Joy Crookes
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Mercury Prize and Brit Award-nominated singer-songwriter Joy Crookes is in the Dream Restaurant this week. But can she make Ed and James understand the concept of a performative male?
Joy Crookes’s new album ‘Juniper’ is out now. Buy it and listen to it here.
Joy Crookes is on tour now. For dates and tickets go to joycrookes.com
Follow Joy Crookes on Instagram @joycrookes and TikTok @joycrookesmusic
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 13 Nov
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.
And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.
Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive, and Pippa Young.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | Oh no, it's James Acaster from the off-menu podcast, the podcast that you are listening to, |
| 0:05.1 | and I have some news. |
| 0:06.6 | I am going on tour around America, North America, from the 20th of January, starting in Toronto, |
| 0:16.3 | and then finishing once again in Canada, in Vancouver on the 15th of February. |
| 0:21.9 | And in between, I'm going all over the place, I'm going to Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Austin, Texas, New Orleans, Atlanta, New York Chicago Denver |
| 0:38.6 | Los Angeles |
| 0:40.1 | San Francisco |
| 0:42.6 | you don't even need to edit that |
| 0:45.4 | like to be smooth |
| 0:47.6 | Benito |
| 0:48.1 | they know I'm scrolling through my phone |
| 0:50.4 | that's what the cool kids do these days |
| 0:52.1 | James Acacer.com for tickets. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm pretty happy with that. |
| 1:09.3 | Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the Maltesea of Conversation, sucking off the chocolate of bad vibes, and letting the friendship melt across your tongue. |
| 1:19.6 | You didn't like that, James? |
| 1:21.0 | No. Ed Gamble there. Off-Menue podcast. |
| 1:23.8 | My name is James Akeyes to that is Ed Gamble. |
| 1:25.7 | Oakly-do-Ockley-Doo, neighbourinos. |
| 2:01.2 | Oh, for God's sake. What? Why are you being Flanders again? I thought it'd be a good thing to start doing. I think the longer this podcast goes on for, I think the more we have to, like, bring in new things that we do that are, like, running jokes. I but it's not, why, because you've done this for another podcast today, which has been out already. Yeah. But I guarantee you will forget the next time we record to be Flanders. Well, you know, a bit of fun for the listeners. Well, they'll be able to tell because these go on YouTube now, so you'll be wearing the same thing. |
| 2:02.5 | Yeah, that's a good point. |
| 2:02.8 | Yeah. |
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