Mawaan Rizwan

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Mawaan Rizwan – ‘Taskmaster’ runner-runner-up and Bafta-winning star and creator of BBC Three’s ‘Juice’ – is this week’s diner, and he has an easy-to-follow recipe for English food.

Trigger warning: this episode contains talk about calories.

Series 2 of ‘Juice’ is on BBC Three and iPlayer from 18 September. Watch it (and catch up with series 1) here.

Follow Mawaan on Instagram @mawaanr and TikTok @mawaan

Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Fri 5 Sep.

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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Transcript

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0:00.0	James, huge news from the world of off-menu and indeed the world of the world.
0:05.7	Yes. Ever heard of the Royal Albert Hall? I have. We've done live shows there and guess what?
0:10.8	We're doing more live shows there next year. Sure, a lot of them are sold out already, but we thought,
0:16.0	hey, throw these guys a bone. Let's put on one final Royal Albert Hall show in that run.
0:21.9	The show will be on Monday the 16th of March. It's going to be a tasting menu, a returning
0:26.1	guest. Coming back, receiving the menu of another previous guest. Those shows have been a lot of fun.
0:31.3	We cannot wait to do them live. Who will we pull out of our little magic bag? You'll have to come
0:36.4	along on the 16th of March to find out.
0:39.1	If I'm corrected thinking, pre-sale tickets go on pre-sale on the 10th of September.
0:44.8	Presale tickets are 10th of September at 10 a.m. And then the general sale is 12th of September at 10 a.m.
0:51.9	So if you miss out on the pre-sale, don't forget, general sale is only two days later.
0:55.7	The day in between is for reflecting. Get your tickets from royalalberthall.com or off-menu-podcast.com.
1:03.7	Today's episode of the off-menu podcast is sponsored by Uber Eats, James, the go-to app for when we've done enough.
1:10.5	I can't do this out there. I've done enough. I can't do this out of then.
1:11.7	I've done enough.
1:12.7	I've done enough today.
1:13.9	You work hard.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:15.2	You work super hard.
1:16.3	Yeah.
1:16.7	You've got to get yourself onto Uber Eats, James.
1:18.8	It's a classic part of my downtime.
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