Comic Pete Holmes: ‘I found myself craving the comfort of a sitcom’
nypost.comKatie Lowes, “Scandal”), his preteen son Sam (Mason Wells), his mom Helen (Julie White) and his mentor, Archie (Chi McBride).“I read [the script] with my wife and we were happy that the wife wasn’t a nagging sitcom cliché.
And I liked that my son, Sam wants to be a tap dancer, and my character Tom – who’s not from that [arts] world – doesn’t make fun of him,” said Holmes. “I did grow up bowling, but I’m from Boston so we did candlepin; the small, easier balls, which is better when you’re a little kid.
That was every birthday from age 8 to probably 12. I’ve always enjoyed it.”Holmes said he didn’t channel anyone in particular to play Tom, but he did have his dad in mind. “Just because in the pilot, I put on those coveralls.
And my father is pushing 80, and he still delivers home heating oil and removes oil tanks,” he said. “So when I was putting those on, I texted him a photo, and I was like ‘We didn’t think it would be this way.’ He thought maybe I would go into the family business – but here I am, sort of following in his footsteps in this very absurd way.”Holmes, who is best known for his stand-up comedy and creating and starring in HBO’s “Crashing,” (which was executive-produced by Judd Apatow and aired from 2017-2019), said that it was a relief to only act in “How We Roll.” “I did a couple things during quarantine and one was the ‘Home Alone’ movie for Disney [the 2021 film ‘Home Sweet Alone’].
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