I am now frightened that since you spoke up about the camera angle then the next video clip will be overhead like they are shooting a Buzzfeed Tasty food video except it’s only the top of Chris’ hair
I was at this show. The day after, I played washboard with my folk band at a pig/veggie roast fundraiser for an assistant governor candidate. It was in a barn. Actual Ben & Jerry were there scooping ice cream. Chris is right, Burlington VT doesn’t exist.
I cannot begin to imagine what it must feel like to go to a Chris Fleming comedy show in THE Burlington, Vermont, and Chris calls you a freddy fazbear laugher to your face
I have a friend who rarely laughs their genuine laugh, and today I took him to this comedy show, and you can hear him laugh genuinely, and he’s hid it for so long, and now it’s forever on RUclips. And I think that’s beautiful.
when i was a kid my dad stopped by a music store in burlington to get us a burl ives cd and the dude at the register was apparently extremely high and he picked up the cd and stared at it and said 'hey........burl in burlington.....' and just held onto it for a year long minute before scanning it
As someone with 80something grandparents who a) are retired nutritionists and b) are now socialists living in Burlington Vermont, I am once again terrified by the camera Chris Fleming clearly has recording me and my life
Why just the continental US? I'd pay money to see Chris Fleming go off on a tangent about the candy cane streetlights in North Pole, Alaska or the phrase "warmer in the hills" tacked onto every weather report in the winter.
BTW Chris there is now also a Vietnamese place that has boba in downtown Burlington. It's called Pho Son. Just mentioning it in case you don't want to brave a walk past Applebee's next time you're in town.
Chris! I loved this show it was such a great time! I was the man with the animatronic laugh that you called out towards the end. I'll be getting my boyfriend a custom 'I had a psychotic episode at zabbys stone soup' shirt for his birthday. You're great! come back soon! Edit: I typed this out before I watched the whole video! I'm famous!
god i'm always so ready to see chris tell me some stuff. i never know what's happening but boy am i having a giggle. a chortle, if you will. a cheeky little laugh. effervescent.
At this point I’m scared of seeing him perform live because I feel like I would just abruptly die because of the raw, eldritch power he exudes at all time.
You could say that you don’t believe that any place in Vermont exists and you’d be valid. Burlington is like an ancient town you see in one of those cursed childrens books from the 1880s. Burlington and honestly most of VT is the rejected Skyrim or legend of Zelda town that they scrapped bc the npcs kept yelling random facts about the bass in the nearby river and throwing granola at you
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO PEOPLE ABOUT VERMONT. I say that I experience a sinking fear when u drive around bc everything looks too much like childrens books that I THOUGHT WERE MADE UP
@@ashawilliams4683 ah yes those ageless elders are the creatures old timey farmers would warn their kids about if they didn’t follow the rules, lest they get splashed with Maple Syrup and rolled into a Lily Pad blunt. Some areas are exactly the type of thing Tim Burton had dissociative nightmares about.
Every town in Vermont looks like a Calico Critters village. I feel like a rabbit in a Peter Pan collar dress is going to walk out from around a corner and offer me scones.
The one thing that I’ve taken away from this is that Chris refers to his legs as “bunnies”, which is one of those wonderful facts that raises more questions than it answers
This is suspiciously timely, as someone who has just begun an existential crisis considering moving up to Burlington to escape the smoky chaos of urban life. I also enjoy water even more than skim milk
I cried because I have just wrapped up my college career in Middlebury, Vermont, frequently take day and weekend trips up to Burly and definately believe that water is just so good.
The sounds at 1:17 made me think I was about to transcend my physical form and slip into a dimension of pure chaos, but that’s also just the feeling I get when I watch most of Chris Fleming’s videos.
I moved from Western Massachusetts to Alabama when I was 18 Chris is the exact kind of humor that can truly explain what living in New England is like so he's always what I send to my friends down here to explain what happened there
This also describes the entirety of Manitoba. Nobody remembers traveling through Manitoba; you sort of just enter a fugue state and regain consciousness in Ontario with a few hundred extra kilometers on your odometer. We call the population of Manitoba "The Ghost People."
I was just thinking he needs to come and make fun of Manitoba/ Winnipeg. I feel like he would bring a new perspective we havent heard already from outsiders.
Zabby & Elf's Stone Soup truly sounds like a spot that the gang in The Hobbit would go to to fuel up before their dragon slaying quest. Burlington is like the backlot of a Peter Jackson film.
As someone who definitely gets way too excited about drinking water, I feel called out 😔 I’m not a health nut I just think it’s very good and refreshing!!
