# The Pete Holmes Show

The Pete Holmes Show is an American late-night talk show starring comedian Pete Holmes. It aired Monday through Thursday at midnight on TBS, from October 28, 2013 until June 18, 2014. The show was atypical among late-night talk shows for having personal as opposed to topical monologues, more sketch comedy, and taking place within a half-hour format.

## History
### Pilot episodes and pre-production

In July 2012, Pete Holmes and Conan O'Brien began developing a show called The Midnight Show with Pete Holmes. Three pilot episodes were shot on the Conan set on August 21 and August 23, 2012. On February 26, 2013, it was announced that the show had been picked up for a seven-week run. On July 19, 2013, it was revealed that the show would be titled The Pete Holmes Show. Pete Holmes officially began work on the show on September 23, 2013. Pete Holmes hosted a panel promoting the show at the 2013 New York Comic Con, showing the show's Ex-Men sketch and a CollegeHumor sketch with his Badman character. Test shows were shot on October 16 and 18, 2013.

### Debut

The debut episode was taped on Tuesday, October 22 and aired on October 28, 2013. The show began with a cold open sketch called "Ex-Men" (a parody of X-Men) in which Pete played Professor X firing Wolverine for being useless. In the monologue Pete told a story of going to an Enrique Iglesias concert. Pete also visited Daily Show host Jon Stewart in New York to seek advice for hosting a talk show. The interview segment featured comedian and long-time friend Kumail Nanjiani as the first guest, and the show closed with the segment "All the Games" in which the titles of lesser-known (fake) video games were shown. The first episode was viewed by approximately 407,000 people.

### Run and cancellation

A total of 28 episodes aired in the show's first season in 2013. On January 8, 2014, the show was renewed for a 13-week second season, beginning on February 24. The show was broadcast Monday through Thursday on TBS at midnight in the United States.
On May 23, 2014, TBS announced the cancellation of The Pete Holmes Show, citing insufficient audience numbers. The show's second and final season ended in June 2014.

## Format and production

In the show's first season, episodes began with a cold open pre-taped sketch, were followed by the opening titles, and a personal monologue delivered by Holmes. After the first commercial break, a remote segment or another sketch was shown, or a live comedy bit was performed. The third segment was a short interview, usually with another comedian. The show would close with another short comedy piece. The show's second run featured a less formal structure, relying more heavily on pre-taped interviews. Most notably, the final episode entirely lacked a monologue, and was closed with the show's only musical performance ("Poke" by Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit). Unlike most late-night talk shows (including its lead-in, Conan), The Pete Holmes Show had a half-hour format.
The show was taped in front of a live studio audience on Stage 10 of the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. For budgetary reasons, shows were not taped on the days they air. Conan O'Brien, Jeff Ross, Nick Bernstein, and Dave Rath are presumed to have been involved in production. Show highlights were posted on Pete Holmes's YouTube account.

## Episodes
### Season 1 (2013)
#### October

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 1 | October 28, 2013 | Kumail Nanjiani |
| Pete visits Jon Stewart in New York. |||
| 2 | October 29, 2013 | Allison Williams |
| 3 | October 30, 2013 | Jim Jefferies |
| Pete visits NBA All Star James Harden in Houston. |||
| 4 | October 31, 2013 | Chelsea Peretti |

#### November

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 5 | November 4, 2013 | Ike Barinholtz |
| 6 | November 5, 2013 | Anthony Jeselnik |
| Pete visits the BET Awards. |||
| 7 | November 6, 2013 | Casey Wilson & June Diane Raphael |
| Olympic hopefuls Max Aaron and Gracie Gold teach Pete how to skate. |||
| 8 | November 7, 2013 | Deepak Chopra |
| 9 | November 11, 2013 | Eric André |
| 10 | November 12, 2013 | Rob Corddry |
| 11 | November 13, 2013 | Rory Scovel |
| Pete visits Rachel Maddow in New York. |||
| 12 | November 14, 2013 | Whitney Cummings |
| Pete practices with US Olympic freeskier Devin Logan in Park City, Utah. |||
| 13 | November 18, 2013 | Jeff Garlin |
| 14 | November 19, 2013 | Nick Kroll |
| Pete visits Skyler Grey |||
| 15 | November 20, 2013 | Doug Benson |
| 16 | November 21, 2013 | Adam Pally |
| 17 | November 25, 2013 | Joe Mande & Noah Garfinkel |
| Pete and Lolo Jones win a gold medal in the "Awkward Interaction" Competition. |||
| 18 | November 26, 2013 | Neal Brennan |
| 19 | November 27, 2013 | Bill Burr |
| 20 | November 28, 2013 | Conan O'Brien |

