A biography for Pete Holmeshasn’t been written yet.
“Yeah, I had a talk show canceled. Okay, let's go back to the list of people who had talk shows canceled. Johnny Carson had his first talk show canceled. Jon Stewart. Letterman. Conan O'Brien, if you look at 'The Tonight Show' as a show that got canceled.”
“Religion often is very embarrassing, and I totally get it. So I am sort of sometimes burdened with the fact that I love talking about it with anybody. Not just religious people.”
“I didn't like talking about my divorce. I think I viewed that as something that was embarrassing or a failure.”
“'Time to Move On' is my favorite song.”
“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.”
“Every performer I talk to will, with different words, talk about the sanctity of a good standup show, how it can really feel spiritual. When everybody is laughing, fixed on the same thing, you feel like you transcend yourself.”
“Whenever I make a blasphemous joke, I always say that I believe in a God big enough to know that I'm just kidding. How can God not know that I'm kidding? And also, how could God be offended at a thing that he made not believing in him?”
“I'm down with Jesus, sweet Jeez, sweet baby Jeez.”
“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.”
“In real life, T. J. Miller is one of my best friends, and I'll maybe see him for two or three days in a row, and then I won't see him for four months. That's just how our lives are.”
“There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some way.”
“I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.”
“I think a lot of pain in people's lives comes from not being open and honest about what they really think, what they really feel, what they like, what they don't like.”
“It's true that in show business, a lot of times a producer will just not ever be there, not even be aware that a show is renewed or canceled.”
“I love Batman to death.”
“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?'”
“It's hard to control the things that are going to inspire you.”
“I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.”
“As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.”
“The world is so mysterious, and there's so many social interactions where I have no idea what I'm supposed to do - what's being asked of me, what's expected of me.”