Nathan Fielder is firing pictures at Paramount+.

The streaming service eliminated an episode of Fielder's Comedy Central sequence Nathan for You, the comic complains in Sunday's episode of his HBO docu-comedy The Rehearsal.

Within the episode, Fielder explains that certainly one of his proudest achievements is creating the Summit Ice Attire model, which he launched in the course of the second episode of Nathan for You's third season in 2015 to advertise Holocaust consciousness.

"In late 2023, I found that the episode of Nathan for You that includes the Summit Ice story mysteriously went lacking from the Paramount+ streaming service," Fielder says on The Rehearsal.

Fielder then recreates the second that he discovered concerning the removing of the episode — which continues to be lacking from Paramount+ on the time of writing — by directing Alexander Leiss, who performed "Faux Nathan" in The Rehearsal's first season, to retype his e-mail correspondence with Paramount.

"I wrote an e-mail to some contacts I had at Paramount, asking them why the episode was eliminated," Fielder explains over voiceover, noting that he wanted to keep up professionalism with the corporate as a result of his different current present, The Curse, can be a Paramount venture. "The factor that made this tough was, Paramount is presently airing a special sequence of mine, a scripted drama that hadn't but been renewed. How I spoke to them may have profession repercussions."

In his ordinary deadpan supply, Fielder remembers, "I keep in mind desirous to convey how pressing this was for me, and but my e-mail was extraordinarily cordial, utilizing phrases like 'without end grateful' and 'completely happy holidays.' The community confirmed of their response that it was taken down deliberately and gave me a one-word rationalization as to why: 'sensitivities.'"

Leisure Weekly has discovered that Paramount+ will not be streaming the episode after a requirements evaluation, however it’s unclear which of the corporate's requirements the episode failed to fulfill. A clip from the episode continues to be viewable in a video on Comedy Central's YouTube channel.

Fielder goes on to recount the second that he obtained a lengthier rationalization.

"What I found was so surprising, a twister of feelings started spinning inside my physique," he narrates. "The e-mail mentioned, in late 2023, a choice was made by Paramount+ Germany to take away the episode of their area after they grew to become uncomfortable with what they referred to as 'something that touches on antisemitism within the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas assaults.'"

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The comic, who’s Jewish, additionally claims that the German Paramount+ division's choice brought on different nations to take away the episode and sarcastically attracts parallels between this chain of occasions and World Battle II (a wartime-style map graphic reveals the Paramount+ blue-and-white emblem spreading throughout the European continent).

"This act by Germany triggered the eye of different European Paramount branches, they usually pulled the episode, too," he says. "Earlier than lengthy, the ideology of Paramount+ Germany had unfold to all the globe, eliminating all Jewish content material that made them uncomfortable. That is actual, by the way in which."

Fielder additionally shares statistics concerning the programming presently out there on Paramount+ in the USA.

"On the Paramount app, there are 50 outcomes for 'Nazi', 10 for 'Hitler,' and 0 for 'Judaism,'" he says. "We've been erased."

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Fielder's claims concerning the "Nazi" and "Hitler" outcomes on Paramount+ have been right on the time of this writing, with titles just like the Smithsonian Channel's The Hunt for Nazi Gold Practice and V2: Nazi Rocket showing among the many 50 "Nazi" outcomes and reveals like Hitler's Riches and The Day Hitler Died among the many 10 "Hitler" outcomes.

On the identical time, there may be one single outcome for "Judaism": Spotlights: A Showtime Brief Movie Collection. Moreover, the "Nazi" outcomes embody puzzling titles like The Superb Race, Minari, and March Insanity, none of which have any connection to Nazism or World Battle II — which can point out that the Paramount+ search operate is subpar, quite than a bias or representational imbalance within the streamer's library.

Later within the episode, Fielder makes an attempt to deliver himself closure on the episode's removing by hiring an actor to play the top of the German department of Paramount+ and confronting him concerning the choice. He clothes the actor like a Nazi and units the assembly in a warfare room.

"Look, I do know you guys in all probability really feel quite a lot of disgrace about what you probably did prior to now, and now you're making an attempt to overcompensate by being the world leaders in preventing antisemitism, however in the case of artwork, I feel it’s important to know your house, and it’s important to allow us to Jews specific ourselves, as a result of actually, the way in which you're approaching this complete factor, folks would possibly get the incorrect thought about what you really stand for," Fielder says to the pretend Paramount government.

After giving the actor permission to improvise, the pretend exec criticizes Fielder's method.

"You designed this workplace to appear to be a warfare room, dressed me to appear to be a Nazi," he says, "pretending to need suggestions, however you don't really need to get the Paramount+ perspective or the German perspective. Take a look at you, pretending to be severe! This isn’t honest, only a man along with his grudge, utilizing his tv present to smear us as an alternative of making an attempt to grasp us."

The Rehearsal airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on Max and following The Righteous Gem stones on HBO.

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