Chris McCausland (Christmas Special)
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Yuletide is here, and joining us for our first festive special is stand-up superstar and ‘Strictly’ champ Chris McCausland. ChrisMcCausland. ChristmasCausland…
Chris McCausland’s autobiography ‘Keep Laughing!’ is out now in hardback and audiobook, published by Michael Joseph. Buy it here.
Chris is on tour in 2026 with his show ‘Yonks!’. For dates and tickets go to chrismccausland.com
Follow Chris on Instagram @chrismccauslandcomedy and TikTok @chrismccausland
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 11 Dec.
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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 Megan McCarthy for Plosive, and Felipe Franco.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the mini sausages of conversation, |
| 0:18.4 | wrapping them in the bacon of humour, |
| 0:21.7 | roasting them perfectly in the oven of podcasts. |
| 0:26.6 | Pigs in blankets. |
| 0:27.5 | Merry Christmas. |
| 0:28.0 | Pots in blankets. |
| 0:29.4 | Pots in blankets. |
| 0:30.9 | It's a Christmas special. |
| 0:32.5 | It's a Christmas miracle. |
| 0:33.5 | So Ed's done a little, Ed Gassad Gamble, by the way. |
| 0:35.8 | Oh yeah, that's James Akeaster over there. |
| 0:37.4 | And we own a dream restaurant and every single week. We invite a guest, Ed Gassad Gamble, by the way. Oh yeah, that's James J Castor over there. And we own a Dream Mestrian. And every single week we inviting a guest, asking their favourite starter. Meg, cause I dish, drink, dessert. And Christmas. And Christmas dinner. Not in that order. Not in that order, thankfully. And this week, our guest is Christmas Corsland. Christmas. Christmas. If you say it quickly, it sounds like Christmas. Christmas, Ausland. Christmas, Ausland. And that's, of course, not the main reason we've got Chris on. We've got Chris on because he's a fantastic comedian. Amazing comedian. A lovely man. And he won Strictly Come Dancing, James. |
| 1:10.9 | Is this our first Strictly champ? |
| 1:12.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't know anything about Strictly. Of course you don't. Yeah. Well, I think it's our first Strictly champ. I think it might be our first Strictly champ. I couldn't name any others apart for it. Bill Bailey was here as Strictly champ? He was. We've not had him on the pod. |
| 1:24.8 | No, which is criminal. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, especially at Christmas, Bill Bailey's. |
| 1:28.6 | Oh, yeah, of course. |
| 1:29.5 | Very Christmasy. |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | We've had had him on the pod. No, which is criminal. Yeah, especially at Christmas, |
| 1:28.2 | Bill Bailey's. |
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