Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy became fast friends while working on their recent movie, The Pickup, which was released on Prime Video earlier this year. Their co-star, Keke Palmer, told People that the pair got along so well that they were constantly breaking character and riffing off of each other on set. It was a dream come true for Davidson, who said that he and Murphy “were like little girls,” and that they couldn’t stop laughing during production. The two bonded over shared interests, like the movie Jaws, which they would quote to one another behind the scenes.
Another movie they discussed at one point was Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy. The 1982 thriller stars Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring comedian who obsesses over his talk show idol, Jerry Langford (played by

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