If Pete Holmes's HBO series Crashing is his love letter to comedy, the church at least gets a tender PS.
Inspired by Holmes's life and evangelical background, the show follows a nice Christian guy who's trying to make it in standup after his divorce leaves him dumbstruck and homeless. Episode to episode, his character crashes with Sarah Silverman, Artie Lange, T. J. Miller, and other comics he meets while grappling with the brutal New York comedy scene and his quarter-life crisis.
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