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@@davidgjam7600 Usually, Simmons was so committed to the bit of being a marine mammal that they didn't need to place barriers or lock him in. There were a few occasions where passion would overtake him, and he'd leap out of his pool and roll around on people. They always managed to get him back with the promise of a bucket full of mackerel.
as a mentally ill person who, by most standards, is neither hot nor bi, chris's commentary on Weirdness and its perception today is always excellent. i've been quoting his "harry styles is a beautiful jock" bit to people who don't get what i mean when i say you're only allowed to be strange if you're hot
For sure. Additionally, only certain illnesses still seem to be acceptable to an extent. Anxiety and depression are almost vanilla (which isn't to invalidate anyone, only criticizing society) disorders, while disorders such as narcissism, schizophrenia, bipolar, and borderline disorders among others are too weird or difficult to understand or deal with.
@@oWoUwUoWoUwU exactly- and even the "vanilla" disorders are only normalized in a way that allows them to then be commercialized for money. it's easy to sell self-care in a very shallow sense- it's harder to actually fix the social conditions and inequities that genuinely make people's mental health worse
@@oWoUwUoWoUwUThe disorders you listed are the ones which are only okay in fiction - solely the purview of creatives or geniuses who will never form meaningful relationships but are tolerated solely for their intellectual or creative capacity. 😬
"Indoor beach children" as a term for all the new young mannequin-like celebrities is so evocative and visceral I feel like I understood Chris here more than I understood myself.
Chris is really such a master of manipulating a crowd's energy and getting them to vibe with him. Also idk where this is but he looks like he just crawled up from a hidden studio apartment under the stage
As a hot bisexual who once owned a bass guitar I did not play a single time in the four (4) years it was in my possession, I feel both seen and attacked. Much like Yeti
Chris has such a way with describing things/people, I feel like it could be made into a generator online but it would simply be imperfect so long as his brain wasn’t uploaded to it in some terrible sci-fi monstrosity
"Jonathan Van Ness but give him rabies and a perm" is the perfect description of Richard Simmons. Only Chris can come up with something so absurd but so fitting
what I love about Chris' stuff is how there is absolutely no way of predicting what he is going to say next the only thing you can be assured of is that it will be a combination of words that no other human tongue has ever assembled in that order before
I always knew Chris’s voice had the raw potential to reach deep down into the kind of growling territory where you sound like you’re Tom Waits half-drowning in a hot-tub loaded up with fireball whiskey and every bathbomb ever rejected by Q.A. for being a menace to public health. Just absolutely red in the face, soap-in-the-eyes delirious, barking lyrics from Hell Broke Luce as bubbles go up his nose, throat muscles doing things no lozenge could ever hope to mend. What I did not see coming is Chris leaning in haaaaard to this potential. This is an absolutely feral creature.
I learned Chris was a true feral delight during the "Black Ice" video. Gayle Waters-Waters slipping feverishly against a snowbank, whilst punching a large glass bottle into pieces, shrieking "I got your grape juice YOU PANSY"
@@swiftlymurmurs seeing him favourite some excellent comments in that same vein gave me the confidence to stop worrying about being dismissed as a copycat and just letting my freak flag fly. my brain was already Like This before i found Chris’s videos. watching him soar like the most flightful of all the flightless birds has been immensely affirming
Honestly this feels like the standup turns into a rallying counterculture war cry until the bit about Richard Simmons at which point it goes back to standup. I dig it.
i have to confess this somewhere so at one of chris' shows i sat next to this obviously queer couple and asked if they were roommates and i will never live that down ever in my life..... no one at a chris fleming show has ever been straight
Your story reminded me, During my 2nd time attending a Chris show in NYC, this one presumably straight 18-22 year old guy in sweatpants in the audience was leaving in the middle of the show while on his phone, and Chris literally jumped off stage and chased him down demanding to know why he was leaving his girlfirend behind HAHAHAHHA. well, the guy was faster and had a headstart so he literally sprinted out the doors. After he got out, Chris just kept roasting him saying he probably only came here bc his gf wanted to go and was rolling his eyes at the jokes bc he was too normal for all of them LOL. Or at least thats how i remember it happening😭😭😭😭. I think that was around 2021
this is extremely funny yet all i can think about is that you are horrifically right about the "progress" in mental health awareness. somehow the funny relatable depression/anxiety talks stop dead silent when my schizophrenic ass tries to join in
Thank you for talking about mental illness that is not hot and bi. Mine is mostly thinking about fully locking my car doors and driving into the nearest estuary because I didn't make my bed before I left for work.
Shout out to people who told acquaintances about their mental and physical illness and got a bunch of silent nods and stretched lips. Know that there's a bunch of us who'd actually engage in that convo
Love this comment. You weren’t in the wrong for talking about your reality, they were just the wrong people. There are people who will enthusiastically message you back about your intrusive thoughts at 4am - I’m one of them.
Yes!! I appreciate this comment and I am indeed one of those people that will happily talk about the weirdest most “ugly” moments of mental illness and share stories of my own and listen to the stories of others ❤️🩹
I feel this. I'm bi, but my physical and mental illness manifests in a very unglamorous, unsexy way that's hard to talk about in a way I feel comfortable doing so with strangers.
“Gene wilder? God rest his soul, GENE WILDER IN 4K? It would be like the first movie theater audience thinking the train was coming *SCREAM OF TERROR*” I CANNOT BREATHE IM ON THE FLOOR
@@flowersafeheartwhen the first movie (as in one of the first) was shown there was a point where a train came barrelling towards the camera and the folks watching thought that a train was about to crash through the tarp and crush them since this technology was so new. Chris is saying that our reaction to seeing Gene Wilder in 4K would be similar panic and confusion
@@mossfrog9720 That story is actually completely made up. It started as just exaggeration about the technology (while making fun of working class/black people) and then turned into the story we know now
@@cuckoobrain7999 now you're making stuff up. the first projection of the movie (about which the legend is) was a private projection. it was simply an exaggerated ad
apparently "mah-cah-bruh" is the british pronunciation and "mah-cahb" is the american one? but with the internet i guess it would make sense that that would blend across cultures
@@LSSTmusic thank you for this cuz I still needed a bit more reassurance that I wasn’t crazy. It’s not like Chris is a trustworthy authority on the correct pronunciation of words. 🤔 I guess I did watch a lot of British tv when I was little.
My mom has always been a big fan of Richard Simmons. I grew up in a very Simmons normative household. I never actually saw the video but one of his DVDs (I think dance your pants off) was floating around in my childhood home for years, I grew up watching fish-hooks and I knew what dolphin shorts were before I knew how to ride a bike. So it's a kind of revelation to realize that many if not most people of my generation need context for Richard Simmons
Having been required to do aerobics in junior high, including "Dance Your Pants off with Richard Simmons," I can confirm the accuracy of Chris's description of Simmons.
Chris, I gotta Richard Simmons story for ya. Ten years ago, I was coerced into singing the first couple of bars of All that Jazz WITH Richard in the middle of a beauty boutique where I worked at the time. It was filmed by an almost mute companion of his and apparently made the rounds on Twitter. I have never been the same since. Also, you're brilliant, I look forward to seeing you again live, and can confirm that my anxiety and depression does make me feel more at home in a leather skirt.
The leather skirt (trousers in my case) was too much. It hit too close to home. But the "implied bass". My gods, I reared back from my computer screen in horror at being read to filth. Jesus Christ, how does he do it?🤣How does he KNOW???
I like Chris talking about Chalamet as Wonka because someone mentioned Chris would be the correct kind of unhinged to be a young Wonka, but I think my guy has a point there about society needing the indoor beach kids
After being put on a Performance Improvement Plan at work today for being bad at deadlines at work this year due to ADHD, Autism and Anxiety all rolling around inside me as I battled an abusive relationship, homelessness, and not being paid enough to buy proper furniture for my unfurnished rental apartment this year, I was feeling deeply down. And yet here's Chris, as always, able to make me smile and laugh out loud in no time. So grateful for your constant presence in my life, would love to meet U one day!!! 💗💗💗
I hate that your workplace is treating you this way rather than offering grace, basic empathy, and accommodations. I have AuDHD too and am currently unemployed but can remember and relate to the hellscape that is working. I’m sending you endless solidarity and I’m so glad we both have Chris’s content to turn to for a good laugh and to feel less alone! You deserve compassion and patience!! Even when you’re not receiving that you still deserve it 💓
I'm so sorry you are going through this. In September, I nearly got evicted because I work a shit job and went to the psych ward on account of depression. My couch is a yoga mat on the floor. It is not your fault and you are doing the best you can.
