Ep 278: John Kearns (Tasting Menu)

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

In an Off Menu first, we invite a previous guest back to the Dream Restaurant. But they’re not choosing their meal – they’re being served another guest’s choices. This is the first Tasting Menu episode with fan favourite, John Kearns.

John Kearns’s special ‘The Varnishing Days’ is available to watch now on NOW. Watch it here.

John stars in Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE ‘Ball & Boe’ at Soho Theatre in London. Get tickets here.

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).

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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Transcript

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Off Menu is sponsored by Audible, James.
0:04.2	I personally am an audible subscriber.
0:06.6	I love Audible.
0:07.4	I love audiobooks.
0:08.5	And I can walk around.
0:09.8	I can clean the house.
0:10.8	I can do whatever I please.
0:12.3	And I'm getting a full book poured right into my head.
0:15.1	Audible have so many great titles, so many great audiobooks.
0:17.8	You know how many Stephen Frye leaves a lot of audiobooks? Well, he's got a
0:21.7	fantastic voice. Why wouldn't he? He does Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Sherlock Holmes,
0:26.2	the definitive collection of Stephen Fry. I think he must spend most of his time doing
0:30.3	audiobooks these days. That's a lot of work. Yeah, he's a busy boy. What's great as well is sometimes
0:35.3	I feel a bit overwhelmed that I haven't read all the classics,
0:38.2	James. There's so many new books coming out, so many exciting new novels from brilliant people,
0:43.5	so many books from comedians that I like and admire. But on Audible, you can get the classics.
0:48.1	You can finally say that you've read or listened to things like Dracula, things like Oliver Twist.
0:55.0	You know, I can't tell you that Oliver Twist is read by Charles Dickens, unfortunately.
0:59.9	No?
1:00.3	One of the great tragedies is Charles Dickens did not live to see Audible.
1:04.3	But it is read by the Artful Dodger.
1:06.1	Yes, it is read by the Artful Dodger. He's grown up now.
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