Ahir Shah
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning stand-up and Netflix star Ahir Shah is this week’s guest diner. Sparkling bum gun, anyone?
Ahir Shah is going to be touring across the UK with a brand new show, ‘Golden’, tickets on sale now at www.ahirshah.com
Follow Ahir on Instagram @ahirshah
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 12 Mar.
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Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the gin of conversation, adding the ice of humor, pouring in the tonic water of friendship and adding a little slice of giggling lime. Listen, most people have just gone just the gin and the tonic have been lazy. You've got to have the gamble. He included the lime and the ice. Full respect. I ain't drinking a gin and tonic without ice and lime. That is a gamble. |
| 0:37.9 | My name is James A. Castro. |
| 0:55.7 | Together we own a dream restaurant. You know what I mean, Benito. And every single week, we invite in a guest. You probably feel like an alcoholic if you're just drinking. Starter, Maykles, desserts. Chinatonic. And drink. Nice with that order. And this week, our guest is Ahishah. A wonderful comedian, the brilliant I hear, Shah. |
| 0:58.3 | Yes, an award-winning comedian as well. Yes. He won the Edinburgh Comedy Award, James. Yes. Second time he was nominated, I believe. Yes. |
| 1:04.5 | Yes. Two and done. Yeah, he didn't like... Or Benito's... Benito's Googlingling it. He doesn't think it. |
| 1:09.4 | Third, maybe. He doesn't think it. Third? No, still. Three's enough, isn't it? I think if you're nominated three times. Oh, yeah. Some of us can only dream of the blessed relief of winning the third time. You're five and five and out the running, right? Five and presumably out the running. Yeah. |
| 1:29.5 | And never won. |
| 1:42.7 | Is anyone, are you, are you the record? Yes. Yes, that's the record. No one's been nominated five times before. Three for our here. There you go. Yeah. So you won it on the fourth time? No, I don't. He won it on the third time. No. Huh? He won it on the third time. He won it on the third time, yes. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:44.9 | And you did five and didn't win it. |
| 1:46.1 | I did five and never won. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.6 | Which means... He won it on the third time. No. Huh? He won it on the third time. Yes. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:46.1 | And you did five and didn't win it. |
| 1:47.0 | I did five and never won. Yeah. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.6 | Which means, you know, at least... I mean, I know there's people sat at home and go, well, how many times are you nominated, well, none, but that became clear very early on. So... Yeah. But loads of people... |
| 1:56.9 | I just got to laugh at James every year. |
| 1:58.2 | There's loads of brilliant comedians who've never been nominated. |
| 2:00.6 | Yes. |
| 2:01.9 | You know, mine is the ultimate joke. |
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