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Nathan Fielder on ‘The Rehearsal’

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The comedian is known for his often hilarious, sometimes mean, always uncomfortable stunts. The Rehearsal is his grandest experiment yet.

Photo: Zachary Scott This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In 2009, when the comedian Nathan Fielder first moved to L.A., he learned to tell his managers not to send him to meetings. Why bother? If the point was to charm people into giving him a job, sitting down with them could only hurt his chances. “I’d always say, ‘If people like the stuff I’m making, I’m not going to do anything to heighten that in person,’ ” he recalled. “I’m not going to be very funny in the room.” This was not necessarily a case of

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