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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Ep 44: Armando Iannucci

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.820K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The genie waiter’s in the thick of it when Armando Iannucci requests a table. And the writer-director of ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ is not against pasta.


Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.

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


‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ is in cinemas now and ‘Avenue 5’ is on Sky One and NOW TV.

Follow Armando Iannucci on Twitter @Aiannucci.


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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0:00.0

Oh no, oh no. I forgot about the podcast in the oven. I think it's but I think it's burning. Oh actually it's fine. It's perfect.

0:21.2

Wonderful stuff. We were welcomed. I really went into character there.

0:26.4

Yeah, I'm sorry. I mean, we need to got worried for a second. Well, like, uh oh, something bad's happened.

0:30.8

No, no, no, he's just introducing the podcast. He thought I was having a stroke.

0:33.3

Before you were having a stroke, but actually you were doing a great intro to the off-menu podcast.

0:38.2

Indeed I was. I am a very good actor. I got deep into my character there of man cooking a thing.

0:43.6

Yes, excellent stuff. Ed, what do we do on this podcast, man?

0:47.9

Well, here's what we do on the podcast, James. We have a special guest and we ask them about their dream meal.

0:53.1

And just in case you didn't know what a meal constitutes, James has got the facts and figures.

0:57.6

If I ever ever start a main course to serve side dish and drink.

1:01.5

Yes, that is what we ask people, but you know, a lot of people when I tell them what the podcast is about, they're like,

1:06.6

oh, okay, you want to go, oh guys, no, you know, we riff around it. It's about the stories surrounding the meal choices.

1:13.6

Who are these people? Oh, all sorts of people. I've never met anyone like you. They go, oh, okay.

1:18.5

God, all loads of different people. I hate it. I hate it.

1:22.2

Probably people in the biz. Oh, in the biz, mate.

1:25.4

People in the biz. They got on my nerves.

1:27.6

After biz. After biz. In the biz.

1:31.7

Me and James are above the biz. We flick V's at the biz.

1:35.3

Yep, we flick V's at the biz and we tell it where to go.

1:38.4

But apart from our guest, who is in the biz?

1:41.6

He's in the biz, but he's the good side of the biz. He's the best side of the biz.

1:44.6

He's one of the best of the biz there is.

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