I’m so sorry, friend. I feel this. I just today got expelled from my PhD program for being behind in classes because I had to miss a quarter due to a mental health crisis. I hope things start looking up for you soon
I just heard he died the other day and thought of this skit that I saw months ago. I had no idea who he was before I saw this. Such a funny story. Sounds like one of a kind.
i am fundamentally an insane person who is fighting for their life trying to pretend to be hot and bi. the last time i had weed i thought my friends were trying to kill me and hallucinated the person comforting me changing race over and over. my ocd sometimes gives me delusions that i'm dead and i logic out of it by thinking "if i'm dead why am i still horny". and i do it all in a cute little gay outfit.
Crying n shittin myself and pointing at the screen going “I was there,,,” I hope one of the unhinged cackles is me. That would make up for how I brought a hole ass bag of boba gifts to the show and then got too afraid to deliver them. Should have done a Simmons @ the green room steps.
You are one of the few comedians that have remained funny to me throughout most of my life. Everyone else has either proved problematic or not really that funny. My laughter for Chris Fleming will never die atp I’m stuck laughing at this feral nonsense and I wouldn’t have it any other way
This is how I feel about girls who romanticize IBS. I eat an apple and get flu-like symptoms for the rest of the day. Sweating on the toilet, feeling like my stomach is going to explode. It's not "oh my tummy hurts but I'm being so brave about it."
I always just assumed that those people posting those things and saying those things really do have ibs but are finding ways to make memes and jokes. I’m saying this because I too have ibs and flu like symptoms if I eat one thing that just last week was perfectly fine to eat but now today my body is bursting into flames over a single garbanzo bean lol, but I find those memes funny. I’m autistic though and don’t pick up on nuances so you could be totally right!! This just really surprised me, I didn’t realize that’s what was happening culturally. I thought it was finally okay to talk about IBS realistically!! 😭 lol
@@victoriap1649 that's fair, I'm autistic too so I could be the one taking it too literally 😅 my gastroenterologist is actually an expert on the link between autism and gastroenterological issues; apparently there's a high correlation between the two
I love Chris’ work because it’s so representative of actual weird people and not just Instagramable weird. The kind of weird that’s too weird even for weird people. The kind of weird that has to block people with “Only weirdos and freaks here ✌️” in their bio because they were sending them death threats for being harmlessly weird
One time in Seattle I ran into Chris as he was leaving his show. I had a cup that had my friend's name on it: Henry. He said "is your name henry?" I said yes. My name is Maya. But that moment was glorious
Ok but Richard Simmons' appearances on Who's Line Is It Anyway? are some of the must side-splittingly hilarious things ever. Literally died laughing. I am writing from beyond the grave.
I truly love you! I am very gay, and super mentally ill. Nobody wants to know about me opening and closing the fridge door like 60 times every evening before I can sleep lmaoooo
I've been fighting my whole life with people who assume I'm bisexual, where I'm as opposite to bisexual as you can get. I have been enlightened here that it is the black leather skirt and implied bass in the background that's doing me in. Now, we all know the skirt isn't going anywhere, we all know that is something any reasonable human cannot go without once introduced, so I'm going to have overtly display one of the more obscure, considerably fucked up instruments I cannot play to get people out of that mind loop. I'm going to have to find a vintage oboe and pose with the reeds and/or mouth piece at every opportunity to beat these allegations. The people might think I'm gender fluid at that point, but it'll get them to stop thinking bisexual first, so I'll take it for a couple years.
@@laurenhatter6824 Considering bisexual deals with sexual attraction and not romantic attraction, asexuals would be the opposite. Where with bisexuals, most everyone has a _theoretical_ chance of getting into the bone zone (personal results may vary) with asexuals, mostly nobody has a _theoretical_ chance to get into the bone zone (personal results may vary).
The "Who's Line Is It Anyway" episode with Richard Simmons is one of the only times I've genuinely cried with laughter, gasping for air, hurting with sheer joy.❤❤❤
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HI HI HI here are my tour dates
Feb 20 Vancouver
Feb 22 SF
Feb 23 LA
Feb 24 Boulder, CO
March 14 NYC
March 15 DC
April 4 Boston
Tickets at chrisflemingfleming.com/
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Chicago misses you! Hope to see ya next time!
Melbourne misses you too x
@@drdevonprice omg it's you! what a lovely surprise
So badddly wish you'd make it closer to Ohio or Pittsburgh
Chris looks like an exceptionally large root of ginger in this outfit
A welcome evolution from the carrot jumpsuit of his past special
I was gonna say ginseng
a root of some kind
It's his Thanksgiving browns
🤣
I am obsessed with the unnatural camera angle taken from backstage that looks like the shot in every horror movie where a character is being stalked
The camera snapshot noise at the end also adds to it
Watch The Curse. Like 90% of that show is filmed that way.
