Pete Holmes had a run-in with Malia Obama, and it didn’t exactly go well.
Last week, the comedian appeared on “Conan”, and told host Conan O’Brien about the time former President Barack Obama’s eldest daughter attended one of his stand-up shows.
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“Sometimes I do shows and I don’t know that there’s someone of note in the audience,” he recalled. “There were these two hot women, young women, in the front that the whole show were whispering.”
Holmes added, “Like it’s worse than heckling.”
“What a Black Mirror nightmare to be doing stand-up, and there’s two attractive girls – which is what made every nerd into a comedian – in the front row whispering and laughing at people on the stage, but in a bad way,” he continued.
Eventually, Holmes couldn’t take the chattering any longer.
“And then I go on last, and I tell a joke, and they’re whispering and laughing and giggling, and I’m just like, ‘What’s going on? I can see you,'” Holmes said.
They were in the front row. They were in the light. Like the spotlight was on them as well. And I just go, ‘What’s going on? I can see you, please stop,'” he recalled.
Even asking them to “please cut it out” didn’t work.
“Then I get a little more like, ‘Shut up. Look at my face. I’m here to help,” he said. “But you know, you push Petey too far. I’m like, ‘Please, shut the f**k up.'”
Holmes then grabbed a curtain and threw it over them.
“And I go, ′I don’t care. Enjoy the show however you want. I just don’t want to see you,’ and I cover them with the curtain,” he said. “I thought this would get a big laugh. Nothing. The whole audience turns on me.”
It was only later that Holmes found out who he had just thrown a curtain over.
“After the show, I find out it was Obama’s daughter. It was Malia! And her hot friend!” he said. “She looked great. Terrible comedy audience. That’s a true story.”
O’Brien then chimed in to ask, “Who let you put a curtain around President Obama’s daughter? Why weren’t you shot?”
“I’ve never gotten off stage and been like, ‘Why wasn’t I shot?’ Or at least a little laser beam like you’re trying to entertain a cat on my face,” Holmes said. “I covered them. I was like, ‘Shut up, shut up, shut up. You should vanish.”
