23 Facts About Pete Holmes

Peter Benedict Holmes was born on March 30,1979 and is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster.

Subsequently, he began his own late-night talk show The Pete Holmes Show, which ran on TBS for two seasons in the time-slot after Conan, a frequent champion of his work.

Pete Holmes created and starred in the semi-autobiographical scripted comedy series Crashing, which aired on HBO for three seasons.

Pete Holmes has worked as a voice actor and starred in the 2022 CBS sitcom How We Roll.

Peter Benedict Holmes was born in Boston on March 30,1979.

Pete Holmes's mother is a Lithuanian refugee, while his father is American with Irish ancestry.

Pete Holmes has a brother who composes music under the name Dr Holmes.

Pete Holmes grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Lexington High School before attending Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, where he graduated with a degree in English and Communications in 2001.

Partly at the behest of his mother, Pete Holmes had plans to become a youth pastor.

Pete Holmes began working as a touring comic, including on the Christian comedy circuit.

Pete Holmes released his first album, Impregnated With Wonder, on iTunes on November 15,2011.

Pete Holmes has provided the voices for several of the characters on Comedy Central's cartoon Ugly Americans.

Pete Holmes was the voice of the E-Trade baby on several television commercials and was credited as a writer for those commercials.

Pete Holmes wrote for the NBC primetime sitcom Outsourced and for the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

Pete Holmes has created a comedic portrayal of Batman in CollegeHumor's internet series Badman.

Pete Holmes ran a YouTube channel which was focused around skits alongside Matthew McCarthy called frontpagefilms.

Pete Holmes released his third comedy special, Faces and Sounds, in 2016.

Pete Holmes created and starred in the TV series Crashing, a semi-autobiographical show which aired on HBO.

Pete Holmes successfully pitched the idea of the show to Judd Apatow and it was picked up by HBO for filming in September 2015, with Apatow as director.

On March 29,2021, Pete Holmes was selected to play the lead role of a laid-off auto worker-turned-professional bowler in a CBS sitcom pilot.

Pete Holmes has listed "Weird Al" Yankovic, Brian Regan, Sinbad, Steve Martin, Conan O'Brien, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Farley, Dane Cook, and Ray Romano as his biggest comedic influences.

Pete Holmes married his college girlfriend, whose identity he has not disclosed, at the age of 22; they divorced six years later after he discovered that she was cheating on him, which later inspired his semi-autobiographical sitcom Crashing.

Pete Holmes originally planned to become a youth pastor, and now jokingly refers to himself as "Christ-leaning" and a "hooraytheist".