Pete Holmes | On Comedy, God, Power, and Life.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Pete Holmes is a comedian, writer, cartoonist, spiritual seeker, and the host of the You Made It Weird (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-it-weird-with-pete-holmes/id475878118) podcast. He was the creator-star of the hit HBO show Crashing. From standup comedy to screens, large and small, Pete is constantly examining and commenting on life. You can see this in his performances on stage on screens of all sizes, as well as his latest memoir. Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Pete's book, Comedy Sex God (https://amzn.to/2QXVtPZ) is a sweeping, raw, funny and illuminating exploration of the deeper meanings of life, love, and comedy.
We dive into the deep end of the pool today, with a no-holds-barred exploration of family, faith, atheism, mysticism, comedy, parenting, love and how they all tie together and inform each other. This conversation was taped during our LA Sessions in Pete's studio, aka, the garage behind his house.
You can find Pete Holmes at: Website: https://www.peteholmes.com/ | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/peteholmes/videos
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| 0:00.0 | My guest today is a claim comedian, writer, actor, podcast, and producer Pete Holmes. |
| 0:11.2 | So I don't know if you've noticed, but long-term listeners have probably keyed in on this. |
| 0:16.7 | I have been sitting down with a number of people in the world of comedy stand up lately. |
| 0:22.0 | I think because stand up tends to be this world where people choose to live in a space |
| 0:27.4 | of constantly examining, commenting on, and pushing the envelope of not only their own existence |
| 0:34.5 | and life and the little and the big things in it, but also around the broader experience |
| 0:39.2 | of the human condition. |
| 0:40.4 | And that fascinates me. |
| 0:42.0 | They've kind of become the philosophers of, sort of like the modern world. |
| 0:48.0 | And I want to know what's underneath that. |
| 0:50.5 | That is a lot of what Pete explores in his recent memoir as well. |
| 0:54.6 | It's called Comedy Sex God. |
| 0:56.4 | And by the way, that is not sort of like Comedy Sex God as in two adjectives and a person, |
| 1:01.1 | but three different topics that are deeply meaningful to him. |
| 1:04.8 | And also in his long-running podcast, you made it weird. |
| 1:08.2 | We dive into the deep end of the pool today really quickly with a no-holds-barred exploration |
| 1:13.0 | of family and faith, atheism, mysticism, comedy, parenting, love, and how they all tie |
| 1:19.4 | together and inform each other. |
| 1:21.8 | One context fact here also, this conversation is part of our LA sessions where we spent |
| 1:28.3 | a few weeks recording in Southern California. |
| 1:31.6 | On this day in particular, we taped in Pete's garage behind his house on a semi-reclined |
| 1:37.4 | old couch just kind of passed the elliptical trainer that we would step around to get to |
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