Pete Davidson divulged how a lot “Saturday Night Live” solid members are paid — and it’s lower than you’d suppose.
In a latest video roundup for New York journal, the comic, 31, and his co-stars — previous and current — had been every requested, “What was your largest splurge after your first ‘SNL’ paycheck?”
Davidson, who was featured first within the Instagram Reel, responded by repeating the query after which revealing, “Do you guys know what they pay us? It’s like three grand an episode.”
He went on to quip, “I feel I acquired dinner.”
The NBC sketch comedy present — which is presently on its fiftieth season — airs one season per fiscal yr, and every season is usually between 18 and 22 episodes lengthy.
By Davidson’s declare, meaning a solid member who seems in each episode in a season earns between $54,000 and $66,000 per yr.
Reps for the community didn’t instantly reply to Page Six’s request for remark.
Meanwhile, present star James Austin Johnson mentioned he used his first “SNL” paycheck to buy “probably the most uncomfortable West Elm sofa of all time.”
“I swear to God,” he emphasised, “it’s, like, manufactured from bricks.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for her half, defined she “purchased a pair of footwear that had been out of [her] funds.”
The “Seinfeld” star, who was on the sketch comedy present from 1982 to 1985, admitted the footwear price $75.
Sarah Silverman purchased a $300 “cashmere sweater,” and Sarah Sherman purchased “a pleasant mattress.”
Like Johnson, Cheri Oteri additionally splurged on a sofa.
“I’ve gotten it reupholstered three or 4 occasions,” she confessed. “I bear in mind a designer coming over in tears, and he goes, ‘OK, these arms are too excessive. We’re gonna do away with that sofa.’ I mentioned, ‘Oh, no. No, you’re not. Not at present, Satan. The sofa is staying. You’re going.’”
Seth Meyers was additionally a wise spender, as he used his first examine to purchase — you guessed it — “a very large sofa.”
The late-night speak present host then went to Best Buy and acquired himself “a very large TV” to match.
As for Bowen Yang, he recalled strolling to the Saks Fifth Avenue “throughout the road” from the New York City studio and “shopping for a pair of Gucci footwear — the sort that everybody acquired and the sort that [he] wouldn’t really feel tremendous cool carrying out now.”
Rachel Dratch remembers “getting an condo,” noting, “I imply, that’s so boring, however that’s the actual factor.”
Jason Sudeikis echoed Davidson’s sentiments, telling the journal, “I imply, you don’t make sufficient cash to make large purchases.”
The “Ted Lasso” star then echoed Dratch’s feedback by saying the cash he made his first yr of writing for “SNL” went towards “New York hire.”
