I like I have no words because I'm still floored at the idea of recounting an "I don't have an STD but I thought I did!" story on stage in a bright orange 70s-esque almost-jumpsuit-not-quite ensemble combined with believing what someone in the audience said was the local nomenclature for 'jock itch'. Like a form of intense twisted schadenfreude
Okay..... your attempt to sound more intelligent by using fancy words was great and all, but you literally made me have to watch the video twice. Your words were just so.... EXTRA that I completely forgot what the video was even about cause I had to focus so hard to read your comment. And I actually do very well in English.... but some of this was just so..... extra. Like.... “Holy run on sentences, Batman.” Also, schadenfreude is already technically taken to mean “Pleasure from someone else’s misfortune/pain,” so to call it twisted is redundant, as it already is twisted. That’s what the genre IS; twisted comedy. And if you think THIS is intense.... may the internet have mercy on you.... 😐
I think often about the only sub I had as a kid who was out of state and was not taking altitude sickness well and literally let the class run wild while she was passed out in the teachers chair… I cannot imagine how much I’d remember having a humanized borzoi as a class substitute *in theatre class* no less.
I recently saw Chris do this joke at the Boulder Theater, and while he was doing crowdwork, a man from the shadows said "Chef's Ass is a real thing" and proceeded to tell Chris and the audience about how he works in restaurants and in every backroom restaurant bathroom there is a box of corn starch so that sweaty chefs can slap it on their downstairs schnozz areas to absorb moisture. And how sometimes, if you walk into one of those bathrooms, you might see some footprints amidst the powdery remnants of such an activity. I've been thinking about it ever since.
Ordinarily I would defend myself against this comment but I recently looked up the stats for what percentage of Jasons are voting for Trump so yeah just chuck us in the Mariana Trench with cinderblock shoes
the phrase "personality-changing silence" is so powerful, so perfect and magnificent. and chris says it with the same 3-words-per-word casual diction of anything else. this is a being operating at all times on a level that would incinerate me to merely glimpse.
Am in England, was quietly going 'jock-ee? Jock itch? Is this a word or just a Chris thing?' Sorry for our collective silence. Paid for it with the worst Google image result!
@@ash-fz3tw We don't have a word for it. It's not a thing here. But men don't wear jock straps during sports and it's not very humid or hot most of the time. Come to the UK: The land free of the jock itch!
@@craftgrrl14 no, they're both yeast infections but thrush is candidiasis and infects the vagina or mouth. Jock itch is tinea cruris and affects the skin of the groin, usually in men. All that they have in common is that they're both caused by yeast (am a biology nerd sorry!).
I once overheard a conversation between my older brother and my mom where he was freaking out cause he thought he had an STD and was trying to get her to take a look at his downstairs area to help him figure out if it was serious and she was angrily telling him "NO! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'VE GOT I'M NOT LOOKING" "What if I have something" "TOO BAD"
I'm very fluent in English, but it's not my first language. Chris is something unbelievably amazing. Yet there are times I fail to understand what they're saying, but they're still so compelling... And when I finally get it (not all the times)... ... Well, that's why you love Chris Fleming, isn't it?
english is my first language and that happens to me with chris sometimes. like the way he words things is so perfectly boiled down to its meaning that it doesnt always sound like conventional english, so it takes a little time/listening again to catch all the jokes. hes very efficient with time
@@leviathanesque oh. Huh. So it just isn't a thing over there then? (edit) But a fungal infection of the crotch area can still occur without the use of a jock strap... They've got to call it SOMETHING, right?
All day long I've been feeling like something was missing. You know that vague feeling, like you've forgotten something, even though you're positive you haven't? Anyway it turns out it was my need for this exact video at this exact moment, and once I've caught my breath and wiped the laughtertears from my face I will watch it again.
