--- title: SNL Star Pete Davidson Remembers His Father Who Died on 9/11 description: Saturday Night Live's Pete Davidson remembered his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks, through a humorous tribute canonical: https://time.com/4486897/pete-davidson-father-911-snl/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-11T20:57:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:24.798Z og:title: 'SNL' Star Pete Davidson Remembers His Father Who Died on 9/11 og:description: His father was a firefighter og:url: https://time.com/4486897/pete-davidson-father-911-snl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fdc6fe30ba6f664/6988a57b5f570f4b84b22785/pete-davidson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Comedy Central Roast Of Rob Lowe - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'SNL' Star Pete Davidson Remembers His Father Who Died on 9/11 twitter:description: His father was a firefighter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fdc6fe30ba6f664/6988a57b5f570f4b84b22785/pete-davidson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _SNL_ Star Pete Davidson Remembers His Father Who Died on 9/11 by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 11, 2016 8:57 PM UTC  Pete Davidson attends the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe at Sony Studios in Los Angeles on Aug. 27, 2016. Pete Davidson attends the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe at Sony Studios in Los Angeles on Aug. 27, 2016.Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 11, 2016 8:57 PM UTC _Saturday Night Live_‘s Pete Davidson remembered his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks, through a humorous tribute this weekend. Davidson, who was 7 when his firefighter father was killed during the [terrorist attacks 15 years ago](http://time.com/4486756/september-11-attacks-911-15th-anniversary/), posted a photo of himself with his dad sipping beer on Instagram on Saturday. “Can’t believe tomorrow is going to be 15 years,” Davidson wrote in the caption. “Missing the legend!!! Thank u for ur kind words and support as always.” On Sunday, Davidson followed up with a photo of his father pouring a beer and a pair of worn black boots. He joked “One of my dads homies gave me his old dirty ass boots from work and a sick photo of him lookin like a young legend !!!” the comedian wrote. “Apparently my dad wore sketchers how f-ckin embarrassing!!” Davidson paid a humorous tribute to his dad last year, too. He later [wrote](http://www.people.com/article/pete-davidson-dad-sept-11-anniversary-twitter) on Twitter, “All jokes aside. There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think of u. Ur my hero. 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