Pete Davidson at the Capitol Theatre -- August 11.

Sunday, August 11, 7 p.m.

Capitol Theatre, 330 West Third Street, Davenport IA

A longtime Saturday Night Live veteran and one of the country's most popular comedians brings his national tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on August 11 when the venue hosts an evening with Pete Davidson, the 30-year-old multi-hyphenate talent whose credits beyond SNL range from the feature films Fast X and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to the comedy specials Alive from New York and this year's Turbo Fonzarelli.

Born in New York City in 1993, Davidson's earliest onscreen appearance was in a February, 2013 episode of the MTV comedy series Failosophy, and later that year, he appeared in four episodes of the MTV2 reality TV comedy series Guy Code. Davidson joined the cast of Saturday Night Live with the show's 40th-season premiere, which debuted on September 27, 2014. At age 20, he was the first SNL cast member to be born in the 1990s and one of the youngest cast members ever. The first new addition to the cast that season, Davidson was given a chance to audition for the show through series regular Bill Hader, whom he had met while filming a small part in the 2015 Judd Apatow comedy Trainwreck. Hader subsequently told producer Lorne Michaels about him. His debut garnered positive critical notice, with his most noted skits during the season including an Indiana Jones-style sketch in which he and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, after being pelted with poison darts, were forced to mutually suck poison out of each other's various body parts. Over the years, Davidson played a number of characters on SNL, the most famous being Chad, an easily distracted, apathetic man who first appeared in a season-41 episode hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Beyond his long tenure with Saturday Night Live – the comedian left the show in 2022, although he hosted an episode this past season – Davidson collaborated with Machine Gun Kelly to write the sketch "A Message from the Count" for Kelly's album Hotel Diablo. In 2019, Davidson starred in Jason Orley's Big Time Adolescence, and had supporting roles in What Men Want, The Dirt, The Angry Birds Movie 2, and John Turturro's The Big Lebowski spin-off The Jesus Rolls. In February of 2020, Davidson released his standup special Alive from New York on Netflix, and that May, the feature film The King of Staten Island was released, which Davidson both starred in and co-wrote with director Judd Apatow. At the 46th People's Choice Awards, Davidson was nominated for Comedy Movie Star of 2020 for his work in The King of Staten Island and Comedy Act of 2020 for Pete Davidson: Alive from New York. n April of 2021, Davidson was cast as Joey Ramone in a Netflix biopic I Slept with Joey Ramone, based on the late singer's brother's memoir of the same name, and other recent credits include appearing as Blackguard in The Suicide Squad, voicing Marmaduke for the 2022 animated film, and earning critical raves for last fall's Dumb Money.

Pete Davidson brings his national tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on August 11, admission to the 7 p.m. performance is $49.50-79.50, and tickets are available by visiting FirstFleetConcerts.com/first-fleet-venues/capitol-theatre.

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