Ep 7: Lolly Adefope
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week, there’s a table ready for talented comedian and actor Lolly Adefope. Comfort food is the order of the day, we learn about Ed’s teenage wine hobby and – FINALLY – a debate happens on: who has the best fries?
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)
Lolly Adefope has roles in two US TV shows coming out this year: ‘Miracle Workers’ on TBS starting 12 February and ‘Shrill’ on Hulu streaming 15 March. Follow Lolly on Twitter @lollyadefope.
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 preorder now wherever you |
| 0:38.0 | preorder 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 preorder your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life |
| 0:49.8 | of a very greedy boy. Now please. |
| 0:54.0 | The new memoir from Matthew Perry. Since so much has been written about me in the past, |
| 1:00.5 | I thought it was time you heard it from me. Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing. |
| 1:05.6 | So here it was. Fame. Friends was huge. And I couldn't jeopardize that. I loved my co-actors. |
| 1:12.4 | I loved everything about the show. But I was struggling with my addictions. I had a secret |
| 1:18.9 | and no one could know. The number one bestseller, Matthew Perry. Friends, lovers, and the |
| 1:23.4 | big terrible thing available now. |
| 1:41.8 | Welcome to the off menu podcast. I really wish you'd stop doing that. |
| 1:47.9 | Well, you got to get ready for it. |
| 1:49.9 | Yeah, but I'm ready for it. I'm saying welcome to the off menu podcast. That's me |
| 1:53.5 | Ed Gamble saying that. And then you, James A. Castin, cyst on cutting in. |
| 1:57.4 | I'm joining in with you. |
| 1:58.9 | Okay, well, let's try it. It's a cutting in, is it? If you're ever in a choir and everyone's |
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