From costars and besties Machine Gun KellyAnd Pete DavidsonThey have often exaggerated each other throughout their time in public.
The friends, who initially The set of Wild ’N Out 2017?, told Coveteur Two years later that they The two of them grew closer on the set of 2019’s The Dirt. “And then we became the bestest of the friends,” the Saturday Night Live Star Additional information in the Video May 2019.
Davidson admitted the same thing during the interview. that he rapped “every single word” of Kelly’s “Breaking News” track When they first met.
“Nah, Jeff Tremaine put me on the spot and was like, ‘Yeah, you’re a big fan?’ Yeah, I go, ‘Yeah.’ And then I just snapped off,” Davidson recalled.
“We met each other at Wild ‘N Out way back,” Kelly (real name Colson Baker) previously told Billboard August 2018. “And then met each other years later when I was filming that Mötley Crüe movie, ’cause he’s in that Mötley Crüe movie. Then we were both just a bunch of stoners down there in New Orleans. …[We]He listened to the same music. … So that’s my boy.”
From there, the duo’s bond has gotten even stronger, through good times and bad, and they were always there to support one another. In fact, the rapper committed to watching SNL weekly.
“I watch Pete’s parts on SNL every week,” Kelly revealed during a March 2019 game of Vanity Fair’s “Lie Detector Test” With Davidson.
However, Kelly was caught lying in his statement that his buddy was the funniest cast member. “Kenan [Thompson] is funnier than you,” he reluctantly admitted.
One year earlier, when Davidson Share a startling Instagram post about his mental health following his split from ex-fiancée Ariana GrandeKelly was determined to visit his friend in New York and he did.
“I’m in the plane now on the way to see Pete,” the musician tweeted in December 2018. “Gonna make sure he’s good, i promise. can’t have my boy in the darkness like that.”
The Ohio native made a brief appearance alongside the others at the time. Set it up Actor SNLPlaying Rami MalekA prerecorded segment on celebrities auditioning to host 2019 Oscars, and later helping to introduce the musical guest.
They’ve since costarred in Big Time Adolescence, and have teamed up for several of Kelly’s music videos and SNL appearances. They have often mentioned their friendship in interviews or on social media posts.
When Davidson was first seen The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in September 2021, he couldn’t resist sharing the story about how they fell off the SNL stage eight months prior during a “silly” moment at the goodbyes, which resulted in the “Bloody Valentine” artist needing a “tushie pillow.”
The Meet Cute star recalled, “He bruised his coccyx that week. If you don’t know what a coccyx is, it’s the bone in your ass. … He couldn’t walk or sit. He had a tushie pillow. It was amazing to see the most gangster and thug dude that I know lay a little tushie pillows down and then sit. [down next to Megan Fox].”
Scroll below to see more of the pair’s best bromance moments from over the years:
