110 Quotes by Pete Holmes

Starting the podcast was an experiment. I wouldn't say I was very private, but I was probably as private as the average person.

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

The underlying goal of comedy is feeling not-alone.

When I look at what's happening with #MeToo, my heart breaks, basically, for everybody involved.

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

I hate when pastors have a gay son and then they become pro-gay.

Life is temporary. We die one day. Live it up!

We can give space to someone's depression. We can love them; we can honor - we can just eat some noodles, we can watch some movies, whatever it is. We can just sit and not talk. That's real stuff. It's a real - I don't know if you call it a disorder, a disease, but it's happening, and we don't need to coach people through with ideologies.

I think my mom recognized that I liked people to be happy. I like people to get along. And I like to be a peacemaker. And I liked the church. So she was like, 'You should be a youth pastor.'