Ep 58: Susie Essman
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Susie Essman drops by the dream restaurant and Ed and James are hoping they get called fat f**ks.
Watch Susie Essman in Curb Your Enthusiasm on Sky Comedy and NOW TV.
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, can I get my podcast toasted with a smear of humour please? Of course you can, sir, |
| 0:19.1 | but we have a name for that here. It's called the Off Menu Podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | We've had gambling in James A. Caster. Yeah, I took you by surprise. Didn't I with that |
| 0:27.5 | paid multiple characters? Yeah, it was very good at it. You're really delivered it with confidence |
| 0:33.1 | sometimes. You know, I can always detect in your voice. You really don't believe in that first |
| 0:37.0 | bit, but that was really great. Yeah, and that's what took you by surprise. That's why you're |
| 0:40.7 | chuckling, looking at the great bonito. You can believe it. I can believe how good it was. |
| 0:45.1 | Excellent stuff. Well, if you're a little bit confused, what even the great bonito's off menu |
| 0:51.8 | podcast it is back to normal again. Here we are. Here he is. Old friend. I just thought I'd |
| 0:58.8 | rename it the great bonito's off menu podcast. I'm happy to call it that. Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:03.3 | A podcast where we are to guess their favourite ever. Start a main course. Does a side dish and drink. |
| 1:08.2 | All of them are Hest of the great bonito. He makes us do it. He makes us do it. He's got a gun to |
| 1:14.1 | who's our guest this week, Ed? Suzy Esman. Suzy Esman. A very funny comedian, very funny actor. |
| 1:22.0 | You may recognise her from Curb your enthusiasm. She plays Suzy Green in Curb your enthusiasm. |
| 1:27.3 | One of my favourite sitcom characters ever, I'd say. Absolutely. You're amazing. Shout in at people, |
| 1:33.0 | calling people a fat fuck. I hope when she comes in here, she doesn't call either of us a fat |
| 1:40.2 | fuck. Fingers crossed. But Jamie, what? I kind of will love it if she does. |
| 1:44.2 | Yeah, because we've been in New York for a while now and we've very much been eating our way |
| 1:47.8 | around the place. Yeah, yeah. So it'd be pretty great if she called us those names. It's what I'm |
| 1:53.1 | hoping for in a way. Yeah, I would like that actually. I hope she calls us names. But I'm also |
| 1:58.1 | very excited to hear her menu. And James, I hope she doesn't say a secret in Green and we have to |
| 2:02.8 | try and kick her out the restaurant because there don't think it's going to go down well. |
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