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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Ep 16: Jamie Demetriou

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.820.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Demetriou – comedian, actor and writer extraordinaire – has booked a table this week. His meal's so good, not even a marmalade sandwich made by Paddington himself makes the cut.


Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.

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


You can watch Jamie Demetriou's excellent sitcom 'Stath Lets Flats' on All 4 and look out for series 2 on Channel 4 later this year.


Ed Gamble is on tour. See his website for full details.

James Acaster is on tour. See his website for full details.

James’s TV show ‘Hypothetical’ is on Dave, Wednesdays, 10pm.

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


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0:00.0

Hello listeners of the off menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the off menu podcast.

0:05.4

I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely

0:12.1

over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could

0:16.7

I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy

0:22.2

I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny.

0:27.0

I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multicore's life of a very greedy boy.

0:32.4

And it's coming out this October, but it is available to pre-order now, wherever you

0:38.0

pre-order books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies which are exclusively

0:44.8

available from Waterstones. But go and pre-order your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life

0:49.9

of the very greedy boy. Now, please. What colour for the spare room, Holly? I'm feeling

0:58.5

feelings of a courageous maiden, running through a molland in the early evening rain, as

1:05.2

she chases after a long lost love on a rapidly departing carriage. We should probably

1:11.4

go for dusted heather then. Do you look heritage does it in a beautifully durable velvet

1:16.1

matte finish? Come back a magnus. Holly? Heritage by G-Lux. It's a feeling, search online

1:24.9

to discover more.

1:32.0

Did someone order a podcast? Well, here is one of the podcasts that you've ordered. It's

1:48.0

the off-menu podcast. The food podcast in which me had gamble in that man over those

1:52.2

in aim is James A. Castor? We have a special guest and we get

1:55.4

them to pick their favourite dream starter. Not their favourite dream. Their favourite, their

2:00.5

dream slash favourite starter. Favourite dream best starter, main, dessert, side, drink.

2:07.3

Thank you very much for saving me there, James. No worries. I guess this week is the

2:11.6

wonderful Jamie Dimitriu. Brilliant. What an amazing comic actor, writer,

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