James Acaster and Ed Gamble kick off 2026 with series 15 of their hit podcast Off Menu.
The new series premieres this Wednesday 21st January. All episodes are available wherever you get your podcasts every Wednesday, and available to watch on YouTube every Thursday.
Previous guests include Hollywood royalty Kate Winslet, singer Joy Crookes, actors Gillian Anderson, Elle Fanning, Will Sharpe, BBC Radio 1’s Greg James and comedian Chris McCausland. This brand new series promises to deliver a lineup of more weird and wonderful dream menus from star-studded patrons entering the dream restaurant.
The hit podcast reaches its milestone 15th series following a sold-out UK & Ireland Tour in 2023 and a sold out run of Off Menu: Live in London at the London Palladium earlier in 2025. Ed and James will return to the stage in March 2026 with a limited run of Off Menu Live: The Tasting Menus taking place at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Five out of the six shows have already sold out, and the last remaining tickets for the recently added sixth extra show are still available at www.plosive.co.uk/events/off-menu-live-the-tasting-menus-royal-albert-hall-2026.
Since launching in December 2018, Off Menu has become one of the biggest podcasts in the country and was an instant success, winning multiple awards, regularly topping the podcast charts and racking up over 230 million downloads. In 2019 and 2020, it was nominated for Best Comedy Podcast at the British Podcast Awards and they’ve had some of the biggest stars of stage and screen join them in the dream restaurant.
About James Acaster:
A whimsical master, James has received acclaim from around the world, including a record breaking 5 consecutive nominations for ‘Best Comedy Show’ at the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. In 2017 he toured the country with a staggering three show Trelogy, performing Recognise, Represent and Reset consecutively over three nights in each venue. These three shows and Recap form his Netflix four-part series, Repertoire. It was the first of its kind, a stand-up mini-series with an overarching narrative, and James is the first UK comic to shoot more than one Netflix Original special. In 2019 James completed a mammoth long tour of his hugely successful show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 around the UK, Australia and America, the show was nominated for a critic’s choice award after its release in 2022 and is now available to watch on his website. This year, James embarks on his mammoth self-titled tour ‘James Acaster’ across North America and the UK.
About Ed Gamble:
In 2018 Ed co-created the Off Menu podcast with fellow host James Acaster – in each episode the pair interview a guest about their dream restaurant line-up. The show was an instant success, and in 2019 and 2020 it was nominated for Best Comedy Podcast at the British Podcast Awards. To date it consistently tops iTunes and UK Comedy Podcast charts with over 200 million downloads in 195 different countries. Crowned the series nine champion of the award-winning TV show Taskmaster (Dave/Channel 4), Ed was featured on the second Champions of Champions episode in 2022 and is currently the host of the Taskmaster Podcast as well as The Traitors: Uncloaked podcast which is now being broadcast on BBC One this series. His first book Glutton: The Multi-Course Life of a Very Greedy Boy was released in autumn 2024. He has been a contestant on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer and appeared in over 30 episodes of the hit satirical panel show Mock the Week between 2015 to 2021, making him one of the most frequent regulars on the show.
His first-ever international tour – Ed Gamble Live - saw him perform across major European cities from November 2025, closely followed by a run of shows across the USA and Canada.
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