The Rehearsal: Nathan Fielder Giving Life the Business

They say that one of the high-society ladies that was familiar with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (and his character) said, after he died, that he was an intriguing madman. In this episode, we delve head first into Nathan Fielder's foldy-folds, whether torture chambers, traps, or some choice slices of life (if you look there you can see Nathan's symptom holding the machete).Between the sketch(y) comedy and HBO's NDAs, our discussion seems to oscillate from wondering what makes the joke, to who's made the prop. Jake spies Derrida's metaphysics of presence  over-and-above Nathan's own over-and-above; and Sagi pushes Lyotard's distinction between damage and wrong (or plaintiff and victim) as the more nefarious ethical underpinnings of Nathan's gesture. The silenced price of life being made to work.The Rehearsal was a 6 episode, multilayered fake-shit-show, so forgive us going a bit overboard on running time (2h).Main stars this time around: Pervs R' Us and Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais ...okay, and some WWJD (because Sagi, again)* Image from Flickr: State Library Victoria Collections