Effort and Ease (with Merritt Wever & Ramy Youssef)
The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott
Audacy, Red Hour, Great Scott
4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week, Ben and Adam welcome two incredible actors to the podcast to break down the craft of performing. First, they talk to Emmy-winning actress, Merritt Wever, about joining the cast as Gretchen in season 2, the dangers of over preparing for a role, and whether Gretchen had an affair with Dylan’s Innie. Then, the guys are joined by Ramy Youssef, a great comedian, actor, writer, director, AND Severance superfan. Together, they answer some fan questions and discuss what resonates with Ramy about Severance and, more importantly, about New Jersey.
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| 0:00.0 | The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is presented by The Farmer's Dog. |
| 0:05.6 | Try fresh, healthy food at thefarmer's dog.com slash severance. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, I'm Ben Stiller. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Adam Scott. |
| 0:13.6 | And this is the Severance podcast with Ben and Adam, where we talk about all things severance. |
| 0:18.8 | Sometimes we're talking to the people who make severance. |
| 0:20.7 | Sometimes we're talking to people who influence the show. Sometimes we're talking to the people who make severance. Sometimes |
| 0:21.0 | we're talking to people who influence the show. Sometimes we're talking to super fans. Today we kind of |
| 0:25.9 | have a nice mix. Yeah, we've got a potent brew. We're joined today by one of our incredible new cast |
| 0:32.5 | members for season two, Emmy Award winning and Golden Globe nominated actress Merritt Weaver. She plays Gretchen, |
| 0:39.4 | Dylan G's wife. Yes, she's a really great actor who's been in movies like marriage story |
| 0:44.2 | and shows like Nurse Jackie and Godless and New Girl. Very funny show. And she also has one of the best |
| 0:50.2 | awards acceptance speeches of all time. Everybody should look up her Emmy Award acceptance speech. |
| 0:55.9 | It's incredibly precise and to the point. Yeah, she kind of says it all. I put her and Joe Pesci up next to |
| 1:02.8 | each other as the best acceptance speeches of all time. What was the Joe Pesci acceptance? He just said, |
| 1:07.7 | this is my privilege. Thank you. And he walks away. Oh, I like that. Yeah. Yeah. I can't wait to talk to Merritt. And then after that, we're going to |
| 1:15.8 | bring on a Severn Superfan who Ben and I are both huge fans of the Golden Globe winning Emmy |
| 1:21.0 | nominated actor, comedian, writer, director, Rami Yusuf. He's going to help us answer some of your |
| 1:27.1 | hotline questions. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, he's very talented. Rami is doing stuff that nobody else is doing in terms of what he talks about and how he approaches comedy and drama and directing and all of it. |
| 1:40.3 | So, yeah, very, very excited to talk to him too.. Me too. I love his stand-up so much because it's |
| 1:47.2 | deeply funny, but he just seems unafraid. Yeah. It's really, really rewarding. I agree. I agree. |
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