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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Ep 202: Jimi Famurewa

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.820K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Author, food critic and Masterchef star Jimi Famurewa is judging the Dream Restaurant this week. Fingers crossed for a good review.


Jimi Famurewa’s book ‘Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London’ is out now in paperback, published by Bloomsbury Continuum. Buy it here.

Follow Jimi on Twitter @Jimfam and Instagram @jimfamished


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, it's Ed and James from off menu here. Well, I hate to do this, but Nishkoom has got a new stand up special coming out James

0:06.2

Yeah, listen, he's our friend. Yeah, so even if this was awful, we'd have to plug it. Yeah, here's the problem

0:12.1

He sent it to me. He asked me, oh, can you watch it? Just give me any notes on the edit

0:16.3

Yeah, just you know, that'd be really helpful

0:18.1

He knew it was already perfect

0:19.8

He sent it to me to make me feel inadequate and it worked because the whole show was immaculate

0:24.6

I'm very annoyed that he did that to me

0:27.2

But I'm very excited for the public to see this special

0:30.0

Well, he didn't ask me for notes because he doesn't value my opinions

0:32.4

I'm happy to say it's probably quite bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he didn't ask well you and Nish

0:36.2

You've known each other for longer than I've known either of you

0:38.6

And so he he already knows that he's in your head

0:41.6

Also, I was there when it was recorded. You watched it. Yeah, it is really good

0:44.9

So he knew that it already got you. Yeah, yeah

0:46.7

This is what you get if you ask us to plug your special Nish

0:49.4

Your power your control is on sky comedy on demand from August 25th

0:52.8

Fuck you, Nish

0:57.7

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1:00.9

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1:02.8

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1:05.6

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1:09.9

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