"I performed that in London to a personality changing silence" took me out so hard that my head was left spinning 3 goddamn feet away from me. Truly a religious experience. I'm fucking HOWLING.
despite it being the very last sentence in this clip, "I like to do slow stunts" has been cemented in my brain since watching this. I move a heavy box at work and think, "I like to do slow stunts."
why does chris's outfit look like a peach named Tina that moved to Ontario and started weight watchers because her husband cheated on her with his younger and more vivacious secretary while he was at his cousin Gary's wedding that Tina was not invited to due to Tina's grandfather committing arson and burning down Gary's town house on the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This is like if a string cheese recently got fired from their job and is going through an identity crisis, so they're trying to rebuild a new personality but one night, they saw the movie Chicago playing on TV, and now, they overshare personal details through a cabaret style musical cadence
I think about this ALL THE TIME because even as an English person you can work out enough of what ‘Jock’s itch’ is to laugh and I just HAVE to speak to that audience that didn’t laugh and ask them WHY
Southeast Asian here. Had no idea what "jock itch" (??) meant either but I'd already been laughing since he started singing and so I thought 💁🏾♀️ might as well laugh until the very end.
Even more hilarious when you remember that his mom is the one who plays Bonnie in Gayle. The image of her with a flashlight at 3am is just comedic gold
“I preformed that in London to a personality changing silence.”
nezquick dead
snowmaus ASMR the moment this bit went from good to great
My whole experience having lived in the UK for 5 years
I was in that audience when Jason said chef's arse, it killed me also because I knew this was untrue and could do nothing to stop it
It's funny to watch his live shows, and hear every little thing he does be met by the raucous laughter of women who own lizards.
you can just say lesbians
@@grelyelo it's one of chris' jokes 😅
Its OK not to know all references
Say what you want about Chris, but he is definitely in the top 3 of best stand up comedians to perform in a creamsicle outfit.
Libutticus who are the two others?
I dunno; I’d say top 10 maybe, but 3 seems a little high considering.
Top 4
@@margarettehoneybee155 I think... Pryor? 🤷🏽♂️
People talk bad about Chris?
I don't think I've ever seen someone who's comedy is so weird and accessible as Chris Fleming.
Same but also Arin Hanson
Also james acaster
John Mulaney
he did a backflip and his glasses stayed on??? icon of physical grace
Calling that a backflip makes you the icon of generosity.
It was a rear shoulder roll let's be honest here
It was barely a somersault, why is your head up the chef's arse.
Petition to make Chef’s Arse a thing so Chris can recoup some dignity.
Let's all spam WebMD.
YES
it is a thing apparently! it's just not the same as jock itch
that might be a lost cause
i’d watch that netflix special
this is the kind of manic quarantine energy im experiencing right now
same
jason: i'm about to ruin this whole man's career
Best use of that meme I've ever seen
Only literally in this case
Chris is giving me Velma from scooby doo after a mid life crisis vibes
Who's your mommy 😆
With a touch of Velma from Chicago
That is...oddly accurate (also love your profile pic always fun to see a fellow starkid fan in the wild)
Didn't she wear a tight orange jumpsuit to impress a boy in one of the live action movies?
that is such a perfect description
the phrase "personality changing silence" was for some reason so atomic in energy it singed my eyebrows and i think about it every day
I like I have no words because I'm still floored at the idea of recounting an "I don't have an STD but I thought I did!" story on stage in a bright orange 70s-esque almost-jumpsuit-not-quite ensemble combined with believing what someone in the audience said was the local nomenclature for 'jock itch'. Like a form of intense twisted schadenfreude
Okay..... your attempt to sound more intelligent by using fancy words was great and all, but you literally made me have to watch the video twice. Your words were just so.... EXTRA that I completely forgot what the video was even about cause I had to focus so hard to read your comment. And I actually do very well in English.... but some of this was just so..... extra. Like.... “Holy run on sentences, Batman.” Also, schadenfreude is already technically taken to mean “Pleasure from someone else’s misfortune/pain,” so to call it twisted is redundant, as it already is twisted. That’s what the genre IS; twisted comedy. And if you think THIS is intense.... may the internet have mercy on you.... 😐
@@JustAFace_InTheCrowd I promise you from the bottom of my heart and soul it is absolutely not that deep
Why do I want this exchange as a poster 🤣
@@JustAFace_InTheCrowd I really think you're the only one here being extra
Cupcaek
Yeah, i can see it was put together pretty awkwardly.
