Pete Holmes

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    Comedian Pete Holmes Accidentally Told Malia Obama to 'Shut the F— Up' During His Comedy Show

    Comedian Pete Holmes Told Malia Obama to 'Shut the F— Up'

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    ‘Crashing’: Pete Holmes In A Standup Sitcom

    Pete Holmes has built his comedy career on being an awfully nice guy. Now Holmes has brought his image and his jokes to a sitcom, one he’s hatched with executive producer Judd Apatow, called "Crashing," which will premiere Sunday night on HBO. Holmes plays Pete, a New York comedian who’s trying to launch his career.

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    Pete Holmes Talks Fictionalizing His Stand-Up Story in HBO’s ‘Crashing’

    Honesty may be a lonely word, but it’s also an essential ingredient of Pete Holmes’s brand of comedy. Now he’s bringing that honesty to HBO in the form of Crashing, a semi-autobiographical series created and starring Holmes and produced by Judd Apatow. Kicked out of his house, Holmes’s TV counterpart (also called Pete Holmes) couch-surfs in the living rooms of such established comics as Artie Lange and Sarah Silverman, who also play themselves.

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    Judd Apatow Talks Final Season of ‘Girls,’ His Next HBO Series, ‘Crashing,’ and the Return of ‘Love’

    For the past five years, Apatow has been an executive producer of Lena Dunham’s acclaimed HBO series Girls, which is about to launch its sixth and final season on Feb. 12. The following week, he’ll unveil his next HBO series, Crashing, a peek at the contemporary New York standup comedy scene with comic Pete Holmes as our guide.

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    ‘Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds’ Is Funny, Even Joyous

    Pete Holmes is such a likable comedian, he can get applause when he tells a joke and then says immediately, “That joke never works.” He is happy to admit his weaknesses and flaws. In fact, Holmes is happy, period. Working in an industry populated largely by performers who frequently seem to be working through their neurotic, rage-filled offstage life, Holmes — whose new standup special Faces and Sounds, taped in Chicago, premieres Friday night — is engagingly cheerful.