Stephen Colbert gets severed in a comedic 'Severance' parody
On an episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," a lengthy skit was shared of some "deleted scenes" from Apple TV+ psychological drama "Severance."
Stephen Colbert plays a severed employee in a 'Late Show' skit
Colbert claims to have been an original cast member of "Severance," but for some reason, all of his scenes were cut from the final production. Luckily, "The Late Show" was able to get ahold of some of the alleged deleted scenes.
The skit lasts for about six minutes as Steve C. is indoctrinated into Lumon, the company with severed employees. Of course, things go off the rails as Steve starts to believe his "outie" is actually Steve Carell from "The Office."
Check out the full skit below.
"Severance" is a series on Apple TV+ about a near-future dystopian company that has created a severance procedure. Employees who work on the severed floor undergo the procedure to have their memories split between work and home.
The work memories are only available while on the severed floor, while the home memories are only available when away from work.
Subscribers can watch the entire first season of "Severance" on Apple TV+. The service costs $4.99 per month or is included with any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle.
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Stephen Colbert plays a severed employee in a 'Late Show' skit
Colbert claims to have been an original cast member of "Severance," but for some reason, all of his scenes were cut from the final production. Luckily, "The Late Show" was able to get ahold of some of the alleged deleted scenes.
The skit lasts for about six minutes as Steve C. is indoctrinated into Lumon, the company with severed employees. Of course, things go off the rails as Steve starts to believe his "outie" is actually Steve Carell from "The Office."
Check out the full skit below.
"Severance" is a series on Apple TV+ about a near-future dystopian company that has created a severance procedure. Employees who work on the severed floor undergo the procedure to have their memories split between work and home.
The work memories are only available while on the severed floor, while the home memories are only available when away from work.
Subscribers can watch the entire first season of "Severance" on Apple TV+. The service costs $4.99 per month or is included with any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle.
Read on AppleInsider
Comments
It's quite unique, it has some horror elements that are similar to The Shining and the characters are aware something is unusual about what's going on and try to manipulate it, like in GroundHog Day, all in a drab office setting. The following page lists other media that influenced it including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dilbert and The Truman Show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)#Development
Sometimes shows can be a bit too surreal that it's hard to buy into the premise and this edges up to that but it has some interesting scenes. I found the episode runtime a bit long. At around 50 minutes (season 1 is over 7 hours), it's like watching a movie per episode and it doesn't deliver a movie's worth of content. There are a lot of boring conversations (every conversation seems to take far longer than it should with a lot of pausing) and corridor scenes in the episodes that didn't add much. I'd rather they cut TV shows like this the way they cut movies. They can offer extended versions of episodes.
It's a surreal storyline and if people have the patience to handle the long runtime and drab setting, it's worth watching. I found myself skipping through episodes to get to the more interesting parts. It's a very relevant theme for a show in the forced-back-to-work era.
The pacing is very deliberate and part of the point of the show. Not everything needs to be jump cuts.
Not a fan of Colbert even before the 't' rebranding. I've only seen the first episode of Severance, but it grabbed me. I've heard the good buzz so I'll come back to this clip after see a few or all the eps. But just from the first one, the idea of this sketch spinning a parody into a parody sounds brilliant. A parody in a parody. I'm laughing just thinking about it.