131. Chris Fleming: He Should Be Way More Popular

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In Chris Fleming’s recent Peacock stand-up special Hell, he calls out some audience members who are married and shouts, “This show is not for people who have wives. You have a wife?! Go see Mike Birbiglia!” Fleming is fearless about dragging the names of other comedians into his bits: from Bo Burham to Nikki Glaser to Bert Kreischer and more. Chris is a Massachusetts theater kid turned comedian and it manifests in stand-up comedy that is simultaneously avant-garde but also crowd pleasing. Mike and Chris sit down for a truly productive session of working out new material and they break down why Massachusetts is so darn repressed. Plus, they do no-holds-barred impressions of each other in what is one of the most unhinged episodes of Working it Out of all time.

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0:00.0	That's one of my favorite things about your special on peacock is you have this thing where you go home to visit your mom and you open up to her.
0:08.5	You say, I'm depressed, I'm seeing a therapist, and then 15 minutes later you go upstairs and she goes, are you okay now?
0:15.7	Are you feeling better? That's Massachusetts.
0:19.2	Are you feeling better? Yeah. And so my question is, are you feeling better?
0:23.0	No, no.
0:27.0	No.
0:28.0	No. No. That is the voice of the great Chris Fleming.
0:33.0	Oh man, I love this episode.
0:35.0	You might know Chris from his stand-up, from his videos online.
0:39.0	He did an incredible web series called Gail,
0:41.0	where he played a New England woman it is hilarious he has
0:45.2	new special on peacock called Hell that is hilarious and very original we talk
0:51.2	about that today he actually references me in the special
0:54.0	and I didn't know him when he referenced me which we talk about that today quite a bit
0:59.0	I had a blast in Chicago this last weekend at the Chicago Theater.
1:02.7	Thank you so, so, so much for coming out.
1:06.0	Three shows of the Chicago Theater.
1:08.4	I jumped in Lake Michigan.
1:10.5	I went to a Cubs game.
1:12.3	Yeah, it was wonderful. I am going to Los Angeles this week.
1:17.0	Those shows are sold out. Then I'm going to upstate New York. I'm going to Troy, New York.
1:23.5	I'm sure someone is going to complain and say,
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