'SNL': Pete Davidson enlists Marc Cohn, Method Man for 'Walking in Staten' spoof
Marc Cohn and Method Man aren’t names you typically see in the same sentence.
But “SNL” star Pete Davidson – aka, the Steward of Staten Island – achieved the glorious marriage with “Walking in Staten,” a love letter of sorts to the New York borough set to Cohn’s 1991 classic, “Walking in Memphis.”
In the black and white video shown during this week's "Saturday Night Live," Davidson brags about putting on his “bootleg Jordans” before he “touched down in the land of Colin Jost and the legendary Wu-Tang.”
The video mocks the proliferation of bagel spots and pizza joints (there’s even a bagel place inside a pizza joint) and calls on the ghost of actor Robert Loggia, a Staten Island native, before cutting to present-day Cohn, sitting on his couch on the phone.
“No, I don’t want to be in a parody of my own song,” Cohn says with annoyance.