Ep 293: Stacey Dooley
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Presenter, author and actor Stacey Dooley has a booking this week, and she’s expecting fuss, fuss, fuss.
Stacey Dooley’s new book ‘Dear Minnie’ published by BBC Books. Buy it here.
Stacey is also starring in the touring production of ‘2:22: A Ghost Story’. For dates and tickets go to 222aghoststory.com
Follow Stacey on Instagram @sjdooley
Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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 | Welcome to the off-menu podcast, smashing up the meringue of conversation, mixing it with the whipped cream of humour and adding the strawberries of friendship, |
| 0:22.3 | James, eaten mess. |
| 0:24.3 | You definitely don't eat a mess before. |
| 0:26.2 | Yeah, I probably have. |
| 0:27.1 | You always tell me it doesn't matter if I've done it before. |
| 0:29.5 | That is a gamble. |
| 0:30.2 | My name is James Zaynastair. |
| 0:32.1 | Together we own a dream restaurant and every single week. |
| 0:34.4 | Total albatross. |
| 0:35.3 | This whole thing. |
| 0:36.3 | We invited a guest |
| 0:37.5 | and we asked in the favour ever. |
| 0:38.3 | You just say the same thing |
| 0:39.4 | every episode. |
| 0:40.0 | Start a main course, |
| 0:40.8 | dessert, side dish and drink, |
| 0:42.3 | not in that order. |
| 0:43.2 | And this week, |
| 0:44.0 | our guest is |
| 0:44.9 | Stacey Dooley. |
| 0:47.3 | Stacey Dooley, |
| 0:48.1 | a wonderful broadcaster, |
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