Ep 133: Tim Key

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The Off Menu boys are back for a seventh series, and who better to be the first diner than Tim ‘I’ll be mother’ Key?

Tim Key’s new book ‘Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush: An Anthology of Poems and Conversations from Outside’ is published by Utter & Press on 14 February. Pre-order it here.

And buy Tim’s previous book, ‘He Used Thought as a Wife. An Anthology of Poems And Conversations (From Inside)’, here.

Follow Tim Key on Twitter @timkeyperson and Instagram @timkeypoet.

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	Now for an advert, James, where the hell have you been?
0:04.2	Oh, sorry, man. I'll never be late again. I'm sorry that I'm so late.
0:10.0	I've got a good reason. No, don't worry.
0:11.6	Okay, well, what's the good reason?
0:13.2	Oh, I didn't think you'd ask.
0:14.8	Well, very simple, actually.
0:17.5	I needed to get some home insurance. That's been very important to me,
0:21.2	lately, as you know.
0:22.0	Sensibly.
0:22.8	So I went on a comparison website to look up my best options.
0:26.7	That's what I was doing.
0:27.9	I got bogged down in it. I'm sorry, man.
0:30.5	Right. Well, that doesn't explain why you're covered in feathers,
0:33.0	but I guess it's sensible to get home insurance
0:35.0	and you're using a comparison website.
0:36.4	Who did you land on in the end with the comparison website?
0:39.2	I don't direct line in the end.
0:40.9	Oh, dear James, I've caught you in a live.
0:42.6	Everyone knows that direct line aren't on comparison sites.
0:46.7	Oh, man. Why don't I research my lies properly?
0:50.3	I was trying to be a bird.
0:52.3	I stuck all the feathers on me,
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