Tournament of Fripperies (Live with the Cast and Creators of Severance)

The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott

Audacy, Red Hour, Great Scott

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4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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On August 16, 2025, Ben Stiller and Adam Scott convened Severance's Emmy-nominated cast and creators for a live taping of the podcast. They welcome the great actor and comedian Patton Oswalt to step in as the host of the first-ever Tournament of Fripperies, a Severance-themed game show that tests contestants' knowledge of Severance and of each other. The all-star lineup includes Britt Lower, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Patricia Arquette, Tramell Tillman, and Severance creator Dan Erickson as the Tournament Judge. Only one can be crowned the Frippery Champion and be named a true child of Kier. Who will it be?

“Main Titles” performed live on the theremin by Randy George

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0:00.0	The Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is presented by The Farmer's Dog.
0:04.6	Try fresh, healthy food at the farmersdog.com slash severance.
0:18.7	Hey, everybody, it's Adam.
0:20.5	If you hear this Theraman version of the Severn's main titles playing under my voice, you're not imagining it. It's from a live show that Ben and I put on this past weekend, and today we're really excited to share it with you. We brought together Dan Erickson, Britt Lauer, John Totoro, Zach Cherry, Tremel Tillman,
0:39.3	and Patricia Arquette in front of a live audience to compete in a Severance-themed game show.
0:45.3	We even got the incredible Pat Nosswald to host it. And before the competition got started,
0:50.8	Ben and I talked with everyone about the moments behind some of the photos that
0:55.3	someone named Bendo took on set. We had so much fun, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
1:13.6	We're going to do as much as we did. Welcome. Welcome.
1:31.0	Hey, everybody.
1:33.6	Welcome to the first ever live taping of the Severance podcast with Ben and Adam.
1:40.8	Yes, welcome. Thank you so much for being here. Oh, my God.
1:44.6	Like a weird, weird dream or something, isn't it? It is. It's very weird. And it's so great to be here.
1:49.3	We love hosting this podcast. We started by just recapping the first season. We recapped the second
1:58.2	season, and we did it with cast crew, super fans. And then eventually we decided to the second season and we did it with cast crew super fans and then eventually we decided
2:03.6	to switch it up and we started having people on that influenced us and inspired us while we were
2:09.7	making the show and talking about the show with them yeah and it's been it's been great to have
2:13.6	conversations with filmmakers and comedians and musicians and people who just love the show
2:18.8	or who have aspects of the show that they connect with. But tonight is going to be a little different
2:24.3	because this is a whole different deal. It sure is. Yeah. Take a page out of the Lumen Manager Manual.
2:32.1	Yeah, we are taking Keir's early lesson about the importance of play to heart.
2:38.2	Yes. Which we all know. We sure do. Ben, what is the importance of play to you? I mean,
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