Anna Faris
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
‘Scary Movie’ star Anna Faris is this week’s diner, much to Ed and James’s delight. But someone else hijacks her booking…
‘Scary Movie’ is in cinemas June 5. Book your tickets now.
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Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 28 May.
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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 Ben Williams and 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 salmon of conversation, slicing it with the sharp knife of humor and putting it on a platter of friendship with all that fake grass, sashimi. That's Ed Gamble. My name is James Acastle. Together we own a dream restaurant every single week. We invite in a guest and asking the favourite ever start and main course dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week, our guest is Arna Farris. Very excited to have Arna on, James. |
| 0:38.6 | Of course we are. |
| 0:39.3 | One of the goats. |
| 0:40.2 | One of the goats. |
| 0:41.2 | One of my favourite comedy actors of all time. |
| 0:43.6 | We love scary movie. |
| 0:44.9 | We were teenagers when the scary movie movies came out. |
| 0:47.9 | And we weren't even friends then. |
| 0:49.2 | We weren't even friends, but our laughter was joining in the atmosphere as we laughed in Wimbledon and Kettering, respectively. |
| 0:56.9 | And the universe knew that we'd one day be friends. |
| 0:59.7 | We'd one day be friends because our laughter had mixed up before. |
| 1:02.1 | Everyone else was laughing at a scary movie. |
| 1:03.9 | All our laughter was swirling together in the atmosphere. |
| 1:07.9 | And there we are. |
| 1:09.4 | We get to meet Arna Farris. |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah, pretty cool. A huge moment. Huge moment for both of us and another huge moment, James. There's a new scary movie coming up. There is on... Fitter June. Basically, everyone's come back for it. Yeah. Mylon Waynes is at the helm. You've got Anthony Anderson's in it. Gina Hall's in it. Like all the big players. Yeah. It's very exciting. Huge. I'm very excited, James. We should go to the cinema to see it. Yeah, it's going to the cinema and say it's like we used to. Yeah. And I laughed and mixed in the atmosphere. Yeah. I'm very excited about having it on a famous onaris on the podcast. But if Anna says the secret ingredient, |
| 1:45.1 | an ingredient which we deemed to be unacceptable, |
| 1:46.7 | we will be forced to kick her out at the Dream Restaurant, not that we want to. No. And this week, the secret ingredient is Maltisa Bannies. The House Bunny was a film that Arna did. The eyes and the nipples of the face. And so we've gone bunny themed and gone to Maltisa bunnies, |
| 2:01.5 | which are very nice, but hopefully she won't choose it because very UK-centric. Very UK-centric. We love Maltisa bunnies, of course. Of course we do. We've just had Easter, by the way. We've just had Easter. We've just had Easter. We've just been Easter. I didn't have much chalkies, though. Oh, it's a shame. |
| 2:17.4 | My mum bought me a little bag of lint eggs. |
| 2:20.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 2:20.8 | Which are very nice. been Easter. I didn't have much chalkies, though. Oh, it's a shame. My mum bought me a little bag of lint eggs. |
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