Ed Gamble Is More Than A Diabetic Comedian (Live)

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Ed Gamble calls himself a “very greedy boy.” That’s because he’s always loved food, from the diary entry he wrote at six years old about his passion for calamari and pastitsio, to the desserts he now critiques as a judge on the BBC show Great British Menu. But his relationship with eating has taken many twists and turns in his life: first when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and then when he decided to lose weight as an adult.

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0:00.0	Please note this episode contains discussion of body image and weight loss including
0:05.8	specific quantities of weight lost. It also includes some profanity.
0:11.0	This is the sporkful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.
0:18.0	Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people and we're coming to you live from the London Podcast Festival.
0:24.0	My guest tonight is a comedian actor and co-host of the hit podcast Off Menu,
0:36.0	along with fellow comic James A caster. It's a food and comedy show where the guests describe their dream menu.
0:42.0	He's also a judge on BBC One's great British
0:44.3	menu and last year he published his first book, Glutton, the multi-course life of a
0:48.8	very greedy boy, an autobiography that details his lifelong obsession with food.
0:53.7	He is currently touring the UK performing his stand-up special hot-diggoty dog.
0:57.5	Please welcome London's own Ed Gamble! Hello, Ed, welcome.
1:05.0	Thank you very much.
1:10.0	Thank you so much for being here.
1:11.0	It's a delight.
1:12.0	Look at this.
1:13.3	You know, when I started just sort of talking to people, just sort of sending out emails or
1:16.4	notes to friends in the UK and said, we're going to do a show in London.
1:20.7	Who should we have?
1:22.1	99% of the responses were Ed Gamble.
1:25.1	Yes, the greediest man in London.
1:28.0	Yeah, fair enough.
1:29.3	So we're going to take some time to have a nice chat
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