Chris Fleming (2019): ComCompendium
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
YouTube-famous glam-rock showpig Chris Fleming has amassed a legion of fans through brilliantly funny music videos, such as "I'm Afraid To Talk To Men", "Grad-Student Shuffle" and "Polyamorous". Chris Fleming: Live at The Palace, is now streaming on HBO Max so what better reason to resurface this episode originally released on Halloween in 2019, where we talk about:
- drowning in stand-up and clawing a way back to shore through developing live work for the internet
- proving one isn't "a YouTuber"
- the "restrictive freedom" of comedy
- and whether Chris is a real pariah or just a wannabe…
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| 0:00.0 | YouTube famous glam rock show pig and my friend Chris Fleming has amassed a legion of fans |
| 0:23.4 | through his brilliantly funny music videos such as I'm Afraid to Talk to Men, Grad Student Shuffle |
| 0:29.7 | and Polyamorous. Probably if you don't know his name, you will at some point have been |
| 0:34.4 | past or have seen one of these videos. Such is the depth of their |
| 0:38.7 | virality. And I feel like if you listen to this show, you almost certainly have a similar |
| 0:42.2 | sense of human to me. So they will be the sorts of things that you immediately share with |
| 0:46.9 | everyone, you know. Or more specifically, actually, you share with a specific person that you know, |
| 0:52.2 | because that's kind of the, that I think is what |
| 0:57.3 | makes something truly viral is when an individual goes, I will share this with a specific person. |
| 1:03.0 | And Chris Fleming has just got that juice. He's got that quality in absolute spades. |
| 1:07.5 | Chris Fleming live at the Palace is now streaming on HBO Max. I think it's his first |
| 1:12.1 | special. It's certainly his first special on HBO Max. And if you've seen the clips on |
| 1:16.2 | Instagram or the social media of your preference, you will be as excited about it as I am. |
| 1:22.0 | So what better reason to resurface this episode originally released way back in 2019, on Halloween, in fact, |
| 1:29.0 | where we talk about how Chris found himself drowning in stand-up |
| 1:32.1 | and clawed his way back to shore |
| 1:33.9 | through developing his live work for the internet, |
| 1:36.3 | how to prove one isn't a YouTuber, |
| 1:38.8 | the restrictive freedom of comedy, |
| 1:41.1 | whar, some juicy stuff there, |
| 1:42.6 | and whether he's a real pariah or just a wannabe. |
| 1:46.0 | We'll also be re-releasing 30 minutes of exclusive extras if you're in the Insiders Club, |
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