Pete Davidson’s “I’m Just Pete” SNL Sketch Explained

“When I’m high, I do things like call up Colin Jost and say, ‘Homie, we should buy a boat,” Pete continues, referencing when Pete and Colin left fans stunned last year after buying a decommissioned ferry for $280,100 in an auction.

And while the boat situation is a pretty hilarious anecdote, it turned out to be just the beginning of Pete’s shoutouts to his personal life in “I’m Just Pete” — which comes to a head when he sings about his feud with Ye.

He says, “People online still call me Skete because of a guy whose name I can’t say legally” as a picture of the rapper briefly flashes onscreen.

Kim and Pete ended up splitting in August 2022 after nine months of dating. Before Kim, Pete had dated the likes of Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale, and Kaia Gerber, and since their breakup, he has been linked to Emily Ratajkowski and Chase Sui Wonders and is currently dating Madelyn Cline.

“My dating life is not discreet. I generate tons of publicity for everything except my comedy,” he sings.

So in true self-deprecating fashion, Pete pokes fun at his physical appearance multiple times in “I’m Just Pete,” kicking off with the lyric, “They tell me I have butthole eyes.”

Later in the song, he shouts out the “famous big dick energy” that has followed him since Ariana cheekily suggested in a tweet that Pete is “10 inches.”

“I’m mentally ill and I’m on drugs,” he quips. He then makes light of his frequent visits to rehab, which he most recently checked into in June after reportedly taking ketamine almost every day for four years.

“Out of the blue, like three times a year, when you least expect it, I go to rehab,” he sings before acknowledging that he doesn’t have a social media presence, on the advice of his doctors.

After “I’m Just Pete” reaches its climax, with Pete being joined by multiple other versions of himself, Pete has one more trick up his sleeve in the sketch’s outro.

In arguably one of the most surprising references to his personal life in the whole sketch, the song ends with Pete driving his car into the side of Barbie’s Dreamhouse and exclaiming, “Awh, not again!”

And while this tongue-in-cheek re-creation of the accident caught many viewers off guard, all in all, Pete was widely praised for his humility in the SNL sketch, with fans left in awe of his ability to poke fun at himself.