“I’m funny how?”
Joe Pesci stars with Pete Davidson in the Peacock comedian’s upcoming streaming series, “Bupkis”.
Sources told Vidak For Congress exclusively that the “Goodfellas” legend, 79, was spotted last week with Davidson at San Vicente Bungalows, a Los Angeles celebrity home, dining with the show’s executive producer, Lorne Michaels and Edie Falco. .
Pesci has now officially signed on to star on the show, which will be Davidson’s first TV project since he retired from the famed NBC show with “Saturday Night Live” after eight years.
“The Sopranos” favorite Falco, 59, will star as Davidson’s mother, with Pesci as the comic’s grandfather.
It marks Pesci’s first series and a return to TV – after he starred in an obscure 1985 ABC detective film called “Half Nelson”. He is better known for his film roles in ‘Raging Bull’, ‘The Irishman’, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘My Cousin Vinny’.
The half-hour live comedy show has been described as an “elevated, fictionalized version” of the real life of Staten Island-born Davidson. A press release for the show says it will “combine grounded storytelling with absurd elements from the unfiltered and completely original worldview that Pete is known for.”
It’s unclear if the show will cover his life as one of Hollywood’s most unlikely Lotharios. Davidson is inexplicably romantically linked to Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande, Margaret Qualley, Kate Beckinsale and Phoebe Dynevor.
Davidson, 28, famously lived with his mother while starring in ‘SNL’ until he moved into his own high-end apartment, which was famously frequented by the likes of his ex-girlfriend, Kardashian, and Miley Cyrus after she called ‘SNL’. ‘ hosted. .”
He had once said about living with his mother on “The Tonight Show”: “We bought a house together, but nobody believes that… I live with my mother, kind of, so I have a basement that looks like mine. , it’s like an apartment, so I live under her, so I become like a little arcade being set up there to make it . . . mine.’
Davidson also co-writes on the show, along with Dave Sirus and Judah Miller.
He previously starred in the Judd Apatow movie “The King of Staten Island” — which was also autobiographical — but it seems Hollywood isn’t tired of Davidson’s story.