Earlier this week, news broke that Saturday Night Live comedian and current Kim Kardashian suitor Pete Davidson will be fired into space on one of Jeff Bezos’s phallic Blue Origin rockets – talk about “Big Dick Energy”. Did it matter that Davidson’s trip was axed under mysterious circumstances just two days later? No. If anything, the aborted space voyage only confirmed what keen observers of pop culture already knew: Pete Davidson gets himself absolutely everywhere.
How did a gangly, 6 ft 3 comic – who once described himself as looking like he “should be outside a car dealership flapping in the wind” – end up at the centre of everything?
