David Marchese

Really?

Yeah. Poor long-term thinking.

Yeah. Poor long-term thinking.

Well, thank you very much for taking all the time today. I appreciate it.

Well, thank you very much for taking all the time today. I appreciate it.

And you know we're supposed to talk again. We are?

And you know we're supposed to talk again. We are?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great. Please don't refer to it as the little follow-up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great. Please don't refer to it as the little follow-up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I really think about it. I'm sorry. After the break, I called Ben back with a few more questions about how comedy has changed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I really think about it. I'm sorry. After the break, I called Ben back with a few more questions about how comedy has changed.

Hi, Ben, how are you?

Hi, Ben, how are you?

Just because you said little follow-up, I'm going to rake you over the coals. Ben, I'm determined to elicit a nugget of severance information that'll make the obsessives on the internet go nutty. So without giving too much away, there's an episode in the season, in the upcoming season, where someone, and it's not clear who, is walking and whistling a melody.

Just because you said little follow-up, I'm going to rake you over the coals. Ben, I'm determined to elicit a nugget of severance information that'll make the obsessives on the internet go nutty. So without giving too much away, there's an episode in the season, in the upcoming season, where someone, and it's not clear who, is walking and whistling a melody.

which I believe is the melody of Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Is that correct?

which I believe is the melody of Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Is that correct?

Wait, but do you deny that that song's lyrics are perhaps a Rosetta Stone for deciphering exactly what Severance and Lumen are up to?

Wait, but do you deny that that song's lyrics are perhaps a Rosetta Stone for deciphering exactly what Severance and Lumen are up to?

Let me shift gears. I was thinking about how when you came back to a certain kind of comedy with Zoolander 2, the way you put it was, you know, that was an example of you thinking people wanted something, you gave it to them, and then it turned out they didn't want it. And it made me curious if, sort of despite Zoolander 2, if you have gotten or still get pitches for a new Fockers movie.