Name: "The Set Up" With Pete Holmes
Uploaded: 2020-12-03T19:16:49.000Z
Duration: 14 min 49 s
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Then I will just say I'm gonna welcome my friend Pete Holmes to the show.

Goes into a short late night stand upset.

As I spotlight the comedians who came up with some of my favorite coin sets, this'd is the set up.

I really wanted to be on Conan by the time I was 30.

It was It was one of the very few, um, specific.

I had certain goals, but they were all sort of like rainbows.

They were vague and I don't know some magical feeling in the future, but I was like, I want to do Conan by the time I'm 30 and I based that on almost nothing.

I used to joke that I blamed my divorce because that's sort of like eight a year of my life.

It sort of slowed me down, but I was right.

When I was trying to get on Letterman, you'd send them a five minute tape and then they'd be like, We like it.

It would take another month to get a five minute tape that you liked with that joke removed in this one in where I'm like, if you just sent a longer tape, you could be like, Yeah, okay.

But that's not even what got it for me is then you happen to be at the improv on Melrose And I was doing I was going on last, and I was so happy that you were there because this is what everybody thinks.

Show business is like the Booker for Conan will be in the crowd.

And you were there and we had been exchanging tapes and stuff and you watched me and I did the Google bit.

It's like you liked the Google bet and you wanted to premier it on Conan, which was like the best news ever.

And I had already taped it for the John Oliver Show, which is what Conan plugs in the intro.

We're plugging the show that features the bit that's breaking on this show to beat that show.

I was like, Any time if you're pitching a TV show or a set or any idea if there's anything that can put a clock on it, that could be like We need to do this before this.

It's always helpful, and I feel like that Grease the wheels.

It actually kind of works that I'm wearing this terrible shirt.

It's just like like nobody tells you what to wear.

Like I just kind of came in that shirt and it's it's too big.

And but that that helped, because when I say I'm not a cool guy, I don't know if you could tell by my overall vibe.

I don't think they would have laughed if I hadn't done something sort of fumbling bumbling up top, and that actually included how I looked like if I was wearing a suit or something and I said, I don't know if you could tell I'm not a cool guy.

If I looked like Mulaney or something, you'd be like, No, you seem like a pretty cool guy like you're sharp and well dressed.

So even the the outfit was sort of telling the first joke.

E think it was Seinfeld or maybe Chris Rock that talked about you always waved, waved to the host and wave to the band.

And they were like, That's the quickest way to look like a professional.

It came out and I just wanted them to laugh at me, smiling, standing there.

And when they didn't, I'm sort of like, How are you?

I'm trying to establish up top, which, of course, you do live.

But it's even more important, I think, for TV sets, it's like I'm you're watching me, but I'm watching you.

I don't want to feel like I'm showering on stage and you're watching me.

I'm evaluating you like I'm going to talk to other people about how you were.

Things is not, and that's and that's to get them sort of in a performative place.

From my overall vibe, I don't know if this is gonna make sense, but I'm 31 years old.

I don't have any kids, but I'm already kind of like a fun dad.

Just like you fresca that guy singing hip hop Wrong to Children Just like I'll say, You can have whatever you need.

But if I did, I would be the kind of dad.

Oh, if you like it, then you should put some cheese on it.

If you get out here dab if you like it, then you shouldn't put your feet on it.

Seriously, Kyle, The ottoman is decorative.

So you didn't know you didn't know things bit at this point I believe in your career was longer.

Remember, there's a non smoking queen joke.

The non smoking queen thing was when John Mulaney he and I were touring together on I was checking into a hotel and this is just really they said One of our rooms is a non smoking queen and I went, That's May, and that's when John said, You're like a fun dad.

And I said, This is what any comedian should say when another comedian makes fun of them.

We had Jamie's character say to me, You're like, If I'm Dad because I wanted to show that that's where often jokes come from is instead of having your feelings hurt when another comedian, it's like if another commune makes fun of you, get out your note pad like this is how the world sees you.

This is probably how the audience doesn't know.

Maybe they see you, but when you say it, you go like Oh, right, that that's a great line.

Eso I have a night telephone, Have a night telephone trying to get into this.

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