After Pete Davidson revealed during his Netflix comedy special, Alive From New York, that he was “forced” to apologize to politician Dan Crenshaw for mocking him on Saturday Night Live, the Texas congressman has insisted that Pete just “can’t stop thinking about” him. Pete acknowledged the incident during his special, explaining that he “made fun of this guy with an eye patch and then, like, I kind of got forced to apologize.” The apology took place on the Weekend Update segment of SNL, in which Pete brought Crenshaw out in order to say sorry to him face to face. During the Netflix special, Pete also noted that the whole ordeal unintentionally made the lawmaker more famous. Crenshaw has since been made aware that Pete regrets making the apology and that he never really wanted to do it in the first place.

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Crenshaw was asked by host Brian Kilmeade about Pete’s comments in the special. “I can’t get out of Pete Davidson’s head. He’s been thinking about me a lot for the last year. I’m not sure his jokes always land, but it is what it is.”

“It’s a little sad,” the Republican lawmaker went on to say about the situation. “We had a really good moment, you know, at that time in 2018. America liked it. The left and right liked it. So, you know, we don’t really want to ruin that.” During the apology segment on SNL, Pete and Crenshaw paid tribute to Pete’s late father, a firefighter who died in 9/11. “The Pete Davidson I remember,” Crenshaw continues, “he went out to buy some cigarettes while we were rehearsing and he came back because he had found this lighter that said ‘Never Forget’ on it and he gave that to me as a gesture. He said this was kind of cool that this happened to come up as he was buying cigarettes.”

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“I think he meant well at the time,” he concluded. “You can never tell with comedians. Who knows how much he had to drink beforehand. I don’t know, we don’t have to take it too seriously…To be fair, if we took everything that comedians said on a Netflix special seriously, man our country would be in a world of hurt,” he noted. “I would like to remember the guy that I saw in person and hung out with that night.”

Pete Davidson did not hold back in his new Netflix stand-up comedy special, “Alive From New York,” putting everyone on blast from his ex Ariana Grande, to Republican politician Dan Crenshaw, to disgraced comedian Louis C.K. Pete opened the special by recounting how Louis now-famously tried to get him fired from Saturday Night Live for smoking too much weed shortly after he made his debut on the show in 2014. “At the time, Louis C.K. was a very well-respected comedian,” Pete notes. “Like, at the time.” Pete has taken jabs at Louis, who has admitted to non-consensually masturbating in front of multiple women, in prior stand-up sets.

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The Saturday Night Live star also used the platform to retract his public apology to Dan Crenshaw, a Texas politician whom Pete made a joke about during the “Weekend Update” segment right before the 2018 midterm elections. At the time, Pete was warned not to roast the politician’s eye patch, as his friend informed him that Crenshaw “might have lost his eye in, like, a war or something like that.” However, Pete went on to do the joke about Crenshaw, saying he was “surprised he’s a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie.” Pete received some major flack from the media for what he said, though the comedian maintains that it was no big deal. “It was a very harmless ‘Saturday Night Live’ joke,” he says in the special. “I didn’t think anything of it.” Regardless, after receiving death threats, he explains that he was forced by his mother to apologize for the joke, and SNL went on to invite Crenshaw onto “Weekend Update” for a touching tribute to Pete’s firefighter father, who died during 9/11.

“The only thing I don’t like is people are, like, ‘It’s your fault that guy won’ and that’s not true,” Davidson says, referring to Crenshaw’s ultimate victory in the midterm elections. “I think like most of the votes were in and that guy is a Republican with an eye patch in Texas. So it was a lock before it even started. Pete goes on to address his former relationship with Ariana Grande, which ended after a few shorts months in 2018. “The only thing I did do, which I am guilty of and I apologized for, is I did make that guy famous, and a household name for no reason,” he said. “I did what Ariana Grande did for me.” The two were engaged at the time, but endured a highly-publicized breakup after Ariana’s ex, Mac Miller, tragically died of an overdose in September 2018.

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“I wasn’t going to do jokes about this, but then my buddy told me, he’s like, ‘Yo, I recently heard that Ariana said she had no idea who you were and she just dated you as a distraction,’” he revealed. “So now I just think it’s like fair game.” Pete received treatment after publicly declaring he was going to commit suicide following their breakup, and admitted last week to having spent time in rehab recently in another stand-up set. “She won Billboard’s Woman of the Year, and I got called ‘butthole eyes’ by barstoolsports.com,” he joked.