Earlier this yr, Kanye West made headlines for on-line harassment of Pete Davidson, who’s at present courting his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
The harassment spanned a number of incidents, together with the music video for the rapper’s track ‘Simple,’ which depicted him kidnapping and beheading what seemed to be a cartoon depiction of Davidson.
At his cease on the Netflix is a Joke competition this week, Davidson spoke publicly in regards to the scenario, poking enjoyable at West’s behaviour in direction of him. That included an alleged incident the place West tried to unfold rumours that Davidson had contracted AIDS.
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“I had an AIDS scare this yr,” Davidson mentioned early in his set, occurring to joke that since West is a “genius,” he went to his physician for a check-up.
Davidson informed jokes about West’s controversial and really public harassment of Kardashian, which included sending her a truck stuffed with roses. Davidson likened the scenario to the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire, which starred Robin Williams as a person who tried to spend extra time along with his youngsters by posing as a housekeeper in his ex-wife’s residence.
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“Am I the one one who secretly hopes Kanye will go full Mrs. Doubtfire?” Davidson mentioned.
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In the course of the set, Davidson additionally addressed Jack Harlow’s function spot on Donda 2. Harlow and Davidson have labored collectively publicly, and Davidson appeared at a Harlow live performance final January.
Davidson mentioned he did not take it personally that Harlow was featured on the album, however joked that he would take it personally if his King of Staten Island co-star Invoice Burr grew to become pals with West.
“It might harm if I noticed like, Invoice Burr at Sunday Service,” Davidson mentioned.
Davidson additionally made a number of different jokes about his movie star pals, together with Chris Rock and Jon Stewart, with whom he attended a Knicks sport final December. Davidson joked that since that sport, Chris Rock was slapped on the Oscars and he received his head chopped off in a video, however Stewart received the Mark Twain award.
Though Davidson stored the tone of the set mild, he did acknowledge how unusual the scenario was, and at one level mentioned it gave him “a hopeless feeling.”
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