Nathan Fielder calls FAA dumb, forces awkward moment between CNN co-hosts during chat about The Rehearsal

Nathan Fielder called the Federal Aviation Administration “dumb” and forced an uncomfortable moment between CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and his co-host during a surreal interview Thursday.The quirky comedian, 42, spared no one, including a US representative, as he discussed the chatter around his HBO docu-series, “The Rehearsal,” that recently concluded its second season and pushes the claim that communication issues between pilot and co-pilot contribute to many devastating airline crashes.Fielder went as far as to get his commercial pilot license after two years of training and then flew a 737 plane with 150 actors on board as passengers for the show.When co-host Pamela Brown read a statement from the FAA that the agency doesn’t see data that backs up the show’s central theory, Fielder shot that down.“That’s dumb,” he said on CNN as he wore a 737 hat after the Boeing plane.“They’re dumb.”“Here’s the issue … I trained to be a pilot, and I’m a 737 pilot.

I went through the training.The training is someone shows you a PowerPoint slide saying, ‘If you are a co-pilot and the captain does something wrong, you need to speak up about it.’ That’s all,” Fielder went on to say.“That’s the training, and they talk about some crashes that happen, but they don’t do anything that makes it stick emotionally so pilots think they’ll act a certain way in an accident.”Fielder, who appeared on the segment with aviation expert John Goglia, then tried to use the dynamic between Blitzer and Brown in a bid to prove his argument.“I’m sure, Pamela, you don’t say things to Wolf because between you two, like who would be the boss? Like you’re Wolf Blitzer so your name is first on the thing,” Fielder said, “so I’m sure Pamela, at times, you might not want to say, ‘Oh, Wolf wants to do something,’ you don’t think it’s a good idea, you might not want to express that always.”When Brown tried to insist that the pair have a good rel...