Quotes by Pete Holmes

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.

The only Batman that doesn't need parodying is Adam West, but everybody else is fair game.

I love Batman to death.

There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some way.

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.

I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.

I felt like I was in a unique position, or I am in a unique position, to show the evangelical world in a way that I haven't seen on TV before. That's a world that I'm very familiar with.

When somebody comes across as authentic and genuine and sweet, people just want to spend time with that person.

It's true that in show business, a lot of times a producer will just not ever be there, not even be aware that a show is renewed or canceled.

It's funny - the reason I started doing a podcast was because every time I was on someone else's podcast, I would take it over a little bit.