Nathan For You

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

I'm still pretty early in the series but the whole reality show part of "The Hunk" where you're not sure if the women think they're on a real Bachelor-style show, or if they just know it's being taped for.. something.. was so weird. The woman who was asked "what's your deepest, darkest secret?" and the huge pause where she's making facial expressions that start at questioning, going through several emotions until she just looks like she's in a dark place.. was she doing that because she wants to be an actress and was trying to create a lot of footage so they'd cut in some of it? Was she really thinking about it and thought of something really unsettling?

just so great when she goes with "I hate wearing socks"

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

― mh, Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:50 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cringeable show

I just had to revisit the clip of the Uber passenger freaking out over the driver's refusal to stop blaring 'Mambo No. 5'.

I might need to rewatch the entire series right now.

a little bit of nathan in your life

I just watched Vampyr (1932) for the first time last night, and I don't know if the timeline works out but I'm pretty sure the main actor was Nathan Fielder. If not, I would like to commission a remake ASAP.

http://www.vulture.com/amp/2018/10/comedy-central-confirms-nathan-fielder-nathan-for-you-end.html

rip

good choice i think. end it on a high note

Somehow I fell out of watching this two episodes into season 4 but I just watched all of it except the Melinda episode and goddamn, what a show.

was thinking yesterday that a bar rescue type show with a MacGruber-esque host would be really good. then I remembered that Nathan For You is that show.

tivo alert: comedy central are rerunning the last two part ep this sunday and monday am

not Melinda, Frances

the dude's Bill Gates impression is solid

Some dude is doing Nathan For You stuff for real, except Nathan For You was already real, and this is also an intentional comedy, so I guess it's just cruelty-free Nathan For You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owUWiWkFoCQ

also comedy-free

yeah i dunno if it's possible to do nathan for you schtick without being cruel.

Watching a terrible knockoff is useful in appreciating all the subtle things Nathan's show does so well. Apart from the absurdism, the awkward tension and editing that makes it so hilarious is there even in brief clips.

definitely. i was watching the Smokers Allowed episode last night, and really appreciated one of the edits from the audition/casting scenes where the actor was kept walking toward the door even as nathan was telling him he got the part

Amazon Flex allowed this woman to lose 100 lbs in 18 months by creating a workout while delivery packages.https://t.co/uBk49fYzFi

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) December 3, 2018

Nathan Fielder's show is going to be studied in business schools seriously within 10 years