Pete Davidson's $1 million nondisclosure agreement draws chuckles from attorneys

The Washington Post

“The penalty would gain as many laughs in court as Pete is likely to gain on his tour,” said Jonathan Handel, a USC law school lecturer of the NDA handed out to audience members of Davidson's recent San Francisco comedy show, which may have been for a Netflix special. Handel and other attorneys agree that the NDA was probably designed more as a deterrent than as a realistic consequence. The NDA stated that audience members “shall not give any interviews, offer any opinions or critiques, or otherwise participate by any means." As intellectual property law Thomas Dunlap explains, Davidson would have to prove in a court of law that the NDA violation amounted to seven figures in damages. “If I say, ‘that show sucked,’ that’s not a million dollars in damages,” says Dunlap. "If he was my client, I’d tell him this is unenforceable. I don’t see any big upside to this.”