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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Ep 263: Josh Widdicombe

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.820K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

After nearly 6 years of Off Menu, we finally welcome friend, stand-up and podcast royalty Josh Widdicombe to the Dream Restaurant. And he‘s got a bone to pick about a previous episode…


Trigger warning: this episode contains chat about dieting.


Josh Widdicombe is on tour with his new show ‘Not My Cup of Tea’ from September 2025. Tickets are on this sale Friday from joshwiddicombe.com

Listen to Josh’s podcast ‘Parenting Hell’ wherever you get your podcasts.

Follow Josh on Instagram @josh_widdicombe


Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).


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

Hello this is Harriet Kemsley. I had the time of my life on off menu and since then have been

0:07.4

told that it is up there with people's most batship episodes. Come and see me on tour. I'm traveling the UK with my new show

0:14.8

this autumn. It's called Everything Always Works Out for me because last year it didn't.

0:20.3

I tried to stay positive as everything went to as you can imagine absolute chaos

0:24.8

I'm going to Redding Stockton Newcastle Winchester Aldershot Cambridge

0:30.6

Hoek I don't know if I said that right. People got really mad with me last time.

0:34.6

Come and see me. You can get tickets at Harriet Kemsley.com. Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. Ah, the sweet feeling of

1:01.6

whizzing past traffic.

1:04.0

Book your train journey via avantewestcoast.co. UK.

1:08.0

avante westcoast.

1:10.0

feel good travel. Feel Good Travel. Welcome to the off-menue podcast taking the chips of conversation and adding the cheese of humour.

1:33.6

Cheasy chips.

1:34.6

That's a gamble. My name is James Agaster.

1:36.5

Together we own a dream restaurant every single week we invite a guest and

1:39.4

we ask them their favour ever start a main cause dessert,

1:41.4

side dish and drink, not in that order.

1:43.2

And this week our guest is Josh Widdicam.

1:46.5

I could have put some chili and garlic sauce on the chips I suppose.

1:48.9

Could have been so many things you could have done, but I respect it.

1:51.8

Just the purity of cheesy chips. I thought it was cheesy chips and that's it. And you know, maybe that's fitting for this episode because I imagine Josh Willicum when it comes to food, it's simple kind of guy.

2:01.2

Simple kind of guy. Straightforward.

2:03.3

But a wonderful man and a wonderful comedian.

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