.nathanfielder is known for his often hilarious, sometimes mean, always uncomfortable stunts. In his new show, “The Rehearsal,” he’s staging his grandest experiment yet. lilapearl reports
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The show positioned Fielder, now 39, at the forefront of what the New York Times recently hailed as a “quiet revolution” in comedy. Along with Sacha Baron Cohen and John Wilson, both of whom have collaborated with him, he belongs to a contingent of comedians who specialize in exposing the sorts of behavioral quirks, the unsightly warts of the self, that we are forever trying to hide.
The Rehearsal, like all of Fielder’s work, is not quite what it seems at first. The show’s sparse marketing materials describe it as a series about “the lengths one man will go to reduce the uncertainties of everyday life.” In the opening scene of episode one, Fielder walks into the apartment of a middle-aged teacher who has responded to a vague Craigslist ad.
Today, they were trying to hammer together a provisional script for an episode of the show’s third season. The topic filled Wilson’s heart with trepidation. “Is there anything new,” Fielder asked, “on the public-bathroom front?” Wilson and the two other writers in the room — Michael Koman, an EP on How To and the co-creator of Nathan for You, and Alice Gregory, a journalist — stared back at him.
How Much of This Can You Take? In the growing subgenre of reality comedy, comedians play off the reactions of real people. Some of these shows cause mild discomfort; the most extreme will make you want to curl up and die.
Fielder’s videos caught the eye of a producer on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Canada’s equivalent of The Daily Show. In 2007, he developed an interview segment for the show called “Nathan on Your Side.” He went around the country in a shirt and tie confronting real people with questions no local correspondent would ever ask. In one, he sits down with a professional matchmaker and inquires when they will “get to the kiss.
The episode took more than six months to make. Fielder begins his quest by hiring a fourth-generation circus performer to teach him how to walk on a wire. Then he disposes of Corey, hiding him for two weeks in a trailer in the Mojave Desert. With the ostensible protagonist safely out of the way, Fielder puts on a padded bodysuit and a prosthetic mask of Corey’s face and becomes him.
When Nathan for You first aired, many critics hailed it as brilliant, but some wondered if it wasn’t also cruel. On a Slate culture podcast in 2014, Dan Kois said there were moments when “the concepts really hit” and other times that made him “deeply unhappy” with himself “and the world.” Watching the show, it was sometimes hard not to worry for the people who were in it.
Fans have often said Nathan for You exposes the cruelty of capitalism, depicting America as a place where people will do nearly anything to survive. But that is also a large part of what can make the show itself unsettling to watch. By focusing on small businesses, it depends on the participation of people who are struggling, many of them immigrants and people of color.
Nathan Fielder in The Rehearsal. Photo: Allyson Riggs/HBO At Universal Studios, Fielder suggested we take in some culture: a live stunt show based on Waterworld, the 1995 postapocalyptic epic starring Kevin Costner. The movie was a flop of historic proportions, and yet the show, improbably, is still going strong. On a Wednesday afternoon, the stadium was packed and the crowd was shrieking. “What percentage of people here even know Waterworld is a movie?” Fielder wondered.
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