And now, after all that, he’s throwing in a multi-camera sitcom for good measure.
(you’re able to watch the series' trailer above.)
Especially after the quarantine, which I think made us all go, ‘What am I doing?’
Pete Holmes with Bill Burr and Artie Lange on ‘Crashing’.Everett Collection
We don’t want another sketch show.'
We all laughed, and we just abandoned the pitch.
We acted like we were just coming in to say hello."
And I was like, ‘I would tell my story with Judd.’
I was like, ‘Oh, no.
I have all sorts of business in New York.’
But it was just for that.
So it has this really cozy, relatable quality to people that are going through that."
“Crashingwas certainly funny, but it was almost exclusively other people being funny by design.
Alas, the show simply never found enough of an audience.
“It just wasn’t meant to be.
So it was just me bulls—ing with my friends.”
“I’m really proud of it,” he adds.
Because I’m not even sure TBS knows it aired.”
“If you could have heard the way they talked about this campaign…” Holmes says ruefully.
“They were like, ‘This is the new Apple commercials.’
The casting process was excruciating.
I’mJustin Long, he’sJohn Hodgman, and everyone is going to hear about this campaign!'”
The rest is history… or rather, it isn’t.
“Whatever they were looking for to happen, didn’t happen,” Holmes says with a laugh.
“No one has ever said, ‘I love you in those Sears DieHard commercials.’
The one time my mom saw them was in a Sears battery department.”
So in that sense, it was a huge success."
As for DieHard batteries, they eventually secureda much more memorable campaignfeaturingBruce Willisas John McClane.
“A happy ending for Sears DieHard,” Holmes says, laughing, when told about this.
“They finally found their spokesperson, because it was not me and Matt.”
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