All working comedians have their hell gig stories and they’re usually all funny after the fact, but terrifying in their conception. Big Jay Oakerson’s story from performing in Atlantic City is definitely one to remember, especially because Kevin Hart will deny certain parts of it happening.
Watch as Big Jay tells it on The Pete Holmes Show.
While you wouldn’t get acquitted with Pete Holmes as your legal representation, you certainly will get a good laugh out of his shenanigans. Well, months after you’ve been in jail, you’d probably laugh.
Watch Pete try to cheer up Matt McCarthy/ignore any sort of defense counseling.
An Open Letter on The Cancellation of The Pete Holmes Show from “Petey Pants” Pete Holmes
Hearing that TBS was canceling The Pete Holmes Show kind of blindsided us.
While we’re still processing it and how this changes the state of late night, Pete Holmes himself had some encouraging words, at the link, for any and all about the opportunity he got to host his own talk show.
Though it’s very sad news that The Pete Holmes Show has been canceled, there’s still plenty you can enjoy all the way until next month.
TBS Cancels The Pete Holmes Show After Two Cycles
Unable to convince TBS that enough people were watching with Conan as a lead-in, TBS has decided to cancel The Pete Holmes Show. The last episode will air on June 19th and there’s no word as to whether there will be another late night show or possibly something else to follow Conan on weeknights.
Though this is a living wake of sorts, RIP The Pete Holmes Show.
At roasts, most comedians say things, especially about other comedians, that they probably wouldn’t want to say in front of that person’s family.
Well, Kumail Nanjiani went ahead and played out part of Pete Holmes’ roast from years ago as Pete’s family is in the audience. Watch it here.
Last night on The Pete Holmes Show, Dan Telfer used his whole stand-up set to debate the audience on which dinosaur is the best.
Of course, despite the audience’s wide variety of answers, Dan has the best one. Watch here.
From Ben Schwartz’s appearance on The Pete Holmes Show a couple of days ago, you might be able to guess that Schwartz has done improv with Pete Holmes. With that in mind, Pete and Ben get delightfully goofy right from the get go.
Watch a taste of what happened here.
If you’re not familiar with NYC based Phil Hanley, you should get familiar, especially after watching this “live reading” of a transcript from his ex-girlfriend breaking up with him on last night’s Pete Holmes Show.
Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham’s great new series Playing House premieres tonight on USA at 10PM.
To help you remember that, Jessica and Lennon did double duty on late night last night by appearing both The Pete Holmes Show and Late Night With Seth Meyers.
So watch all of these, which is all a really fun preview to what might be cable’s next big sitcom tonight in Playing House.
Adam Scott doesn’t waste any time in having fun with Pete Holmes as soon as his steps on The Pete Holmes Show stage for his interview.
We can only wish that more guests on late night talk show were as playful as Scott or Bill Cosby. Watch the clip here.
The Pete Holmes Show capped off a great week with having Jamie Lee do a stand-up set. She may say that she looks like a fun aunt, but we can’t remember the last time our aunt was really great at telling jokes (as opposed to awkwardly dancing at family reunion).
Following his first appearance on The Pete Holmes Show, “The Nice Boy” played by Nate Fernald, returns to, again, show Pete Holmes how to do wholesome humor.
Mike Birbiglia left a great voicemail for Pete Holmes when The Pete Holmes Show got picked up for more episodes.
By “great”, we mean hilariously mean. Watch and listen here.
As mentioned above, the very funny Brent Sullivan made his late night stand up debut this week on The Pete Holmes Show. From this set, you can note that getting letters that you sent yourself from 10 years ago might be not as great an experience as it was sending them.
Not only is riffing/hanging out between Pete Holmes, Jay Larson, and Ryan Sickler on The Pete Holmes Show a good time, but watching them concluding that there is no good way to break up with someone is a bonus.
In search for more mainstream success, The National’s Matt Berninger and Pete Holmes make what should be the song of this summer “Yeti Get Ready”. on The Pete Holmes Show.
Last night, the amazing Bo Burnham was Pete Holmes’ guest on The Pete Holmes Show and read a few selections from his great poetry book Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone.
Hopefully, this will be the poetry that we study in Literature a few years down the road. Watch the clip here.
After a big week with Jimmy Fallon taking over The Tonight Show, Seth Meyers will be having his big moment in delving into the late night arena with hosting Late Night.
Also on tonight, The Pete Holmes Show will be returning from its winter hiatus.
The best part of this is that you won’t have to miss either if you’re watching it live on TV as The Pete Holmes Show is on TBS at 12AM (and is only a half hour) and Late Night with Seth Meyers premieres at 12:35AM on NBC.
TBS Renews The Pete Holmes Show for 13 Weeks
Many of you we were wondering what the word was on The Pete Holmes Show when it went on hiatus last year.
Luckily, the word is “renewal”.
The Pete Holmes Show just got picked up for 13 more weeks and returns to TBS on Feb. 24th, incidentally (or not so incidentally) the same day as Late Night with Seth Meyers premieres.
The Pete Holmes Show is still currently on hiatus, but the magic from an interview/hang out between Pete Holmes and Ron Funches will, at the very least, make today or whatever day you watch this pretty great.
Watch the interview and feel better about things in general.
The Most Intentionally Funny Videos of 2013 Part 4
Our final edition of The Most Intentionally Funny Videos for 2013 at The Nerdist was posted yesterday featuring Bill Murray as Liberace on Letterman, Eddie Pepitone rapping on Arsenio Hall, Jon Stewart’s Deep Dish Pizza Rant, and more.
Watching all of those as well as MIFV part one, two, and three should make any day that you have in 2014.
Give them all a watch again like we’re probably going to.
The awesome Moshe Kasher was on The Pete Holmes Show last night and broke down why the traditional ideas of sexual identities, especially in regards to stereotypes need to, as Pete Holmes would say, scram.
The Pete Holmes Show had its first stand up performance last night featuring the very funny Gabe Liedman!
Watch Liedman’s great set and The Pete Holmes Show milestone here.
Many times on late night shows, guests will have a pre-interview to determine what they will talk about on that night’s episode and roughly estimate how the interview will go. Often, that results in guests being weird facsimiles of themselves.
However, Tig Notaro did no such thing on The Pete Holmes Show last night and she was her wonderfully, unflinchingly honest self in doing an impression that only her girlfriend is impressed by and being the world’s first “cool down” comedian.