Pete Davidson says fatherhood is already changing the way he moves through the world. The 32-year-old comedian said his daughter, Scottie, is five months old, is trying to talk, and has him less worried about pleasing everyone.

Davidson spoke about Scottie during a live taping of The Pete Davidson Show podcast at Los Angeles' Wiltern Theater on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in a conversation with John Mulaney. He said Scottie is doing tummy time, is “really, really communicative,” and will talk all day, even if it is mostly just “la.” “So we kind of talk all day,” he said. “She’s so cute and chunky. It’s been really awesome. It’s been so much fun.”

Davidson and Elsie Hewitt welcomed Scottie, their first child, last December. The name carries family weight: the child was named after Davidson’s father, Scott Davidson, who died during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Davidson also said Scottie was conceived in Scotland, and Hewitt said they kept coming back to that name because “it was the most meaningful” and “also so cute.” She added that her own middle name is Rose, as are both of her sisters’ middle names, because her mother’s maiden name had Rose in it, and she wanted a little piece of that family in her daughter’s name, too.

The most revealing part of Davidson’s comments was not about the child’s name but about what fatherhood has done to him. He said he has always had anxiety about people pleasing and wanting to be the best at everything, but that pressure has eased. “But now I’m like, ‘If I could do that, that’d be cool. But if not, I get to hang out with Scottie,’” he said. That is a different measure of success for a comic whose career has often been defined by intensity and self-scrutiny. Mulaney, who also discussed his children Malcolm and Mei at the same taping, said Mei dances whenever music comes on, even when she is sobbing and screaming, and joked that she keeps eating even while gagging on food.

For Davidson, the question now is not whether parenthood has softened him. He has already answered that. The bigger story is that he sounds like a man who has found a steadier center, and he is tying it to a daughter who is only five months old.