How Chad became Pete Davidson's signature SNL character

Vanity Fair

“I’ve literally just done Chad and myself on ('Weekend') 'Update' for seven years," says Davidson of the character that first appeared in a "Pool Boy" sketch with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 2016. Chad co-creator Streeter Seidell says of Davidson's performance: “We must have at least 1,000 takes of him saying ‘Okay.' We were always looking for a very specific type of okay where it doesn’t sound bored, it doesn’t sound stoned, it doesn’t sound disinterested, but it also doesn’t sound super interested or invested.”