nathan fielder creating a play called “smokers allowed” to get around the smoking ban
— susie (@susieetweets) October 20, 2026
what’s the loophole? nathan’s responding “theater law” makes me laugh every single time 😭 pic.twitter.com/PLSnotfqC1
२१ ऑक्टोबर, २०२६
"It's so funny because it's so nothing in a way, but incredibly profound. It reminded me of Sam Shepard."
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१० टिप्पण्या:
The clip is from the HBO show "Nathan for You" which ran from 2013 to 2017 and was classified as "satirical docu-reality comedy" and "cringe comedy."
A lot of people, including me, are going back to that show because we're inspired by Fielder's current movie, "You Can See Everything." I'd like to see that movie, but don't like to go to the movies during the day or — for different reasons — during the evening. That's a problem! But obviously, that movie will be streamable on TV soon enough.
…actors in talkies get to join the guilds and are thus clothed with all rights and privileges therein…
Sam Shepard the playwright or Sam Shepard the fugitive?
This is why I detest Hollywood.
Hollywood promotes a CULTURE of sex, violence, guns, drugs and cigarette smoking.
But then the Democrats, who desire nothing but nanny state-ing us to death - come down like a Slotkin pile of bricks, with their endless punitive laws in the opposite direction.
Cigarettes are taxed as maximum, The left are on a non-stop crusade to take away our guns and 2nd amendment rights, the democrat left use false or unprovable allegations of rape all the time, the left claim to be anti-violence, but that's a lie. The left use De-fund the police and lawfare to ruin lives with leftist violence... and on and on..
"Nathan for You" has so many priceless episodes. "Claw of Shame" isn't for everyone but it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
I just found out Sam Shepherd spent nearly 10 years in the slammer for killing his pregnant wife. Lucky for him The (capital T) U.S. Supreme Court (lordy lord) overturned the conviction in 1966 (Sheppard v. Maxwell), citing a "carnival atmosphere" and unfair, prejudicial media coverage.
That's pretty funny. There is one legal problem that you might run into. If you have a live flame onstage, most counties in California require you to coordinate that with the local Fire Marshal. They would have to approve your fire plan, verify that fire alarms and sprinklers were good (if required) and they might require you to hire fire spotters with fire extinguishers handy. And the thing about Fire Marshals is that they're allowed to make up their own rules. Fore example: If you have smoke detectors and the cigarette smoke sets the alarms off, the Fire Marshal could allow you to temporarily disable them during performances if you add fire watchers.
It's funny how times have changed. Back in the 80s actors would smoke and drink alcohol onstage and no one cared. A few years ago, I read an article about how the student theater group at LMU (which I was a member of in the early 80s) was disciplined because they had an actor, who was under the age of 21, holding a beer bottle filled with ginger ale onstage.
I actually played a character once that had to smoke onstage. The play was, Lone Star, by James McClure. My character, Cletis T. Fullernoy, was the local dork who owned the hardware store in town. In the scene, my character had just "borrowed" and crashed the 1959 Thunderbird that the lead character owned. So I'm talking to his brother and I'm so upset that I pull out a pack of cigarettes. Then I do the cigarette pack trick that Paul Newman did in the movie, HUD, as I say, "I saw Hud nine times!" and light one. Then I choke on the smoke because my character is a non-smoker who only lit up because he was so stressed out.
I looked up Shepard because I still get him confused with the Shepherd from a Christmas Story. I was going to say in reaction to the “play” review that I could watch a sound only YouTube of (Christmas Story) Shepherd reading the phone book and I would stay for the duration. (Bathroom breaks not included)
The Exchange
• Kramer: "You know, just because a person's a smoker, that doesn't mean he's not a human being."
• Jerry: "It doesn't?"
• Kramer: "Well, you can confine them, you can punish them, you can cram them into the corner, but they're not going away, Jerry."
We just haven’t tried hard enough yet.
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