Davidson suffered tragedy early when he lost his father, a Staten Island firefighter, on 9/11. After that, when he gets on stage, what's the worst that can happen?

UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- Pete Davidson appears to be a pleasant young man — tall and lanky, kind of goofy.

And then he opens his mouth. Bad — and often very funny — things just come out.

Davidson suffered tragedy early when he lost his father, a Staten Island firefighter, on 9/11. After that, when he gets on stage, what's the worst that can happen?

“I have a lot of things to say,” said Davidson, 22, who is appearing at Comix at Mohegan Sun, in Uncasville, Connecticut, for a run of five shows starting Thursday. “People listen because I’m young. I get away with a lot of stuff. It’s not like a mechanism. I really feel this way and I’m very honest. When someone is honest, you can tell. Nobody really talks about stuff like that.

“The worst thing that could happen to me has already happened. The rest is real gravy. When something like that happens, you don’t give a hoot.” (Except he didn’t say hoot.)

He told the New York Times that he wants to make things that aren’t funny into being funny. Material from 9/11 certainly fits that.

“When you come to a comedy club, just go and not be offended,” Davidson said. “For some reason being offended is the number-one thing — people can’t wait. It makes me very happy when people get angry at what you are doing. I like that.”

Davidson said most of his material comes from things that actually happened to him. For example, growing up on Staten Island (“a hole,” he says) he had no friends. He got his start in the one comedy club there, which also housed a bowling alley. “When you were bombing you could hear people getting spares and strikes,” he said.

“I never take something and make it terrible,” Davidson said about his act. “I’ve had some really awful things — going through breakups, lost people in your life. People (screwing) you over. Whatever happens to me could just be bad to me. I can personally be aggravated. Whatever filter I feel like I can make it fun.”

Davidson is in his second season as a featured player on “Saturday Night Live.” He’s by far the youngest in the cast and his press materials tout him as the first in the cast to be born in the 1990s. Does that give him any sort of special millennial insight?

“I sure hope not,” he said. “I guess I’m lucky. I feel like I relate to kids my age a little bit. But that whole youngest thing creeps me out.”

He has a look on the show in which you just can’t quite place his ethnicity. According to a website, he reportedly is parts Jewish, Irish, German, Scottish, English and Sicilian.

“I’m an Irish guy who looks like everything else,” he said. “I guess it works.”

Davidson’s Mohegan Sun shows are among the last as he hones his material for a special that will tape in April.

“It will be really fun,” he said. “My Uncle Paul from Staten Island will be there.”

If you go ...

Who: Standup comedian Pete Davidson

When: 8 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Where: Comix Mohegan Sun

Tickets: $25 and $50; $10 food/drink minimum per person; available at mohegansun.com