Alive From New York isn't quite the special that people wanted from Pete Davidson. But it's close. You hope that, when he records a second one, he'll be able to get closer still.

[Davidson] may be stitching together all the pieces of his life and examining them for the odd, remarkable, tragic, difficult, unlikely events they are. But as an hour of comedy, the work is not finished.

The material is clearly not entirely honed and the forthright anger and self-deprecation is as fascinating as the genuinely humorous material.

A tight 49-minute show that lacks the tick-tock rhythm of a comedy special and feels more like a therapeutic happy hour.