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If you’re attending a Pete Davidson comedy show, you best be on your best behavior, because the dude has a short fuse. In the past two months alone, the 25-year-old tossed a heckler from his show for yelling out a joke about Mac Miller and booted a student for wearing an Ariana Grande shirt after allegedly calling him an “asshole” and an “idiot” in front of a packed crowd.
What happened on Monday night in Bridgeport, Connecticut is next-level petty, especially for someone who makes a living shitting on people.
The comedian was scheduled to perform Monday night at Vinnie Brand’s Stress Factory in Bridgeport, but never made it onstage. Davidson bailed on the venue after claiming the club’s owner, Vinnie Brand, went on stage mentioned Davidson’s exes Ariana Grande and Kate Beckinsale.
Pete posted a video from his car immediately after leaving claiming that Vinnie “disrespected me and did something that I told him not to do and I can’t perform under those circumstances.”
Davidson’s reasoning doesn’t hold up to the multiple clubgoer accounts, who said that Vinnie did mention Grande and Beckinsale, but only to warn the crowd that if anyone heckled the comedian about them, they would be “ejected immediately.” Pete’s camp told TMZ that they believed Vinnie to be “overly sarcastic” when cautioning the crowd. They added that Vinnie went ahead and did a five-minute set when it was known that Pete brings his own opener to shows.
Vinnie took the stage directly after Davidson bailed to play Davidson’s Instagram story offering a free show at a later date to those in attendance. It may be difficult to hear over the boos and “Fuck you, Pete’s.”
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Vinnie Brand told Page Six that before the show, he went over the plan with Davidson’s security team.
“‘If you want, I will go on stage and lay down the law,’” Brand recalled telling them. “The security team agreed. They said, ‘That’s perfect. Say exactly that.’”
Once Brand did as he was told, he learned that Davidson was leaving the venue, enraged, and ran after him. As he was chasing Davidson down, a member of Davidson’s security team stepped toward him to hit him but people stepped in to stop it.
“As Pete was leaving he told me, ‘I hope you learned your lesson,’” Brand told us. Brand then went back inside and offered his guests a refund and gave them a free show.
“I love and respect Pete,” Brand added. “I’m heartbroken over what he did last night.”