Sanjeev Bhaskar
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Sanjeev Bhaskar

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 16, 20261 hr 19 min

We’re in National Treasure territory again as we welcome British comedy royalty Sanjeev Bhaskar to the Dream Restaurant. The ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ and ‘Taskmaster’ star makes James laugh more than he ever has on the podcast, we think. Sanjeev Bhaskar stars in ‘The Split Up’ which launches on 20 September on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Follow Sanjeev on Instagram @tvsanjeev Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube. Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offme...

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Welcome to the Off Menu podcast taking the lettuce leaves of conversation, adding the croutons of friendship, the Caesar dressing of humour and, if you're so fancy, the chicken of chat. chat. That is Ed Gamble, my name is James A. Caster. Together we own a dream restaurant

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in every single week. We've invited guests and asked them to favour a start at main course dessert side dish and drink not in that order and this week our guest is Sanjeev Baskar. National Tres. Tres. Is that a... National Tres. National Tres of course Sanjeev Baskar. What a legend. Very excited to have Sanjeev in. We've had

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Amir Asayal on the podcast. So this is like the second Goodness, Gracious Me and Kumar's alum that we've had on. Both big shows for us growing up.

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