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The ex-SNL comedian recruits Edie Falco and Joe Pesci for a scrappy new comedy show that mixes raw honesty with rambling inconsistencyA goodly slice of the public has come to view Pete Davidson as one of those famous-for-being-famous types, better known for his tabloid-topping exploits than his career in comedy. A former class clown with a bank account in the millions, he comports himself like he’s shooting spitballs at the man-about-town concept: he’s dropping six figures with pal Colin Jost on a decommissioned Staten Island ferry that may be structurally unsound; he’s reinventing fashion by dressing like a club promoter/gas station parking lot weed dealer; he’s canoodling with a lineup of increasingly glamorous A-listers; he’s getting high on who knows what.Davidson’s probably identified more with the fact of being on Saturday Night Live than the work he’s done there, having gone eight seasons without much in the way of classic characters or catchphrases. When he started out at the sketch institution, he presented as a natural descendant of Adam Sandler, another lanky goofball with boyish charms that took him from detention to sold-out stages. The blockbuster vehicles that shored up his predecessor’s reputation as a movie star, however, never came. Continue reading...