The Un-Reality of Nathan For You | Video Essay 

sirvz he’s using his powers for good

hard Agree

Im sure the best politicians think the same way he does. Thats why people are zombies

@@A1.2223 unlike you, you've broken free from the chains of societal expectations

@@joshmuir8058 took me till i was 19 to wake up

thiefofthursday it was indeed

@@giampaolofini1535 thanks for this info!

what

far too purple

Nathan actually hit up the ghostwriter from that episode to come on and help write for a different scheme on a different episode it was funny as hell

“I see a lot of me in you. You’ve just gotta be more like me, and less like you”

The Sunshine Group I honestly believe that he is pretty much the same off csmera

He admitted that he is a comedian on Finding Frances once.

The Sunshine Group minus that one time where that dude said he drank his grandsons pee 😂

link?

The Sunshine Group Lmao, I also love that it's so hard to tell. RecklessWonders Lol I don't have the link, but I promise you that happened, and he did briefly break character. Just search the keywords.

How so?

@@incandescentbeverage247 Don't fall for it, yfz01 is one of Nathan's pseudo names.

Nathan is one cool, chill, awesome dude!

i mean duh. there’s no way someone like nathan could work their way up to landing their own tv show unless they were socially savvy

@@connor4161 I think it takes someone incredibly socially savvy to be able to act that socially unsavvy and get away with it. I really like the section in the tightrope walking episode where he's wearing the mask in the pub or club or whatever, and everyone's dancing and laughing and having a good time. He's obviously scarily capable of being charming

Bro-yessss!🤣

Woken One Don’t ever forget Borat lol

Woken One So many layers to this show, a microcosm of our nesting dolls reality. The life labyrinth of broken mirrors. p.s. I like your channel.

@@watzupLandyJustinLi You mean Da Ali G Show. That's where that character originated, then became a movie from there.

his new show "The Rehearsal" would like a word with you...

The Rehearsal might be better.

ᴶᴼᴺ Drinks Water 💦 not underrated, just not popular enough. I'm sure anyone who rates it would rate it well

staying unpopular may give us more seasons

If everyone knew and recognized Nathan the show would probably cease to exist

He said season 4 was his last season.

youre telling me.

I Love the show. And I wanna be his friend...but I don't necessarily agree with your statement...in all cases. I think SOME of the businesses end up looking foolish and could face negative results, and that is ethically uncomfortable. Take the pizza place that offers the free pizza if they can't deliver in a few minutes, but turns out it's a tiny pizza. That is hilarious! But if I lived in that town and they tried to trick me like that, I probably would ve angry and never order again...ok...actually I might find it funny and clever...but I think the common customer will just never want to deal with them again. There are probably other similar cases where a person/business could be in worse condition for whatever gimmicky idea they agreed to try. Which is at least partially there own fault, I guess.

@@yltcraxe True but hey, big risks can come with big rewards or consequences. Depends what type of person you are. Even if ideas are gimmicky, it takes balls and guts to try something others are uncomfortable with. That's part of the comedy of this series but it seems to be teaching us more on taking more risks in our lives to significantly transform it.

yihaw149 Yeah but it takes guts on the business owners part. Nathan doesnt have to risk much himself lol

I completely disagree... I think customers would be fed up with businesses trying to fool them and not help them anymore. All the while the business owners look foolish for going along with these plans and sometimes willfully scamming the public. I don't think it's good publicity at all lol

@@danielsmith5032 I thought any publicity was good publicity

I agree about Frank and Heidi.... it is always funny how we have an image of someone based upon their voice alone

Technically Nathan just made a remark about the guy's nail polish and the guy says he's gay and threatens to kick Nathan's ass. Nathan wouldn't ask if someone was gay unless it was in the most passive aggressive way possible

That really was a bittersweet way to end the show. It felt like high art.

And the closing track? One of my favorite songs now :,)

Which sentence?

Yep. The humor aspect was just the chosen exterior format. At it's core it touches (and reflects) on the grander aspects of illusion as truth via media, promotions, publicity, false testimonies, and so much more. For those with the eyes, and desire, to see clearly.

Y’all got a good conversation up in here

I could go for a mother effin beer

Here I go, digging in again.

Ye man, its my mothers ashes

Agree

That's 90% of all video essays to be honest.

Honestly, o think it was done very well. Long, perhaps. Simple, yes. But the way the information and underlying themes of the series were presented had a good pace, and was simple enough for everyone who watches to understand. It's a useful "next step" for people who like the show without realizing what it represents. Showing people how Nathan is showing them that the world we know isn't always as reliable as we think is a good lesson, and I'm glad the video exists

With a comical twist.. its like half prank/scripted... part real, cause his still marketing them.

On the surface it's entertainment, but at the core it's revealing methods of big scams and uber-fake news that are portrayed as genuine to the masses. But in order to see through the haze you have to want to see through it, clearly, reality. Many people cling to their ego rather than admit they've fully bought into the lie(s). All the World's a Stage and the overseers of the media and political arenas are the puppet masters. Nathan's resulting works are both brilliant and revealing.

Yea then the next scene the guy explains the 100 dollar bill deal...commentator never clarified

No, dumb Starbucks would've still gotten closed down by the fdi

Look into the conscious vs words vs expressoons of every commercial actor. False testimonies flow from their tongues for a few shiny shekels as well as the ego boost. 95%+ of everyone you see in media is acting/lying. All the World's a Stage.

