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Pete Holmes

PETE HOLMES is the creator and star of HBO's Crashing (produced by Judd Apatow) and TBS' The Pete Holmes Show (produced by Conan O'Brien). Pete has multiple standup specials on HBO, Netflix, and Comedy Central and can most recently be seen in Anna Kendrick’s film WOMAN OF THE HOUR as well as 2024's THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER and Disney's HOME SWEET HOME ALONE. He also starred in CBS' How We Roll, was the voice of the e*trade baby, and was a guest writer/star on multiple episodes of The Simpsons. Pete's also proud to be the dumbest Batman on YouTube (Badman), the host of the wildly popular You Made It Weird podcast, and a celebrity guest on the ABC game show MATCH GAME. He wrote this bio in third person. He napped shortly thereafter.

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