What this sub would be about

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I was browsing r/NathanForYou and r/TheRehearsal and realized that I would like a community to talk about similar shows. This is early days on the sub, but I’ll list some aspects of this “genre” that I’ve noticed (though none are essential except maybe the first), and feel free to add more:

  • Cringe comedy in a documentary format
  • Often people who are quirky or odd are featured in the show, showing a wide range of interesting people
  • There may be dishonestly surrounding the circumstances under which people are participating in the show.
  • Often has a host or hosts that are good at drawing our comedic scenarios and sometimes play a character

And here are some shows that I think qualify

  • Nathan For You and The Rehearsal, obviously
  • All Sacha Baron Cohen character work
  • How To with John Wilson (more wholesome and less about cringing but he often delves into obscure and strange subcultures intentionally).
  • Brass Eye
  • Tim and Eric
  • Mister America (not the whole movie)
  • Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

There are many more but I’ll stop for now. If there’s any interest I’ll make things more well defined and brief, lol. But I don’t want this to be about any reality show or documentary. I also don’t want it to be about YouTube pranksters that just ruin the day of the restaurant staff.

And in terms od the posts I anticipate, it’ll probably just be clips posted by me for a while with some short comments/analysis. So please post if you’ve read this long so you don’t have to see my horrible posts.

Posted Aug 12, 2022, 6:02 AM UTC · edited

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