Nathan For You

thought the bump was gonna be for this

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/holocaust-us-adults-study

Lmaooooo

pic.twitter.com/mZqobAnODd

— big time influencer guy on here (@boring_as_heck) October 2, 2020

https://www.hbo.com/how-to-with-john-wilson

Starts tomorrow!

looks fascinating, definitely planning to watch (if i remember)

Finally, a show about New York, the quirky little city that could.

that looks awesome

Def. intriguing!

I'm gonna throw some money down for this because I have complete faith in Nathan's comedy instincts and he has yet to disappoint

psyched for this

I worked on this! It's a culmination of my friend John's ambition of 10+ years and is amazing. Can't wait for everyone to tune in.

Awesome, congratulations! Always looking for something good to watch with my wife.

wow, that's cool tomorrow! i'm definitely going to be checking it out

36 minutes remain

this absolutely delivers

Yes

also having just watched a second time....pretty sure that was actually Kyle maclachlan

for sure

http://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/852/ff8/3c41b03244b1409c1dd0c6ca44bb650c77-kyle-maclachlan-subway.rhorizontal.w700.gif

his old shorts are still up on Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/johnsmovies

New scaffolding episode is best-of-the-year tv

good show

yup

I know what I'm about to say is corny and a bit hyperbolic but it's been awhile since I've seen something like How To which makes me see the world around me in a new way, what a show

How To is wonderful and this i really don't mean this as self-promo but it is weird to encounter a piece of art that feels like a cousin to our own weird thing we made this year, an interactive "game"/film/hard-to-explain for yr phone: http://www.motto.io

like the same appropriation of unseasoned real-life footage, using storytelling as a way of projecting meaning, decency and sincerity onto it

probably no Red Hot Chilli Pipers content though right

looking forward to checking that out Sean

no Chi Peps but some donna summers!

*summer

zinoman agrees with me
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/arts/television/john-wilson-scaffolding-hbo.html

my god, the end to this one.

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the Mandela Effect

yeah this is so good. I dont want to consider it Nathan For You Jr or something, but its definitely a worthy successor

incredible

this was definitely the most NFY esque one yet

time for a new thread
How To with John Wilson

posted in the john wilson thread but really needs to be here too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNsx_NyNOU

never got around to any of the "On Your Side" videos; they're great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7hE6MlFzz4

this interaction is so absurd that it even made Nathan Fielder break character pic.twitter.com/bq0H0DYjg6

— Zaku May Cry (@ZinZaku) March 17, 2021

high point of the show

“To save their company, Cinnamon Toast Crunch needs to make cereal classy again, and what’s classier than shrimp?” pic.twitter.com/pXs2RgZh5c

— Elyza Halpern (@elyzawithawhy) March 23, 2021

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/nathan-fielder-the-rehearsal-hbo-1235005441/

fuuuck yesss

been rewatching this lately and man the "Smokers Allowed" episode might be one of the most meta & avant-garde episodes any comedy show has ever produced. just...really stripping down what is real and what is performance which is underscored even more by the fact that nothing interesting at all happens during the "play" itself

I do wonder about the original audience of 2 or the actors he hired - they had to know this was absurd, right? Did they play along because it was for a TV show? Did they know what the TV show was about?

sounds like his upcoming show has a pretty similar premise to 'smokers allowed':

“The Rehearsal’s” official description is as follows: “In a world where nothing seems to ever work out as you had hoped, Nathan Fielder gives people the opportunity to rehearse for their own lives.”

https://www.vulture.com/article/nathan-fielder-rehearsal-profile.html

In one of the more unpleasant segments, Fielder pitches the owner of the Help Cleaning Service on an idea he says would allow her to offer “the fastest clean in the country.” At his suggestion, the owner dispatches 40 of her employees to a small apartment. Crammed into the place like clowns in a clown car, they manage to clean it in just over eight minutes. After they finish, Fielder lines them up in front of the man who lives there, a middle-aged white guy, and tells them he’s single. When the guy compliments the women on their hard work, Fielder turns to them and jokes, “If you’re lucky, he could do some hard work on you.” The women look unamused.

The owner of the housecleaning service, Kandiie Tapia, is a Mexican immigrant. She was 22 when Fielder’s producers told her they wanted to interview her about how she had built her business. She felt honored that someone wanted to share her story and called her family to tell them the good news. But after the producers rushed her through the process of signing a contract, they “flipped a switch,” she said. During the taping, she found Fielder to be rude. He was in character, but she didn’t know that, or that his technique sometimes involved getting a rise out of a subject. At one point, Tapia said, he blew his nose in a tissue and then asked her if she would throw it out for him. “You’re the Help, right?” she recalled him asking her. (No such exchange made it into the episode.) “It was a power move,” she told me. “Like he’s white and I’m a minority and I’m young.” She talked to her husband about dropping out, but he still thought the show could benefit the business. When the episode aired and Tapia realized it was a comedy, she was so embarrassed she told her family not to watch it. “If I’d known what it really was, I would have said no,” she said. “I’m not gonna go on a show voluntarily to be made fun of.”

Fielder said he was surprised and upset to learn how Tapia felt. “It kills me any time I hear people didn’t like their experience,” he said. “I remember her being very excited about it.” He didn’t recall asking her to throw out a tissue or calling her “the Help” and couldn’t imagine having done that. “I don’t want to invalidate anyone’s experience,” he said, “but I know the types of jokes I might make.” He pointed out that he is the one who is meant to look like a fool in the episode. “I definitely feel I’m the most pathetic person in everything I do.”

I do wonder about the original audience of 2 or the actors he hired - they had to know this was absurd, right? Did they play along because it was for a TV show? Did they know what the TV show was about?

― frogbs, Wednesday, November 17, 2021 5:45 PM (seven months ago)

It can be hard to tell just by watching the show how a given subject will feel about it. When fans debate its cringiest moments on Reddit, they sometimes cite a scene with an actress named Victoria Lynn. In that episode, Fielder stages a play at a bar in a highly impractical attempt to circumvent California’s ban on indoor smoking. Lynn was cast in one of the roles. At one point, Fielder proposes an acting exercise. He gazes into her eyes and instructs her to say “I love you.” One of the running jokes of the series is that Fielder is desperate to connect with someone, anyone, and will use his power as a television host to wheedle affirmation out of everyone he meets. “I’m not believing that at this point,” Fielder says in the episode. “Say it again.” She does. “Again,” he says. This happens 11 times, ending only when Lynn points out Fielder has tears in his eyes. Viewers have wondered whether she felt harassed or threatened, but as it turns out, she had a great experience. “He just seemed like he needed to hear ‘I love you,’ ” she told me, “and I felt really comfortable giving him that.”

“It kills me any time I hear people didn’t like their experience,”

cmon bro you cannot seriously believe this, the show is fucking funny, but don't act like you don't know what you're doing