S7, Ep 4: Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Allan Mustafa joins Grace to share the dish he turns to for comfort food. Allan shot to fame playing MC Grindah in People Just Do Nothing, his Bafta award-winning, semi-autobiographical mockumentary, which was inspired by his early life in south-west London. Allan talks about growing up with his Czech mum and Kurdish dad and eating the ultimate fusion cuisine. He dishes the dirt on his teenage life as a graffiti artist, how he met and bonded with his People just Do Nothing co-stars on a beach in Thailand and how he turned what looked like a life of doing nothing into a life of awesome comedic success.

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:05.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the guardian. A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack
0:25.6	that cobble together when you're curled upon the sofa. Each week I asked my guest to lift the
0:32.3	lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind clothes, don't? behind closed door. Hello there, before we start I wanted to let you know that this episode contains
0:48.2	some swearing and themes that may not be appropriate for all listeners.
0:55.0	Oh, did you dinner off this.
1:02.0	Hello friends. Do you find me on my knees in rubber gloves preparing my home for a new comfort eating guest who is making his way here as we speak. Now he is an intriguing person and I've
1:18.4	been trying to lure him onto the show for years. He was very keen at one point and then he went missing. To be
1:26.9	honest I've known a lot of men like that. But now he's back. I've basically had the celebrity podcast equivalent of a text at 2am that reads,
1:38.0	you up. It's back on and I am very excited.
1:43.0	Meanwhile, I have lately fallen down the rabbit hole of watching vids of homemade cleaning products.
1:52.0	So in my Spritzer here is one part bicarb and two parts
1:57.3	vinegar and a few drops of essential oils. It's all very natural. Smells like Whitley very chippy, you know?
2:05.0	There is something ironic in this AI high-tech world about how my Tik-Tok algorithm is forcing me to live like a middle-aged
2:18.4	armish woman in 18th century Idaho.
2:22.3	Anyway, guess is here in a minute.
2:24.9	Alan, Mustafa.
2:27.8	Alan rose to fame in people just do nothing, his Bafter Award-winning semi-autobiographical mockumentary in which he played MC grinder.
2:38.8	This was inspired by his life growing up in southwest London with his mates doing a lot of, well nothing, and it has garnered a huge cult following.
2:49.2	The Pirate Radio Station in the show Corrupt FM is mutated beyond the confines of fiction.
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