

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