Ep 3: Richard Osman
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Richard Osman – off of ‘Pointless’, ‘House of Games’ and ‘Taskmaster’ – is this week’s guest, bringing with him fascinating food thoughts and memories. Plus, he picks on Ed and picks holes in the format.
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)
Follow Richard Osman on Twitter: @richardosman.
Ed Gamble is on tour in 2019. See his website for full details.
James Acaster is on tour in 2019. See his website for full details.
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. |
| 0:51.9 | Hello and welcome to off menu with me, Ed Gamble. And who's that over there? His name |
| 1:12.1 | is James A. Castor. James A. Castor. He's a good boy, isn't he? |
| 1:15.1 | Good boy. |
| 1:16.1 | Welcome back to the podcast. I hope you've been listening to all the other lovely episodes. |
| 1:20.7 | Today we've got a wonderful guest in the shape of Richard Osman. And when I say that, |
| 1:24.8 | it is Richard Osman, not just someone in the shape of him. No, and also in the shape |
| 1:28.6 | of him. No, that would be very difficult to track down. Yes. He tells us loads of great |
| 1:33.7 | stuff, all the food that he likes. And or no. James is very good at intros. No. I'm not |
| 1:41.6 | going to give anything away. He picks his favourite meal as per on the off menu podcast, lots |
| 1:48.3 | of interesting discussions. He also comes for me quite hard. Yeah, Ed gets it. I get it. |
| 1:54.4 | And staring down the battle for most of this episode. It was a pleasure for me to watch. |
| 2:01.2 | Our secret ingredient every week, we have a secret ingredient that we don't tell the |
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