I think he is obviously doing a pre-arranged bit with Harland
Ah yes, and Nick being on the phone with all the big shots in the industry as they all cut ties with him over the Harland incident, and him slamming the desk was also a 8D chess, 800IQ meta-post-irony bit. I swear you have to be genuinely mentally stunted in some way
(and I can't believe I'm the one to say this) to look at how Nick reacted to the whole ordeal during and after Sam's chimpout to still quadruple down on this "turbo meta post irony" copout.
Nick is the business guy in MDE. He is the one that's there to do deals with [as] to get Sam's show on the air. Sam has completely ruined MDE's reputation with his chimpout on Harland's show and Nick knew
exactly how fucked he and the entire crew was. Him going through a panic attack as Sam flipped the desk is not something you "act out for a bit", motherfucker's been thinking about all the potential deals he had lined up or planned to get just going poof because Sam couldn't act normal. Sam has
some brain cells for comedy and the rest of the troupe are genuinely braindead, as the Harland show has proven. Nick is the guy that keeps the entire boat afloat, so his reactions are the ones that you should be paying attention to, not Sam's.
Then on the livestream from two days ago Nick was visibly
furious over dealing with the aftermath and any comedy during those first ten minutes was him using humor to relieve the pressure, a natural human defense mechanism. Just in case you want to see it as proof of it being "just a bit". Even when he does those jokes he is audibly nervous becuase he is constantly thinking about that [as] deal falling through just like it did back in 2017 because of Sam's spergouts. There was no character or bit there, this was Nick venting his frustrations over the situation in the extent that he could on a live show without burying himself deeper than he already is.
If you honestly believe that having your business partner, the guy that actually deals with all the serious matters in your company, getting all red on the face during your chimpout and the aftermath of it, and then have every plug of your show cut out by the guy that was meant to show them to get attention to it, is all pre-planned acting and a marketing ploy, then I'm sorry, but you have some serious developmental issues and you can't read basic human emotions at all, or make any logical conclusions for the matter. Irony poisoned so hard that you no longer have a compass for what's real or not.