Chris Fleming: Is Comedy His Love Language?
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Chris Fleming’s comedy is unlike anyone else working right now. His act is equal parts stand-up and interpretative dance. He's constantly moving, grooving and writhing all over the stage.
It’s all on full display in his new HBO special ‘Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace’. He spoke with Sam about embracing imperfection on stage, and how he uses movement to become a ‘spectacle.’ Chris also shares how his supportive family helped him find his purpose — creating joy through stand-up.
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| 0:00.0 | You mentioned limitation. What's your biggest limitation right now? |
| 0:08.6 | My biggest limitation creatively? |
| 0:11.0 | Or whatever. Whatever limitation. |
| 0:13.4 | My back. |
| 0:15.9 | You're an elder millennial. You're an elder millennial. You ain't no younger millennial. |
| 0:21.5 | Hey, y'all, Sam Sanders here. Thanks so much for checking out my show with KCRW. This episode, |
| 0:27.3 | a conversation with the young millennial or elder millennial. I don't know. You decide. I'm talking |
| 0:33.2 | about Chris Fleming. He is a stand-up comedian unlike anyone else working right now. Chris's stand-up |
| 0:39.8 | is so physical. He is moving and grooving and writhing all throughout his new HBO comedy |
| 0:47.1 | special, which is called Chris Fleming Live at the Palace. There's just joke Chris tells on |
| 0:52.9 | that special that I cannot stop thinking about. |
| 0:55.6 | He's making fun of a certain kind of dude, |
| 0:57.7 | certain kind of hipster, |
| 0:59.0 | who never washes their cast iron skillet. |
| 1:01.5 | How sick did those guys have to get |
| 1:03.6 | to quiet their evangelism |
| 1:05.2 | about not cleaning out your cast iron skillet? |
| 1:08.1 | They were the loudest population in America |
| 1:10.3 | for much of the 2010s. |
| 1:11.6 | No, babe, baby. |
| 1:13.6 | Babe, hold up. You don't have to clean it out. |
| 1:18.6 | No soap, babe. You'll take out the seasoning. |
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