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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
also your point about coyotes i have a whole bunch behind my house i don't know why i have some that sing at 12 17 a.m every single night that exact time 12 17 it's the craziest thing they check their watch they're like it's time yeah they they like cackle like hyenas the sounds are they're horrifying sometimes they sound they sound like women screaming yeah
Hey everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show, starring me, your fave, everybody knows me, who cares about me? On to the guests. Today we have the iconic, the hilarious, the amazing Chris Fleming! Woo! I care about you, Avery. I don't. I don't know why I thought it was going to be ampli- I thought I was going to hear myself amplify. It was going to echo. Yeah.
You're used to the headphones. Yeah. Welcome to the show. Yeah, it feels kind of au naturel without the phones. It does. Oh, I like that. It's real genuine energy between us. We could be in the woods right now. And maybe we are. Yeah, we could be in a bunker. Yeah. I am so honored to have you as a guest. Honored? Honored. With a UR, the British way? Nah. Okay. Good old-fashioned American way.
The Nebraskan way? Yeah. Honored. Chris Fleming is a very successful and hilarious stand-up comedian. Thank you. I don't think I've been described as successful to my face. That's nice. Well, you know, it's our first time hanging, so I got to be nice. Got to lie. No, we hung backstage briefly. Briefly. We cohabitated. Yeah, we did. We didn't hang. I stalked around. Passing ships. Yeah.
We were really like gliding right past one another. Yeah. But it was a time to be had. An instant connection, you and I. Oh, yeah. I think. Oh, it was electric. It's just palpable. Yeah. I don't think I usually dry heave before shows. Did you see me dry heave? I don't think I was dry heaving that night. No, I didn't. And I'm also glad I didn't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, dry heaving is just like just one of your routines. Yeah, well, I used to get so nervous that I would dry heave. Really? And then I started thinking I had to dry heave to wake my body up to perform. Interesting. That kind of a thing. So it's like vocal exercises, but it's just you violently gagging in the room. You're all, one second, please. And you're all... Is he okay? Yeah.
I'm ready to go. Yeah. With an arched back on the ground. Like a cat? Yeah, yeah. I imagine it's like when a seagull's swallowing a piece of fish. It's like... My dog did that with a sock. My therapist was like, how's that dog wearing out? And I look outside and he's throwing a sock up and then he unhinges his jaw and it just goes down his throat. Really?
And I had to take him to the emergency vet. Yeah. I was like, excuse me. It was five minutes into therapy. I actually have to log off really quick, but I will bring this up on the next session. He's old and dangerous and he tries to bite me every day. Interesting. Does he know he's your dog or are you just kind of cornering him? It's like a parole officer situation.
Disrespect is keeping him alive for me. Did you get those at the Ugg store? No, I actually got them as a gift. I don't know where they came from. I would assume they came from an Ugg something. If that was supposed to be our little secret that I see Ugg on the back, I'm sorry. Spotify can cut that. It's okay. There's a wide. They'll see it. Also, I didn't know Spotify is doing video.
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Chapter 2: How does Chris Fleming describe his sleepwalking habits?
Do you know what I mean? I don't know. Yeah, totally. Like a Dr. Phil situation. Or maybe more so Dr. Oz, because lots of older women like Dr. Oz. Why? I don't know. Oh, he's a 10. He gives horrible advice and is actually not a doctor, but... Yeah, and he's always switching his calf muscles. He's always doing stuff like that. That's why he looks so fresh.
Like he's getting implants and moving them? Yeah, but he's swapping them out like tires. Upgrade to a new model? Every two weeks. He bites a stick. But then he looks so hot. And he's like, I just locked in another 10 years of that show. I thought this guy, Scott, got calf implants. And I started a rumor that he got calf implants in high school. But it turns out he just moved on top of a hill.
So every day he's... So his calves were like... Jack and Jill? Why is he walking up a hill every day? Yeah, get the fill of water. Which one of them died? Jack or Jill? It was a suicide. A murder suicide. A suicide pact. Yeah, yeah. It was a real Waco situation. Like a civil action. Yeah, yeah. It was Waco. Yeah. Tortured for like two weeks.
I get people... I know I'm blowing up when the David Koresh comments start coming onto my videos. Oh, yeah. Oh, just David Koresh. Because you've got big glasses and long hair? I know, that's when I've reached outside my audience. Yeah, you're breaching Gen Z territory. Are you from Texas? Are you familiar with Waco by any chance? What's your opinions on cults? How do you feel about it?
Do you think you would fall into a cult? Caleb and I have talked about this. I would be in a managerial position. Interesting. In a cult. Yeah. Oh, I could, at a certain point in my life, I could have fallen prey to a cult. Definitely. You think? But now I think I respect myself enough to kind of run it. Aim higher. And I have the look, you know. That's true. You have the energy.
