Best of 2025: Part 2
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 225 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to part two of the Best Of episodes, we’ve been expecting you for some time… This half contains the 'toilet humour' section.
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).
Clips
Celeb stories
Elle Fanning
Harris Dickinson
Dermot O'Leary
Carey Mulligan
Marian Keyes
Kate Winslet
Chris McCausland
Greg James
Chaos
Stevie Martin
Lucia Keskin
Joy Crookes
Mawaan Rizwan
Ben Schwartz
Jeff Goldblum
Sharon Wanjohi
Sharon Wanjohi
Anecdotes
Ellie Taylor
David Tennant
Neil Hannon
Rhys James
Meera Sodha
Will Sharpe
Blazing Bangladeshis
Jonny Pelham
Filth
Will Sharpe
Self Esteem
Julian Clary
Toilet humour
George Egg
Bridget Christie
Mo Gilligan
Stacey Dooley
Marian Keyes
David Tennant
Ian Smith
Elle Fanning
John Kearns
James vs Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham: James vs Stephen 1
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of the best ofs. |
| 0:15.7 | We've been expecting you for some time. |
| 0:18.2 | That's right, we're back with another fresh batch of podcast highlights. |
| 0:21.6 | Now, we've had our fair share of celebs dish the dirt on off-menu, |
| 0:25.2 | and 2025 was no exception. |
| 0:27.3 | We've had tales about Angelina Joe Lee, Beyonce, and the Chuckle Brothers. |
| 0:31.5 | Here's L. Fanning, Harris Dickinson, Dermott O'Leary, Carrie Mulligan, |
| 0:35.1 | Marion Keys, Kate Winslet, Christmas McCorsland, and Greg James. |
| 0:40.8 | If it had to be from a specific place, city, is there somewhere where the tap water? |
| 0:46.0 | New York. |
| 0:46.5 | New York. |
| 0:47.9 | The water is the best there. |
| 0:50.0 | Another vote for New York. |
| 0:51.0 | It's good for your hair. |
| 0:52.0 | Is it? |
| 0:52.4 | Yes. |
| 0:53.3 | Your hair feels better in New York, and that's why the bagels also taste different. And I've heard that in other states, there are some bagel places that get the water transported to their bagel shops to make the bagels because the water, that's what makes it so good in New York. They got to get the New York water over. Mm-hmm. They need to get it over. Some people get New York water just to wash their hair in. I'm sure there are people who fly out New York water. I'm sure, right? I'm sure. There's someone right now in L.A. building a pipeline from New York to L.A. 100%. the water, yeah. A hundred percent. Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt. Or Jim Carrey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carrie isn't washing his head. He doesn't believe in it. He doesn't believe in it. He's not trying. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, DiCaprio. |
| 2:00.4 | They're getting the water pumped to him from New York to L.A. Yes. They're all doing that. Yeah, yeah. Although I think Clooney probably lives in Italy or something. Yeah, I think he does. I don't know. Or maybe I'll just believe in the Nispros. It's a bit too much. Yeah, you're believing in the conspiracy. Yeah, yeah. makes me believe that he lives in. |
| 2:02.9 | He's getting New York water flown out for his espresso. |
| 2:03.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:17.8 | Just a little bit each time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the only amount he orders each time. Flies it over. Just enough to fill a tank on a small espresso machine. Yeah. You met Clooney? You know, I have. |
| 2:20.9 | But it was in, it was like at an event. |
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