#### December

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 21 | December 2, 2013 | John Mulaney |
| 22 | December 3, 2013 | Marc Maron |
| Pete goes surfing with pastor Rob Bell. |||
| 23 | December 4, 2013 | Iliza Shlesinger |
| 24 | December 5, 2013 | Tig Notaro |
| Chelsea Peretti helps Pete with his wardrobe. |||
| 25 | December 9, 2013 | Schoolboy Q |
| Gabe Liedman performs stand-up. |||
| 26 | December 10, 2013 | Mark-Paul Gosselaar |
| 27 | December 11, 2013 | Moshe Kasher |
| 28 | December 12, 2013 | Patton Oswalt |
| "Gabbin' Like Gals" with Ellie Kemper. |||

### Season 2 (2014)
#### February

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 29 | February 24, 2014 | Bode Miller |
| Pete pitches movie ideas to Judd Apatow. |||
| 30 | February 25, 2014 | T. J. Miller |
| Pete learns how to MMA fight with Ronda Rousey. |||
| 31 | February 26, 2014 | Kyrie Irving |
| 32 | February 27, 2014 | Jenny Slate |

#### March

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 33 | March 3, 2014 | John Daly |
| 34 | March 4, 2014 | Nick Thune |
| Pete talks skiing with 2014 Olympic gold medal winner Ted Ligety. |||
| 35 | March 5, 2014 | Bo Burnham |
| 36 | March 6, 2014 | Paul Scheer (part 1 interview) |
| Adam Cayton-Holland performs stand-up. |||
| 37 | March 10, 2014 | Paul Scheer (part 2 interview) |
| 38 | March 11, 2014 | Devin Logan |
| 39 | March 12, 2014 | Grace Helbig |
| Jared Logan performs stand-up. |||
| 40 | March 24, 2014 | David Wolfe |
| Pete and one of his writers (Joe DeRosa) test out their alternative "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" titles. |||
| 41 | March 25, 2014 | Erin Hamlin & Kate Hansen |
| 42 | March 26, 2014 | Lauren Cohan |
| Eliza Skinner performs stand-up. |||
| 43 | March 31, 2014 | Harrison Barnes |

#### April

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 44 | April 1, 2014 | Jason Mantzoukas, Anthony Davis |
| 45 | April 2, 2014 | Rob Riggle |
| 46 | April 3, 2014 | Gillian Jacobs |
| Byron Bowers performs stand-up. |||
| 47 | April 7, 2014 | Matt Berninger |
| 48 | April 8, 2014 | Dikembe Mutombo |
| 49 | April 9, 2014 | Jay Larson and Ryan Sickler |
| 50 | April 10, 2014 | Robert Rodriguez |
| Brent Sullivan performs stand-up. |||
| 51 | April 14, 2014 | Ashley Rickards, Jillian Rose Reed, Molly Tarlov |
| 52 | April 15, 2014 | Zach Woods |
| 53 | April 16, 2014 | Adam Scott, Roy Hibbert |
| 54 | April 17, 2014 | Jim Jefferies, Jamie Lee |
| 55 | April 28, 2014 | Jessica St. Clair, Lennon Parham |
| 56 | April 29, 2014 | Retta |
| 57 | April 30, 2014 | Bob Mankoff |
| Pete challenges US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and President Obama to a game of two-on-two against him and Conan. |||

#### May

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 58 | May 1, 2014 | Phil Hanley |
| Joel McHale plays Guile in "Street Fighter Red Tape" |||
| 59 | May 5, 2014 | Adam Pally |
| 60 | May 6, 2014 | Kristen Schaal |
| 61 | May 7, 2014 | Jerrod Carmichael |
| 62 | May 8, 2014 | Trixie Garcia |
| Zach Sherwin performs. |||
| 63 | May 12, 2014 | Ben Schwartz |
| 64 | May 13, 2014 | Kumail Nanjiani |
| 65 | May 14, 2014 | Kid Ink |
| Dan Telfer performs stand-up. |||
| 66 | May 19, 2014 | Patton Oswalt |
| Matt McCarthy (comedian) plays Blanka in "Street Fighter Red Tape" |||
| 67 | May 20, 2014 | Thomas Middleditch, Jim Breuer, Matt Braunger |
| 68 | May 21, 2014 | Nicole Byer, Andy Haynes, Jim Breuer, Matt Braunger |
| 69 | May 22, 2014 | Joe DeRosa |
| Rob Huebel plays Magneto in "Ex-Men" |||

#### June

| No. | Original air date | Guest(s) |
| 70 | June 2, 2014 | Ray Romano |
| 71 | June 3, 2014 | Big Jay Oakerson |
| Patrick Heusinger plays M. Bison in "Street Fighter Red Tape" |||
| 72 | June 4, 2014 | Natasha Leggero |
| 73 | June 5, 2014 | Eliza Coupe |
| Beth Stelling performs stand-up. |||
| 74 | June 9, 2014 | Daniel Sloss |
| 75 | June 10, 2014 | Ben Schwartz, Karl Koppertop |
| 76 | June 11, 2014 | Schoolboy Q |
| 77 | June 12, 2014 | Gary Gulman, Martellus Bennett |
| 78 | June 16, 2014 | Duncan Trussell |
| 79 | June 17, 2014 | Joe Manganiello |
| 80 | June 18, 2014 | Andrew W.K., Scott Hutchison |