4:04 to be fair, if it was a colored Nalgene bottle, there's no way of knowing there was water in it. Ten years ago me and my friends loaded some Nalgene bottles with Mike's Hard and snuck 'em into a showing of Brave. We made sure the colors matched so it didn't look suspicious.
PLEASE tell me the "I lost my fucking mind at Zabby's" is a real shirt I can buy with real human money, I'll do anything up to and including paying real human money
oh my god, hearing such specific humor about vt is so surreal and amazing. even i forget we exist sometimes so when someone not from vt reaffirms that it does indeed exist im like how the FUCK did you find our pocket dimension?
I worked in Burlington for 5 years and the accuracy of this is bone-chilling. Next time someone asks me why I moved back to the Midwest I'm sending them this.
I was in the front row on the right side! Absolutely loved the show, I’ve followed you for a couple years and it was amazing to see someone who has inspired me so much perform live!!
This just so perfectly encapsulates Northern New England, I know this is specifically Burlington but as Seacoast NHite I related to like 90% of this bit
I went to college in Burlington and Zabby's is right by a sushi place I'd go to every Friday. I always looked in wonder at that whimsical sign but never dared to enter.
I miss vermont. Montpelier is even weirder and more magical because there arent college kids and theres a socialist chocolate shop. I fucking miss it so much
I can’t think of another comedian who will just go probably with a whole set to a place and instead just do what seems like an entire show about the place he’s at. Also, as someone who grew up in western Massachusetts, I’m pretty familiar with Vermontness, And he basically nailed it
On the one hand, this makes me want to go to Burlington, Vermont SO MUCH. On the other, as someone who has spent most of my life living in Florida & Puerto Rico, I feel like I would upset the balance to a point that the city would collapse in on itself. And I can't let that happen... The poor fish man who runs Zabby's didn't even get his trout yet.
i stayed in burlington for two weeks for a film class. these two people wore their costumes for the film on and off set for an entire week. one was like, in a huge ass cowboy poncho in the middle of summer
As someone who once visited Asheville, the only memory I have of it is that it’s entirely trees. No people. Only trees. And possibly a lone barbecue place.
I just looked at Zabby's website and their 2 Homemade Iced Tea flavors are "Duality" and "Curiosity". It's like the pill scene in the Matrix but both offer different levels of transcendence.
to my fellow burlington residents, is stone soup actually good? i've lived here five years and never gone in but i am a big fan of soup. also was at this show and it was FANTASTIC
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This is the worst angle I’ve ever seen a stand up routine be recorded at but since it’s chris I’m frightened it might be intentional
Chris is like of those ancient Eldritch beings from an H.P Lovecraft story. You can’t look at him directly or else you’ll be driven to madness
I am now frightened that since you spoke up about the camera angle then the next video clip will be overhead like they are shooting a Buzzfeed Tasty food video except it’s only the top of Chris’ hair
@@Asummersdaydreamer14 You may be frightened, but this prospect excites me.
@@YourWaywardDestiny Next it will just be footage of a maltipoo with audio from the show dubbed over it.
The comments above. I can't. LOL
I was at this show. The day after, I played washboard with my folk band at a pig/veggie roast fundraiser for an assistant governor candidate. It was in a barn. Actual Ben & Jerry were there scooping ice cream. Chris is right, Burlington VT doesn’t exist.
the *actual* ben and jerry?
@@drphiI In the actual factual flesh
I feel like if you play washboard in a folk band for long enough you should kind of start to expect things like that though
I really respect Chris’ decision to shoot this bit at an angle that fully encapsulates his “Banana Republic summer clothes line mannequin” physique
this made me choke 😭
he just doesn't miss
so true hi ro
yesss ros here
As always, your taste is impeccable. Your taste in media - I cannot personally attest to what flavour you are.
I cannot begin to imagine what it must feel like to go to a Chris Fleming comedy show in THE Burlington, Vermont, and Chris calls you a freddy fazbear laugher to your face
Apparently that was Kat Gemini who is in the comments here
I have a friend who rarely laughs their genuine laugh, and today I took him to this comedy show, and you can hear him laugh genuinely, and he’s hid it for so long, and now it’s forever on RUclips. And I think that’s beautiful.
was your friend the freddy fazbear
@@hallow-oda no it was me
@@orionsubliminals2881 i regret to inform you that you are freddy fazbear
@@hallow-oda NOOOO
when i was a kid my dad stopped by a music store in burlington to get us a burl ives cd and the dude at the register was apparently extremely high and he picked up the cd and stared at it and said 'hey........burl in burlington.....' and just held onto it for a year long minute before scanning it
I appreciate every detail of this.
