S14 Ep32: Ed Gamble, comedian, podcaster and now author on his relationship with food, his passion for the cheeseboard and his unusual plan to escape from the island

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Ed Gamble

Ed is a comedian, an actor, host of the Off Menu podcast amongst others, and judge on the Great British Menu. He can now also add author to his bio of credentials as his debut book Glutton has just been published.

His career in comedy began at Durham university performing with the Durham revue before heading to the Edinburgh fringe for the first time in 2011

His stand-up comedy is largely observational comedy, often aimed at himself, including discussion of his diabetes, which he was diagnosed with as a teenager. He says his humour was honed by a fixation with all things sitcoms and stand up. Ed has been a regular panellist on the BBC panel show Mock the Week , has acted for shows on the BBC and hosted several radio shows. The Off Menu podcast which he hosts with James Acaster has been a phenomenal success which has seen him become somewhat of a household name.

When asked what made him get into comedy, Ed replied, The perfect mix of a terrifying ego and an astonishing lack of self-esteem. I can’t tell day to day whether I’m arrogant or I hate myself, but I think somewhere in-between is absolutely ideal for a comedian.

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0:48.3	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
0:59.0	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
1:03.0	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the desert island.
1:11.6	The question is, what would you choose as your last meal?
1:15.3	Hi, I hope you're all very well. We went to Devon over half term and we went to the
1:21.2	beach house in Thurston for the second time. And I have to tell you, I really do think it's one of
1:26.8	my all-time favorite
1:27.7	restaurants. It's just my favorite kind of food, the freshest ingredients, very simply
1:33.5	prepared, and it's just so good. It was pouring with rain, of course, but being by the beach,
1:40.0	being cozy inside, looking out over the sea and eating bowls of steaming muscles and delicious
1:46.9	fish stew and amazing chips. It was just, I think, one of the happiest moments of recent weeks
1:53.0	for me. They have no idea who I am, I can assure you, and it definitely wasn't gifted or anything
1:58.9	like that. But I just wanted to share a little restaurant
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