Obviously Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie, the stars of the Jews-on-Christmas comedy The Night Before, knew what they were in for when Comedy Central asked if Nathan Fielder could interview them. It’s marketing for their new film, and clearly staged. And yet… it’s still super uncomfortable, because it’s Nathan for You‘s Nathan Fielder and everything he does is super uncomfortable. Like his Holocaust-inspired jacket line.
Fielder begins by saying he’s talking to “three big celebrities, well, two, technically,” and then segues into discussions about sex, demographics (Rogen: Jew; Mackie: black; JGL: gay), women being paid less than men, and how four of his scenes were cut from the finished film. Nathan Fielder was already on seemingly every news station in the country for Dumb Starbucks and Jack Garbarino’s The Movement book — let him be an anchor, too. I’d pay good money to see him teamed up with Karl Stefanovic.
Even Fielder can’t out-award Stefanovic’s Dalai Lama joke.