Comedian Pete Davidson to play Dublin in October
Tickets will be available on general sale this Friday, 25 July at 10am.
Davidson is currently shooting David Leitch's Amazon MGM film How to Rob a Bank, set to be released September 2026.
He is also the creator, executive producer, writer and star of Peacock's critically acclaimed comedy Bupkis.
He was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2022, where his singular Weekend Update features and original music videos garnered millions of views.
Davidson shot his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central in 2016 and was named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 the same year.
He released his stand-up special Turbo Fonzarelli on Netflix, a follow up to his 2020 special Pete Davidson: Alive From New York.
In 2020, Davidson co-wrote, executive produced and starred in the critically acclaimed film The King of Staten Island.
His additional film credits include Dumb Money, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Trainwreck, Big Time Adolescence, Set It Up, Meet Cute, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Dog Man, and Riff Raff.
He also stars in the upcoming horror film The Home, and he co-stars with Eddie Murphy in Amazon's film The Pick Up, out this August.
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