Ayoade Bamgboye
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
‘SNL UK’ cast member and Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer winner Ayoade Bamgboye is this week’s dream diner. Let’s just hope there aren’t any faecal clouds in the Dream Restaurant.
Ayoade Bamgboye is on tour with her show ‘Swings and Roundabouts’. For dates and tickets go to berksnest.com/ayoade
Ayoade stars in ‘Saturday Night Live UK’, Saturdays at 10pm on Sky One and streaming service NOW.
Follow Ayoade on Instagram @ayoadezahrah
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 30 Apr.
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 Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | I'm on tour. I'm on tour until August. And there are still tickets available at |
| 0:05.0 | James Acaster.com. I'm looking at you, Glasgow, Belfast. Oh, there was somewhere else. |
| 0:12.3 | Just please go on the website to buy tickets of conversation, taking the knife of humour, punching a little hole of |
| 0:40.1 | chat into the pitterbread and releasing the steam of bad vibes. |
| 0:44.7 | That's a gamble. My name is James Acaster. Together. We own a dream restaurant every single week. |
| 0:49.1 | We invite a guest, asking a guest, ask you a favorite ever start, a main course dessert, side dish and drink, |
| 0:52.7 | not in that order. And this week, our guest is Ayawade Banboe. I-O-Dai is a wonderful comedian, James. Won the best newcomer award at the most recent Edinburgh Festival. That's a big deal, man. Everyone was talking about. I wasn't at the Edinburgh fringe this year. No, no, no, no. But I heard so much about I-A-W. Better vibe. Yes, okay. But I heard a lot about I-Wale show about everyone. We felt free and light, we were all saying. Some people were saying they felt free in like. Yeah, we were dragged down by the anchor that was James A. Castler. Everyone was calling you the anchor yeah that's a good thing |
| 1:27.9 | anchor keep everyone |
| 1:29.0 | not if you want to swim |
| 1:30.3 | but everyone was saying that I want to show |
| 1:33.2 | was absolutely brilliant |
| 1:34.2 | so like I'm very excited |
| 1:36.5 | I've only we've only met once |
| 1:38.5 | I've only met oh any once |
| 1:40.0 | and it's one of the funniest conversations |
| 1:42.0 | I've ever had so I'm looking forward to this episode |
| 1:43.7 | yeah what happened? |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah, I think I got on her nerves quite quickly, so I think it's going to be a really nice, nice to and fro. Great, that's good to know. I think I got on her nerves as well. Yeah. Yeah, so this will be fun. Just going to be fun. Double trouble. Benito, have you met her before? Yes, did you get on her nerves? |
| 2:00.3 | I said, thank God you here then. |
| 2:01.8 | I find that hard to believe. |
| 2:03.5 | Yeah. God, you're here then. I find that hard to believe. Yeah. I what is going on tour. Yes. With her show, swings and roundabouts. That is the award-winning show. So absolutely, right now, pause the podcast and get tickets for it because it's going to settle out by the end of this sentence. |
| 2:18.4 | You've got to go. |
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