Phil Ellis
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Phil Ellis

B1IntermediateJuly 15, 20261 hr 17 min

The Dream Restaurant’s open for business once more, and our first diner for series 16 is ‘Taskmaster’ star and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Phil Ellis. If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts you can now watch this episode too. And what an episode to watch. Phil Ellis is currently on a nationwide stand-up tour with Bath Mat, including an extra London show at Wilton’s Music Hall on 10th October. He will also be taking the show to Monkey Barrel 1 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 3rd - 30th August at 1.55pm. For mo...

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Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast, injecting the cheese of conversation into the sausage of humour, wrapping it in the bacon of the internet, deep frying it in the oil of love and putting it in the bun of podcast. Sort of like a deep-fried bacon-wrapped cheese sausage bun, James.

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Does that sound nice? That is Ed Gamble. My name is James Acaster. Together we own a dream restaurant every single week.

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We're inviting a guest and ask them their favourite ever. Start a main course dessert, side dish and drink. Not in that order. And this week our guest is...

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