Here’s a fun story your Dad will probably laugh at harder than you will: Pete Davidson simply has no clue whatsoever as to who or what Steely Dan was, and had to rely on John Mulaney to bring him up to speed.
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Mulaney, whomst is the funniest person on the planet bar none (fight me), made one of his apparently now-regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and spilled the beans on how a trip out with Davidson, who is his great friend which should spawn a thousand slashfics, blindly agreed to go to a Steely Dan concert with Mulaney, despite having absolutely no idea what a Steely Dan was.
The story also features Mulaney’s incredibly anti-Steely Dan wife, and a slight nod to a much simpler time in the early 90s where virtually all comics had a forced moniker in their stage name.
The yarn begins at around 3:00 in, but it’s worth your while to watch the whole thing.
Because it’s Mulaney.
And Mulaney rules.
Stephen “Steely” Dan. There’s almost certainly a grainy 1989 set of his from Dangerfield’s floating around on YouTube somewhere.
The sheer image of Pete Davidson getting absolutely sick of an entire theatre of mid-50s folks bobbing their heads along to Reelin In The Years while sitting-down though: absolutely wonderful gear.
Plus for reasons I absolutely cannot fathom, I reckon Pete would’ve at least gotten something out of Walter Becker‘s lead guitar lines on Bodhisattva.
I dunno why, man. Don’t ask. I dunno why I think anything these days.
