Lucia Keskin (Chi With A C)

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Bafta-winning comedian, actor and internet sensation Lucia Keskin – aka Chi with a C – is this week’s dream diner. And is this the quietest guest we’ve ever had?

Series 2 of Lucia’s sitcom ‘Things You Should Have Done’ is coming soon to BBC Three and iPlayer. Watch Series 1 here.

Follow Lucia on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok @chiwithac

Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 30 Oct

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.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the off-menu-menu podcast, taking the all-brand of conversation, putting it in the bowl of the internet and pouring over the ice cold milk of
0:21.9	humour. James, you look really sad about that one. Is he off-money podcast, by the way? Are you all right, mate? Just a bowl of cereal? Is a bowl of cereal? I panicked. I didn't know. But at least it makes sense. Sometimes I panic it doesn't make any sense or it gets too complicated. Yeah. Are you definitely not done it before.
0:35.5	No,
0:35.9	they're not done
0:36.3	all brand.
0:36.4	Are you in an
0:36.8	all brand
0:37.2	phase at the
0:37.6	minute?
0:37.9	Is that what
0:38.1	you're eating at home?
0:38.8	No, I'm
0:39.1	never really in
0:39.7	an all brand
0:40.2	phase.
0:41.0	But I do like Yeah. And you've definitely not done it before. No, not done Al-Brand. Are you in an All-Brand phase at the minute? Is that what you're eating at home?
0:38.8	No, I'm not. No, I'm never really in an All-Brand phase. But I do like the idea of ice-cold milk being poured onto All-Brand. I want to watch that. I don't want to eat it. Yeah, yeah. All-Brand's disgusting. Yes. That is our gamble. My name is James Akeaster. Together we own a dream restaurant and every single week we invite in a guest. We ask them their favourite ever start a main course dessert, side dish and drink.
0:55.2	Not in that order.
0:56.1	And this week I guess is Lucia Keskin.
1:00.1	Lucia is absolutely brilliant.
1:02.6	You might know her from her Instagram presence, Chi with a C.
1:06.9	She's very, very funny on that.
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