Mostly

"short form online serial" boy what the fuck you talking about it is a tv show

Don't call it a short form online serial. Who the fuck are you trying to impress just call it a tv show lol

Jesus fucking christ... I only ever watched this show on the Comedy Central RU-vid channel. Since most of the clips on that page are short, and were available online, and appeared in serial form- I felt that was the most reasonable and accurate description to what I experienced. (I never had Comedy Central on cable TV, or Googled this show [before now] and did not like this show enough to download it or buy it.) I was not trying to impress anyone, I rarely comment on any RU-vid video, I just noticed that Full Fat Video has been consistently making nop notch content, despite lacking a base to represent his analytic skills, and felt I should share my feedback, as guys like Nerdwriter have thousand 'first' comments, but more detailed and less flashy videos like this, generally get less love :) Forgive me for my ignorance!

No it's not just that you kind of just word everything in the fashion of a dumb guy trying to emulate how smart people talk.

Good god, gracious me. Is this is a little troll that I see? Flaunting his insecurities in the form of a 'diss', if only to sucker souls into debates that would 'just take the piss'. Off to your cave, to the dark you should hide, some people have no time to spare to waste on crafting a proper response, others try to be nice and have their time equally lost. In the case of myself, I see what is, and what could be, and craft this rhyme filled response, with ease and ample intellectual dexterity! Have a good one pal xD

I still think that way more of it is scripted/fabricated than we are led to believe. The show makes you question the reality of everything you see, and that's the point.

Up until this point I thought the whole thing is scripted and that these were epic parodies of other reality shows and social commentary. And that most of them are paid professional actors. Because finding certain people through Classifieds, then seeing and recording the results of the change done to the business may take weeks.

u say that but dont forget that the number of people who watch comedy central / even engage with the internet in any meaningful way is pretty small, especially among small business owners. when u own a business it basically becomes ur entire life so i understand that many people wouldnt know abt the show or nathan at all.... especially when the business is owned by an older and / or foreign person, that is just another layer of disconnection from modern media. take a step back brother its actually not that crazy lmao

Please just remove all the music thanks

I wish it got slightly louder and louder til you couldn't hear him anymore lmao

Fuck. Was that 15 mins really. I have a problem. I start watching and everything around me goes dark and numb. I need help. Maybe rehab... eh, I'll just google how to stop watching you tube videos.

@@christinadrescher3163 maybe theres a video thatll show you how

og jonx Sorry about this Ameer Vaan

It was dumb lol I agree

🤣

og jonx I now wonder if the Saturation cover is an omen of the white mask society during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Eric Andre Show is best satire of all time, no competition at all. It's literally hundreds of years ahead of its time.

It kind of just felt like you were summarizing the show and telling things an intelligent viewer could have figured out themselves

mary-kate Kreisler I agree, video left me feeling like I wasted my time.

I agree, started playing it on 1.25x and then skipping to try and find the analysis. Shame as it must have taken a lot of effort to cut together and narrate.

VGScreens you’re so mad it’s hilarious😂😂

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. He wasn't just summarising though, what annoyed me the most was the praise he was giving it. As much as a I like for the show to be praised, he was praising it for things that it doesn't do. In what way does the show trick us? The only thing the audience doesn't know is how Nathan is outside of character. Early in the video he says "If they don't believe it's the best burger, they can have their money back" while it literally is written on screen "$100". Then says that the business owners genuinely believe that Nathan's tactics will work, when often they don't believe him and he has to do some crazy scheme to prove to them it's a plausible idea. Then the analysis is just so all over the place drawing weird meanings from things that don't even tie in with clips shown or things he's said. He says that the "contestants" not knowing that they're on a comedy show until it's aired (therefore not getting their reaction when they find out it's a comedy show) makes it more authentic, which it doesn't. I don't think he knew what authentic meant. His whole analysis of the "dumb starbucks" media coverage made no sense. I could break down how almost every sentence he said about the "dumb starbucks" situation was completely wrong but I can't be fucked. I can't watch the whole video because it's so stupid. Basically, there's so many good things to be said about the show and a fair amount to be discussed, but he didn't really touch on any of it and instead made... whatever that video was.

This is what Eric Andre does with on the street pranks too... Even with the celebrity interviews, he's tricking the guests into interactions they're not ready for, putting their acting to the test on camera.... Putting their true selves to the test for us to see....

They are in on it. I find it pretty funny this dude is trying to offer some intellectual analysis of the show without realizing this lol

www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/is-nathan-for-you-real-or-fake-145154

Of course the producers want the audience to think the participants are unaware, but it's naive to think they don't know.

I'd usually agree since most shows today are fake, however the reactions shown by the participants seem very genuine. These people are real business owners and not actors, and if they knew it was a comedy show I doubt they would act as awkward and confused as they do. The only exceptions would be the recurring characters like the judge or the lawyer. However even then Nathan sometimes pushes them to the limit, like when the lawyer started to get pissed in the dumb starbucks episode.

This is really wierd... I thought everthing in the show was scripted... I kind of thought of it in terms of The Office (fake documentary, fake reality tv show)

That is very kind of you, so glad you enjoyed it :)

Honestly thought they were until I saw Nathan’s episode

horizonfios easily a G.O.A.T. sentence

it kills me too!

I, as a general principle, don't take very seriously someone attempting to sum up the views of a philosopher whose name they can't even pronounce properly. Maybe the insanely low barrier to entry for online video essays isn't a universally good thing?

Athens Horseparty While I disagree with him, I don’t think stooping to ad hominem and excusing yourself from addressing anything he says is going to help anyone. Especially when you aren’t even putting your name to your comment.

Athens Horseparty Pronouncing names correctly is not something anyone should be concerned about. Literally read the anglacanization (dont really know the word for it, im guessing from my native language) of Baudrillard. Like people do with Schwartzenneger. No one reads it as shvartzanega. More like shuartseneger.

joaquin I disagree, learning correct pronunciations shows respect to a person and respect to their culture. Inversely, doing the opposite shows the equal amount of disrespect. So I disagree when you say it’s not something that anyone should be concerned about.