In You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder sets his reality-distorting comedic documentarian talents on disgraced tech founder Elizabeth Holmes. The movie had the internet in a chokehold even before its release. Are there lessons in Fielder’s theater of the awkward and the cringe comedy genre for traditional journalism?
0:00 Why does Nathan Fielder have the internet in a chokehold?
4:42 Why you should see You Can See Everything in a theater
6:29 Nathan Fielder’s career has built to this moment
9:03 Can the cringe comedians ever show up “real” journalists?
12:20 Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes both make us question reality
16:48 Is cringe comedy sometimes just mean?
21:04 Meg Stalter highlights a gendered double standard here
23:51 Scroll and Tell: Why do we want movies to make us cry?
30:11 Touch Grass: A perfect dinner party and a drag puppet show
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