And the warm touch. You'd be, I think you'd be like, you would be in charge. I think I'd be like HR. You would be? Yeah. Yeah. I'd be, I'd be approving PTO. I'd be like handling sexual harassment, which would be my entire job. I'd be busy all the time. Yeah. I'd be receiving complaints, handing them out. You would never stop. No. Putting them on probation, but they can't leave. Yeah.
That's my role. They probably have that in like a PDX and like in a Portland cult. They probably do have some kind of. HR department. Yeah, I start a Slack channel for the cult so everybody knows where to meet up. Yeah. What would your cult be called? I honestly don't think I'd have any hand in naming it. I think they would just hire me like staffing. Like on Indeed.
I just get pulled out of a resume file. Turns out I'm HR for a cult. That's cool. When I talked to Caleb about being in a cult though, I was telling him I don't think I'm... I think I'm too smart to be in one because I genuinely don't listen when people tell me things that I know aren't true. Well, that's your whole thing. I mean, you have that very dismissive laugh.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How do Drew and Chris feel about animals?
And it just wasn't. It just wasn't what you needed it to be. You don't want to find out that way. Never meet your heroes. Jennifer Lawrence is doing like a Groundlings character. I was just like, could we not, guys?
Please.
I feel like they have a Groundlings at LAX now. I bet. It's on the TikTok shop. You can join on there. Right next to Lemonade. Oh, God. How do you feel about signing the TikTok thing? Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry, Drew. I don't know. I guess we'll see. Didn't he just open a TikTok? He has to come on my show. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. What? He asked you to come on the show?
His team emailed us and said, would Drew like to have... as a guest, and I said, fuck no. Wait, wait, wait. Drew, you got to. I'll be you for the day. You said no to the- I said, fuck no. I don't want that shit. Are you out of your mind? Fuck no. Oh, Drew. Let's talk about this after. You got to get- I've been meaning to tell you, you got to get- What the fuck am I going to ask him?
It would be the funniest shit. It's going to be rough for an hour, and then you have gold.
What?
I say, yeah, but I'm not having any approved questions. I want to ask him whatever I want. First thing I'm going to be like, you ever thought about putting a dick in your mouth? Be honest.
As a matter of fact, yes.
You ever kiss a man on the lips? Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges of owning a French Bulldog?
Like I just can't stop. No, but that is the brain of an artist is just a bit factory. That's great. Well, you said it on me. Yeah, when I watched the bear, I was like, that's literally me. The close up on the arms. Yeah, I said literally me.
I never saw the bear, but it looks sexy.
Do you never watch anything new? No, I'm a culture scavenger. After everything's kind of cooled down, I'm like... Picking through the remains? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Throwing in a VCR. Oh, people were right.
No one wants to talk about it by then.
I feel honestly very seen by that. I watch the same shit over and over and over again. And then like three years after everyone likes it, I'll watch it. I'm waiting for the Sopranos. I'm waiting to do Cocaine and watch the Sopranos until I'm in my 80s. What a plan. Just me strung out watching the Sopranos. My sister just watched the Sopranos. She said she really liked it. Yeah, it's great.
Every time she's like, oh, have you seen this? I'm like, nope. I tried to get through the pilot episode of Mad Men like 30 times. Oh, yeah. I couldn't get behind Mad Men. I tried. Oh, my God. Maybe if I was in an MRI tube. Then he'd be down.
Or in like a broke down, like a foreign jail.
If I'm in like a foreign jail, if I'm in like Italian jail, and I'm like, please, I didn't do it. And they're like, Niazzi!
Nieve! Prego! Prego!
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Chapter 5: What are the humorous consequences of cutting your own hair?
Yeah. Oh, my God. all leather vest yeah all of a sudden yeah is that all it is it's them kind of biking around pretty much yeah that's like the whole show it's like they're i mean they're like drug mules essentially oh so like by biker gang but really a like the cartel almost bikers have ignored me my whole life until i got this mastiff and then they come up and they go you got a beautiful boy
One guy was crying. Truly crying.
Really?
That's a beautiful boy. I don't like you. But you are a beautiful boy.
He's talking to your dog? Yeah. About you. They can't even look at me.
You stay over there, please.
I'm having a hard time imagining you interacting with a true biker gang. Yeah. Only with him. Only with him. And he's the conduit. Although I did go, you know the Rainbow Room? Yeah, I think so. It's like roadies and stuff from the 70s. They're very gentle with me. They put their hand on the small of my back. Excuse me, baby. You turn around and then they get mad? Right, it could just be that.
It's because you were in an Ann Taylor Loft blazer. They got confused. I was wearing a smart blazer.
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Chapter 6: How do childhood experiences shape adult behavior?
Coral. My bad. What's a movie that you do like? No panties. What? Sorry? A movie that I do like. Like a new one? Whatever you're fancy. Whatever you're feeling. Whether it's your fave one, a recent one you watched. No, you're not going to like this.
The Shining is my favorite right now.
You know what? You got that look about you. You're a big horror movie guy. I could have guessed that about you. I know. Smelled it on you when you came in here. I know. I watched that movie, I think, not too long ago for the first time ever. I watched it on planes to calm down. That is a little frightening. I know. That thought is a little frightening. I know.
