Nathan For You

idk if you remember the "pig rescues goat" episode but Nathan's NDAs are no joke

Haven't seen this yet, but some of this talk sounds familiar.

https://i.imgur.com/Q4c39Rc.jpg

that one was fake, though - she's been an actress since the early 90's

Because escorting is only a quasi-legal profession, and many escorts won't even show their faces in their own advertising. There's no guarantee that they'd be able to find a real escort in the Little Rock, AR area ready to be identified as such on national TV. I guess they lucked out with Maci, but the alternative is not at all implausible.

― JRN, Monday, November 13, 2017 4:00 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it s not at all implausible that an escort might consider 'being on television' a huge boost to her business

Did you read her letter?

The concluding episode of Nathan For You (season 4) is unfathomably great. (Now, I'm going to business school.)

— errolmorris (@errolmorris) November 13, 2017

it s not at all implausible that an escort might consider 'being on television' a huge boost to her business

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 13, 2017 4:49 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's true, and consistent what I've said. The calculation could plausibly go either way.

oh man, just finished the finale. i thought it was fantastic.

Did you read her letter?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 13, 2017 4:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, how does that contradict anything?

recently discovered jon benjamin has a van (feat our very own nathan fielder) and wow, so so brilliant. can see where nathan got his layer upon layer upon layer ideas from. i know nothing about us tv commissioning but how the hell didn't this get more than one series?

just guessing: it probably didn't pull enough viewers / advertisers.

Did you read her letter?

yeah, how does that contradict anything?

Because it seems all the show-related stuff has either complicated her life for the worse or is something she can't exploit for personal gain. She's not talking about the show, she doesn't want people linking to her site (which is what drives her business), emails and phone calls are "bogging her down," "Any mention of the show will put you on my do not see list," and so on. I mean, I don't know what she was expecting, but all those things seem to be signs of a business boost, but that's apparently not what she wants. Or wanted.

nathan had an entire book written and distributed on amazon for a goof. "but they're posting her website on reddit" is an interesting burden of proof. it hardly matters either way; as with kaufman, there's no benefit in seeing behind the curtain here.

I've never argued that. But I have argued that the confusion of truth and fiction is what makes this show compelling, at least to me. A lot more than a more conventional clown like Sasha Baron Cohen.

Anyway, I didn't specify reddit or whatever. I just quoted the escort herself, who seems to be somewhat bristling at the attention, which does not seem like the actions of someone who did something for the extra attention/business.

The anecdote episode perfectly underscores the balance. It's a guy playing a neo-fictional character who fakes an elaborate anecdote to make his story "true," providing a burden of proof that no one expects from a celebrity interview in the first place.

Because it seems all the show-related stuff has either complicated her life for the worse or is something she can't exploit for personal gain. She's not talking about the show, she doesn't want people linking to her site (which is what drives her business), emails and phone calls are "bogging her down," "Any mention of the show will put you on my do not see list," and so on. I mean, I don't know what she was expecting, but all those things seem to be signs of a business boost, but that's apparently not what she wants. Or wanted.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:07 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and this relates to why she agreed to do the show in the first place, before any of that happened, because...?

a better example of the kind of pulling at the scenery you guys are doing that annoys me would be if you just outright said you didn't think the workout dude ever went on daytime TV. it just feels like missing the forest for the trees as a form of critique

Well, if everything was an outright fiction it would be a conventional TV show or movie, like the terrible "Ali G Indahouse."

So I guess I'm to understand Twin Peaks: S3E8 has some new competition in the "TV episodes cinephiles are going to slip into their year-end top 10 movie lists" derby?

Yep, though it works best if you've seen the rest of the series

I still think about this a lot, the idea that so much time and effort was spent trying to give an old man some closure and it just resulted in a awkward phone call w/ someone who didn't really even remember who he was

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2017/11/14/16650726/nathan-for-you-season-4-finale-finding-frances

Thanks Josh for throwing me down a NFY rabbit hole because of that article. The first of season 4, the Michael Richards one, really is the best. So many steps and twists and turns.

