--- title: Kenan Thompson on Pete Davidson's Dan Crenshaw SNL Joke description: Kenan Thompson has addressed the controversial joke that Pete Davidson made about GOP congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw. canonical: https://time.com/5445003/kenan-thompson-pete-davidson-dan-crenshaw-joke/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-05T18:27:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:05:12.568Z og:title: Kenan Thompson Addresses Pete Davidson's Controversial Joke og:description: Pete Davidson came under fire for mocking a GOP candidate who lost his eye og:url: https://time.com/5445003/kenan-thompson-pete-davidson-dan-crenshaw-joke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4de39da4f664cc4f/69893e494ee262991831345c/kenan-thompson-pete-davidson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: Kenan-Thompson-Pete-Davidson og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kenan Thompson Addresses Pete Davidson's Controversial Joke twitter:description: Pete Davidson came under fire for mocking a GOP candidate who lost his eye twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4de39da4f664cc4f/69893e494ee262991831345c/kenan-thompson-pete-davidson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kenan Thompson Says _SNL_ Castmate Pete Davidson 'Missed the Mark' With Joke About GOP Candidate Who Lost Eye > Sponsored content. 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Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson is facing backlash after mocking Dan Crenshaw_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 5, 2018 6:27 PM UTC Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson is facing backlash after mocking Dan Crenshaw  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 5, 2018 6:27 PM UTC [Kenan Thompson](http://time.com/5399653/emmys-2018-review/) has addressed the controversial joke that [Pete Davidson](http://time.com/5424629/ariana-grande-pete-davidson-split/) made about [GOP congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw](http://time.com/5444687/snl-dan-crenshaw-pete-davidson-veteran/) on the most recent episode of _Saturday Night Live_. During a Monday morning appearance on the _Today_ show, Thompson said that while he didn’t think Davidson’s intent was malicious, his comments about Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye while serving in Afghanistan, were off-base. Davidson came under fire for mocking Crenshaw’s war injury during a “Weekend Update” segment in which he shared his first impressions of some of the midterm election candidates. “You may be surprised to hear he’s a congressional candidate in Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie,” Davidson said of Crenshaw before adding, “I’m sorry, I know he lost his eye in war, or whatever. Whatever.” “I personally would never necessarily go there, but it’s tough when you’re fishing for jokes,” Thompson said of Davidson’s remarks. However, he went on to add that he doesn’t think his _SNL_ castmate meant to offend anyone. “He definitely missed the mark,” Thompson said. “I think he was more so commenting on the fact that the joke maybe didn’t land as hard as he wanted to as opposed to being like I don’t care about veterans. I think Pete’s a very humble dude and he’s got a big heart. I don’t think he goes out to offend people. But stand-ups are the ones that help us laugh through the most awful things in the first place so they’re always fishing in weird places. That was an unfortunate outcome.” Crenshaw recorded a [video response](http://time.com/5444687/snl-dan-crenshaw-pete-davidson-veteran/) to Davidson’s comments on Sunday. “I want us to get away from this culture where we demand apologies for every time a person misspeaks,” he prefaced it. “I think that would be very healthy for our nation, to go in that direction.” “But I would like him and _Saturday Night Live_ to recognize something,” Crenshaw continued. “Which is that veterans across the country probably don’t feel as though their wounds they received in battle should be the subject of a bad punchline for a bad joke. And here’s the real atrocity in all this: it wasn’t even funny.” ## Transcript [00:00] Everybody's asking [ UNKNOWN ] do you demand an [00:02] apology from this man? I do not demand an apology, [00:04] he probably should apologize, but I don't want some [00:07] hollow apology. I think he's exposed himself, I think [00:10] he's exposed himself for who he really is, I wish him [00:14] well. I think with him and maybe the producers at SNL [00:17] should do Is is pool their money together. Let's throw a [00:21] figure out there $ 1, 000, 000, and we'll donate that [00:25] to a series of veterans non- profits that helps veterans, [00:29] maybe the Navy Seal Foundation, maybe Wounded [00:31] Warriors, maybe Folds of Honor. I was just at their [00:33] benefit last night. There's a lot of great organizations [00:37] out there. There's a lot of veterans that really need [00:39] help. and frankly, this kind of things is offensive to [00:42] them, they feel laughed at. The first part of that [00:45] [ UNKNOWN ] was just strange, I don't what kind of [00:48] program he's watching, the second part I think is when [00:51] it just became dark and in those [ UNKNOWN ] we [00:54] have thick skin, but it's hard for us to understand. Why [00:59] war wounds would elicit such raucous laughter from an [01:03] audience. 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