“A year long minute” perfect description, we’ve all been trapped in one of those.
As someone with 80something grandparents who a) are retired nutritionists and b) are now socialists living in Burlington Vermont, I am once again terrified by the camera Chris Fleming clearly has recording me and my life
Looking at this comment a second time, it really does look like I’m describing the number of grandparents, and I’m not fixing that
@@spinycreature did you inherit your spines from your approximately 80 grandparents?
If you have to have 80-some grandparents, they sound like an ideal crowd.
As a Burlington resident the fear I felt upon seeing the title of this video was indescribable
I love Chris Fleming teaching me about cities I've never been to :) he should do this for every city in the continental U.S.
Why just the continental US? I'd pay money to see Chris Fleming go off on a tangent about the candy cane streetlights in North Pole, Alaska or the phrase "warmer in the hills" tacked onto every weather report in the winter.
Albany.
Yes please, do more cities!!
AWWW, we need a Chris Fleming Roadtrip Across the World !!
& it needs to be filmed / streamed live, with commentary.
We need "Chris Fleming Goes to Ohio."
i would wear the "i had a psychotic episode at zabby's" shirt lmao
BTW Chris there is now also a Vietnamese place that has boba in downtown Burlington. It's called Pho Son. Just mentioning it in case you don't want to brave a walk past Applebee's next time you're in town.
Chris! I loved this show it was such a great time! I was the man with the animatronic laugh that you called out towards the end.
I'll be getting my boyfriend a custom 'I had a psychotic episode at zabbys stone soup' shirt for his birthday.
You're great! come back soon!
Edit: I typed this out before I watched the whole video! I'm famous!
I started watching this video while procrastinating my application to a college in Burlington, Vermont. This feels like divine intervention
Nothing makes my heart swell like a tick more than seeing Chris performing
Keeping "my heart swells like a tick" on speed dial in my romantic smooth talking repertoire
seconding the above comment. thank you jessica
Jail. Directly to jail.
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Disgusting.
Wonderful news to hear that my deafening gasp-laugh has been immortalized in this video tape.
I hope Chris starts a Rick Steves-like travel show just so I can hear him talk about lots of places like this
This is genuinely so surreal because I've love Chris Flemming forever but like... butlington is my hometown??? Like I grew up going to stone soup???
Finally someone who said the restaurant name right 🤣 no locals call it Zabby's, it's stone soup
god i'm always so ready to see chris tell me some stuff. i never know what's happening but boy am i having a giggle. a chortle, if you will. a cheeky little laugh. effervescent.
good good
At this point I’m scared of seeing him perform live because I feel like I would just abruptly die because of the raw, eldritch power he exudes at all time.
You could say that you don’t believe that any place in Vermont exists and you’d be valid.
Burlington is like an ancient town you see in one of those cursed childrens books from the 1880s.
Burlington and honestly most of VT is the rejected Skyrim or legend of Zelda town that they scrapped bc the npcs kept yelling random facts about the bass in the nearby river and throwing granola at you
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO PEOPLE ABOUT VERMONT. I say that I experience a sinking fear when u drive around bc everything looks too much like childrens books that I THOUGHT WERE MADE UP
@@ashawilliams4683 ah yes those ageless elders are the creatures old timey farmers would warn their kids about if they didn’t follow the rules, lest they get splashed with Maple Syrup and rolled into a Lily Pad blunt. Some areas are exactly the type of thing Tim Burton had dissociative nightmares about.
living in Vermont is checking Front Porch Forum hourly to track the process of the most recent town bear
Every town in Vermont looks like a Calico Critters village. I feel like a rabbit in a Peter Pan collar dress is going to walk out from around a corner and offer me scones.
@@artsygremlin9755 north east kingdom
The one thing that I’ve taken away from this is that Chris refers to his legs as “bunnies”, which is one of those wonderful facts that raises more questions than it answers
Bunny hops? I assumed. Or he calls his legs bunnies because tbh he is Chris.
Which is doubly funny since his legs are lethal weapons
There are many nicknames for Chris's legs
If feet get to be dogs then why not legs bunnies
It assumed it was glutes, like his buns helped him jump, his bunnies
i don’t care that you saw chris fleming live and in person, it should’ve been me who saw chris fleming live and in person instead
This is the most hysterical and shockingly accurate take on Burlington I've ever seen, I love it so much
This is suspiciously timely, as someone who has just begun an existential crisis considering moving up to Burlington to escape the smoky chaos of urban life. I also enjoy water even more than skim milk
Come on, what maniac doesn’t!?
skim milk is just ashy water
skim milk is not a very high bar
@@gold22silver Yes. It’s just white water.