Chris is out here looking like an anthropomorphic family pet
His sweater really is giving "purse dog fit", isn't it
That explains the story.
Same
If scooby doo had enough of the mystery gang and decided to become a comedian
YES AHGSHWSJ
My dad had Richard Simmons jump into his arms once during a performance at sea world . This is our legacy.
REALLY?? HHAHAHAHA , i could imagine that viscerally thank you
I can't believe they let him out of the tank
@@davidgjam7600
Usually, Simmons was so committed to the bit of being a marine mammal that they didn't need to place barriers or lock him in.
There were a few occasions where passion would overtake him, and he'd leap out of his pool and roll around on people.
They always managed to get him back with the promise of a bucket full of mackerel.
He must have been awful slippery. Kudos to dad and his iron grip.
Fuck. I'm so jealous of your whole family
"Indoor Beach Children" is a fantastic name for a band that exclusively talks about mental health only so it makes them look hot and bi.
😂😂😂😂😂
That's essentially Vampire Weekend LOL
@@AvitalShtapgrowing up vampire weekend were like my hipster uncles from new england
literally my first thought lmfaooo
as a mentally ill person who, by most standards, is neither hot nor bi, chris's commentary on Weirdness and its perception today is always excellent. i've been quoting his "harry styles is a beautiful jock" bit to people who don't get what i mean when i say you're only allowed to be strange if you're hot
For sure. Additionally, only certain illnesses still seem to be acceptable to an extent. Anxiety and depression are almost vanilla (which isn't to invalidate anyone, only criticizing society) disorders, while disorders such as narcissism, schizophrenia, bipolar, and borderline disorders among others are too weird or difficult to understand or deal with.
Thank you. I wholeheartedly relate.
why oh why do the hottest people never have Imposter Syndrome?
@@oWoUwUoWoUwU exactly- and even the "vanilla" disorders are only normalized in a way that allows them to then be commercialized for money. it's easy to sell self-care in a very shallow sense- it's harder to actually fix the social conditions and inequities that genuinely make people's mental
health worse
@@oWoUwUoWoUwUThe disorders you listed are the ones which are only okay in fiction - solely the purview of creatives or geniuses who will never form meaningful relationships but are tolerated solely for their intellectual or creative capacity. 😬
i feel like chris’s physical comedy has gotten even more baroque over the years somehow
rococo, even
Baroque is such a fantastic way of describing his physical comedy
you know what they say. if it aint baroque
@@nyarg33THEN ITS WHAT?
@@omohosp don't fix it! (baroque=broke lol)
"Indoor beach children" as a term for all the new young mannequin-like celebrities is so evocative and visceral I feel like I understood Chris here more than I understood myself.
I KNOW RIGHT. All these stone-faced, square-jawed, statuesque celebrities are often uncanny. Timothée Chalamet is a good example.
Anya Taylor Joy
@@cv5953Don’t you bring her into this
I've never heard of the term Indoor Beach Children but society needs it. "Harvested in the backroom of a Sephora" feels so accurate
Chris is really such a master of manipulating a crowd's energy and getting them to vibe with him. Also idk where this is but he looks like he just crawled up from a hidden studio apartment under the stage
it was at the largo in la!
That is the job of a comedian whether it's obvious or flowing
the last half of the comment made me picture chris as like a really chill phantom of the opera
As a hot bisexual who once owned a bass guitar I did not play a single time in the four (4) years it was in my possession, I feel both seen and attacked. Much like Yeti
Hot bi solidarity 🫶🏽
Same energy but with a skateboard 😔
Same and with a guitar for almost 10 years 😂 it's still in the closet but I'm not
chris is so good at describing specific strains of human
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Chris has such a way with describing things/people, I feel like it could be made into a generator online but it would simply be imperfect so long as his brain wasn’t uploaded to it in some terrible sci-fi monstrosity
We must never allow AI to try to imitate Chris' humor. As if it could. Chris is a five-, nay, six-sensory experience
"Jonathan Van Ness but give him rabies and a perm" is the perfect description of Richard Simmons. Only Chris can come up with something so absurd but so fitting
*a fucked up little perm
chris said "them" not "him". inaccurate quote!
