Pete Holmes

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Pete Holmes
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Holmes in May 2019
Birth namePeter Benedict Holmes
Born (1979-03-30) March 30, 1979 (age 42)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
MediumStand-up, television, film, podcast
Years active2001–present
Genres
Spouse
Valerie Chaney
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(m. 2017)​
Children1
WebsitePeteHolmes.com

Peter Benedict Holmes (born March 30, 1979) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster. Holmes is known for his cheerful personality, self-aware humor, and musings on spirituality and religion, which are all frequent themes across his works.

Early life[]

Peter Benedict Holmes was born in Boston on March 30, 1979, the son of a Lithuanian refugee mother and an American father of Irish descent.[1] He has a brother who composes music under the name Dr. Holmes. He attended Lexington High School and Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, during which time he played in a punk rock band. In college, he majored in English and communications and participated in an improvisational comedy troupe called The Sweaty-Toothed Madmen. Partly at the behest of his mother, he had plans to become a youth pastor. This gave way to public speaking, and his love for comedy and his devolving faith in God eventually won over his need to preach; he now refers to himself as "Christ-leaning" or jokingly a "hooratheist".[2] Finding little success as a comedian in his home state, he lived in Sleepy Hollow, New York, before moving to Chicago and then Los Angeles.

Career[]

Early in his career, Holmes performed on the Christian comedy circuit.[3]

Holmes has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, as a regular panelist on VH1's Best Week Ever, and on VH1's All Access.[4] His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker.[5] In 2010, he performed on John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show as well as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. On February 26, 2010, he performed his first television special on the series Comedy Central Presents. On March 21, 2011 and on November 17, 2011, he appeared on the TBS talk show Conan.

Holmes has provided the voices for several of the characters on Comedy Central's cartoon Ugly Americans. He was the voice of the E-Trade baby on several television commercials and was credited as a writer for those commercials.[6]

He wrote for the NBC primetime sitcom Outsourced and for the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter prior to its cancellation in May 2012.[7]

Holmes released his first album, Impregnated With Wonder, on iTunes on November 15, 2011.[8] In 2013, he released his second album, Nice Try, The Devil.[9] He released his third album, Faces and Sounds, in 2016. In 2019, he released his fourth album, "Dirty Clean."[10]

Holmes has created a comedic portrayal of Batman in CollegeHumor's internet series Badman. He ran a YouTube channel which was focused around skits alongside Matthew McCarthy called frontpagefilms.[citation needed]

Holmes created and stars in the HBO series Crashing. The pilot was written by Holmes and directed by Judd Apatow. After the season three finale, it was announced that HBO had canceled the series.[11]

On May 14, 2019, Holmes released his book Comedy Sex God, which is described as, "Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest."[12]

On March 29, 2021, Holmes was selected to play the lead role of a laid-off auto worker-turned-professional bowler (based on the life of Tom Smallwood) in a CBS sitcom pilot.[13] On May 14, 2021, the pilot for Smallwood was ordered to series, with a mid-season debut planned for 2021–22 television season.[14][15]

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes[]

Main article: You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

Holmes hosts a podcast, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes. It has featured guests such as Garry Shandling, Judd Apatow, Aziz Ansari, John Mulaney, and Dana Carvey. Topics typically discussed in each episode are the guests' views on comedy, sexuality, and religion.

The Pete Holmes Show[]

Main article: The Pete Holmes Show

On August 21 and 23 in 2012, Holmes recorded three episodes of a talk show pilot for TBS, produced by Conan O'Brien, entitled The Midnight Show with Pete Holmes.[16][17] Holmes's guests on the unaired pilots included Nick Offerman, Joel McHale, T. J. Miller, and Bill Burr. On February 26, 2013, TBS picked up the show and began airing in late 2013. It showcased "the comedian's incredible skill set, combining sketches, short films, live comedy, field pieces and in-studio guest interviews into a fast-paced half hour."[18] As of July 10, 2013 the name of the show was The Pete Holmes Show.[19] The series premiered on October 28, after Conan.

The show was picked up for a second season by TBS. On December 9, 2013, Gabe Liedman performed the show's first stand-up routine.[20] On May 23, 2014, TBS canceled the talk show after two seasons following poor audience ratings. The show ended its run on June 19, 2014.[21][22]

Crashing[]

Main article: Crashing (American TV series)

Crashing is a semi-autobiographical show on HBO that revolves around Holmes' character Pete, a young comedian who pursues a career in stand-up comedy after his wife cheats on him, leaving him homeless.[23] Holmes successfully pitched the idea of the show to Judd Apatow and it was picked up by HBO for filming in September 2015, with Apatow as director. The success of the pilot led HBO to give the green-light to the first season in January 2016. After four episodes had aired, HBO renewed the series for a second season which premiered on January 14, 2018.

On February 21, 2018, HBO renewed the series for a third season. Although season three was praised by critics, HBO canceled Crashing in March 2019.[24]

Badman[]

Main article: CollegeHumor

Holmes portrays the lead character Batman in this parody web series. The series recreates scenes from Christopher Nolan's Batman films with a comedic twist, such as Batman appearing completely incompetent or sex-obsessed.

