“[Pete] saw that standup made his father happy,” Cris Italia, Pete’s former manager, told The Post.

Years after Scott died on 9/11 — when Pete was just 7 years old — “that [memory] was what drove Pete.

Joseph-by-the-Sea and Tottenville on Staten Island, and Xaverian in Brooklyn — because of what a source calls “behavioral issues.”.

“My daughter went to Tottenville High School with Pete,” Craig Loydgren, a Staten Island-based comedian, told The Post.

Loydgren was immediately smitten by Pete’s personality as well as his talent, and set him up for his first open mike at a makeshift comedy club in the back of a Staten Island bowling alley.

I told his mom he had the ‘It’ factor,” said Loydgren.

But Loydgren was more than just a career start for Pete.

He used to tell me that he was my favorite child,” Loydgren said.

“I saw Pete smoking a cigarette,” Soder remembered of spotting the then-16-year-old at the Dugout comedy club on Staten Island.

The promise to quit smoking didn’t work, but he’s got Bill in his new movie, playing Pete’s mom’s boyfriend.”.

That movie, “The King of Staten Island,” available Friday on demand, is at least partly autobiographical, with Pete starring as a lovable and awkward butt-of-jokes pothead trying to deal with emotional issues while searching for a place in the world.

Written by Pete, his pal Dave Sirus and director Judd Apatow, it imagines how the “Saturday Night Live” star’s life might have shaken out if he had not hit it big in comedy.

That was a central idea of the movie,” Sirus told The Post.

Judd saw this as a moment to tell a story not just about Pete’s dad, but everyone who lost somebody that they really care about.

You can’t just throw infinite d–k jokes at the movie, which is what Pete and I would have done.”.

The film is also said to be something of a love letter to extended adolescence on Staten Island, the borough Pete’s long had a love-hate relationship with — regularly bashing it in his standup and on “SNL,” but also supporting local fundraisers and even sporting a Verrazano-Narrows Bridge tattoo among his acres of ink.

“Pete thought it was hilarious when we decided to let his own grandfather play his character’s grandfather in the movie,” said Sirus.

“I never saw Pete so elated as he was when he watched his grandfather learn his lines and be a diva on the set.

The only one missing, of course, was Pete’s father.

“Pete’s old man was a ball buster,” said Loydgren, who knew him from when Scott tended bar.

“Probably the first tattoo he got is the most meaningful,” former girlfriend Carly Aquilino, who remains friends with Pete and has a bit part in “The King of Staten Island,” told The Post.

In a recent interview with Charlamagne tha God, Pete said, “I cut my chest.

It landed Pete in the national spotlight and also gave him another “father figure” in Michaels, as he recently said.

He’s just there — he doesn’t add much.” The source explained that Pete benefited from Michaels’ favoritism, saying the comedian was given time off to shoot the “Suicide Squad” movie sequel in Atlanta and was allowed to skip the show for Velez’s wedding, adding that such time off is “unheard of.”.

Two months after Pete split from Grande in October 2018, he posted an alarming message to Instagram, saying, “I really don’t want to be on this earth anymore.” It was an “SNL” show day, and the NYPD was summoned to do a wellness check at the studio.

Pete was said to be fine, although he appeared on that night’s telecast only to introduce the musical guest.

An “SNL” source told The Post, “Pete isn’t on [the show] a lot partly out of choice.

“He was surprised [he got it],” said Sirus

Besides emotional issues, which his movie character shares, Pete suffers from asthma and Crohn’s disease, which, in terms of the coronavirus, puts him in a high-risk group

While shooting “The King of Staten Island,” Davidson hung out there with Steve Buscemi, who plays a firefighter in the movie, and Sirus, watching Rodney Dangerfield movies

Lately, “the [only] other person there is Jay Crillz,” said Sirus of Pete’s rapper pal

“That level of fame was not good for Pete,” said Sirus

At home in the basement “is the best place for him to be” right now, said Sirus