It's just so funny because he keeps being like, we're going to have a great time. He keeps telling his family how fun it's going to be. It's getting less and less fun rapidly. It's so not funny. When he's chasing Danny around, I'm just like, this is it. The weirdest part of that, it's funny because when I first watched it, I think I was in college, and I watched it at home with my parents.
And my little brother, I think, tried to watch it, but he got too scared and he left. And my mom was like, there's a part in this movie that fucked me up so bad when I was a kid, but I'm not going to tell you what it is. She wanted me to guess what it was. What part was it? Oh, the dog? No. Do you want to guess? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
it's like it was a weird random moment in the movie is it when scatman crothers is on his bed just kind of like there's all those topless models on the wall and it's like a 20 minute zoom out okay but that part is fucking weird i love that part naturally that's when i go and get a drink and i come back and it's only like a little bit further out Something Shelley Duvall, obviously.
No, I don't know. Well, I actually don't know if Shelley Duvall was in the scene. I don't think she was, but it's the part with the old lady when she's naked. Oh, my God, yeah. Yeah, and she's just walking like my mom was like that. Well, you think it's a hottie, and then it turns out it's a dead old lady. And Nicholson's like, I mean, it's the original catfishing. Yeah, yeah.
Nicholson got catfished in Room 4. He's like, fuck, I hate when that happens. God fucking Tinder. What's your favorite movie? I think one of my favorite movies of all time is Uncle Buck.
never seen uncle buck you should watch i just know he does the shovel flapjacks right yes he makes the giant pancake for his birthday yeah truly one of my favorite movies of all time you love john candy i do love john candy but it's like it's like just so fucking funny i watched it recently like during the holidays with my family i was laughing like i've never seen the shit i'm like like i've never seen it in my life but that's one of my favorite movies yeah
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Chapter 7: What insights does Chris Fleming share about stand-up comedy?
But the context in which I saw it was horrible, too, because my sister was like, let's go watch a scary movie. And I was just branching out into scary. I was like, okay, for sure. It's so crushing, too. It is. It breaks you. It's a really great movie. It's just horrible. When you find out that she had it coming because she was a demon, that makes it a little bit better. Yeah, that's true.
Than just like a random fourth grader. Yeah. But in that period where you're like, I don't think I'm ready for it. I think I need to go home. And then you're like, oh, okay, she was a demon.
Okay. When...
When it got to the, like, after, like, she dies in the movie or whatever. Spoiler alert. I remember my heart was, like, in my fucking throat, like, the entire time.
Chapter 8: What advice does Chris give to aspiring comedians?
And it was going past that part. And I was telling my sister. I was like, dude, how fucking long is this movie? Oh, yeah. I can't take this anymore. It's 24 hours. Yeah. And I saw it in the theaters, too. Me, too. And that was, like, one of the first movies I had watched in so long where I, like, I could not go to sleep for, like, days.
do you check the shower curtain yeah i always check shower curtains oh yeah all the time every bathroom i've ever been in i don't know what i'm gonna do when i find when i find a guy yeah if you do find them yeah they're probably hiding from you Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Your sleepwalking is probably freaking them out a little bit. You ever think about people that might... Oh, no.
I don't want to say this to you. No, go ahead. Go ahead. There's a theory that there are some houses where there's people that live in your house. Yeah. Like on some like... In the walls. What's that movie called? The Boy? I don't know. Is that The Boy? The one where he lives in the walls? Oh, God. You ever seen that one? No. It's like... It's not a good quality of life, though, for them.
Yeah.
Also, you've got to pay rent if you're laying. You know what I mean? You're going to haunt me. At least fucking contribute. You'd hear them on Zoom. I think if they were there. The Wi-Fi's slow. They're like, can you log off, please? I have a meeting. There's a scary movie called The Boy. And it's like this lady gets hired to be a nanny. And then the parents...
are like okay here he is and it's a puppet like it's a little doll little boy doll and she's like you want me to take care of the doll and they're like yeah and they have this list of instructions and they're like you have to do all of these things and you have to do them in order and she's like okay and of course she's like doing it at first but then she's like this is a fucking doll like I don't have to she starts deviating and then the doll starts like moving on its own acting out
yeah it turns out spoiler alert again it's a their son like the old couple that hired her it's their son and he's like developmentally behind he thinks he's a little boy still or like wants to be and he lives in the walls and he's the one who's been moving the doll oh and he watches her through like little people everywhere like he has all these little holes drilled everywhere yeah oh that's the the twist is that he is an actual man but he's living in the wall he's in the drywall
Yeah, like literally. He has like little secret passageways that he built to like scurry within them like a little rat. He's a full grown man. That seems like you would hear that someone having that job in L.A. It's like a very L.A.
Oh yeah, when I first moved to L.A. I was a caretaker for a doll, but the boy was in the walls.
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