Ep 73: Hari Kondabolu
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
New York born stand-up, writer and actor Hari Kondabolu – who made the acclaimed documentary ‘The Problem with Apu’ – orders his dream meal this week on the Off Menu podcast with James Acaster and Eddie Bagel Lonely.
Rent Hari’s documentary ‘The Problem with Apu’ on Amazon.
Follow Hari on Twitter: @harikondabolu
Recorded by Ben Williams and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).
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| 0:00.0 | You sure you want a pint of that podcast? The percentage of humour is very high. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to the Off-Menu Podcast. Hello Ed Gamble. Hello James A. Castor, how are you mate? |
| 0:24.0 | Very well, thank you very much, enjoyed that introduction, I thought it was great. Thank |
| 0:27.2 | you so much. Welcome to the Off-Menu Podcast, where myself and James A. Castor ask a very special |
| 0:33.3 | guest what James? Their favourite ever starter main course dessert, side dish and drink. Yes indeed, |
| 0:39.1 | and the special guest this week is the wonderful comedian Harry Condabalu. Harry, like I say, |
| 0:45.0 | is a brilliant comedian, he's a brilliant writer, he's got stand-up specials out there, he also had |
| 0:51.1 | a documentary recently called The Problem with Apu James. Fantastic documentary and if you've |
| 0:57.5 | got angry about it, you're an idiot. Yes, it sort of investigates the cultural issues behind |
| 1:04.2 | Hank Azaria doing Apu's voice in The Simpsons. Very interesting, very progressive, lovely to move |
| 1:10.0 | forward and discuss these things and move forward in an adult way. Yes, in an adult grown-up way. |
| 1:16.6 | But that's not what we're here to talk about, we're here to talk about Harry's dream, |
| 1:19.8 | male, very excited to find out, but of course we will be removing him from the restaurant if he says |
| 1:25.3 | a secret ingredient. Absolutely, it pains me to do so, but if he says a secret ingredient, he is out |
| 1:30.4 | the door and this week's secret ingredient is Bertie Bots, Every Flavour Beans. Bertie Bots, Every Flavour |
| 1:36.8 | Beans, this was James' suggestion, I don't know if you need telling. It could be anyone's suggestion. |
| 1:43.9 | Bertie Bots, Every Flavour Beans from I believe the Harry Potter series, yes James? |
| 1:48.2 | But they've been made a reality now, Ed, they're out there in the real world, like most |
| 1:51.4 | things from Harry Potter have become real. And have you had them? Oh, I've had them and some of |
| 1:55.7 | them are nice, but some of them are like earwax flavour or vomit flavour and the nice ones aren't |
| 2:00.4 | worth the bad ones, put it that way. Right, so if Harry suggests Bertie Bots, Every Flavour Beans |
| 2:07.0 | in his dream meal, yes, true. You never know. Yeah, I suppose you never know. People might do this, |
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