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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Ep 194: Tim Minchin

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.820K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty. Arena-filling comedian, Matilda maestro and co-writer of Groundhog Day the musical, Tim Minchin joins us in the Dream Restaurant.


Groundhog Day is playing at the Old Vic Theatre in London until 12 August. Buy tickets here.

Follow Tim on Twitter and Instagram @timminchin


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 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 preorder now wherever you

0:38.0

preorder 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 preorder your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life

0:49.8

of a very greedy boy. Now please.

0:52.9

Scoop up your pudding's perfect partner with Mackey's real dairy ice cream made with

1:01.2

fresh milk and cream using their own wind and solar power. Traditional honeycomb, strawberry

1:07.2

swirl. All these are resistible flavors. Leave me with one question. Do I have one scoop

1:13.2

or two? All of Mackey's real dairy ice cream is made on the family farm in Scotland

1:18.7

and available nationwide at a supermarket near you. Mackey's making simple delicious.

1:40.9

Welcome to the Off-Menu podcast chopping the raw white onion of humour. Very very small

1:46.3

into small little dices chopping a bit of cucumber of conversation, putting it into the

1:52.5

white plastic small bag of the internet and throwing it in with a curry. It's one of those

1:59.4

bags you get for a takeaway. You don't want to fall. It's one of the raw onion bags in

2:03.6

the curry. That's a gamble. My name is James A. Caster. We are in a dream restaurant and

2:07.4

we invite a guest in every single week. We ask them their favourite ever. Start a main

2:10.5

course. There's a side dish and drink. Not in that order. This week I guess is Tim Mention.

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