This feels like a hot take, but: Chris Fleming is the spiritual standup heir to Robin Williams.
Williams was the greatest improv standup of his generation (or really ever), sure, but Fleming is a vastly better writer (except for his set pieces, which fall weirdly flat in between the standup bits). His standup itself -- the energy, the surreal linguistic fireworks, the constant sense of physical discomfort -- is without equal, and no one comes particularly close to his style.
The guy's an absolute freak of nature, and it's amazing that what he does works so astonishingly well.
This feels like a hot take, but: Chris Fleming is the spiritual standup heir to Robin Williams.
Williams was the greatest improv standup of his generation (or really ever), sure, but Fleming is a vastly better writer (except for his set pieces, which fall weirdly flat in between the standup bits). His standup itself -- the energy, the surreal linguistic fireworks, the constant sense of physical discomfort -- is without equal, and no one comes particularly close to his style.
The guy's an absolute freak of nature, and it's amazing that what he does works so astonishingly well.
