Nathan For You

anyway, next episode involves forming a band in order to sell discount smoke detectors, might explain his appearance with Mac Demarco? was there any loud beeping during the performance??

good call w/ the jimmy kimmel bit. i wonder if they really spent $350,000 making this anecdote a reality

Nathan at the wedding was so hilarious

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMocsGPWkAARXUj.jpg

Man I love Nathan Fielder

LOL this episode

nathan's the best

Lol @ the irony of how he lies to all these people in order to have a "true" story to tell on Kimmel.

Also loved this as satire of the late-night talk show format, which is a pretty lame, tired thing deserving of savage mockery imo.

Just caught up on the new season. This show fucking destroys me.

On season 4 but still weirdly niche. It’s probably the funniest thing on TV.

@davey i thought the same thing. that montage of anecdotes was amazing

the scene where he invites himself to the wedding was excruciating

yeah as much as I love this show there are entire scenes I just have to skip

The hilarious thing about that is the couple seemingly unaware of the art of saying "We'll get back to you on that".

also lol @ how he goes from hiding behind a tree to ripping up the dancefloor

its even more awkward when you consider that there were probably other couples that just flat out said no, this was as close to a "yes" as he got

series is killing it. last episode was insane

So I've not seen him on Kimmel yet, should I go watch the new ep first or would seeing Kimmel first make more sense? Or is it entwined?

*intertwined

The best way is to have seen the Kimmel appearance without the knowledge that there was going to be an episode about it. The next best thing is to watch the Kimmel appearance first, then the episode.

^ this is correct

Next best thing it will be (as a watcher of the show I unfortunately haven't avoided the knowledge)

yea I was glad to have not seen the appearance first

was there any info on if Kimmel was in on it? I was leaning toward he was since after the story he says "you're out of your goddamn mind" in a laughing way that seemed like he knew.

Ok that was great. Surely Kimmel and Dunst too were in on it though, right?

Extremely good uncomfy viewing the couple.

I don't think Nathan believes in people being in on it

yea i would doubt they were

kimmels comment and knowing laugh maybe were just a guess that something was up idk

nathan commenting that 'i considered just leaving' when dunst's story was hitting all his points was really funny also

Idk but it doesn't take anything away from my enjoyment of the show either way

I legitimately think the Kirsten Dunst thing was a coincidence

The show thrives on that sort of happenstance

that appearance on kimmel makes so much more sense now lol

okay this show has made and does make me laugh but it's pretty ethically dubious right? i've been getting more and more uncomfortable with it, like it's a lot of immigrants/people of color or just genuinely unhinged seeming people who are the ones ending up lampooned and yes a lot of them do agree to do do whatever he is saying but there is certainly a power differential. i usually see this excused away by people saying 'he makes himself the butt of the joke' but i don't quite see it that way

I legitimately think the Kirsten Dunst thing was a coincidence

So do I.

re: the ethics, I dunno, it always seems to me like it could be a hell of a lot worse. Like the Chinese restaurant marriage proposal thing could sound iffy on paper but they almost went out of their way to underline the absurdity of the concept above all else, even if the gag itself does necessarily lean on the "otherness" of the setting.

i guess my problem is less that he was doing a silly impression of a chinese restaurant and more that he... you know... got someone to marry him against their consent? (even if it was fake which i suspect)

not surprising that tim and eric produced this, it sure fits into that T+E school of humor centering on basically laughing at mentally ill people

eh, nathan always comes off more clueless and worse off than anyone else on the show

but he's putting on an act

This show's humor is rooted in evil, and so is Tim and Eric. But how evil, really? To me it's like two dogs play fighting "evil". Nobody's getting hurt here, as far as I know, and everyone comes out of it better off, or at least in the same place they were.

Compare it to Million Dollar Extreme which is fucking Neo Nazi shit.

So much of the humor is Nathan's absolutely idiotic, overwrought ideas. The people going along with it is like the background to that... it's less evil than Jay Leno's Streetwalkers segment.

so we've got:

a- it's not as bad as neo-nazi humor (although his fake ted talk was really good)
b- even he 'comes across' as clueless or poorly off even though that isn't reflective of the situation at hand

*if he does, ugh

c- can we not

Yeah, I like that one, the c option

i like the show you all, just you can't deny there's something a pretty immoral about it

if by immoral you mean twisted or strange sure
if you mean "evil" i can't even exactly
like in this dark fucked up world how is this the thing you wanna take offense at

what's some good MORAL comedy these days that doesn't go overboard with the lampooning of the mentally ill like our friends Tim and Eric do, or the targeting of ethnic immigrant shop-owners like anti-immigrant Nathan Fielder does

i take offense at plenty, thanks

would you be OK with the show if the producers had decided to remove any scenes involving immigrants or people or color?

just using that as an example of a power differential and punching down

the entire show is a ruthless mockery of contemporary capitalism which is kinda the ultimate punch up imho