"indoor beach children" is a fantastic expression
I didn't get it but still laughed out loud.
what I love about Chris' stuff is how there is absolutely no way of predicting what he is going to say next
the only thing you can be assured of is that it will be a combination of words that no other human tongue has ever assembled in that order before
I always knew Chris’s voice had the raw potential to reach deep down into the kind of growling territory where you sound like you’re Tom Waits half-drowning in a hot-tub loaded up with fireball whiskey and every bathbomb ever rejected by Q.A. for being a menace to public health. Just absolutely red in the face, soap-in-the-eyes delirious, barking lyrics from Hell Broke Luce as bubbles go up his nose, throat muscles doing things no lozenge could ever hope to mend. What I did not see coming is Chris leaning in haaaaard to this potential. This is an absolutely feral creature.
👏 👏👏👏
I learned Chris was a true feral delight during the "Black Ice" video. Gayle Waters-Waters slipping feverishly against a snowbank, whilst punching a large glass bottle into pieces, shrieking "I got your grape juice YOU PANSY"
I like how Chris' standup videos really encourage people to comment in the same unhinged hyperspecific cultural reference vomit cadence as him
@@swiftlymurmurs seeing him favourite some excellent comments in that same vein gave me the confidence to stop worrying about being dismissed as a copycat and just letting my freak flag fly. my brain was already Like This before i found Chris’s videos. watching him soar like the most flightful of all the flightless birds has been immensely affirming
born too late to explore the earth, too early to explore the cosmos, but just in time to listen to chris fleming's stories
Iconic tbh
I feel privileged to have not only been alive in time for Chris AND to have witnessed Richard Simmons.
Honestly this feels like the standup turns into a rallying counterculture war cry until the bit about Richard Simmons at which point it goes back to standup. I dig it.
i have to confess this somewhere so at one of chris' shows i sat next to this obviously queer couple and asked if they were roommates and i will never live that down ever in my life..... no one at a chris fleming show has ever been straight
oh my god they were roommates
It's ok, you learned
Your story reminded me, During my 2nd time attending a Chris show in NYC, this one presumably straight 18-22 year old guy in sweatpants in the audience was leaving in the middle of the show while on his phone, and Chris literally jumped off stage and chased him down demanding to know why he was leaving his girlfirend behind HAHAHAHHA. well, the guy was faster and had a headstart so he literally sprinted out the doors. After he got out, Chris just kept roasting him saying he probably only came here bc his gf wanted to go and was rolling his eyes at the jokes bc he was too normal for all of them LOL. Or at least thats how i remember it happening😭😭😭😭. I think that was around 2021
@@honeycomb937 i cant explain how but i could tell we were all thinking exactly this literally the moment the question left my mouth
@@bighoodie4315 thank you it was truly so humiliating i immediately knew i had made a terrible mistake
you have your finger on the rushing pulse of culture itself
"There's always an implied bass" is SENDING ME
You’re telling me this guy is the voice of CESARE from BIGTOP BURGOR?!?! Oml
Chris feels like a science experiment that was NOT supposed to work, but for some reason it did.
Your monkey typewriter post speaks to me specifically.
One of god's own prototypes...
The real mental illness stories are ugly and gross, and sometimes hilarious. But usually embarassing. Thank you Chris for a dose of reality.
Like that time I tried to eat a chair because I was really stressed out
@@jamsistired fucking hot
not me intentionally shitting myself in a bloomingdales bc I was too scared of the rattlesnake man
I love the shots from the wings, it makes this even more unsettling
Shortly before Chris assassinates you with his strap
this is extremely funny yet all i can think about is that you are horrifically right about the "progress" in mental health awareness. somehow the funny relatable depression/anxiety talks stop dead silent when my schizophrenic ass tries to join in
Thank you for talking about mental illness that is not hot and bi. Mine is mostly thinking about fully locking my car doors and driving into the nearest estuary because I didn't make my bed before I left for work.
Certified OCD moment
i feel you on a spiritual level
Shout out to people who told acquaintances about their mental and physical illness and got a bunch of silent nods and stretched lips.
Know that there's a bunch of us who'd actually engage in that convo
Love this comment. You weren’t in the wrong for talking about your reality, they were just the wrong people. There are people who will enthusiastically message you back about your intrusive thoughts at 4am - I’m one of them.
Yes!! I appreciate this comment and I am indeed one of those people that will happily talk about the weirdest most “ugly” moments of mental illness and share stories of my own and listen to the stories of others ❤️🩹
I feel this. I'm bi, but my physical and mental illness manifests in a very unglamorous, unsexy way that's hard to talk about in a way I feel comfortable doing so with strangers.
