You’ve Never Seen Anything Quite Like <em>The Rehearsal</em>
Nathan Fielder’s superpower is pushing any situation into its most awkward territory. In his new series, he goes a step further.
by the comedian Nathan Fielder has never failed to make me laugh. In it, he’s dressed as a pharmacist and prepares a prescription—except instead of pills, he’s using raisins. The joke is nonsensical and immediately obvious, but it keeps going: Fielder carefully measures out the dosage, packs the bottle of raisins into a paper bag, says, “Here you are, ma’am,” while dropping the bag to no one in particular, and then solemnly returns the original box of raisins to a shelf. It’s the kind of bit that runs just long enough to make you question why he’s doing this—and by
