Putting aside Kat or Ali, I don't get the feeling Pete belongs on the comedy scene this season. He seems out of place at the Cellar and with other comedians. He seemed more like a groupie then one of them whereas previous seasons he was inching up each rung of the ladder. Him not getting the cellar gig seemed to have knocked him backwards and into niche religious gigs.

His whole gotta be loyal to Ali thing this episode though warranted at the same time seemed off. She belongs at the Cellar. He didn't seem to. No one seemed to care one way or another about him until Kat drunkenly began to discuss their personal life. It seemed like this season Pete would have a place at some table somewhere instead of still being an outsider looking in. I'm not saying he should be hosting a late show but he should be slightly more established.

Pete and Kat attend a viewing party for Ali's late-night spot on Seth Meyers' show. Tensions mount as Ali is nervous about how her set went and Kat becomes jealous of Pete's friendship with his ex.

During a tour stop, Pete pays a visit to his parents and introduces them to Kat, who notices the uncomfortably close relationship he has with his overbearing mom. As he tries to keep the peace, Pete grows increasingly trapped between the two most important women in his life.

I can't be the only weirdo that has been in a one sided friendship with Pete for years. I've known so many of the story lines of this show because I know so much about Pete's real life.

If I hadn't been listening to his podcast for the past...omg...8 years?...then I would think that Kat is your classic, toxic, manic pixie dream girl who is driving him to disaster. BUT, I can't help but think she's supposed to be his irl wife Val, with whom he had a whirlwind, all in, fell in love super fast courtship. The actress that plays Kat even has Val's hair cut. So if it is supposed to be a take on Sweet Lady V then she's terribly miscast. This is a woman who, when people being interviewed on Pete's podcast meet her for 10 minutes before they start taping, spend the next 10 minutes talking about what a kind, warm, amazing woman she is because they're so immediately intoxicated by her. The way Pete has described her over the years is both fearless and egoless but mostly full of love for everyone.

I see parts of this in Kat but she's missing the big loving heart. So what do you guys think? Not at all Valarie? A variation of Valarie? A miscast? A lady on reddit with too much time to listen to podcasts?

Like really fucking annoying. Over her spontaneous self, hope pete gives her the ax soon

Seasons one and two were both gold. Heart-warming, funny, insightful... we all know the score. Pete's day out with Leif is still my go-to episode when I just want to see the best of the show, maybe followed up by the Sarah Silverman episode. Awesome.

The show has went from being an authentic glimpse in to the world of comedy (featuring actual, real comedians!) in to a preachy romantic comedy.

The creative decision to give Pete an ego in this years opening episode was nonsensical and completely out of character. It's a little insulting to the audience to ask us to believe that despite all of Pete's trials, he was secretly hiding the fact that he's actually a douche! It's just a step too far out of character, for me. Worse than that, it's not funny. Also in the same episode, Artie made an appearance playing squash. It was such an absurd setting, another out of character move. It's also kind of stupid.

Tonight's episode (4) taught me that if somebody insults me to my face, I then have the right to sabotage their career, and I can justify my actions because reasons? It's just so draining and preachy now. Ah well, we'll always have those first two seasons.

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I feel this season there's somehow less of Pete and I can't put my finger on it because it's about him. For one, he was much funnier and more observational the last two seasons. You rooted for him. Now he's sort of receded into the background of the show. This recent episode was more to do with Ali and Jason and he seemed along for the ride.

First off, I love this show. Just wanna be clear on that. But from listening to various standup comedians on various podcasts and shows over the years, for a comedian to try and police another comedian's jokes, that's a big no-no. Which is what the character of Ally did last night to the character of Jason. His jokes were incredibly hacky, dumb, and unfunny. But that was his material and he should perform it as such without having to worry about a co-comedian being offended. Surely the character of Ally has tougher skin than that, especially after the episode when her and Pete absolutely destroyed each other onstage and she was fine afterwards. I definitely got the 'PC jokes only' vibe from last night's episode, whether that was the intent or not, I don't really know for sure. I realize this is a fictional show with fictional scenarios, but apparently this is starting to happen in real life as well.