Also seems pretty pretentious ngl lol
“personality changing silence”
that hit different.
Its even funnier if you saw him performing on Tom Ballard where he BOMBED and understand what he's talking about lol. :D :D :D XD XD
Someone out there had Chris as a substitute teacher and that's so incomprehensible
I think often about the only sub I had as a kid who was out of state and was not taking altitude sickness well and literally let the class run wild while she was passed out in the teachers chair… I cannot imagine how much I’d remember having a humanized borzoi as a class substitute *in theatre class* no less.
@@Genderanarchy a humanized borzoi! they are beauty, they are grace 🥰 both em
I could imagine it
As someone from Massachusetts with a theater degree, I can confirm that I have a very minor case of Chef’s Arse
Next time you come to the UK I promise to howl with laughter at whatever fictional STD you've been tricked into singing
I recently saw Chris do this joke at the Boulder Theater, and while he was doing crowdwork, a man from the shadows said "Chef's Ass is a real thing" and proceeded to tell Chris and the audience about how he works in restaurants and in every backroom restaurant bathroom there is a box of corn starch so that sweaty chefs can slap it on their downstairs schnozz areas to absorb moisture. And how sometimes, if you walk into one of those bathrooms, you might see some footprints amidst the powdery remnants of such an activity.
I've been thinking about it ever since.
You better not be pulling a Jason on us
Chris is always funny but this is probably the hardest I've ever laughed.
the backwards somersault was the icing on the cake
Starting about 2 minutes in, this entire show was me laughing so hard it hurt.
I was at that show in London, and my mate and I were genuinely confused when this guy suggested "chef's arse"...
Why didnt you stop him Geraldine… you could’ve prevented a murder…
rip
@@JohnDoe-tl4gm sometimes you assume other people know things you don't 😅 i would've just assumed it was a term i hadn't come across before
Chris’ outfit makes him look like he emerged fully formed from the dumpster behind a Soul Train cover band performance
I've seen so many people describe Chris's look in this comment section, but this is the one that got to me.
@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I'm so glad
The addition of the French accent at random times for emphasis killed me
I'd say your biggest mistake was trusting a Jason.
Ordinarily I would defend myself against this comment but I recently looked up the stats for what percentage of Jasons are voting for Trump so yeah just chuck us in the Mariana Trench with cinderblock shoes
i have an ex named jason. can confirm.
My best friend's brother is a Jason and he has been a menace the entirety of his rude existence
the way he's walking so carefully and tenderly around the end is making me LOSE IT!
I was in that London audience with the 'Chefs Arse'
did chris recover....
@@lmnop2963 No, hes preforming from beyond the grave
What was the aftermath?
@@lmnop2963 He did after a while
@trapd00rspider We laughed AFTER
Man, there was no possible way I could have predicted where this was going
From now on, I'm gonna use "personality changing silence" instead of "deadening silence"
He looks like Velma and Shaggy's fruity firstborn son
Yessssssss!
this is the one
This is just the type of submissive show pony during an apocalyptic quarantine content that I am looking for
I'm enamored by the specificity of your comment!
zissoulander 😊😊😊
Just look at that first-day-of-parkour-class backwards roll. he makes it seem so graceful
Having Chris crawl onto your table in a fit of passion during his monologue is probably a blessing
My favorite part is that they’re all leaning into him. It’s so very wholesome. The court jester.
I appreciate that Chris didn't bother to double check what Jason said. That's trust- and Jason betrayed it completely.
the phrase "personality-changing silence" is so powerful, so perfect and magnificent. and chris says it with the same 3-words-per-word casual diction of anything else.
this is a being operating at all times on a level that would incinerate me to merely glimpse.
Am in England, was quietly going 'jock-ee? Jock itch? Is this a word or just a Chris thing?' Sorry for our collective silence. Paid for it with the worst Google image result!
