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Nate on Netflix
With many notable alumni working in film, television and comedy including Natalie Palamides, star of Netflix s Nate stand-up special proprietors of L.A. s top clown schools discuss the city s rise as a clowning hub. Most people, when they hear clown, think American circus clown or horror film freaky, serial killer clown,” says John Gilkey, who founded The Idiot Workshop, one of Los Angeles’ three clown schools, in 2012. “The fact that people don t really know what we do helps us; the mystique of it. Because they can t describe it, they say, Oh, you just have to go try this thing.’”
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No one who watches the recently-released Netflix comedy special “Nate: A One Man Show” will confuse it with any other comedy special.
The avant-garde, one-hour special is rated TV-MA for good reason and stars Natalie Palamides, a 2008 Peters Township High School/2012 Indiana University of Pennsylvania grad, as Nate, a guy who is toxic masculinity personified.
Her bare chest speckled in fake chest hair, Palamides wears a manly vest for the first half of the program but then … stuff happens: Prosthetic male body parts are bared, a shower is taken on stage.