Pete Holmes
Your Mama’s Kitchen
Higher Ground
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Pete Holmes shares the small ways his mom infused her Lithuanian heritage through food, even if she wouldn’t talk much about the home she knew before having to flee the country and become a refugee. He’ll open up about his journey confronting some dark parts of his past that helped him make better comedy. Plus, we’ll get the recipe for his mom’s apple pie that might look more like a cobbler.
Pete Holmes is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster. He gained recognition as the creator and lead actor of the HBO series "Crashing," a semi-autobiographical show centered around the world of stand-up comedy. Holmes has also worked as a writer for "Saturday Night Live" and lent his voice to characters in the animated series "Animals." His stand-up specials, including "Nice Try, The Devil" and "Faces and Sounds," have received praise for their observational humor.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible originals presents Your Mama's Kitchen hosted by Michelle Norris. My mom's beat soup, which was like Borsch, but somehow it was Lithuanian. I don't know what it had or it didn't have and God that was just so good and you know I'm |
| 0:28.8 | grateful for this conversation because as much as I like to tease my family and like we |
| 0:32.4 | were all crazy and we were I have very fond memories of eating that with my mom and like without talking about it |
| 0:41.2 | Appreciating that we both knew it was something from her. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to Your Mama's Kitchen, the podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults by the kitchens we grew up in as kids. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm Michelle Norris. |
| 0:57.3 | Today we're joined by stand-up comedian, podcaster, and Major Mama's Boy, Pete Holmes. |
| 1:02.1 | He doesn't mind that title. |
| 1:03.5 | He's mastered the art of opening up in entertaining ways about things in his life |
| 1:08.0 | that the average person might bring to their grave. |
| 1:11.0 | No topic is left undiscussed on his own podcast called You Made It Weird, |
| 1:16.1 | where he talks to celebs and other comedians about some of their deepest, darkest secrets. |
| 1:20.8 | He even created and starred in a show based on his real life experience |
| 1:25.1 | with a tough divorce and a shaky initiation into comedy. He did all that in a show |
| 1:30.1 | called Crashing on HBO. But today we'll go all the way back to the melting pot of the kitchen |
| 1:35.4 | where Pete first learned to be funny, |
| 1:37.5 | where his family steamed lobsters, |
| 1:39.6 | get this, in the dishwasher, you heard me right, dish dishwasher lobster where his mother who fled |
| 1:45.2 | Lithuania when she was just a child cooked dishes that reminded her of home |
| 1:57.8 | Pete continues to be an open book today with us talking about his dubious veganism sharing what he's learned on his journey of self-discovery and how facing |
| 2:02.4 | the dark parts of his past has made him |
| 2:04.4 | connect deeper with himself to ultimately make better comedy. |
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