Awww, you are very kind for making this comment. I say this w/ utmost sincerity. ❤
Chris looks like a sentient gingerbread cookie found employment as a Polo Ralph Lauren model
“Gene wilder? God rest his soul, GENE WILDER IN 4K? It would be like the first movie theater audience thinking the train was coming *SCREAM OF TERROR*” I CANNOT BREATHE IM ON THE FLOOR
I don't get it...someone explain please
@@flowersafeheartwhen the first movie (as in one of the first) was shown there was a point where a train came barrelling towards the camera and the folks watching thought that a train was about to crash through the tarp and crush them since this technology was so new. Chris is saying that our reaction to seeing Gene Wilder in 4K would be similar panic and confusion
@@mossfrog9720 That story is actually completely made up. It started as just exaggeration about the technology (while making fun of working class/black people) and then turned into the story we know now
@@cuckoobrain7999 interesting we’ve basically gone full circle with the story then (honestly makes more sense for it to be a fake story then anything)
@@cuckoobrain7999 now you're making stuff up. the first projection of the movie (about which the legend is) was a private projection. it was simply an exaggerated ad
Chris' comedy makes me feel like I'm going insane but in the best way
"you won't find that in a boygenius lyric" Chris you are an international treasure
Lol i just acrolled down to this comment right when Chris said that. 😂
This taught me that my lifelong pronunciation of macabre was not entirely based on delusions of grandeur
apparently "mah-cah-bruh" is the british pronunciation and "mah-cahb" is the american one? but with the internet i guess it would make sense that that would blend across cultures
@@LSSTmusic thank you for this cuz I still needed a bit more reassurance that I wasn’t crazy. It’s not like Chris is a trustworthy authority on the correct pronunciation of words. 🤔 I guess I did watch a lot of British tv when I was little.
So in order for mental illness to be socially acceptable, it has to be conducive to being a Baldur’s Gate 3 PC.
Skyrim NPC with 500 mods is more accurate
Joann being the logo in the subtitles is so funny
Omg yes, i totally did not expect that
1:24 love that backstage angle, like ur being watched by a stalker who has snuck into the theater
This is simultaneously hilarious and genuinely existential-crisis-inducing. I feel like I'm constantly running from 4k culture.
My mom has always been a big fan of Richard Simmons. I grew up in a very Simmons normative household. I never actually saw the video but one of his DVDs (I think dance your pants off) was floating around in my childhood home for years, I grew up watching fish-hooks and I knew what dolphin shorts were before I knew how to ride a bike. So it's a kind of revelation to realize that many if not most people of my generation need context for Richard Simmons
Lmfaooooooo I, too, lived in a "Simmons normative household". My Mum just loved every campy gay imaginable & he was no exception.
Having been required to do aerobics in junior high, including "Dance Your Pants off with Richard Simmons," I can confirm the accuracy of Chris's description of Simmons.
Chris, I gotta Richard Simmons story for ya. Ten years ago, I was coerced into singing the first couple of bars of All that Jazz WITH Richard in the middle of a beauty boutique where I worked at the time. It was filmed by an almost mute companion of his and apparently made the rounds on Twitter.
I have never been the same since.
Also, you're brilliant, I look forward to seeing you again live, and can confirm that my anxiety and depression does make me feel more at home in a leather skirt.
chris your humor and vibe has inspired me to be much more weird and macabre in my life
The leather skirt (trousers in my case) was too much. It hit too close to home. But the "implied bass". My gods, I reared back from my computer screen in horror at being read to filth. Jesus Christ, how does he do it?🤣How does he KNOW???
Chris Fleming has crawled into your walls (to avoid DiPiglio)
I like Chris talking about Chalamet as Wonka because someone mentioned Chris would be the correct kind of unhinged to be a young Wonka, but I think my guy has a point there about society needing the indoor beach kids
--thats vaguely German if anything
-he was gay yes but more importantly, he was insane
😭😭😭
This is so fucking brilliant. Who else can write like this? I mean who? Chris is the immortal bard of our time, speaking unimaginable truths
You’re so right and you should say it
“Indoor beach children” is such an accurate description of these actors
Chris is such an Italian Greyhound in a sweater
I'm worried about his vocal cords. He sounds less "vocal fry" and more "vocal thanksgiving grease fire".