As an Australian I had absolutely no idea what he was saying either 😂
What do you call it in England then?
@@ash-fz3tw We don't have a word for it. It's not a thing here. But men don't wear jock straps during sports and it's not very humid or hot most of the time. Come to the UK: The land free of the jock itch!
@@ella-maymcbride7027 isn't it called thrush in the UK???
@@craftgrrl14 no, they're both yeast infections but thrush is candidiasis and infects the vagina or mouth. Jock itch is tinea cruris and affects the skin of the groin, usually in men. All that they have in common is that they're both caused by yeast (am a biology nerd sorry!).
Those pants really don't leave ANYTHING to the imagination, do they?
Have to be careful with tight pants. They can lead to cases of Chef’s Arse.
thats a good thing
Thank god
ihavecooties and pervy Minotaurs
hey, at least now we know chris has a HUGE slong. i didn't need to know that, but i sure do now~!
As a Londoner when I heard the phrase 'chefs arse' I was just like... O no
You killed me JAISONNE
Ours was called Hah- sonne and sometimes cleaned the pool. (A cousin and pool at our grandparents.)
I would love to have a 700+ autobiography of chris fleming submitting himself to the mortifying ordeal of being a human person
I once overheard a conversation between my older brother and my mom where he was freaking out cause he thought he had an STD and was trying to get her to take a look at his downstairs area to help him figure out if it was serious and she was angrily telling him "NO! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'VE GOT I'M NOT LOOKING" "What if I have something" "TOO BAD"
I feel safe knowing Chris is finally wearing the court-mandated uniform
The zoom-in at 2:38 sent me into a hysterical fit of laughter.
"Downstairs schnoz"
Help 😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭
I feel like this narrative was pulled from real life.
This outfit is serving modern, deranged Brian May realness.
The best part is that it kind of sounds like he's singing it to the tune of a foreign bootleg version of "all that jazz" from Chicago
I think we're sleeping on "downstairs shnozz" here
Oh, Chris...my people really should not have done that to you. I'm signing the 'Chef's Arse' petition immediately.
Please release the full special for quarantine Chris I need my serotonin.
This has happened to every theater school graduate. Its part of the deal
I'm very fluent in English, but it's not my first language. Chris is something unbelievably amazing. Yet there are times I fail to understand what they're saying, but they're still so compelling... And when I finally get it (not all the times)... ... Well, that's why you love Chris Fleming, isn't it?
divinità azteca if it's any consolation i am a native English speaker and i can only get a solid 60% the first time through
same! sometimes the references escape me but i feel the message they convey in my soul nonetheless
@@Singinghomealone what about the gayle series? That's tough when Gayle sort of angrily mumbles, but I still get the clevernees of the series
english is my first language and that happens to me with chris sometimes. like the way he words things is so perfectly boiled down to its meaning that it doesnt always sound like conventional english, so it takes a little time/listening again to catch all the jokes. hes very efficient with time
Every one of Chris' performances are an exercise in second-hand mortification, and I think that's beautiful.
if chef's arse isn't a real thing then i don't think the person i visited was a real doctor.
Personality changing silence .
"personality changing silence" sums up most of my existence.
my favorite part of the comment section is everyone trying to mimic his sense of humor
I'm just here trying to figure out what the British term for jock itch actually is.
@@spugintrntl according to another comment, because men don't wear jocks to play sports, they don't really get it over there. wack.
@@leviathanesque oh. Huh. So it just isn't a thing over there then?
(edit) But a fungal infection of the crotch area can still occur without the use of a jock strap... They've got to call it SOMETHING, right?
@@spugintrntl i got no idea but i really wish i did
this is comedy silve gold and bronze!!!! it literally wins all the prizes.
All day long I've been feeling like something was missing. You know that vague feeling, like you've forgotten something, even though you're positive you haven't? Anyway it turns out it was my need for this exact video at this exact moment, and once I've caught my breath and wiped the laughtertears from my face I will watch it again.
