Pete Davidson Reveals the Dumbest Tattoos He's Ever Gotten and More About His Removal Process

Mar. 15, 2025

Pete Davidson, March 2020.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

During a Thursday, Feb. 6 appearance onLate Night with Seth Meyers, theDog Manactor, 31, admitted that most of the designs on his body will not be missed as he works to have his tattoos removed.

“You also have sort of famously said that you’re gonna get rid of your tattoos, which is not an easy thing to do” the television show host, 51, said to his guest.

Pete Davidson on Late Night with Seth Meyers.Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty

Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty

In a 2021interview with PEOPLE, the comedian said he hoped his tattoos would be gone before he hit 30.

“When I’m 40, it’ll all be gone,” theSaturday Night Livestar said. “Like the chest and back.”

Meyers asked for more details on the removal process, noting that laser technicians “burn it off” over “seven visits” for each design.

“It’s at least seven visits,” Davidson clarified. “And if it’s black and white it’s a little easier. But if it’s a color tattoo, it takes forever.”

Next, Meyers asked if there were any tattoos that theBodies Bodies Bodiesactor was “happiest to not have to look at again.”

Pete Davidson, May 2019.Steven Ferdman/WireImage

For Davidson, that was “all of them.”

“Well, I made a lot of those decisions before rehab,” he joked. “So I got the dumbest tattoos.”

If there had to be one in particular, Davidson said his “collection of cartoons smoking blunts” would have to take the cake.

His collection included “a Muppet smoking a blunt” and “the Tootsie Pop owl smoking a blunt.”

“Which is weird ‘cause I wasn’t even old enough to be around for that cartoon, that commercial,” Davidson told Meyers. “Yeah, it’s not great.”

Pete Davidson.NBC

NBC

During a previous appearance onLate Night with Seth Meyersin May 2021, theKing of Staten Islandstar said his acting career inspired him to start the tattoo removal process.

“I honestly never thought that I would get an opportunity to act and I love it a lot,” he said at the time. “It takes like three hours — you have to get there like three hours earlier — to cover all your tattoos. For some reason, people in movies, they don’t have them that much.”

Other removals includeseveral he dedicated to his former girlfriend Kim Kardashian during their nine-month relationship.

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“He just woke up one day and wanted them gone, and it’s been a years-long process,” a source previously told PEOPLE about his $200,000 tattoo removal process.

source: people.com