![]() Has nobody written about this? I have to know what's going on in the academic literature close to these claims. It makes sense on its own terms, and rejects the form of comedy that merely mocks. Nathan creates situations in the show that make sense in a way, but are so weird, they're like an autistic dream-world he somehow finds the people who will believe in the situation without question, and he creates something. If you're laughing AT the people featured in Nathan For You, YOU'RE the real butt of the joke, not them. He can act normally if he wants and all, as one can see in interviews, but with this show he creates an entirely new meta-joke. He likes to lean into it, to perform it to a degree such that it's funny, instead of suppressing it. ![]() Nathan puts a private investigator to the test by allowing himself to be spied on for a day, a taxi company is brought a solution for shy customers, and Nathan is forced to include product placement in his show. He has a part of him that's "weird", neurodiverse perhaps, and that makes people uncomfortable. Nathan for You (20132017) Episode: Private Investigator/Taxi Company (2013) TV-14 21 min Documentary, Comedy. But then I googled "Nathan for you disability", and found this article, which gives strong evidence that Nathan is "really like that" that is, very much like the strange, socially awkward character he plays in the show: So it seems to me that Nathan is actually doing something deeply subversive, in a way that creates an entirely new genre. So it may appear that the show is ableist, by manipulating and making fun of people who are definitely disabled. Basically: the first thing I realized was that most of the people Nathan encounters and has extended interactions are definitely intellectually disabled. Some of it I haven't figured out how to articulate yet. I was watching this show while super stoned, and I realized there's so much to it. While bits of Nathan’s series might be scripted or edited in a way to attract more viewers, for the most part, it is raw, unadulterated, and extremely fun.Are there academic writings on the show Nathan For You, particularly regarding disability studies? Mostly, ‘Nathan for You’ tries to attack the gullibility of the people and address how people often don’t want to push back against potentially bad ideas. Moreover, some of Nathan’s proposals are so outlandish that it is not possible to believe that the people he pitches the ideas to are not in on the joke. ![]() However, ‘Nathan for You’ is ultimately a television show, so there are some strategic edits in certain scenes. Therefore, we see how Nathan likes to keep the show as real and unscripted as possible, to maximize the comedic impact. The Movement is one of the fastest selling books on Amazon! Congrats to author Jack Garbarino. In one of the episodes, he rebranded a moving company as a workout class, calling it ‘The Movement.’ They marketed the company by releasing a book which became an Amazon best-seller. Some of Nathan’s stunts have had real-world impacts as well. Although Starbucks did consider legal action against the coffee shop, it did not follow through. The show worked with a Cali based coffee shop called Dumb Starbucks Coffee, where the series parodied the popular chain by putting the word dumb in front of several items sold there. In fact, ‘Nathan for You’ is real enough for some of the businesses to have run into legal trouble. However, since he deals with real businesses and real people, the thing often goes off-script. He works out a general outline for his persona and improvises from there. Nathan insists that the only thing scripted in the series is his character. If they know it is a comedy, it might affect their reactions.Įmployees are also told that they are being filmed for another show for some other network, ensuring they are not in on the joke either. According to the producers, the businesses they help are all real, but owners are screened thoroughly before the show to see if they know about Nathan and the series. Before entering the world of entertainment, Nathan graduated with a commerce degree from the University of Victoria and worked at a brokerage firm. However, his credentials as a business expert are legitimate. It is exaggerated and inspired by his issues of social anxiety. Firstly, the version of Nathan that we see is not real.
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