Pete Davidson is happy to be saying goodbye to his “dumbest” tattoos.
During a Thursday, Feb. 6 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Dog Man actor, 31, admitted that most of the designs on his body will not be missed as he works to have his tattoos removed.
“You also have sort of famously said that you’re gonna get rid of your tattoos, which is not an easy thing to do” the television show host, 51, said to his guest.
Davidson agreed, saying all his ink should be gone by the time he’s 40.
In a 2021 interview with PEOPLE, the comedian said he hoped his tattoos would be gone before he hit 30.
“When I’m 40, it’ll all be gone,” the Saturday Night Live star said. “Like the chest and back.”
Meyers asked for more details on the removal process, noting that laser technicians “burn it off” over “seven visits” for each design.
“It’s at least seven visits,” Davidson clarified. “And if it’s black and white it’s a little easier. But if it’s a color tattoo, it takes forever.”
Next, Meyers asked if there were any tattoos that the Bodies Bodies Bodies actor was “happiest to not have to look at again.”
For Davidson, that was “all of them.”
“Well, I made a lot of those decisions before rehab,” he joked. “So I got the dumbest tattoos.”
If there had to be one in particular, Davidson said his “collection of cartoons smoking blunts” would have to take the cake.
His collection included “a Muppet smoking a blunt” and “the Tootsie Pop owl smoking a blunt.”
“Which is weird ‘cause I wasn’t even old enough to be around for that cartoon, that commercial,” Davidson told Meyers. “Yeah, it’s not great.”
During a previous appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers in May 2021, the King of Staten Island star said his acting career inspired him to start the tattoo removal process.
“I honestly never thought that I would get an opportunity to act and I love it a lot,” he said at the time. “It takes like three hours — you have to get there like three hours earlier — to cover all your tattoos. For some reason, people in movies, they don’t have them that much.”
Other removals include several he dedicated to his former girlfriend Kim Kardashian during their nine-month relationship.
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There was a “My girl is a lawyer” tat (which references her passing the baby bar in December 2021), plus the initials “KNSCP” (The SKIMS mogul and her four children’s initials — North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm, whom she shares with her ex-husband Kanye West).
Davidson also had “Aladdin” and “Jasmine” with an infinity sign, inspired by their 2021 SNL sketch when they kissed for the first time.
“He just woke up one day and wanted them gone, and it’s been a years-long process,” a source previously told PEOPLE about his $200,000 tattoo removal process.
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