Amy Matthews
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Superb stand-up, writer and podcaster Amy Matthews has a table booked this week. But does the Dream Restaurant have the perfect amount of twinkle?
Amy Matthews is at the Edinburgh Fringe and on tour with her new show ‘Definitions of Toast’. Dates and tickets info here.
Watch Amy’s special ‘I Feel Like I’m Made of Spiders’ on ITVX.
Buy Amy’s vinyl ‘Commute With The Foxes’ on Monkey Barrel Records.
Follow Amy on Instagram @amyfmatthews
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 5 Mar.
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.
And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.
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 | It's James A. Castor. I have an announcement to make. Cinema Goers Welcome is out on March 6th in cinemas nationwide. |
| 0:09.3 | It's my heckler's welcome show, but filmed in three different locations, Truro, Dublin and Northampton. |
| 0:15.9 | And it's all stuff that wasn't part of the actual Heckler's Welcome special. Some of it's the same material, but in a different location going differently, being heckled |
| 0:24.4 | differently under different circumstances. |
| 0:27.6 | So there's the special that is on HBO and Sky, and there is this cinema goers welcome |
| 0:33.2 | companion piece. |
| 0:35.9 | Anyway, March 6th, |
| 0:38.4 | cinema go is welcome. |
| 0:39.2 | In cinemas, |
| 0:40.7 | enjoy the podcast, |
| 0:41.6 | Off menu. Welcome to the off-money podcast, taking the cream of conversation, adding the smashed up |
| 1:00.5 | meringue of humour, the raspberries of friendship, mixing them all up in the big bowl of the internet, |
| 1:05.5 | and you've got yourselves an Eden mess podcast. That is Ed Gamble. My name is James Ackaster. Together |
| 1:10.7 | we own a dream restaurant |
| 1:11.6 | every single week. |
| 1:12.4 | We invite a guest. |
| 1:13.2 | We invite a guest. We invite a guest. We invite in a gas every week. And we ask them the favour ever start a main course, dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week, our guest is. Gask. Amy Matthews. Amy Matthews. Amy Matthews, by the way, I've definitely done Eton Mess before as an intro. |
| 1:28.2 | I don't want to pick you up on it, man, because like, do you know what? |
| 1:31.1 | They'll be on you enough across all social platforms. I don't want to add to your worries. What's your problem, Benito? For the listener, Ed was fiddling with his mic stand to the point where Benito gave him evils to want to get him to stop. And while he was giving Benito sass for it, he leant back on his chair and his chair tried to do a bucking bronco on him and send him into the ceiling. And startled him. It gave him quite a fright. Yeah, yeah, I'm sleepy today, man. I feel wired, you know, when you're sleepy and wired. Yeah, well, and rightly so. |
| 2:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.2 | Because we've got a cork of an episode coming up, so you should feel wired. Yes. Amy Matthews is a brilliant comedian, very much sticking forward speaking to her about her dream. So funny. Such an order to have Amy on the pod. Mm-hmm. But listen, Amy, if you choose the secret ingredient and ingredient which we have deemed to |
| 2:18.3 | be unacceptable, you will be kicked out of the dream restaurant. |
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