Several sketches during the special are interspersed throughout the stand-up portions of the special, filmed at Los Angeles' intimate Dynasty Typewriter, alongside musical numbers and visual aids. It arrives today on Peacock.
“How well does Chris’ stand-in know the show? Can he do the set if we send Chris to heaven?” deadpans Chris Fleming’s agent, played by Rachel Crowe, during the opening sketch of the comedian’s new special, “HELL.” He’s just crashed into a staircase, his legs askew, in what the stage manager refers to as a “Winnie the Pooh in Rabbit’s house” situation.
The comedian’s work was not always so unconventional, however. When he first began, Fleming didn’t feel weirdalt. I felt like Rob Thomas,” he recalled. “There were all these people going wild around me and I felt really straitlaced.” Using movement onstage is a crucial part of Fleming’s work. He carefully choreographs the physical aspects of his sets. “We only have like five tools onstage, and one’s a stool, you know? You better use your legs, dude!”Fleming jokes that rock stars ought to quit while they’re ahead. If they’re too wealthy and enabled, the creativity ceases. “Once you’ve been given an all-access pass to exotic wildlife, you can’t in good faith keep contributing to the American songbook.
A large part of Fleming’s comic voice entails making fun of those on top, such as his massively popular video musings about why people fan over celebrities like Adam Driver or Taylor Swift.
Fleming categorizes his audience as not-normie but rather weirdos and freaks like him. “Someone said to me recently after a show, ‘Chris, can you say hi to my wife?’” Fleming was stunned. “You have a wife and you came to see me?! This is not for people with wives! If you have a wife, go see Mike Birbiglia! This is for theater people who don’t get cast!”
Sometimes Fleming’s work is a social critique, and sometimes it’s just silly. The comedian discovered that rodents are extremely affordable pets. “I found that you can get a gerbil for four dollars and 99 cents,” he said.
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