Rep. Dan Crenshaw poked fun at the fact that his name has spent so much time on the lips of comedian Pete Davidson.
“I can’t get out of Pete Davidson’s head,” Crenshaw said on Fox & Friends Friday. “I’m not so sure his jokes always land.”
Davidson, a cast member on Saturday Night Live, cracked jokes about the freshman Republican lawmaker from Texas on the show in 2018, saying he looked like “a hit man in a porno” because he wears an eye patch.
“I know he lost his eye in war or whatever,” Davidson quipped.
Crenshaw, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, lost his right eye in combat while serving in Afghanistan before he ran for Congress. He appeared on a later episode of SNL, during which Davidson apologized to him and shook his hand.
In a new Netflix special that debuted last week, however, the comedian brought the incident up during a bit and said he was “forced to apologize” to Crenshaw.
“I didn’t think I did anything wrong,” Davidson said. “It was like words that were twisted so that a guy could be famous. … So I made fun of this guy with an eye patch, and then, like, I kind of got forced to apologize.”
Crenshaw called Davidson’s frequent references to controversy “a little sad” but added that he doesn’t take the recent comments “too seriously.”
“We had a really good moment, you know, at that time in 2018. America liked it. The Left and the Right liked it. So, you know, we don’t really want to ruin that,” he said. “I would like to remember the guy that I saw in person and hung out with that night.”
