Pete Holmes

Good comedy can be liberating, and if I'm doing my job as a comedian, part of the joy for the audience is getting that release.

If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with the art.

Life is temporary. We die one day. Live it up!

Dorks are not exempt from bad behaviour.

Sometimes I liken the comedian's lifestyle a little bit to a firefighter's in the sense that there's a lot of waiting and a lot of nothingness. And then there are moments of urgent firefighting.

Yeah, I had a talk show canceled. Okay, let's go back to the list of people who had talk shows canceled. Johnny Carson had his first talk show canceled. Jon Stewart. Letterman. Conan O'Brien, if you look at 'The Tonight Show' as a show that got canceled.

I'm not going to have the TV personality and be like, 'There's no bitterness. There's no ugliness.' There's bitterness. There's ugliness. There's pain. There's greed. There's malice, and there's hurt. That's all good stuff for any kind of art. I'm not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.

In real life, T. J. Miller is one of my best friends, and I'll maybe see him for two or three days in a row, and then I won't see him for four months. That's just how our lives are.

I love Batman to death.

It's hard to control the things that are going to inspire you.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith.

I think 'everything sucks' is too often leaned upon as a comedic stance. It's a really easy and pretty weak perspective.

When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.

I really love the Frank Miller 'Year One' stuff.

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I bask in an understanding of the divine that delights in truth and the complexities of the human experience - even when it's not very 'clean.'

I disagree with the idea that everything happens for a reason.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

The only Batman that doesn't need parodying is Adam West, but everybody else is fair game.

My wife left me when I was 28 in real life.