There’s no shortage of auteur television shows depicting the day-to-day lives of working comedians—Seinfeld, I’m Sorry, I’m Dying Up Here, and now Crashing. Pete Holmes’ semi-autobiographical HBO series examines the life of a struggling comedian in New York after his first wife cheated on him, and he decided to pursue…
Like any respectable, semi-autobiographical television series revolving around a famous comedian, HBO’s Crashing features a lot of cameos from other famous comedians. In just the first season, Sarah Silverman, Artie Lange, Aparna Nancherla, and Lauren Lapkus all make appearances. As creator and star Pete Holmes tells…
If there’s anyone who knows the depressing reality of post-breakup rituals, it’s Pete Holmes. The comedian’s semi-autobiographical HBO series Crashing is a glimpse into the comic’s life after his first wife cheated on him, his relationship with faith was fractured, and he decided to pursue comedy full-time. Holmes’…
Get ready, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco: The A.V. Club is joining forces with HBO to present a series of events with our pal Pete Holmes. This January, we’ll be galavanting around the country with Holmes and Jamie Lee in order to screen the first two episodes of Crashing season two. We’ll be popping up at local…
Pete Holmes’ Crashing is a semi-autobiographical HBO series, offering glimpses into the comic’s life after his first wife cheated on him, his relationship with faith was fractured, and he decided to pursue comedy full-time. Given his vocalness on the topic of faith, we asked him recommend his five favorite books on…
For a stand-up comic, being on the road can be stressful, so it becomes important to find an effective method of decompression. For Crashing creator Pete Holmes that comes in the form of watching infomercials. In the video above, Holmes discusses why he and his wife’s favorite hotel pastime is unwinding to the sound…
Pete Holmes’ Crashing is a semi-autobiographical HBO series, offering glimpses into the comic’s life after his first wife cheated on him, his relationship with faith was fractured, and he decided to pursue comedy full-time. His real-life experiences not only inspired him to create a television show, but also to write…
HBO’s Crashing is a semi-autobiographical look at Pete Holmes’ life after his first wife cheated on him and he decided to pursue comedy full-time. Holmes recently got married again, to his long-time partner Valerie Chaney. We asked him about his new life and how different things feel this time around.
It’s been pretty difficult to avoid Stranger Things 2 details over the past couple of weeks, especially if you read our site. Luckily, the furor over Netflix’s hit is dying down, which is great news for Pete Holmes. Unfortunately, the Crashing star hasn’t finished the second season which has made the last few weeks…
Everybody poops, but most people don’t talk about it all that much. That could change with the release of Poop Talk, a new documentary from Comedy Dynamics. Randy and Jason Sklar’s new movie—in theaters and on VOD February 16—finds more than 50 comedians and actors telling their best poop stories, revealing their most…
I feel like the season finale of Crashing will be divisive with viewers, because it definitely veered away from the comedy aspect of Pete’s journey and back toward the personal life aspect—and I actually prefer that. I’d rather watch his personal struggles that are then framed or explored via his stand-up, rather…
Well, we all knew Pete’s gig as a warm-up comedian wouldn’t last long, because what would Crashing be if Pete was comfortably working in a steady gig and he could get his own apartment and whatnot? Answer: A pretty boring show.
Crashing is really firing on all cylinders lately. The first couple episodes were enjoyable enough, but starting with “Yard Sale,” Pete has had an excellent arc of growth. He has been kicked out of the nest by his mother figures—Jess by ending their marriage and his actual mother by telling him to get more real with…
It’s interesting—I continue to be more into Crashing episodes that deal with Pete’s personal life rather than his struggle with comedy, which may be the opposite of most viewers’ reactions. So I’m definitely curious how you feel about that position, A.V. Club readers.
HBO’s Girls is ending soon, but the premium cable network is going to keep that show’s executive producer Judd Apatow around a bit longer by renewing Pete Holmes’ Crashing, which also counts Apatow as an executive producer. The series is based on Holmes’ own life, and it stars the successful comedian as an aspiring…
Pete Holmes has definitely been in need of a win on Crashing, especially coming off last week’s episode, which was great for viewers because it provided a nice mix of emotional beats and comedic moments, but was not as nice for Holmes’ character because it brought his marriage to its final end. He has now been fully…
“The Yard Sale” is easily my favorite of the first four episodes of Crashing. While the first two episodes did a nice job of setting up the next chapter in Pete’s life and provided some great laughs, episode 3 drills down on why exactly his marriage failed and makes his wife a little more three-dimensional.
I enjoyed the premiere of Crashing, but as is the case with a lot of pilot episodes, it has a crapload of situations to set up, so episode 2 is usually where the ball really starts rolling.
I want to get this out of the way right at the top—Crashing is good, so if you liked the premiere, you’re going to enjoy it. But if you didn’t like the premiere, give it a few more episodes to win you over. But this review is strictly about “Artie Lange,” the premiere episode of Pete Holmes’ new HBO comedy. The gist…
Pete Holmes has the right story for a Louie-esque semi-autobiographical sitcom. Raised in an evangelical Christian household, his was a righteous path toward the pulpit. He married his college sweetheart at 22; at 28, they were divorced. In between, Holmes found that he preferred audiences to congregations, and…
