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You Made It Weird w/ Pete Holmes Feat. Ken Marino [Podcast]

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Everybody has secret weirdness, Pete Holmes gets comedians to share theirs.

You Made It Weird is a weekly comedy interview podcast, hosted by Pete Holmes. It was hosted on the Nerdist network since October 25, 2011, but as of February 28, 2018, is independently distributed. The show originated under the premise that Holmes would ask his guest, usually a fellow comedian, about three “weird” things he knew about them, but the show has since evolved into a much more loose conversation about topics such as comedy, religion, and sexuality. While initially focusing on interviews with comedians, an increasing number of guests from other fields have appeared on the show, including musicians, pastors, scientists, and authors. Katie Levine is the producer of the podcast. The show is usually recorded in-studio at the Nerdist studio at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, California. Since March 21, 2012, Holmes has recorded multiple live episodes of the podcast, in Austin at South by Southwest, New York, Bloomington, Chicago, Montreal, Quebec, San Francisco, Los Angeles at the LA Riot Festival, and Toronto at Just For Laughs. These have featured several guests rather than the usual one, and focus more on comedy rather than the in-depth discussion of a regular episode.

In this week’s episode, comedian/actor Ken Marino makes it very weird.

Ken Marino: Born and raised on Long Island, young Ken Marino divided his time between sports and acting until one of his coaches tried to talk him out of being in the school play. From that point on, Marino devoted his time to acting. He studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. It was at NYU that he became part of a comedy troupe called The New Group. They soon changed their name to The State, and landed a deal with MTV to create an eponymous sketch comedy show. “The State” (MTV, 1993-95) ran for two years and launched long careers for many of those involved, including Marino. He played guest roles on shows like “Boston Common” (NBC, 1996-97) and “Spin City” (NBC, 1996-2002), before landing a series regular role, replacing outgoing Ron Eldard on season two of “Men Behaving Badly” (NBC, 1996-97), starring Rob Schneider. After that show, Marino continued working regularly as a guest star on shows like “Nash Bridges” (CBS, 1996-2001) and “Will & Grace” (NBC, 1998-2006). Marino reunited with a number of alumni from The State to make the feature “Wet Hot American Summer” (2001), with the mostly 30+ year-old actors playing 18 year-olds to comic effect. The same year he was a series regular on “First Years” (NBC, 2001), a drama following five roommates, all in their first year out of law school. The show didn’t last a full season, but Marino continued working, with a recurring role on “Dawson’s Creek” (The WB, 1998-2003) and a series regular role on “Leap of Faith” (NBC, 2002), another short-lived series. After another slew of guest roles, notably as private investigator Vinnie Van Lowe on “Veronica Mars” (UPN, 2004-06, The CW, 2006-07), Marino again rejoined many of his sketch comedy pals as a series regular on “Childrens Hospital” (The WB.com, 2008; Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, 2010-16), a comedy touchstone for many comedians. Marino starred in “Party Down” (Bravo, 2009-2010), another well-regarded comedy that gave a springboard for a number of comic actors. Netflix decided to reunite The State crew for “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” (Netflix, 2015), a prequel series, with the now even older actors playing even younger than the first film, and then “Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later” (Netflix, 2017). His feature directorial debut, “Dog Days” (2018), was written by his wife Erica Oyama and featured a number of comedians from his sketch troupe. In 2019, Marino premiered as a series regular on “The Other Two” (Comedy Central, 2019-), a well-reviewed family comedy, and played dual roles as the Lehman brothers on David Caspe’s dark 1980s-set comedy “Black Monday” (Showtime 2019- ).

Pete Holmes: Pete Holmes is known for his cheerful personality, self-aware humor, and musings on spirituality and religion, which are all frequent themes across his works. Early in his career, Holmes performed on the Christian comedy circuit. Holmes has appeared on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, as a regular panelist on VH1’s Best Week Ever, and on VH1’s All Access. In 2010, he performed on John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show as well as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. On February 26, 2010, he performed his first television special on the series Comedy Central Presents. On March 21, 2011, and on November 17, 2011, he appeared on the TBS talk show Conan. Holmes has provided the voices for several of the characters on Comedy Central’s cartoon Ugly Americans. He was the voice of the E-Trade baby on several television commercials and was credited as a writer for those commercials. He wrote for the NBC primetime sitcom Outsourced and for the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter prior to its cancellation in May 2012. Holmes created and stars in the HBO series Crashing. The pilot was written by Holmes and directed by Judd Apatow. After the season three finale, it was announced that HBO had canceled the series.

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