Peter Benedict Holmes was born on March 30,1979 and is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster.
21 Facts About Pete Holmes
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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.
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Pete Holmes is most widely known for starring and creating the semi-autobiographical scripted comedy series Crashing, which aired on HBO for three seasons.
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Pete Holmes has worked as a voice actor and most recently starred in the 2022 CBS sitcom How We Roll.
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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.
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Pete Holmes has a brother who composes music under the name Dr Holmes.
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Pete Holmes grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Lexington High School.
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Pete Holmes attended Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, where he graduated with a degree in English and Communications in 2001.
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Pete Holmes career began in the New York City comedy scene.
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Pete Holmes began working as a touring comic, including on the Christian comedy circuit.
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Pete Holmes released his first album, Impregnated With Wonder, on iTunes on November 15,2011.
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Pete Holmes has provided the voices for several of the characters on Comedy Central's cartoon Ugly Americans.
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Pete Holmes was the voice of the E-Trade baby on several television commercials and was credited as a writer for those commercials.
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Pete Holmes wrote for the NBC primetime sitcom Outsourced and for the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter prior to its cancellation in May 2012.
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Pete Holmes has created a comedic portrayal of Batman in CollegeHumor's internet series Badman.
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Pete Holmes ran a YouTube channel which was focused around skits alongside Matthew McCarthy called frontpagefilms.
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Pete Holmes released his third comedy special, Faces and Sounds, in 2016.
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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.
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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.
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Pete Holmes has listed Weird Al, Brian Regan, Sinbad, Steve Martin, Gallagher, Jackie Martling, Conan O'Brien, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Farley, Dane Cook, and Ray Romano as his biggest comedic influences.
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Pete Holmes first married when he was 22 years old; he divorced when he was 28.