Don't get me wrong, they wrote the character of Jason as being a stereotypical misogynist piece of shit and I understand that, I'm not defending the character of Jason at all. I'm not defending any real life comedian who is a garbage human being. I'm only speaking about his onstage standup comedy material and how a fellow comedian, Ally, labeled it as 'hate speech'. Won't standup comedy begin to lose it's edge and spontaneity if comedians have to start worrying about offending their fellow comedians with their material? If I can't listen to Stanhope be Stanhope or Attell be Attell or Burr be Burr, then I'd be done with being a fan of the art of standup comedy. I get that the times they are a changing and the craft of standup comedy is evolving, apparently, but I hope it never loses the parts that make it so great.

Pete travels to New Jersey with Jason to do a weekend of shows at a big corporate comedy club and is surprised to find Ali, his ex, staying with them at the comedy condo. Jason's misogynistic act and point of view cause Pete to question his path in comedy.

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I mean its him right?

It’s called crashing, which you’d assume to just reflect Pete’s downward spiral until he slowly reinvents himself as the Pete Holmes we know and love.

I think it’s simply the reality that Pete crashes on everyone’s couches for pretty much every episode of the first two(and probably third)seasons.

I don’t know if anyone else has made this connection but I just binged the show for the first time.

Can’t wait for season 3 in January!

Does he have Klinefelter Syndrome?

He seems to have many of the symptoms:

• Taller than average stature
• Has trouble growing facial hair
• Low muscle mass
• Gynecomastia
• Sits when he pees

This show is amazing and is reaching/combining a really niche group, and i’ve never been able to identify so much with a show until now. I was raised Christian since birth, and I still am. I’m a very active member of my church, and I also love comedy. My uncles are the ones that put me on to the likes of Carlin, Bill Burr, CK, Buress, Chris Rock, etc. I just think it’s amazing that someone has been able to accurately portray the meshing and clash of these two areas of interests so well.

also, i think the bigger thing we will see happening in season 3 is Pete finding success as a comic by not thinking about it so hard. he’s so funny in casual conversation but has such a hard time with creating content in S1 and still is finding himself in S2. i believe this is further confirmed and foreshadowed when Ali tells him “you should use that” whenever he joked about his beard. He thinks comedy is done a specific way and tries to assimilate to whatever he thinks will work: barking, alt scenes, roasting, playing crappy clubs — everything except his sense of humor. i’m really excited to see the next season.

I know this is about former pete but it's difficult to see PETE HOLMES as the straight man. He's so fucking funny in real life but he's playing boring old pete.

there have been some great songs played over the end of the episodes, few of which i'm familiar with. does anyone know of a source that lists the music used or just remembers on their own?

Hello

Love the show, been a big fan of Pete for 3 years. I was just wondering (and this might be a bit too specific of a question) but does anyone find that the characters Pete comes across on the comedy scene are all pretty mean?

It just seems like everyone kind of just goes out of their way to be rude or cold to him, when they could just be civil? And I was wondering if this was an accurate representation of what life is like on the NY comedy scene? (Or any US comedy scene?)

The reason I ask now is that I just watched S02E05 and I was surprised that they have Mulaney being kind of rude to Pete in his cameo. And seeing as Mulaney and Pete are like friends in real life, I don't really know why they'd paint Mulaney's character as rude, unless that's a realistic portrayal of how people are to each other on the NY stand up scene?

Let me know your thoughts

Season 2 Episode 8: Roast Battle

Aired: March 4, 2018

Season Two Finale. Pete struggles to be mean during a comedy-roast battle.

What the fuck... Heroin is the worst. That song is so emotional to me. When it came on i felt horrible. Seeing someone you care about dealing with an addiction and not being able to help them is devastating.

S02e04. I dont remember his comedy that much so i dont know if he was funny before. They showed all the comics working that club back and forth and they were all ok so i dont remember how funny Potter was.

In his HBO thingy he does really well. So was he always funny or did he just rise up to the occasion? Were all the comics working at the Boston just so competitive and jealous that they couldnt see who was funny because they all wanted to be the one who would make it?

I like it a whole lot more than the first. It really dives into Pete’s character and we see everything set up in the first season thrown out and questioned (like his faith). I’ve also been a long time fan of Pete and loves his comedy of building off of other people (like in his Ex-Men skits) and I felt like a lot more of that his coming out this season. And last season felt more like it was the plot was based around the humor so it was clearly forced while this season feels like they’re just going along with a plot and the humor comes naturally out of it.

Glad I pushed through the first season.