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Pete Holmes
American
Comedian
Born:
Mar 30
,
1979
Good
Love
Me
People
Think
You
Related authors:
George Carlin
Groucho Marx
Milton Berle
Mitch Hedberg
Robin Williams
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Steven Wright
W. C. Fields
As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.
Pete Holmes
Comedy
Hoped
Nerd
Soon
Term
Heard
Lot
Them
I knew I wanted a 'Girls'-type show about my life, but what's the big thing that happened to me? Oh, I got married when I was young.
Pete Holmes
Life
Me
My Life
Big
Young
Married
About
Knew
Got
Oh
Big Thing
Wanted
Happened
Show
Thing
I always wanted to do something about what it's like to get divorced, especially when it's a young marriage to start with.
Pete Holmes
Marriage
Young
About
Something
Divorced
Like
Always
Get
Wanted
Start
When I got divorced, the first people I called were Nick Kroll and John Mulaney and T. J. Miller - all the pals.
Pete Holmes
People
First
John
Divorced
First People
Got
Were
Nick
Miller
Pals
I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.
Pete Holmes
You
Waiting
Experience
Fate
Remember
Pilot
Own
Control
Jimmy
One Thing
Eating
About
Both
Like
Comedian
Talking
Least
Hear
His
Lot
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Us
Your
Showbiz
Agreed
Thing
Amount
I think 'everything sucks' is too often leaned upon as a comedic stance. It's a really easy and pretty weak perspective.
Pete Holmes
Perspective
Think
Too
Everything
Weak
Easy
Pretty
Comedic
Often
Really
Stance
Sucks
I look at my faith like a room, and there was all of this furniture in there, but I had inherited most of the furniture. Then, when I got divorced, I took everything out just to see how I was going to refurnish the room, and that was a very essential step in my life. It was great.
Pete Holmes
Life
Faith
Great
My Life
Took
Everything
Furniture
Out
See
Had
Step
Divorced
Like
Look
Most
Got
How
Very
Going
Essential
Just
Room
Then
Inherited
It's funny - the reason I started doing a podcast was because every time I was on someone else's podcast, I would take it over a little bit.
Pete Holmes
Funny
Time
Every
Every Time
Else
Bit
Would
Someone
Take
Over
Because
Doing
Little
Little Bit
Reason
Started
I felt like I was in a unique position, or I am in a unique position, to show the evangelical world in a way that I haven't seen on TV before. That's a world that I'm very familiar with.
Pete Holmes
World
Seen
Before
Way
TV
Like
Felt
Am
Very
Familiar
Show
Evangelical
Unique
Position
Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.
Pete Holmes
Thoughts
Human Being
Feelings
Live
Every
Relate
Validated
Way
Someone
Similar
Simply
Almost
Accepted
Heard
Very
Any
Human
Rewarded
Just
Being
Wanting
Wants
Themselves
Who
Profession
Express
There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some way.
Pete Holmes
Relationship
Writing
Way
Out
Some
About
Something
Emotional
Taking
Redeeming
Again
Them
Then
Acting
Career
I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.
Pete Holmes
Good
Strange
Healing
Comedy
Think
Bit
Outsider
Comedian
Qualities
Learned
Felt
Bullied
Little
Little Bit
Then
What people respond to is intimacy and regularity.
Pete Holmes
People
Intimacy
Respond
Regularity
I love Jon Stewart.
Pete Holmes
Love
Jon
Jon Stewart
I went and saw Letterman when I was 15, and that had a profound impact on me.
Pete Holmes
Me
Saw
Impact
Had
Letterman
Profound
Profound Impact
When you think about a festival from a comedian's perspective, it has to do with who else does it - that's number one. The second consideration - and this is kind of crazy - is: 'What's the food like? What is the town like? Is it walkable? Is it easy to get around?'
Pete Holmes
Food
Crazy
You
Perspective
Think
Else
Consideration
Kind
Easy
About
Town
Like
Comedian
Around
Does
Festival
Get
Who
Second
Number
When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.
Pete Holmes
You
Say
Anything
Autonomous
I think what people respond to is someone being who they actually are.
Pete Holmes
People
Think
Respond
Someone
Being
Who
Actually
I was raised evangelical, so if you want to get offended, let's get offended. I have a master's degree in being offended.
Pete Holmes
You
Offended
Degree
Master
Get
Being
Want
Evangelical
Raised
'Time to Move On' is my favorite song.
Pete Holmes
Time
Song
Move On
Favorite
Move
There's nothing you can do to increase or decrease the love that God has for you, but there are things you can do that increase or decrease your awareness of that love. That's certainly been my experience.
Pete Holmes
Love
God
You
Experience
Nothing
Awareness
Increase
Been
Decrease
Your
Certainly
Things
I like squirm-laughing.
Pete Holmes
Like
When I used to work the road, I remember I used to ask myself in the mirror, literally, like in a movie, back when I was not very good at all, I'd say, 'What's it like being the greatest comedian in the world?'
Pete Holmes
Work
Myself
Good
World
Remember
Mirror
Back
Say
Road
Like
Comedian
Greatest
Very
Being
Movie
Literally
Ask
Used
Starting the podcast was an experiment. I wouldn't say I was very private, but I was probably as private as the average person.
Pete Holmes
Experiment
Say
Private
Very
Person
Average
Average Person
Starting
The underlying goal of comedy is feeling not-alone.
Pete Holmes
Comedy
Feeling
Underlying
Goal
I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.
Pete Holmes
Angry
People
Cynical
Silly
Supposed
Comedian
Comedians
Boy
Jaded
Fun
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