Pete Davidson Transcends His Tabloid Persona in New Netflix Special

When Ricky Gervais wanted to talk about participating in Make-A-Wish for his Netflix special Armageddon, he couldn’t help himself but share his most wicked impulse to chew out dying kids by sending them videos asking: “Why didn’t you wish to get better? What, are you fucking retarded as well?”

But when Pete Davidson jokes about helping Make-A-Wish in his new Netflix special out today, Turbo Fonzarelli, his own horrible thoughts turn inward, insisting that “by the way, not getting a lot of offers.” He adds, “Believe it or not, it’s not a lot of people’s dying wish to meet me. It’s usually their wish for me to die, actually.”

The roasting, or rather the self-immolation, continues as Davidson remarks he’d visit dying kids because, “yeah, I just drove into a house, I could use good press.” He tags a bit about how only pedophiles would want to spend three hours with kids who aren’t dying by casually admitting, “I was molested so I can make those jokes.” And then he suggests he could tell a Make-A-Wish kid all of his secrets because they wouldn’t have the time to blab to The Daily Mail like he suspects one of his actual therapists did.

Read more at The Daily Beast.