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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

S9, Ep4: Dave Gorman, comedian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

British comedian Dave Gorman joins Grace for another scrumptious helping of Comfort Eating. Across the noughties, Dave took the British comedy scene by storm, and is known for taking the mundane, adding some sparkle and creating an Edinburgh festival fringe show, a UK tour and a book. Now he is back with a reboot of Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish. Dave recounts how his hero comedian Frank Skinner gave him his big break; how fish and chips equals celebration; and what he munches on to fuel his frequent all-night writing sessions

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.6

I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.

0:13.6

A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.

0:19.5

Because even as a restaurant critic,

0:21.8

I believe the food that matters most

0:24.1

is often that snack you cobbled together

0:26.8

when you're curled upon the sofa.

0:29.3

Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid

0:32.6

on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.

0:36.0

Because you can tell a lot about a person

0:38.8

from what they eat behind closed doors.

0:46.3

Hello, friends. You find me, as ever, lint rolling my sofa.

0:54.1

Four cats, people, four cats.

0:57.0

It's an ongoing task.

1:00.0

Now any minute, the next guest will be here to come for eat with me.

1:05.0

Always an exciting time.

1:07.0

This is a man who loomed so large on the British comedy scene at one point you couldn't move for seeing him.

1:14.3

He's most famous for taking mundane tasks and creating an Edinburgh show, a two-year UK tour, a book and merchandise mugs.

1:24.9

Comedy alchemy. It's only Dave Gorman. You may know him from

1:31.0

Are You Dave Gorman, where he discovered lots of other people across the world called Dave Gorman.

1:37.7

I remember watching that at the time in completely. It became a Sunday Times bestselling book.

1:47.9

He's about to hit our screens with a reboot of Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish. So if he's a man talented at making comedy out of the

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