I honestly don't think he could do a season 5, but I'd be happy proven wrong. Seriously though, after the last finale, where can he go, what can he do next with this?

Eradicate malaria in order to "prove" Bill Gates impersonator is really Bill Gates.

I honestly don't think he could do a season 5, but I'd be happy proven wrong. Seriously though, after the last finale, where can he go, what can he do next with this?

Wow. Errol Morris wrote about Finding Frances for The New Yorker https://t.co/hv3u5WgDw2

— nathan fielder (@nathanfielder) December 5, 2017

Was just coming here to post this. Just watched the finale last week. So so good.

I want a show entirely about the age progression artist who just dropped in the whole "we're all going to live in space thing".

did you see the other NFY episode he was in?

I think I've seen most of them but I don't remember him! Which was it?

the one where they tried to sign a bunch of child athletes as sponsors for a sporting goods store. he brings that guy in to "age progress" the kids by just pasting their faces over stock models

pic.twitter.com/DF8U7Kn92T

— no context nathan (@NathanForYouOoC) December 1, 2017

"Who did this?"

"Cornelius Ladd"

^ my favorite part of this episode

this paragraph makes me dizzy

Before the finale, Bill Heath appeared in an earlier episode, called “Souvenir Shop,” in which Fielder organizes an elaborate hoax to bring business to a Los Angeles souvenir shop by hiring celebrity impersonators to appear in the store. His first hire, a Johnny Depp impersonator, doesn’t really look like Johnny Depp, so Fielder hires a second impersonator who looks even less like Johnny Depp, thinking that the presence of the not-so-good Johnny Depp impersonator would make the first one look better. Fielder calls in Bill Heath, a self-advertised Bill Gates impersonator, because the Johnny Depp impersonators’ schedules are too busy for regular employment. But, by the end of “Finding Frances,” we learn that Bill Heath was never really a Bill Gates impersonator at all. He merely impersonated a Bill Gates impersonator in order to get the job on “Nathan for You.”

3. the wire
2. the sopranos
1. this two-minute clip of nathan for you pic.twitter.com/OeOY3U9UOv

— bobby 👖 (@bobby) November 19, 2017

Just finished Finding Frances and it was everything it was billed to be. Bravo

Oh my god, the chilli suit with the poo tube coming out next to the chilli dispensor.

pic.twitter.com/Z5jmRLhCtK

— nathan fielder (@nathanfielder) February 1, 2018

explains the flamethrowers

Elon needed an idea guy of course

nathan noooo

Don't worry it's a wax Elon, surely

i can't think of nathan fielder anything but nathan fielder. i always wonder if how he handles himself in these situations

Probably something likes this. "Mr. Musk, people are always working on technology that helps us to go faster, but have you ever considered how productive we would be if we all just moved ... slower? My proposal to you is a train - a floating magic hover train - that takes *twice* as long to get from one place to another. Just imagine all the work you would get done, and how excited people would be watching it go by, slowly."

Can the Emmys be Hacked? I asked an important question and got a frightening answer. https://t.co/wcJ0MLTwM6

— nathan fielder (@nathanfielder) June 8, 2018

shocking to say the least...and really shocking to say the most

maura that's really great

the quick edit during the kid talking about orange at the beginning cracks me up

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/mxavib/nathan-for-you-interview-with-a-seven-year-old

I finally started watching this show after putting it off

This is not a bingeable show, and I mean that in the best possible way. Because holy shit, so awkward

I watched one episode a couple years ago and I haven't worked up the nerve for a second yet. Is it streaming on something?

Nathan is less a straight man than an incredibly awkward man. Any moment he starts to lose control of the situation or is about to break character, he responds in the most awkward way possible. It's not usually anything that's wrong enough to draw immediate anger, it's just.. what the fuck, this guy just doesn't know how to interact with people!

like even feeling for a sec that his character is relatable is the most cringe-worthy thing

silby, it's on hulu now