Massive props to Chris for being probably the only American to pronounce "arse" properly lol.
"I performed that in London to a personality changing silence" took me out so hard that my head was left spinning 3 goddamn feet away from me. Truly a religious experience. I'm fucking HOWLING.
Who is this fantastic timetravler from the 70s trying to fit in?
I love how absolutely cruel we are about chris’ outfits in a beautiful mirror to his own malicious style of humour
despite it being the very last sentence in this clip, "I like to do slow stunts" has been cemented in my brain since watching this. I move a heavy box at work and think, "I like to do slow stunts."
why does chris's outfit look like a peach named Tina that moved to Ontario and started weight watchers because her husband cheated on her with his younger and more vivacious secretary while he was at his cousin Gary's wedding that Tina was not invited to due to Tina's grandfather committing arson and burning down Gary's town house on the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
this sounds like it should've been a bit from Showpig and I love it
Are you going to spin that up into a complete short story maybe like 5k words or should I do it?
This is the most Flemingian outfit description I've ever seen.
YOU KILLED ME, JAY-SONNN.
Please release this somewhere to buy!! I need this show to get me out of the quarantine blues
Immediately after this video I got an advert for medication for thrush. Which is what we call a genital fungal infection in the uk
I am laughing way more than I should at "Downstairs Schnaaz"
He is now a skimpy tangerine
We've ALL been Jason.
You literally give me the language I need to carry on. I would die for you Chris.
Thank you for this chris, I emulated your humor in a dissertation and the professor loved it. You keep us sane in these times!
This is like if a string cheese recently got fired from their job and is going through an identity crisis, so they're trying to rebuild a new personality but one night, they saw the movie Chicago playing on TV, and now, they overshare personal details through a cabaret style musical cadence
i adore stand up comedy, this is one of the best bits ive ever seen. i love it. thank you
His comedy is on such a different level of hilarious
I think about this ALL THE TIME because even as an English person you can work out enough of what ‘Jock’s itch’ is to laugh and I just HAVE to speak to that audience that didn’t laugh and ask them WHY
"Do you know what you _did_ to me, Jason?
For some reason "I like doing slow stunts" killed me harder than anything else
It takes more muscle control to pull off than fast stunts, he's just showing off :p
You can see in his eyes that he regrets what Jason did to him to this very day.
fan for a good few years. always a treat! thank you! keep workin hard!
chris is my guilty pleasure comedian like i’ll never tell anyone but i love him
moeisha n hopey sometimes Why not?
Southeast Asian here. Had no idea what "jock itch" (??) meant either but I'd already been laughing since he started singing and so I thought 💁🏾♀️ might as well laugh until the very end.
Absolutely brilliant. Love you Chris, keep up the amazing work!!
i'm living for all this content in these trying times
The term you're looking for is "crotchrot". Hope this helps.
I can't stop watching this. Especially the song part.
okay but what do they call jock itch in the UK im losing my mind over this
I love it. We call it thrush here.
This is one of the best jokes I've ever heard. The delivery gets me every time
When your librarian takes drugs for the first time
You are so finding your look Chris! And it's awesome 💞✌
I'm SCREAMING oh my GOD JASON!!!!!!
seeing as how i'm a fellow jason, i'd like to apologize on that jason's behalf.
you are so loved
this orange bird whom finds a perch among the audience -- he tells some good funny stories!
I love that you are cool w your mom taking a gander at your downstairs schnozz. I’ve been there too.
“...to a personality changing silence.” 😂🤣💀
the pinnacle of artistry.
I’m not sure how much of this is pulled from his own life and I’m kind of scared
Even more hilarious when you remember that his mom is the one who plays Bonnie in Gayle. The image of her with a flashlight at 3am is just comedic gold
my ghost after I'm murdered at camp crystal lake 3:10
Please release the full Orange Jumpsuit Comedy Set, Chris, we're begging you. Its time for another Showpig
He looks like a male acrobatic version of Velma lmao
this is the kind of comedy i wish i could perform, keep it up Chris this is wonderful and hilarious work that you are doing