Influences[]

Holmes has listed Weird Al, Brian Regan, Sinbad, Steve Martin, Gallagher, Jackie Martling, Conan O'Brien, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Farley,[25] Dane Cook,[26] and Ray Romano[27] as his biggest comedic influences.[28]

Personal life[]

Holmes married his first wife, whose name has never been disclosed, when he was 22 years old.[29] After she had an affair, they divorced when he was 28.[23][30] He married Valerie Chaney in late 2017.[31] Their daughter, Lila Jane, was born in September 2018.[32][33]

Holmes is a vegan.[1][34]

Discography[]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
2014 I Am Road Comic Himself
2016 Don't Think Twice Pete Holmes
2019 The Secret Life of Pets 2 Chuck (voice)
TBA Home Sweet Home Alone Blake Filming
TBA Gutbuster Himself Post-production

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
2005 Premium Blend Himself Episode: "8.6"
2007 Scott Batman Presents Scott Batman Presents Earth's New Robot Overlord (voice) Episode: "One"
2010–2011 Outsourced Writer
2010–2012 Ugly Americans Toby (voice) 20 episodes
2010–2013 John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show Himself 3 episodes
2011 Pete Holmes: Impregnated With Wonder Himself Stand-up special
2011–2012 I Hate My Teenage Daughter Writer
2013 The Jeselnik Offensive Himself Episode 1.9
2013 Maron Himself Episode: "Marc's Dad"
2013 Pete Holmes: Nice Try, the Devil Himself Stand-up special
2013 American Dad! Toby (voice), Millionaire Matt Davis (voice) Episode: "Lost in Space" "The Longest Distance Relationship"
2013–2014 The Pete Holmes Show Himself (host) Also creator, writer, and executive producer
2014 Mulaney Trey Episode: "In the Name of the Mother, and the Son, and the Holy Andre"
2016 Animals. Patrick (voice) Episode: "Rats."
2016 Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds[35] Himself Stand-up special
2016–17 Mighty Magiswords Teri Gargantuan, Thaddeus Thirdwell III (voice) 4 episodes
2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Ryan (voice) Episode: "A Tale of Two Wizards"
2017–2019 Crashing Pete Also creator, writer, and executive producer
2018 Bob's Burgers Connor (voice) Episode: "Something Old, Something New, Something Bob Caters For You"
2018–2020 The Simpsons Matthew / Bode Wright (voice) Episodes: "Bart's Not Dead", "Warrin' Priests"; also writer
2019 Star Wars Resistance Flobb / Fleez (voice) Episode: "From Beneath"
2018 Pete Holmes: Dirty Clean Himself Stand-up special
2021 Green Eggs and Ham TBA (Voice) Episode: TBA
2022 Smallwood Tom Smallwood Lead role (upcoming sitcom)

References[]

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  2. ^ Burke, Daniel (May 24, 2019). "Comedian Pete Holmes was a good Christian guy. Then his wife left him, and things got weird". CNN. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  3. ^ "Pete Holmes on Christian jokes - YMH Highlight". Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Pete Holmes at IMDb
  5. ^ Kharakh, Ben. Interview, "Pete Holmes, Comedian" Archived 2008-04-18 at the Wayback Machine, Gothamist, 26 October 2006.
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  7. ^ Murthi, Vikram (2016-11-22). "'Crashing' Trailer: Pete Holmes' HBO Sitcom Shows The Comic Adjusting To Divorced Life". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
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  9. ^ McFarland, Kevin. "The best comedy albums and specials of 2013". avclub.com.
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  11. ^ Littleton, Cynthia (2017-03-15). "HBO Renews Pete Holmes Comedy 'Crashing' for Second Season". Variety. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  12. ^ Holmes, Pete (2019). Comedy Sex God. New York, NY: Harper Wave. pp. Back cover. ISBN 978-0062803979.
  13. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (March 29, 2021). "Pete Holmes Set As The Lead Of CBS' Tom Smallwood Comedy Pilot". Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  14. ^ Low, Elaine (May 14, 2021). "CBS Orders 'Smallwood' and 'Good Sam' to Series". Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  15. ^ "Pete Holmes To Star In New CBS Comedy Smallwood Debuting Mid-Season". cbs.com. May 19, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  16. ^ "Get Free Tickets For The Pilot Of "The Midnight Show With Pete Holmes"". Retrieved 20 August 2012.
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  28. ^ Sam Jones. "130. Pete Holmes". Off Camera with Sam Jones (Podcast). Quote by Pete Holmes. Sam Jones Pictures. Event occurs at 17:31–18:08. Retrieved 10 October 2019. For the first five years, maybe ten, most comedians are just doing, it’s like they have a vita[min] mix and they just put in—like me, it was like, Steve Martin and Seinfeld, and you put in, like Brian Regan and you blend it up and you can—you reek of it.
  29. ^ Ryan, Patric. "How divorce led Pete Holmes to HBO's 'Crashing'". USA Today. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  30. ^ Jordan Zakarin. "Pete Holmes's Life Blew Up. His New HBO Show Is His Therapy". Inverse. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  31. ^ Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin. "Pete Holmes says being married changes things". AV Club. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  32. ^ "Pete Holmes Thinks Expectant Dads Should "Woman Up" @ Team Coco". TBS/Conan O'Brien. October 2, 2018.
  33. ^ The A.V. Club, Let's watch Pete Holmes rate baby names, retrieved 2019-01-21
  34. ^ https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/rob-zombie/id475878118?i=1000512363735
  35. ^ "Pete Holmes HBO Standup Special Faces and Sounds". Splitsider. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

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