Chris Fleming Prances, Scuttles, and Undulates Onto HBO

If you are a fan of the thirty-nine-year-old comedian Chris Fleming, you might have trouble setting foot in a Trader Joe’s grocery store without thinking of a standup bit of his, known as “the Snacks at Trader Joe’s that Only Women Can See.” In the segment, which was filmed at the cozy Los Angeles venue Dynasty Typewriter, where Fleming is a regular presence, he puts forward a theory that women experience Trader Joe’s, with its ever-evolving inventory of newfangled snacks, as a kind of witchy laboratory of gastronomic discovery. Unlike most men—who make a beeline straight for the “same blue-corn tortilla chips that have been there since pre-Obama”—women swan dreamily through the store, “guided by their foremothers” toward the strangest possible products.