That description will be rattling around in my brain for the foreseeable future thank u
After being put on a Performance Improvement Plan at work today for being bad at deadlines at work this year due to ADHD, Autism and Anxiety all rolling around inside me as I battled an abusive relationship, homelessness, and not being paid enough to buy proper furniture for my unfurnished rental apartment this year, I was feeling deeply down. And yet here's Chris, as always, able to make me smile and laugh out loud in no time. So grateful for your constant presence in my life, would love to meet U one day!!! 💗💗💗
I’m sorry this year has been so unkind to you, friend. I hope things get better soon.
I hate that your workplace is treating you this way rather than offering grace, basic empathy, and accommodations. I have AuDHD too and am currently unemployed but can remember and relate to the hellscape that is working. I’m sending you endless solidarity and I’m so glad we both have Chris’s content to turn to for a good laugh and to feel less alone!
You deserve compassion and patience!! Even when you’re not receiving that you still deserve it 💓
I'm so sorry you are going through this. In September, I nearly got evicted because I work a shit job and went to the psych ward on account of depression. My couch is a yoga mat on the floor. It is not your fault and you are doing the best you can.
I’m so sorry, friend. I feel this. I just today got expelled from my PhD program for being behind in classes because I had to miss a quarter due to a mental health crisis. I hope things start looking up for you soon
RIP Richard Simmons, you will forever be immortalized as the definition of "Unhinged".
I just heard he died the other day and thought of this skit that I saw months ago. I had no idea who he was before I saw this. Such a funny story. Sounds like one of a kind.
Why does Chris look the librarian from megamind if they were non binary
HAHAHAH
I was gonna say that Chris is like the non binary lesbian version of Theo Vaughn
Bernard?
top and bottom on a drivers license but to get vers you have to go on a quest
I assumed that switches can just go for the shorter line 😂😂😂
i am fundamentally an insane person who is fighting for their life trying to pretend to be hot and bi. the last time i had weed i thought my friends were trying to kill me and hallucinated the person comforting me changing race over and over. my ocd sometimes gives me delusions that i'm dead and i logic out of it by thinking "if i'm dead why am i still horny". and i do it all in a cute little gay outfit.
that's the best thing i've ever read in quotations
This set is so good I saw it live in chicago this weekend and I still watched this and laughed all over again
Being hot and bi is such a burden 😔
Tell me about it 😢
It's the cross we carry
Thank you for speaking up for us
You got one thing down
@@ldystardust6392The cross we carry is a bass
Crying n shittin myself and pointing at the screen going “I was there,,,” I hope one of the unhinged cackles is me. That would make up for how I brought a hole ass bag of boba gifts to the show and then got too afraid to deliver them. Should have done a Simmons @ the green room steps.
I put my hand to my chest like a scandelized victorian maiden at the word 'booped'
i covered my mouth with my hands like a silent movie actor playing the role of a secretive mime
Chris looks like a carrot I forgot about in my pantry and I love it
I'm hot and bi but I keep my mental illness a secret for the bonus air of mystery. That's how you play the game, baby!
That right there. ☝🏼☝🏼
Just saw you in Chicago, an hour and a half straight of pure joy and insanity!
This was so goddamn funny I had trouble eating my 8:45PM bowl of corn flakes and granola with oat milk. I did though.
RIP Richard Simmons, you were a wild one
Chris you are the real voice of seven generations and none at all at the same time 🏋👏
You are one of the few comedians that have remained funny to me throughout most of my life. Everyone else has either proved problematic or not really that funny. My laughter for Chris Fleming will never die atp I’m stuck laughing at this feral nonsense and I wouldn’t have it any other way
One of the richest 5 minutes of comedy I've seen, so many levels in play at every second
This is how I feel about girls who romanticize IBS. I eat an apple and get flu-like symptoms for the rest of the day. Sweating on the toilet, feeling like my stomach is going to explode. It's not "oh my tummy hurts but I'm being so brave about it."
People are romanticizing... ibs???
I always just assumed that those people posting those things and saying those things really do have ibs but are finding ways to make memes and jokes. I’m saying this because I too have ibs and flu like symptoms if I eat one thing that just last week was perfectly fine to eat but now today my body is bursting into flames over a single garbanzo bean lol, but I find those memes funny. I’m autistic though and don’t pick up on nuances so you could be totally right!! This just really surprised me, I didn’t realize that’s what was happening culturally. I thought it was finally okay to talk about IBS realistically!! 😭 lol
@@victoriap1649 that's fair, I'm autistic too so I could be the one taking it too literally 😅 my gastroenterologist is actually an expert on the link between autism and gastroenterological issues; apparently there's a high correlation between the two
@@doubtful_seer yeah there are stickers and t-shirts saying "hot girls have ibs" and stuff
Chris is the kind of person who I just know emphasizes every letter in the word ceramics. It's never pottery,it's ceramics - I can feel it in my soul.
