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On his new HBO comedyCrashingdebuting Sunday at 10:30 p.m. As the comedian tells EW, it’s a story he knows all too well.
I found out the show was going to be canceled.
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That’s what you think you’re supposed to do!
Let’s go pitch one!
SoCrashingbegan as a sketch series?HOLMES:Not really.
Let’s say we were canceled on Tuesday.
So I got in the car and was kind of frustrated.
I was like, “If you could do anything, what would you want to do?”
Would you say this is yourGirls?
It does have a similar vibe.HOLMES:I thought to myself, “What would be my show?”
And I’ve always kicked around the idea of doing a show about my actual divorce.
I thought that was great.HOLMES:I remember that day [I pitched him for real].
He was on the set forTrainwreck.
I woke up real, real early.
I woke up at like 5.
I wasn’t going to miss it.
I got there so early!
I knew Amy [Schumer] a little bit, but they’re not even there yet.
The way that Judd works is he was like, okay, you think you have an idea.
Go write it now, and I wrote it in two days or something.
That’s fun for me.
I think it’s funny, but it’s definitely sad for the character.
Oh, I got married when I was young.
I was married when I was 22, and then my wife cheated on me.
That’s all true.
The show is obviously a fictionalization of that.
Like, T.J. was a big help in healing his sad friend.
He took me to his movie set and we smoked pot for the first time.
