Mark Gatiss
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Mark Gatiss

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 19, 20261 hr 2 min

Mark Gatiss – 1/4 of The League of Gentlemen, Bafta-winner, co-creator and star of ‘Sherlock’ – has a booking at the Dream Restaurant this week. And he makes James his chip b*tch. If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts you can now watch this episode too. Mark Gatiss created and stars in ‘Bookish’ and series 2 starts on U&alibi on Wed 26 Aug, and stream on U. Follow Mark on Instagram @themarkgatiss Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube. Off Menu is now on YouTube: @o...

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Welcome to the Off Menu podcast taking a fistful of the free peanuts at Five Guys, cracking those little bastards open and gobbling on the podcast insides. There's four guys on this podcast though. Yeah.

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We have a guest. Yeah, we have a guest and Benito's here too. That is a gamble. My name is James A. Caster. Together we own a dream restaurant. Every single week we're inviting a guest. Ask them their favourite ever to start a main course, dessert,

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side dish and drink. Not in that order. And this week our guest is Mark Gatiss. The fourth guy. National trash. Fourth guy in this podcast. Fourth guy in this podcast.

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