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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Ep 269: Robert Popper

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.820K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Comedy royalty Robert Popper – ‘Friday Night Dinner’ creator and author of ‘The Timewaster Letters’ – dines with us this week. And he’s brought a list.


P.S. Can't remember if there’s any mention of signed chopping boards in this episode, but you ain’t getting one.


Robert Popper’s new book ‘The Elsie Drake Letters (aged 104)’ is out now, published by Hachette. Buy it here.

Follow Robert on Twitter @robertpopper and Instagram @itsrobertpopper


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

James Acaster here of the off menu podcast before we get into today's episode

0:04.0

please I'd like to let you know that my show Hecla's Welcome live at the KLV in

0:08.9

Kettering has been released on vinyl and we're doing a repressing so get online and buy that vinyl.

0:15.8

It's the show where on the night that we recorded it I pretty much got through 5% of the material

0:21.2

and most of it is me dealing with the audience as God intended.

0:24.8

You can get it from my website James A Castle.com or pretty much anywhere I think it's

0:29.1

you know the internet you know how to work the internet and eating it like a huge bowl of meat cereal.

0:54.5

Well that's it. Yeah simple.

0:58.1

Eating minced beef out of a bowl? Carnivore diet. That is a gamble. My name is James

1:03.0

Lancaster. Together we own a dream restaurant and every single week we invited a

1:06.0

guest and we asked them their favorite ever start a main cost dessert,

1:08.5

side dish and drink not in that order and this week our guest is Robert Popper. Robert Popper, one of the UK's finest comedy minds, James.

1:19.6

Yes, I'd say I first became a fan of Roberts when I watched Look Around You.

1:23.8

Yeah, what a show. As a scamp and then got into the time waster letters.

1:27.5

It's brilliant books. And of course a lot of people know Friday night

1:31.0

dinner and will be huge fans of

1:33.0

fun and ran for a very long time.

1:35.0

Rare in this biz.

1:37.0

Very rare, but Robert is, well, he's,

1:40.0

I'm gonna say it,

1:42.0

National Trege in terms of the stuff he's produced, James.

1:44.8

Yeah, he is absolutely national treas.

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