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Tuned into the original production of Nathan For You because of Gordo of K-Ticket fame and admire the incredibly over the top level of painful detail he puts into his bits, but this last episode of The Rehearsal is so over the top and incredible that I haven't stopped thinking about it.
If you are unfamiliar with Nathan Fielder, he's a "comedian" (quotes only because it's hilarious even though he never shows any emotion and doesn't really seem to tell any jokes at all) who started with a reality tv show where he would take small business owners and give them the most over the top outlandish and ridiculous business advice possible. This morphed into an HBO production where he creates set designs that mimic actual real environments and has people who are going thru struggles with other people rehearse their situation over and over with a team of actors before they actually confront the person they are having the struggle with.
This last stunt, though, is absolutely insane. Unbeknownst to any of his fans, 2-3 years ago he decided that the wanted to bring attention to the lack of communication on commercial jet flights, so he:
-learned how to fly an airplane FROM SCRATCH
-got his pilot license even though it took him 5x longer than it should have because he had trouble landing
-got his instrument rating
-logged ~300 flight hours
Here's the kicker...he then found a loophole in the laws where instead of having thousands of hours of actual flight time to be a commercial jet pilot, he could just go in and get his commercial certs on a Boeing 737 simulator, which HE DID.
Then, when it was time to submit his commercial pilot license questionnaire, when he got to the part about having to disclose if he'd been diagnosed with Autism, he instead goes and gets a full doctor's examination before answering it.
I don't even want to spoil the ending because of how insane it is, but he actually rented a 737 and flew ~180 people from San Bernadino to Nevada and back. THEN he got a job where he goes to dangerous countries around the world and flies decommissioned 737's back to the US to be reconditioned for future flights.
It's the most over the top thing ever, and I'm still filled with anxiety over the whole thing.
If you are unfamiliar with Nathan Fielder, he's a "comedian" (quotes only because it's hilarious even though he never shows any emotion and doesn't really seem to tell any jokes at all) who started with a reality tv show where he would take small business owners and give them the most over the top outlandish and ridiculous business advice possible. This morphed into an HBO production where he creates set designs that mimic actual real environments and has people who are going thru struggles with other people rehearse their situation over and over with a team of actors before they actually confront the person they are having the struggle with.
This last stunt, though, is absolutely insane. Unbeknownst to any of his fans, 2-3 years ago he decided that the wanted to bring attention to the lack of communication on commercial jet flights, so he:
-learned how to fly an airplane FROM SCRATCH
-got his pilot license even though it took him 5x longer than it should have because he had trouble landing
-got his instrument rating
-logged ~300 flight hours
Here's the kicker...he then found a loophole in the laws where instead of having thousands of hours of actual flight time to be a commercial jet pilot, he could just go in and get his commercial certs on a Boeing 737 simulator, which HE DID.
Then, when it was time to submit his commercial pilot license questionnaire, when he got to the part about having to disclose if he'd been diagnosed with Autism, he instead goes and gets a full doctor's examination before answering it.
I don't even want to spoil the ending because of how insane it is, but he actually rented a 737 and flew ~180 people from San Bernadino to Nevada and back. THEN he got a job where he goes to dangerous countries around the world and flies decommissioned 737's back to the US to be reconditioned for future flights.
It's the most over the top thing ever, and I'm still filled with anxiety over the whole thing.
