Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/ricky-velez/ Our Thing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/ricky-velez/ 144 144 Meet Comedian Ricky Velez, Who Plays Pete Davidson’s Puerto Rican-Irish BFF in ‘The King of Staten Island’ https://remezcla.com/features/film/ricky-velez-king-of-staten-island/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:28:59 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=282146 Comedian Ricky Velez was 20 years old when he met fellow comedian and future Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson while they played the comedy club circuit across New York City in the late 2000s. Davidson was only 16, but the two clicked right away. “We were both babies,” Velez, now 31, told Remezcla

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]]> THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND Igor (Moises Arias), Oscar (Ricky Velez) and Scott Carlin (Pete Davidson) in 'The King of Staten Island,' directed by Judd Apatow. Courtesy of Universal Pictures.