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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Kunal Nayyar

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.820K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kunal Nayyar – star of ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and new movie ‘Christmas Karma’ – has a table booked this week. But is he drinking water or vodka?


Kunal Nayyar stars in ‘Christmas Karma’ which is in cinemas now.

Follow Kunal on Instagram @kunalkarmanayyar


Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 20 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 Felipe Franco.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the porridge of conversation, adding the jam of humor, and drizzling over a little cold milk of friendship, James.

0:26.1

People put cold milk on porridge, right?

0:27.9

That is Ed Gamble. My name is James Akewarm.

0:30.1

You never want to chat about those.

0:31.3

You always just want to get into the episode, don't you?

0:34.1

Together we own a dream restaurant, and every single week we're inviting a guest,

0:37.8

and we ask them their favourite ever. Start a main course, dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order.

0:41.7

And this week, I guest is Canal Naya.

0:45.3

Canal, of course, is a fantastic actor, James, known for his role in the huge Big Bang

0:50.7

Theory.

0:51.2

But also, now known for his role in Christmas Karma, which is out now.

0:56.8

A new Christmas movie, James. We love a Christmas movie here on the off-menu podcast. It's a twist.

1:01.4

It's a twist on Christmas Carol. It's a twistmas. Oh my God. People got to start saying that.

1:07.9

Yeah, Twistmas. Twistmas. When people do a twist on a Christmas classic, it's a Twistmas. That is good, man. Sounds a bit how, like, if someone was doing an impression of you, they might say Christmas. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I like Twistmas. Yeah, yeah. I love Twismus, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's exactly what they would do.

1:29.7

You little punks who are listening.

1:31.8

Yeah, Craig.

1:34.0

But we're going to talk about Christmas karma.

1:34.5

Yeah.

1:36.8

And learn more about that.

1:38.5

Danny Dye is in that as a cabby.

1:39.1

Is he? Friend of the pod.

1:40.0

Oh, amazing.

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