I watched this whole video imagining Gene simmons, instead of Richard, and only at the very end did I realize my mistake.
Same and honestly... The description more or less still fits
I love Chris’ work because it’s so representative of actual weird people and not just Instagramable weird. The kind of weird that’s too weird even for weird people. The kind of weird that has to block people with “Only weirdos and freaks here ✌️” in their bio because they were sending them death threats for being harmlessly weird
YOU'RE NOT GONNA HEAR THAT IN A BOYGENIUS LYRIC
Chris Fleming Could Play the Riddler, extremely well. I will die on this hill.
I love the shots from off the side of the stage, really adds to the sense that we're witnessing something chaotic
The Richard Simmons stairs bit is just an excerpt from Infinite Jest
I haven't laughed this hard in a fucking long time, holy shit. GENE WILDER IN 4K???
I love how at 3:24 the stalker backstage lets out a sensible chuckle
As an insane queer I cherish this with my entire heart
One time in Seattle I ran into Chris as he was leaving his show. I had a cup that had my friend's name on it: Henry. He said "is your name henry?" I said yes. My name is Maya. But that moment was glorious
He mentioned 2018 but I'm still not convinced this wasn't made in the 70s.
I genuinely cannot wait to witness this energy live
That Gene Wilder in 4K bit was spot the fuck on 😂 also I think we should start saying “that’s my Sinatra” instead of “that’s my Roman Empire” 😄
You have the energy and spirit of the Loch Ness monster
Chris is so funny! I was just talking about Richard Simmons the other day...a real icon.
Gene Wilder in 4k
*Terrified screaming*
spent this entire video trying to figure out if chris is wearing shoes or weird socks. banger as always
Ok but Richard Simmons' appearances on Who's Line Is It Anyway? are some of the must side-splittingly hilarious things ever. Literally died laughing. I am writing from beyond the grave.
So happy to get a post notification from you. Favorite comedian UGH
I loved this rant, and it's only enhanced by the amazing subtitle job!
I truly love you! I am very gay, and super mentally ill. Nobody wants to know about me opening and closing the fridge door like 60 times every evening before I can sleep lmaoooo
How tf did he make his voice sound like he's talking into a fan
TSA Clear is reserved solely for the switches/verse
THATS WHAT IT IS! Chris Fleming has Richard Simmons energy. That is why I like him so much.
this vid is gonna fix me
camera 2 manned by a borrower trying to decide when it's safe to run out and steal a crumb of cheese
If you don't think being on all fours drinking out of a dog's water bowl is hot and bi, then you're just not kinky enough.
Hahahaha, YES!! This!! I was looking (& hoping) for this comment.
I've been fighting my whole life with people who assume I'm bisexual, where I'm as opposite to bisexual as you can get. I have been enlightened here that it is the black leather skirt and implied bass in the background that's doing me in. Now, we all know the skirt isn't going anywhere, we all know that is something any reasonable human cannot go without once introduced, so I'm going to have overtly display one of the more obscure, considerably fucked up instruments I cannot play to get people out of that mind loop. I'm going to have to find a vintage oboe and pose with the reeds and/or mouth piece at every opportunity to beat these allegations. The people might think I'm gender fluid at that point, but it'll get them to stop thinking bisexual first, so I'll take it for a couple years.
I have this problem too. Bassoons and pastel sweaters. We'll hold the line together.
Get a viola-there's no way to look suitably cool with one.
I mean what’s the opposite of bisexual? Ace? Aro??? What do you mean by this
@@laurenhatter6824 Considering bisexual deals with sexual attraction and not romantic attraction, asexuals would be the opposite. Where with bisexuals, most everyone has a _theoretical_ chance of getting into the bone zone (personal results may vary) with asexuals, mostly nobody has a _theoretical_ chance to get into the bone zone (personal results may vary).
Not as funny as you think you are.
The "Who's Line Is It Anyway" episode with Richard Simmons is one of the only times I've genuinely cried with laughter, gasping for air, hurting with sheer joy.❤❤❤
I know, right??! THE BEACH CHAIR.
i once sat in front of my computer watching Caramelldansen for hours on loop in a daze of depression and existential dread
I’ve not watched you before and your standup is brilliant.
Every time Chris posts I feel like I’m receiving divine wisdom.