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- Pete Davidson shares how Jim Carrey tried to save his first big "SNL" sketch after it 'bombed to high heavens'</p>
<p>Lauren HuffJuly 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM</p>
<p>Pete Davidson and Jim Carrey on 'SNL' in 2014</p>
<p>If you want to watch, as Pete Davidson puts it, a 20-year-old version of himself "crumble with this idol" on national television, boy, do we have a Saturday Night Live sketch for you.</p>
<p>In the latest episode of Hot Ones, the SNL alum opened up about the time a sketch of his with Jim Carrey "bombed to high heavens" — though Carrey came up with a funny way to save it. The unfortunate memory came about when host Sean Evans asked if Davidson remembered his first-ever SNL sketch and what grade he would give to its execution.</p>
<p>Without skipping a beat, Davidson recalled, "My first real sketch [was for an episode] Jim Carrey was hosting. I was so excited because he's Jim Carrey, one of the legends, and we wrote this sketch where it's like a zombie apocalypse."</p>
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<p>Pete Davidson; Jim Carrey</p>
<p>The episode in question was part of the show's 40th season in 2014. It takes place after a zombie apocalypse, when surviving students (played by Kenan Thompson, Beck Bennett, Cecily Strong, and Kyle Mooney) hold up at a high school and encounter a father (Carrey) who refuses to believe his son (Davidson) is a zombie.</p>
<p>"I'm his son, I'm clearly a zombie. He's not," Davidson continued, adding, "The sketch bombed to high heavens. And it's a long one. Like it's six minutes."</p>
<p>At this point, Davidson starts mimicking the zombie noises he made in the sketch.</p>
<p>"I'm eating d--- and the only thing that made people laugh — there was like one scene, one part where I was supposed to like try to attack Jim and he hits me with a baseball bat and that got a pop," he rememberd of one of the audience's rare laughs during the sketch.</p>
<p>Naturally, that meant Carrey was going to keep doing it — unfortunately for Davidson. "Jim is a comic so he knows if that works, so the rest of the sketch he just keeps wailing on me with a NERF bat, and then it started to hurt," Davidson recalled. "So at one point, as a zombie, I went 'Argh, no more.' And, uh, it's online if you want to watch a 20-year-old crumble with his idol."</p>
<p>Davidson didn't specify what grade he'd give the sketch, but you can see it for yourself, above.</p>
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<p>Davidson was first hired as a cast member on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series in 2014 and he remained with the show for eight seasons. He officially announced his exit from the series in 2022.</p>
<p>The comedian can next be seen in the heist action comedy film The Pickup, alongside fellow SNL star Eddie Murphy and Keke Palmer, streaming on Prime Video beginning Aug. 6.</p>
<p>Watch Davidson's full episode of Hot Ones below.</p>
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