I cried because I have just wrapped up my college career in Middlebury, Vermont, frequently take day and weekend trips up to Burly and definately believe that water is just so good.
I love watching bits from his standup because im always surprised by the angles he chooses to film himself in
Didn't realise Burlington and Vancouver BC were cultural twins but here we are
The sounds at 1:17 made me think I was about to transcend my physical form and slip into a dimension of pure chaos, but that’s also just the feeling I get when I watch most of Chris Fleming’s videos.
I feel like a rat that's hiding in the walls and observing like in Ratattootie
I moved from Western Massachusetts to Alabama when I was 18 Chris is the exact kind of humor that can truly explain what living in New England is like so he's always what I send to my friends down here to explain what happened there
"Ancient vinegar lesbian" representation? Never have I felt so seen. Bless this showpony.
This also describes the entirety of Manitoba. Nobody remembers traveling through Manitoba; you sort of just enter a fugue state and regain consciousness in Ontario with a few hundred extra kilometers on your odometer.
We call the population of Manitoba "The Ghost People."
I was just thinking he needs to come and make fun of Manitoba/ Winnipeg. I feel like he would bring a new perspective we havent heard already from outsiders.
thrilled to live in the province of consciousness
Wow... now I really want to visit Manitoba!
The commitment to getting the local pop is REAL with this one.
“I’ll stop talking about Burlington in a second” *continues talking about Burlington for half of his set*
Zabby & Elf's Stone Soup truly sounds like a spot that the gang in The Hobbit would go to to fuel up before their dragon slaying quest. Burlington is like the backlot of a Peter Jackson film.
As someone who definitely gets way too excited about drinking water, I feel called out 😔 I’m not a health nut I just think it’s very good and refreshing!!
4:04 to be fair, if it was a colored Nalgene bottle, there's no way of knowing there was water in it. Ten years ago me and my friends loaded some Nalgene bottles with Mike's Hard and snuck 'em into a showing of Brave. We made sure the colors matched so it didn't look suspicious.
PLEASE tell me the "I lost my fucking mind at Zabby's" is a real shirt I can buy with real human money, I'll do anything up to and including paying real human money
All proceeds will of course support skunk fostering in the greater Burlington area.
I’ve never been to Burlington, Vermont, yet, in my bones, I know Chris’ description is completely accurate.
7:29 It was maybe too presumptive of me to assume Bernie Sanders “fostering skunk” was referring to his secret stash of home-grown marijuana.
oh my god, hearing such specific humor about vt is so surreal and amazing. even i forget we exist sometimes so when someone not from vt reaffirms that it does indeed exist im like how the FUCK did you find our pocket dimension?
When you're on a Chris Fleming binge and he posts a new video 😍
The dream!
crying. omg. brilliant. i have never been to burlington, but just substituted old Ann Arbor so I got it.
I'm from Ann Arbor and halfway through the video I started thinking Burlington sounds like a place I'd love
I worked in Burlington for 5 years and the accuracy of this is bone-chilling. Next time someone asks me why I moved back to the Midwest I'm sending them this.
now i just want chris to thoroughly and specifically roast my town
"Ben and Jerry get Prima Nocta rights" is the right amount of absurdly ominous.
I just looked up what prima not a means 😳
I sent this video to a friend who's from Vermont, and they immediately replied, "Zabby's Stone Soup is DELICIOUS food thank you very much."
I was in the front row on the right side! Absolutely loved the show, I’ve followed you for a couple years and it was amazing to see someone who has inspired me so much perform live!!
Yep, that checks out, the right side _is_ where the audience is!
I take no pride in admitting this, but he got us
This just so perfectly encapsulates Northern New England, I know this is specifically Burlington but as Seacoast NHite I related to like 90% of this bit
Now I too am convinced Burlington only appears once every hundred years and that we all must loose our fucking mind at Zabby's.
I went to college in Burlington and Zabby's is right by a sushi place I'd go to every Friday. I always looked in wonder at that whimsical sign but never dared to enter.
