Pete Holmes

Pete Holmes

30-Mar-1979


United States


Comedian

Pete Holmes is a comedian, author, cartoonist, "Seeking Spirit who loves Christ", and podcast director. His most popular podcast, You Made It Weird, is a humorous exploration of the meaning of life with guests from Deepak Chopra and Elizabeth Gilbert to Seth Rogen and Garry Shandling. Pete also co-founded and starred in the HBO man-made HBO over-the-counter game that he held as manager and Judd Apatow. A well-designed three-hour television set and frequent appearances at night, he continues to regularly visit the sold-out crowds. He lives with his wife and daughter in LA.

QUOTES BY Pete Holmes


When I look at what's happening with #MeToo, my heart breaks, basically, for everybody involved.

I'm the weirdo that tells - asks - the Uber driver to please turn the radio down. I'm so polite about it, though.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

So we have the story of who we are. I'm a man, and I'm a comedian, and I'm a tall man. I have big teeth and all these things, and I like the first two Batman movies, and I don't drink coffee, or whatever it is.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

It's hard to control the things that are going to inspire you.

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

I think my mom recognized that I liked people to be happy. I like people to get along. And I like to be a peacemaker. And I liked the church. So she was like, 'You should be a youth pastor.'

The underlying goal of comedy is feeling not-alone.

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