LOS ANGELES — “Were you following me?” said Pete Holmes, a 38-year-old actor and comedian, as he stood near the front gate of his bungalow in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles last month.

“Sorry, I was just sitting in traffic and am literally just getting back from a week in Hawaii,” Mr. Holmes said, explaining his momentary bout of paranoia. “Things are a bit chaotic.”

Tall and gangly, with a cartoonish quality to his movement, Mr. Holmes then opened the front door to the humble four-bedroom home that he shares with his wife of one month, Valerie. Dressed in a navy blue hoodie and gray khakis, he petted his rescue dog, Brody, and plopped down a heap of unopened mail on the dining room table.

“Please excuse me,” Mr. Holmes said as he hurried off to use the bathroom. He returned, sat down on the living room couch and let out a sigh. “O.K.,” he said. “Now where were we?”

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