Will Arnett
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
The Dream Restaurant’s back in business for series 15, and our first booking is comedy royalty, Emmy-nominated actor, superstar podcaster and star of new movie ‘Is This Thing On?’, Will Arnett.
Will Arnett stars in ‘Is This Thing On?’ which is in UK cinemas from 30 January.
Follow Will on Instagram @arnettwill
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 22 Jan.
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
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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 podcast taking the crapes of conversation, adding the sugar of friendship and squeezing over the lemon juice of humour, James. |
| 0:24.2 | A traditional. |
| 0:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.6 | Trad crepe. |
| 0:28.3 | Or pancake. |
| 0:29.0 | We should say pancake. |
| 0:30.3 | Back to Ed Gamble, my name is James Akeaster. |
| 0:32.0 | Together we own a dream restaurant. |
| 0:33.4 | And every single week, we invite a guest and ask them their favour ever. |
| 0:35.5 | Start a main course, dessert, side dish and drink. |
| 0:54.6 | Not in that order. And this week, our guest is Will Arnett. Will Arnett, international trej, James. Absolute comedy, royalty, in my opinion. Very excited. And mine? Yes, yes. Sorry. I never want to speak on your behalf. No, but I think we're on the podcast together. |
| 1:11.5 | We have a shared opinion. Everything we say is our opinion. Okay, that's interesting. That's interesting new spin on it. Yeah. As we move forward with the same opinions. Yes. Okay. Not Benitos, though. No, we don't share beneath. Oh, dear God. The spiciest of opinions, that guy. imagine if we share Benito's opinions. |
| 1:12.0 | That would be bad. |
| 1:13.2 | I mean, |
| 1:14.4 | arrested development, |
| 1:47.8 | Bojack Horseman, Blaze of Glory. The list goes on. He's done so many amazing things. And most recently, for E. Rock, of course. Ed Sprester's subject of Mastermind. Nothing gets past this guy. Because we have the same opinion. We have the same knowledge as well. Is that mean I did better on Mastermind now? You did pretty well anyway, didn't you? Oh, I was second from bottom. Well, I was joint second, so was I technically. We're the same. We're the same. Brothers. Is this thing on is Will's new film? Yes. Which is causing quite a stir here in the UK because the inspiration for it is the life of our comedian, John Bishop. |
| 1:50.3 | Our comedian. |
| 1:51.3 | He's ours. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.6 | I thought you were going into sort of Liverpoolian slang there. |
| 1:57.2 | Oh, I like our kid. |
| 1:59.0 | Yeah. |
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