

Holmes created and starred in the HBO series Crashing. In 2019, he released his fourth album, Dirty Clean. Holmes released his third comedy special, Faces and Sounds, in 2016.
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Main article: Crashing (American TV series) On May 23, 2014, TBS canceled the talk show after two seasons following poor audience ratings. On December 9, 2013, Gabe Liedman performed the show's first stand-up routine. The show was picked up for a second season by TBS. The series premiered on October 28, after Conan. By July 10, 2013, the name of the show was The Pete Holmes Show. On February 26, 2013, TBS picked up the show and began airing in late 2013. Holmes's guests on the unaired pilots included Nick Offerman, Joel McHale, T. On August 21 and 23 in 2012, Holmes recorded three episodes of a talk show pilot for TBS, produced by Conan O'Brien, entitled The Midnight Show with Pete Holmes. He ran a YouTube channel which was focused around skits alongside Matthew McCarthy called frontpagefilms.

Holmes has created a comedic portrayal of Batman in CollegeHumor's internet series Badman. He wrote for the NBC primetime sitcom Outsourced and for the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter prior to its cancellation in May 2012. He was the voice of the E-Trade baby on several television commercials and was credited as a writer for those commercials. Holmes has provided the voices for several of the characters on Comedy Central's cartoon Ugly Americans. Topics typically discussed in each episode are the guests' views on comedy, sexuality, and religion. It has featured guests such as Garry Shandling, Judd Apatow, Aziz Ansari, John Mulaney, Ben Schwartz, and Dana Carvey.

In 2011, Holmes launched his long-form comedy podcast You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes. In 2013, he released his second album, Nice Try, The Devil. Holmes released his first album, Impregnated With Wonder, on iTunes on November 15, 2011. On March 21, 2011, and on November 17, 2011, he appeared on the TBS talk show Conan. On February 26, 2010, he performed his first television special on the series Comedy Central Presents.

In 2010, he performed on John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show as well as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. 2010–2013: Breakthrough Stand-up and You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes Holmes also created and appeared in a Super Bowl XLIII ad for Doritos in 2009 featuring a fictional new flavor of the product, beer, in which each chip contains as much alcohol as a 16 o.z. Since 2006, his cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker. He began working as a touring comic, including on the Christian comedy circuit. In the mid-2000s, he was making club appearances and took part in Comedy Central's Premium Blend, as a regular panelist on VH1's Best Week Ever, and on VH1's All Access. Holmes career began in the New York City comedy scene. Finding little success as a comedian in his home state, he lived in Sleepy Hollow, New York, before moving to Chicago and then Los Angeles.Ĭareer 2001–2009: Early career This gave way to public speaking, and his love for comedy won over his need to preach he now refers to himself as "Christ-leaning" or jokingly a "hooraytheist". Partly at the behest of his mother, he had plans to become a youth pastor. During this time, he played in a punk rock band and participated in an improvisational comedy troupe called The Sweaty-Toothed Madmen. Holmes attended Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, where he graduated with a degree in English and Communications in 2001. He grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Lexington High School. He has a brother who composes music under the name Dr. Peter Benedict Holmes was born in Boston on March 30, 1979, the son of a Lithuanian refugee mother and an American father of Irish descent. He has also worked as a voice actor and most recently starred in the 2022 CBS sitcom How We Roll. Holmes is most widely known for starring and creating the semi-autobiographical scripted comedy series Crashing, which aired on HBO for three seasons (2017–2019). During the decade, he released four comedy specials: Impregnated with Wonder (2011), Nice Try, The Devil (2013), Faces and Sounds (2016), and Dirty Clean (2018). Subsequently, he began his own late-night talk show The Pete Holmes Show (2013–2014), which ran on TBS for two seasons in the time-slot after Conan, a frequent champion of his work. Holmes gained recognition in the early 2010s as a stand-up comic, during which he launched his long-running podcast You Made It Weird (2011–present), released his first comedy special, and worked as an actor and television writer. Musings on spirituality and religion are frequent themes in his works. Peter Benedict Holmes (born March 30, 1979) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster.
