US EditionNathan Fielder Ended "The Rehearsal" With His Most Deranged Stunt Yet
- Nathan Fielder concluded The Rehearsal Season 2 with the episode “My Controls,” where he piloted a commercial 737 flight full of actors in real airspace.
- This stunt followed two years of Fielder’s training to earn a commercial pilot's license and addressed airline cockpit communication to improve safety.
- The production secured an airworthy 737, paired Fielder with a co-pilot holding over 5,000 flight hours, and employed two aviation consultants to mitigate risks.
- Stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood emphasized their efforts to maximize safety by ensuring all conditions and team readiness are as secure and reliable as possible during the production.
- Fielder successfully completed the flight, highlighting the show's thesis that acknowledging pilots' human limitations can help prevent accidents.
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With 'The Rehearsal', Nathan Fielder cements his legacy as uniquely 21st-century observational comic
When you hear the phrase “observational comedy,” you probably think of 1990s comics, such as Jerry Seinfeld (“My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned 60 and that’s the law”). Maybe you’re a little more old-school and reach back to George Carlin (“A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it”) or even further back to Lenny Bruce (“The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them”). But no matter…
COMMENTARY. Finally, Nathan Fielder touches on what his fans have been discussing for years. As season two of “The Rehearsal” draws to a close, it becomes clear what the series has really been about. (Note: The text contains spoilers for the season finale of “The Rehearsal.”)
Nathan Fielder Ended "The Rehearsal" With His Most Deranged Stunt Yet
As I’ve gotten deeper and deeper into my 30s, I’ve found that there are three types of people it upsets me to find out are younger than me: doctors, pilots and professional athletes. The latter is just an ego thing — realizing that there are people who weren’t even alive on 9/11 competing in the Olympics makes me feel a certain way about my own mortality. With doctors, it’s a little tricker; if I happen to need my gallbladder removed, I want the…
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