Carol Leifer

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

Pete Holmes

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.4 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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0:00.0	You made it weird.
0:01.0	You made it weird.
0:03.0	You made it weird.
0:04.0	Oh, yeah.
0:05.0	You made it weird.
0:06.0	Yes, you did.
0:09.0	You made it weird.
0:11.0	You made it weird.
0:12.0	With Pete Holmes.
0:15.0	What's happening, weirdos?
0:16.0	Well, it's official.
0:18.0	I'm obsessed with Carol Leifer, who is our guest today. One of my all-time
0:23.2	favorite episodes, winner of the most likely to become my dear friend, IRL in the past couple
0:29.7	months award. I was just blown away. Charming, funny, interesting, brilliant. She has a new book
0:37.3	out, which is called How to Write a
0:38.5	Funny Speech. I can't believe that hasn't been done before, that one of the best TV and
0:42.8	comedy and stand-up writers in the world wrote a book for everybody, for Bar Mitzvah's weddings,
0:47.8	graduations. There you go. People do that. How do you do it? How do you do it well? Get how to
0:54.0	write a funny speech by carol leafer
0:55.6	it is so good so helpful and so funny and she is so funny if you don't know who carol is she is a
1:01.9	stand-up she wrote for s&l she wrote for larry sanders she wrote for seinfeld um we talk about
1:08.1	all that in this episode and more and I'm so glad that you are here.
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