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Leave it to Nathan Fielder<\/strong> to take a joke all the way. On the second episode of season two of The Rehearsal<\/em><\/a>, Fielder took aim at Paramount+, depicting the streamer as Nazis after it removed an episode of his previous show, Nathan For You,<\/em> for \u201csensitivities\u201d surrounding antisemitism.<\/p>\n The second season<\/a> of Fielder\u2019s HBO reality comedy series, The Rehearsal<\/em>, finds the comedian hyperfixating on ways that he can help commercial airplanes avoid plane crashes by any means necessary. (Spoilers ahead.) But the HBO series takes a detour in episode two, when Fielder discovers that Paramount+ had removed an episode of Nathan For You<\/em>\u2014the mid-2010s Comedy Central docu-reality series where the comedian would concoct elaborate schemes in order to help an individual with a business problem they were facing\u2014due to specious allegations of antisemitism.<\/p>\n In the 2015 episode of Nathan For You<\/em> \u201cHorseback Riding\/Man Zone,\u201d Fielder starts an apparel line called Summit Ice after discovering that Taiga, the Canadian brand that made his favorite winter jacket, had published a tribute to the Holocaust denier Doug Collins. In response, Fielder, who is Jewish, launched his own brand of winter jackets, Summit Ice, dedicated to spreading Holocaust awareness and donating all profits to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre<\/a> and other educational organizations.<\/a> Fielder enlisted the help of a rabbi and pitched the business idea to a store owner on the show, which included showcasing their clothing behind a replica of the Auschwitz gate, swastika pennants, and a fake skeleton in an oven.<\/p>\n While Fielder\u2019s Holocaust-centric winter jacket pitch flopped in the room\u2014\u201cFind something else to do with your life, because you are not good at this,\u201d the store owner said\u2014the brand became something of a cult hit for fans of the eccentric comedian. Summit Ice reportedly generated $300,000 in sales in its first eight weeks, with famous individuals like John Mayer<\/strong> and Jack Black<\/strong> spotted<\/a> wearing Summit Ice jackets in the weeks after the episode aired. In episode two of The Rehearsal<\/em>, Fielder estimates that, in the past decade, Summit Ice has probably generated millions of dollars toward Holocaust awareness. Summit Ice is Fielder\u2019s \u201cproudest achievement,\u201d he said, using it as an example of something \u201csilly\u201d that \u201ccan actually have an impact in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n While Fielder\u2019s Summit Ice intentions were pure, the message of his Nathan For You<\/em> stunt was apparently misinterpreted by Paramount, the parent company of Comedy Central, and its streamer Paramount+ removed the episode without informing Fielder. After reaching out to Paramount+, Fielder found out the reasoning for taking the episode down, which he described on The Rehearsal<\/em> as \u201cso shocking\u201d that it created \u201ca tornado of emotions began spinning in my body.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn late 2023, a decision was made by Paramount+ Germany to remove the episode in their region after they became uncomfortable with what they called \u2018anything that touches on antisemitism in the aftermath of the Israel\/Hamas attacks,\u2019\u201d said Fielder, reading an email he received from Paramount+ on The Rehearsal<\/em>. \u201cThis act by Germany triggered the attention of other European Paramount branches, and they, in turn, pulled the episode too. Before long, the ideology of Paramount+ Germany had spread to the entire globe, eliminating all Jewish content that made them uncomfortable.\u201d As Fielder is describing this, the screen displays a map of Europe with the Paramount+ logo spreading from Germany across all of Europe in a ripple effect\u2014at once, a not-so-subtle parallel to the spread of fascism.<\/p>\n Ever attune to irony, Fielder proceeded to dedicate the last half of the episode to \u201crehearsing<\/a>\u201d the conversation he would have with Paramount executives about why they took \u201cHorseback Riding\/Man Zone\u201d off the platform. But there was one problem. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what the Paramount+ Germany offices looked like, so I sort of had to take a guess,\u201d said Fielder. His version of the German Paramount offices was straight out of Nazi Germany, with hired actors portraying Paramount \u201cexecutives\u201d with thick German accents, dressed in Nazi-adjacent suits, saluting each other, and taking military orders. Large banners with the Paramount+ logo draped the walls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n