Nathan Fielder, from Nathan For You, Had a Run-In With The Cops That Was As Perfectly Awkward as You'd Hope

I’m a huge Nathan Fielder guy. He’s maybe the most awkward human being on the face of the Earth and I love every second of it. If you have never seen the show “Nathan For You” you’re missing out because it’s absolutely ridiculous. For those that haven’t seen the show the premise is basically Nathan goes to struggling business, pitching them preposterous and elaborate ideas to get things going in the right direction. What makes the show is that Nathan Fielder’s social awkwardness (based off how he really is in real life) making everything laugh out loud funny. Some of his ideas actually work, like when they renamed a failing coffee shop “Dumb Starbucks” and basically turned the whole store into Starbucks. Every single Starbucks product was simply listed with the word “dumb” before it. Legally they worked under the law “fair use” since they said they were making fun of Starbucks and were thus allowed to use the trademarks somehow. The idea actually worked for a little while, and gained big time media coverage before getting shutdown. This is just one example of the absolutely outrageous ideas that come from this show, and there are MANY.

So here is Nathan Fielder on Jimmy Kimmel the other night, describing a real life run-in with the cops where he took someone else’s luggage, was late for a wedding, wore that guy’s oversized suit, and got pulled over for speeding. A suspicious baggy was in the suitcase and Fielder left it out in the car because why wouldn’t he? He had to explain to the cop in classic “Nathan For You” fashion that it wasn’t his, and got the guy on the phone to explain that it in fact was his mother’s ashes. I present to you Nathan Fielder in a nutshell. The way he tells the story is so awkward it’s fucking incredible. If you ever get in a binge of this show I’m telling you, you’re gonna get out of it and three days have passed. Few shows have left me crying my eyes out laughing like this did my senior year of college. We’d go out, no one would get laid, if there were no more sports on we simply binged “Nathan For You.” I was a real college star let me tell ya.