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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

The Christmas Dinner Party (Live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall)

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.820K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

A present from Ed, James and The Great Benito.


Off Menu: The Christmas Dinner Party, recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 20 December 2022.


Featuring special guests:


Nish Kumar

Rosie Jones

Bob Mortimer

Munya Chawawa

Sindhu Vee

Tim Key


Plus contributions from Claudia Winkleman and Dan Aykroyd.


Bob Mortimer's new novel The Satsuma Complex is out now. Buy it here.

Tim Key's Festivical Playing Cards. Buy them here.


Recorded by Southbank Centre. Edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).


Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.

And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.


Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.



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0:00.0

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0:05.7

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0:12.6

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0:17.0

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0:22.6

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0:26.8

Subject to availability, we tell customers only, decency supply.

0:45.6

Happy Christmas everybody! It's the off-menu podcast!

0:48.9

It's Christmas Day!

0:50.0

It's Christmas Day when we're releasing this, but you're very welcome to listen to it whenever you like.

0:54.3

But you may be listening to this on Christmas Day 2022.

0:58.3

We hope you're having a day.

1:00.3

Yes, it doesn't matter what the day is, but now the day just got better, because we're here.

1:05.5

We're here, this is just a quick intro, because we are today presenting the Great Benito Presents.

1:12.1

The Rebenito Presents.

1:13.5

The off-menu Christmas dinner party recorded live at the South Bank Centre not five days ago.

1:19.9

Very excited to share this with you, it was an amazing evening, and also we were very excited

1:24.8

that night, because the audience did not know who was going to come on stage, what was going to happen

1:29.0

as far as that, they were concerned I think a lot of them for it, it was going to be a traditional

1:32.0

episode, but we have one guest on and ask them their favourite ever start and main course

1:35.7

desserts, side dish and drink night in that order. But instead, it was a dinner party format,

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