{"id":220092,"date":"2026-02-01T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/pete-davidson-makes-surprise-return-to-snl-plays-border-czar-tom-homan-in-cold-open-watch-now\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:17:25","slug":"pete-davidson-makes-surprise-return-to-snl-plays-border-czar-tom-homan-in-cold-open-watch-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/pete-davidson-makes-surprise-return-to-snl-plays-border-czar-tom-homan-in-cold-open-watch-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson Makes Surprise Return to \u2018SNL,\u2019 Plays Border Czar Tom Homan in Cold Open \u2013 Watch Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/pete-davidson\/\" title=\"Pete Davidson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pete Davidson<\/strong><\/a> is back on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/saturday-night-live\/\" title=\"Saturday Night Live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong><\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old comedian, who left the show in 2022, made a surprise return to NBC\u2019s late night sketch comedy show on Saturday (January 31) to play border czar <strong>Tom Homan<\/strong> in the cold open.<\/p>\n<p>The cold open took place in Minnesota, spoofing what <strong>Homan <\/strong>possibly could have told ICE agents who have been stationed there. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Head inside to see what happened in the cold open\u2026 <\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2177253\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He tells them, \u201cWondering why Gregory Bovino was dismissed? I want to stress that it wasn\u2019t because he did a bad job, or publicly lied about the shooting of an American citizen, or even dressed like a Nazi, even though he was still doing these things when the president elected him. So I\u2019m here now. We need to tighten up. That starts with remembering the mission objective. Now who could tell me why we\u2019re here in Minneapolis?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of his chat with the ICE agents, <strong>Pete<\/strong>, as Homan, asks them, \u201cLet\u2019s recap. What have you learned today?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be wrong, but that you hired a bunch of angry, aggressive guys, gave us guns and didn\u2019t train us, so this is maybe what you wanted to happen?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/james-austin-johnson\/\" title=\"James Austin Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James Austin Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, as one of the agents, asks.<\/p>\n<p>Homan responds, \u201cOh, come on man! Don\u2019t start thinking now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/29\/alexander-skarsgard-cardi-b-skip-chloe-finemans-version-of-dry-january-in-snl-promo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promo for <em>SNL<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\" style=\"margin: auto; width: 85%; clear: both\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">SNL just addressed ICE directly in their Cold Open, with Pete Davidson cameoing as Tom Homan<\/p>\n<p>Mikey Day as ICE agent: Some of these people protesting have guns. That shouldn&#8217;t be allowed, right?<\/p>\n<p>Pete as Tom: Well, let&#8217;s flip it around. How many of you went to a Stop the Steal\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xi26hFvUEq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Xi26hFvUEq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerAlthouse\/status\/2017821404922573089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/01\/pete-davidson-makes-surprise-return-to-snl-plays-border-czar-tom-homan-in-cold-open-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Davidson is back on Saturday Night Live! The 32-year-old comedian, who left the show in 2022, made a surprise return to NBC\u2019s late night sketch comedy show on Saturday (January 31) to play border czar Tom Homan in the cold open. The cold open took place in Minnesota, spoofing what Homan possibly could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}