Ep 112: Simon Amstell

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, writer and film director Simon Amstell joins Ed and James in the dream restaurant this week. And James gets so excited he cooks one of the courses. (Plus – we probably need to be clear – in no way do we condone taking illegal substances.)

Simon Amstell is on tour with ‘Spirit Hole’ from 8 Sep. Go to simonamstell.com for tickets.

Follow Simon Amstell on Twitter @simonamstell and Instagram @thisissimonamstell

Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).

Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.

And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.

Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Dora.
0:02.0	A volunteer from Bookmark helped me learn to read.
0:06.0	In a normal class like mine, eight children will lead primary school, not able to read well.
0:13.0	As a Bookmark volunteer, you can help change that.
0:17.0	You book sessions on the Bookmark app based on where you're free.
0:22.0	Do something amazing today and change a child's story.
0:26.0	Find out more at bookmarkreading.org slash volunteer.
0:46.0	Welcome to the off menu podcast where we take the bread of a guest,
0:50.0	pop it into the toaster of chat and grill them until they are charred beyond belief.
0:55.0	The bread of the guest.
0:57.0	The bread of the guest.
0:59.0	By the bread of the guest, do you mean the guest is the bread or you get in the bread that belongs to a guest?
1:04.0	No, on the off menu podcast, we don't get the guest the senders and bread and then we toast it.
1:08.0	That's our other podcast, the Roasty Toasty Boys.
1:12.0	Yeah, Roasty Toasty Boys. Subscribe.
1:14.0	On off menu, the guest is a metaphorical slice of bread.
1:18.0	We're popping them into the toaster of chat, which is again metaphorical.
1:21.0	And we're grilling them, which is another name for asking questions until their charred beyond belief, which is just done.
1:28.0	Until they're useless.
1:29.0	Yeah, useless.
1:30.0	No more podcast can happen.
1:32.0	I have to scrape off their bodies into the bin.
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