Ben Schwartz

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Actor-comedian – star of ‘Parks and Rec’, ‘The Afterparty’ and voice of Sonic the Hedgehog – Ben Schwartz has a table booked this week. Plus we have a few guest callers.

Ben Schwartz soon stars in ‘DNA’ and ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’.

Ben’s improv show ‘Ben Schwartz and Friends’ is currently touring the US. For dates and tickets go to rejectedjokes.com

Follow Ben on Instagram @rejectedjokes

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).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Oh, hi James. Have you heard the news?
0:03.0	Oh, yeah, go on.
0:04.9	You and I are modern boys because the off-menu podcast is now on YouTube.
0:10.5	This is embarrassing.
0:12.0	Why is it embarrassing, man? You love YouTube.
0:14.3	I love watching clips on YouTube, sure. Now people can watch clips of off-menu on YouTube, but it's embarrassing, man.
0:20.6	It's not embarrassing at all. It's really cool. We're on YouTube with the great and good.
0:25.1	The coolest people in the world are on YouTube. Me, you, Logan Paul.
0:29.9	Who's Logan Paul, the dad from Succession? At Off Menu podcast. That's what Benito's calling us now.
0:37.4	And we're on TikTok. This is embarrassing, man. It's not embarrassing, man. We're cool. We're like Olivia Rodriguez. And Ed. People have been asking us, badgering us, bothering us, actually. They want to watch the Stephen Graham Supercut from the Stephen Graham episodes. They can see all of his reactions to us, everything that he did, or Benito, has bent to their whims.
0:55.8	And he's going to put it on YouTube. He's going to do it.
0:58.2	Follow us at Off Menu official on TikTok, at Off Menu podcast on YouTube.
1:05.0	You never know where the journey will take you. One Tinder match.
1:10.1	And not only have I met someone new,
1:12.6	but we've discovered a sick Italian restaurant together.
1:16.6	And it turns out, football is now our thing.
1:19.6	Didn't see that one coming?
1:22.6	Discover unexpected possibilities with Tinder.
1:26.6	Whatever it takes you, it starts with a swipe.
1:30.5	Tinder, download the app today.
1:37.7	Today's episode of Off Menu is brought to you by Scholder.
1:41.7	Oh yeah, Ed.
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