{"id":293855,"date":"2026-02-12T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293855\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:23:06","slug":"time100-health-nathan-fielder-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293855\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Nathan Fielder | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">At the core of Canadian comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/100-most-influential-people-2023\/6269978\/nathan-fielder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Fielder<\/a>\u2019s signature absurdist bits is a thoughtful examination of human behavior. Last year, the subject of pilot mental health challenges drove Season 2 of his HBO docu-comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7276895\/the-rehearsal-season-2-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rehearsal,<\/a> and his work may have had an indirect payoff. In September, months after the season aired, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/casten.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/castens-bipartisan-pilot-mental-health-bill-passes-house\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Health in Aviation Act<\/a>, which requires the Federal Aviation Administration to enable pilots to seek mental health treatment without fear of professional repercussions. Fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/the-rehearsal-pilots-mental-health-congress-nathan-fielder-1236498376\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on a panel that John Goglia, an aviation safety expert who advised him during filming, believes the show pushed the legislation forward. Lauren Feldman, a communications professor at Rutgers University, says that comedians are in a unique position to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/archive\/7037879\/stewart-and-colbert-their-biggest-moments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">draw attention<\/a> to important issues outside traditional channels. \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting and exciting about this example is [that it uses] different formats and genres of comedy to try to push social change,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the core of Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder\u2019s signature absurdist bits is a thoughtful examination of human behavior.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47092,9810,103,397,396,61,60,28976,709,47094,12277,139977],"class_list":{"0":"post-293855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-list","16":"tag-magazine","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}