JeffTheAlpaca

It is cool he is back though was hoping for something on HBO and not a sitcom with a laugh track.



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Deftones

Crashing

Decker

Yeah that’s a bummer to go from Crashing’s baffling cancellation to that.

story

I really like Pete Holmes so I'll give it a shot. Have you read his book Comedy Sex God, it's awesome.

Coral

This looks like your crappy standard network sitcom. Horrible.

And the "gross" reaction when the kid sees his parents kissing - is that "joke" a requirement for every family sitcom? It's been done to death and it was never funny.

Decker

Reminds me of the Seinfeld heyday where every up and coming comic was given a shitty network sitcom and they all failed except for Ray Romano.

Coral

Well, many have failed - but there were a few more successes. Kevin James, Roseanne Barr, Bernie Mac, Louie CK, Paul Reiser, Tim Allen, Brett Butler - to name a few from around that era.

Decker

Yeah I exaggerated. But based on that trailer, this sure feels like a failed one.

Actually it feels like the kind of offer that Pete would get, agonize over then ultimately reject in a season of Crashing. There's more nobility in warming up Rachael Ray's studio audience.

GoldenJCJ

I’m a big fan of Pete Holmes. His Batman stuff cracks me up, no matter how many times I watch them. But this looks like, well, a CBS sitcom.

JeffTheAlpaca

Maybe he could have went to Netflix or Showtime and created his own show.

Maybe he will on some talk shows to promote this which might be the only good thing since it has been awhile since he had a big TV presence,

whotony

Maybe he couldn’t so he did this.
🤔

Eitherway I’ll take what I can get of Pete Holmes.

Did this just come up out of the blue?
Don’t remember seeing any buzz about it.

story

While this sitcom looks like it has a lot of pitfalls, maybe this will be a good starring vehicle for Pete Holmes to get his name, face, and sense of humor out there in the mainstream a little more. If so, that can give his next pet projects more breathing room to happen and potentially more viewership. Look at the executive producers, that may be a clue.

Mark Gross - writer and producer on Man with a Plan (Matthew LeBlanc 4-season vehicle), Mike & Molly (gave Melissa McCarthy her big break and Billy Gardell got Bob Hearts Abishola for 3+ seasons), and Gary Unmarried (Jay Mohr comes back out of nowhere with a starring vehicle, makes a little money, keeps working).

David Hollander - executive producer of Ray Donovan the whole way through, big starring vehicle for Liev Schreiber.

I don't know that any of those series are necessarily big favorites here, but they all kept good actors working with big exposure and the potential for new things. Here's hoping How We Roll does the same for Pete.

Bill Needle

And yet that slack-jawed piece of trite was considered worthy of the promo...the PROMO.

Does Pete have a brain tumor? Gambling or drug addictions? Gypsy curse? Whatever it is, this show is a cry for help.

JeffTheAlpaca

I think he does a podcast that I bet is probably entertaining as F and better than this show?

DWilson

I've seen a variation on this in two different commercials this week, where the parents do something Sexy/Romantic and their kid is horrified.

story

When my spouse and I kiss and our young kids say "Ew," I always ask them on what Disney claptrap show they saw pulling that move is supposed to be funny. They get a little shocked because that's exactly where they picked it up and they know it!

Inhumans99

These CBS sitcoms are really easy to plow through while watching in the background even if they suck, so I am in.

jjcool

No idea who Pete Holmes is, but I'll check out an episode or two.

Decker

Check out Crashing instead.

mike7162

It's like this show was genetically engineered to be canceled after one season.

Red Dog

I was trying to remember what Pete Holmes had been in. Totally forgot about Crashing.

This was god-awful. And I'm a bowling/Tom Smallwood fan.

andicus

I haven't watched a typical (new) network sitcom for as long as I can remember. My mother pointed this out to me, as I had mentioned watching a PBA show a couple of weeks ago.

This show reminded me why I don't watch them. Holy shit, it was terrible. Not a single laugh, or anything to even get you invested/interested. And the laugh track... It reminded me of a show I watched (maybe Family Guy?) that had an episode mocking laugh tracks, in which they were intentionally overdone. It was that bad.

As this was only a pilot, perhaps an actual series hasn't been ordered? I just can't imagine anyone wanting to invest in it.

Gizmo

Wow, that really is why they seem to be invented.

This one is really terrible. Holmes went from Crashing to this wreck.

Bill Needle

So it was awful? Shocking.

DWilson

No, it's a series (for now). Of course, a lot of things can change between the pilot and the episodes that follow. It could get better, but ....