Pete Holmes and Judd Apatow Making a Comedy Pilot For HBO About Stand Up

Deadline is reporting that HBO has greenlit a comedy pilot about stand up comedy in New York City that will star Pete Holmes, with Pete Holmes directing and all we can say is yes please make this happen HBO.  We’ve missed having Pete Holmes on television dearly since TBS decided to cancel The Pete Holmes Show, and as much as we want Holmes back in Late Night, we’ll be thrilled with a single camera comedy series for HBO.

The concept for the show is semi-autobiographical, based on Holmes experiences, and will follow the life of a comedian who has to stay on the couches of his New York stand up comedy friends after his wife leaves him.  The pilot is written by Holmes, and Apatow will direct, with Holmes’ manager Dave Rath executive producing.

Since the Pete Holmes Show’s untimely demise, Pete has continued to put out his amazing podcast, You Make It Weird, and recently hosted the world’s first interview show that took place entirely in the confines of a working elevator at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.

This will be Apatow’s first time directing a pilot, so it must be pretty special.  According to Deadline, filming starts in November.   With any luck, we’ll be seeing a parade of New York comics appearing as themselves.  Not that anyone’s asked our opinion, but we’re hoping to see Holmes show up on the couches of some of our favorite New York comedians, like Pete Davidson, Chris Gethard, Judah Friedlander, Joe List, Chris Gethard, Ari Shaffir, Susie Essman and Big Jay Oakerson for starters.

Back in February 2014, Pete pitched a pilot idea to Apatow on the Pete Holmes show.  Watch, enjoy, and wait for HBO to take this bad boy to series.