The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jamie Lee is half Jewish, all writer on The Pete Holmes Show. Holy Thursday, it’s time to see Lee perform stand-up on the program! She jokes about being single, but beware using your pickup lines on her as she’ll take you quite literally. So, no. The carpets don’t match the …
Brent Sullivan’s digital profile is slowly growing, as well as his list of TV credits. Sullivan (@mrbrettsullivan) performed stand-up on Thursday’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, and had no problems detailing his embarrassing youthful indiscretions in AOL chat rooms, on the New York City subway and high school English …
So what if you’re racially profiled at an art museum? As Byron Bowers explained on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show…perhaps there is a good reason for it. If you use your imagination. Speaking of art, Bowers also reminds us that most great artists have personal flaws. Is …
In this conversation on The Pete Holmes Show, Holmes recalls first meeting Rob Riggle at Comix (RIP), a comedy club in New York City. Back then, Riggle was a correspondent on The Daily Show, but also known more as an improviser or sketch comedy player than as a stand-up. Riggle …
Eliza Skinner lives and works in Los Angeles but used to do both of those things in New York City, and as she related on Wednesday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, New Yorkers have a real open attitude about their distaste for L.A. Skinner also was engaged once …
Here’s a standard element of late-night TV newly incorporated into The Pete Holmes Show on TBS, as Holmes welcomed stand-up comedy to the program Wednesday night in the form of his friend Jared Logan. Logan let us know about his relationship with his girlfriend and their mutual love of bed-and-breakfast …
Grawlix! Adam Cayton-Holland did stand-up on The Pete Holmes Show, and as he told us on the TV, he’s very much forward to performing at SXSW in Austin this year based on his first time performing there last year. Suffice it to say, it’s much more pleasurable than prom. Or …
If you think there’s a lot going on in late-night TV talk in 2014, just wait until you see the humorous convergence taking place the second weekend of March in Austin, Texas. SXSW already announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will broadcast five shows from the interactive, film and music festival …
The Pete Holmes Show has gone out of its way to include many stand-up comedians as Pete’s special guests for interviews and taped segments, but Monday night’s show was the first time for a stand-up comedy showcase. First up: Gabe Liedman, one-half of the comedy team Gabe and Jenny (with …
Interviewing your boss is weird. Interviewing your boss on TV is weirder. Interviewing your boss on TV when your boss has his own TV show interviewing other people is the weirdest. But when you’re Pete Holmes and you’ve built a following outside your stand-up comedy through a podcast called “You …