Babe wake up, Chris Fleming uploaded
I miss vermont. Montpelier is even weirder and more magical because there arent college kids and theres a socialist chocolate shop. I fucking miss it so much
I gotta get to Burlington! Hope I can find it someday
as someone who just left Burlington after four years there, missing this show, I am very happy :)
I live in the woods outside of Burlington and I agree that it is a truly timeless, frightening place. Thanks for mentioning us Chris lol
I was absolutely blessed to be in the audience for this, and I will have you know that I am still and always will be cry-laughing about Zabby's
The Bernie Sanders impression absolutely killed me
I can’t think of another comedian who will just go probably with a whole set to a place and instead just do what seems like an entire show about the place he’s at. Also, as someone who grew up in western Massachusetts, I’m pretty familiar with Vermontness, And he basically nailed it
Chris is the greatest herman being ever.
On the one hand, this makes me want to go to Burlington, Vermont SO MUCH. On the other, as someone who has spent most of my life living in Florida & Puerto Rico, I feel like I would upset the balance to a point that the city would collapse in on itself. And I can't let that happen... The poor fish man who runs Zabby's didn't even get his trout yet.
Your cadence inspires a primal fear in my heart.
Good set
yeah i'm pretty sure zabby was a zora stuck in the walls of the water temple during ocarina of time? glad he got out though!!
I'M ONE OF THE FIRST ONES HERE, AND I LITERALLY JUST HAD A HUGE GLASS OF WATER WITH 3 TBSP OF ACV 😂😂😂😋🖤!
you know it's going to be hilarious when chris mentions any northern state
I need you Chris to come to my home town of New Orleans. Spend a week there and then do a rip like this. PLEASE! We need you
I'm just hoping this comment will nudge you in the direction of a long format video dedicated to the Bernie Sanders impression
You know a bit has gone on for slightly too long when Bernie's on the floor convincing his wife to let him nurse a dying skunk.
As a VT resident myself, spot on. i would buy a "i lost my fucking mind at Zabby's" shirt tho
The way he holds the microphone with a single velociraptor claw is powerful
i stayed in burlington for two weeks for a film class. these two people wore their costumes for the film on and off set for an entire week. one was like, in a huge ass cowboy poncho in the middle of summer
The vague sense of unease the crotch heigh camera angled out into a shadow veiled crowd invokes is truly something
Well that sounds like a solid advertisement, and now I want to move there.
The cut to Chris laying on the floor talking about Bernie Sanders foster skunk got me
Always a blast to see a new video up :)
Hi Chris, my dog died today so I’m watching all your content because it makes me feel better. Thank you
we need the boulder, colorado sequel
honestly that art walk line is unironically how i feel right now
as a foreigner to the US Chris has taught me more about american geography and culture than anything else
Most of this also applies to Asheville North Carolina, except with more hillbillies who come into town once a month
As an Asheville native I was already thinking this but didn't dare voice it
It also applies surprisingly well to Ithaca NY.
I do love Asheville though, I wanna live there one day (well, if I'm forced to remain in NC due to lack of moving money lol)
As someone who once visited Asheville, the only memory I have of it is that it’s entirely trees. No people. Only trees. And possibly a lone barbecue place.
@@thetiniestleaf really? The area I went had a lot of buildings and restaurants and stuff. There was a nice crepe shop even
I wish Burly was as cool as this bit made it seem
“my kia pianissimo”
this dude is the same species as brian david gilbert
I just looked at Zabby's website and their 2 Homemade Iced Tea flavors are "Duality" and "Curiosity". It's like the pill scene in the Matrix but both offer different levels of transcendence.
THANK YOU FOR THE SUBTITLES
As a European the more Chris Fleming content I watch the more sure I become that the USA is in fact not real
Next time you're in Burlington check out City Market. If Healthy Living gave you content for your act, City Market would be an absolute goldmine.
An old friend of mine moved to Burlington Vermont and honestly I never heard from her again. She deleted her Facebook and that was it.
shoutout to the vermont tourism board ad that I got partway through. your seo is working, vermont tourism board
I've always liked Burlington!
I would absolutely buy a “I lost my fucking mind at Zabby’s stone soup” shirt
This brightened my day
to my fellow burlington residents, is stone soup actually good? i've lived here five years and never gone in but i am a big fan of soup. also was at this show and it was FANTASTIC
the ambulance bit is so so good
watching because I’m going to Burlington VT and want to be prepared
Goddammit, my smiling+laugh muscles are so out of condition that I had to pause multiple times just so I wouldn't end up with cramps lol
The microphone echo is a paid actor
To be fair, with how hot it's been, water does just hit like that sometimes
this... kind of makes me want to live in burlington sfadghjkfj
I am both terrified and in awe of the idea of "ancient Socialists." New life goals.