Pete Davidson says his 200 tattoos are 'almost gone' after years of 'horrible' lasering

Pete Davidson's years-long tattoo removal journey is nearing an end.

The 31-year-old "Saturday Night Live" alum, who said he once had around 200 tattoos, confirmed Thursday night on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" that his ink is "almost gone."

"It's horrible," Davidson said of the tattoo removal process, which he described as "burning them off." He added that "it's worse" than getting inked in the first place.

"They've got to burn off a layer of your skin, and then it has to heal for, like, six to eight weeks. And you can't get in the sunlight, and you've got to do it, like, 12 more times," he explained, evoking a gasp from the studio audience.

"Think about that 'Game of Thrones'" tattoo," he joked.

The comedian, who's making the media rounds promoting his new animated film "Dog Man," said he plans to keep "maybe two or three (tattoos), but I'm trying to clean slate it. Trying to be an adult."

Previously, he had tattoos dedicated to past love interests as well as "Spongebob Squarepants," "Rocky Balboa," Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Hillary Clinton.

In 2021, Davidson told Seth Meyers that his tattoo removal was in part due to his acting career.

"I didn't think that they would put me in stuff (in) the movie business or anything. I thought after this, 'SNL,' I thought it was a wrap," he said. "I honestly never thought that I would get an opportunity to act, and I love it a lot. And it takes, like three hours. … to cover all your tattoos cause for some reason people in movies, they don't have them that much."

He also explained how the lasering experience was humbling.

"The doctor's in there with you. So before he goes to laser off each tattoo, you have to hear him announce what the tattoo is to make sure you want to keep it or not," he told Meyers. "So I'll just be sitting there, all high off the Pro-Nox, which I actually quite enjoy. It's actually pretty fun. And then all of a sudden I'll just hear, 'Are we keeping Stewie Griffin smoking a blunt?'

"And then I have to sit there and be like, 'No, Dr. G. And he's like all right."

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