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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast, taking the Kit Kat of conversation, sliding the nail of humor along the foil of friendship, and snapping off a little baton of chocolate wafer podcast.
is Ed Gamble my name is James Edcastle together we own a dream restaurant and every single week we invite a guest asking their favourite ever start a main course dessert side dish and drink not in that order and this week our guest is Harry Enfield Harry Enfield National Trej we're National Trej Territory National Trej Territory Absolutely. We grew up watching Harry Enfield. Big time.
You know, if we were allowed. Fantastic. So many comedy characters that are iconic. I had a video of Harry Enfield and Chums that was huge for me. Yeah, massive. Absolutely massive. So excited to have Harry in the studio today. We've had Kathy Burke, of course, who was also in the show and worked with Harry a lot. We need Whitehouse. We need Whitehouse.
And then we're into the Fast Show territory. Then you've got to get all that lot in. Yeah. We've had Arabella. We've had Arabella, of course. I saw Arabella maybe a year after, bumped into her, and she said, you don't remember me. I was like, I do. I knew who you were before me. Pretty big deal, Arabella. No, no, no, you don't know who I am.
But we're very excited to have Harry, and Harry is on tour doing his show, Harry Enfield and No Chums. No chums. No chums. One day that could be this podcast. Yeah. Benito. Just Benito and no chums. No, it's called Just Benito. It's called Just Benito. Yeah. And it's just, he still doesn't speak. Blank chairs. Just completely blank chairs. Does his clap before. Yeah. And that's all you hear.
That's his record. Like the podcast he used to do with Harry Hill. Oh yeah. He did actually. Where it's just a noise. He did make that. You can still find those online if you want to find the Harry Hill makes a noise podcast.
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Chapter 2: How did Harry Enfield influence the hosts' childhood?
But this is not the Harry we're here to talk about. We're here to talk about Harry Enfield. Go to feign.co.uk for tickets. I think there's a bit of a retrospective to it. He'll be doing some characters, but we can talk to Harry more about that when he comes into the Dream Restaurant. But of course, we will kick him out if he says the secret ingredient, which we deem to be unacceptable.
And this week, the secret ingredient is... Fab Lollies. Now, if you don't remember the Smashy and Nicey Fab adverts, then bad luck, because they were brilliant. They were brilliant. Harry and Paul doing their characters, Smashy and Nicey. The radio DJs. Radio DJs. Kind of based on Tony Blackburn, people like that. Yeah. Really funny adverts. And Fab Lollies are delicious. Yes.
So, you know, not being kicked out because we don't like Fab Lollies. Because he might have picked fab lollies because he got sent so many fab lollies that he got really into them. Yeah, maybe it was a great time and he's now like, here's my favourite dessert. It'd be a shame to kick out a comedy hero, James. Especially for a lolly that's very nice. Yeah.
That we've chosen because of adverts that we thought were funny. Yeah. But there you go. We've made our bed. This is the final episode of Series 15, everyone. Rest in peace, Series 15. I'm on tour next year, 2027. Fresh Hell is the name of the show. Edgamble.co.uk for tickets. Tickets are on sale now. It's a funny show, man. So funny. Snap them up. Snap them up. Like a crocodile.
Sorry, Benito, that wasn't your clap. That was me doing a crocodile. I know you thought that was your clap. We would never take that away from you, Benito. This is the Off Menu Menu of Harry Enfield. Harry Enfield. Welcome, Harry, to the Dream Restaurant. Thank you very much, James. Welcome, Harry Enfield, to the Dream Restaurant.
We've been expecting you for some time. Thank you very much, James. I've been expecting to come here for some time. It's been a long time asking. Well, we're very excited to have you. We're delighted to have you here, Harry.
Thank you for having me. We've said beforehand that my partner this morning was like, Harry Enfield's so cool. Yeah, she's never met me. No. I was very excited about it. You were the coolest.
When we were at school, not to make you feel old, but, like, you were the cool comedian. Yeah, well, you are very young compared to me. I looked it up, and my career is as long as your lives. Really? Wow. Yeah, I started Spitting Image in January, I think on about January the 12th, 1985, I started doing voices for Spitting Image. Wow. So you were three days old.
You were three days old. You know, it's my birthday.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Harry Enfield's characters?
So my dad would watch it the night before and record it on the VHS, and then the next day would show me the sketches he had deemed I was allowed to watch. And that would give me enough of the lingo in school to get by in the day.
Oh, well, that's good. Although I think it would have been more character-forming for you to not be allowed to watch it at all. Yeah, and have to just be completely screwed up at school.
Also, surely the ones at school that people were talking about the most would have been the ruder ones, right? Yeah, because that was the most exciting. So I'm there going like, just quoting Mr. Dead.
But they're like, yeah, but... I'd forgotten about Mr. Dead. That was Dave Cummings. Yeah, yeah. Do you know Delimitri? No. The band. Yeah.
Oh, yes, okay.
Yeah, he was the bass player in that and Lloyd Coles. Sorry, guitarist and Lloyd Coles. And he said, how about doing Mr. Dead? He never really took off, but we loved it.
I would say that it might have been like a clean sketch, but I would say it was the most disturbing sketch on that series. Yes.
He lived in a box. He looked like a horse. He's dead, of course. It was Mr. Ed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the 50s.
Yeah, because I loved Mr. Dead as well, but I don't think I had any sense of what it was based on. So for me, it was just the most surreal, brilliant thing in the world. It was just a dead guy in a stable. Yeah, a guy punches him in one of the sketches. He doesn't like the fact that Mr. Dead's staring at him. So he wants to punch him. And Mr. Dead goes, okay, but you'll regret it.
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Chapter 4: What are Harry Enfield's thoughts on his current tour?
Well, that's my favourite, but he does loads. It's my brother-in-law. Oh, great. But I'm being truthful about this. Yes. And when Paul and I went on tour, there was a beer snob. And, you know, part of the crew, he was a proper, he knew all his beers and all that. I said, have you ever had Barney's beer? He said, no. So I got him some and he went, oh, my God, this is amazing.
So every week, Barney'd send down another crate of beer for the tour.
When you gave the beer snob Barney's beer, was it like Dawn French giving her?
Yes. Daughter of the chocolate. It was, yeah. His little eyes were like that. This is amazing. So anyway, that's my... Barney's beer.
Yeah, nice. Shout out. Let's start your menu proper now. Okay. Your dream starter, Harry. I finished my water. You finished your water? Yeah, you plugged that down. You had your focaccia. You've been dipping it in the oil. Yes. A little bit of salt. Oh, a little bit of salt on there, of course. Oysters, please. Oysters. It's been a while since we've had a shout-out for oysters.
Yeah, really. It's always good. I love oysters. Yeah. And me and my friends, Paul and Dan, sometimes we just... Should we have dinner? I don't feel like it's... I thought we'd go to the oyster bar. Oh, yeah. Okay. Right. We go there. Oysters and chips. Quite often we just have that. That's nice. That's it. Yeah, but the chips is good.
There's something about an oyster slugging down your throat I just love.
Some people find that...
awful idea right yeah but I think once you've had it once you get over that initial thing of the texture it's beautiful well my kids used to hate hate oysters they you know exactly that yeah but once they finally tried them now they have them all yeah you know so I go because there's a place we've got a place in Cornwall it's a place down the road um where there's an oyster farm, basically.
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Chapter 5: What humorous food references are made in this segment?
That's what she says. She says it smells of jizz. Well, that's quite a nice lead into the pig's cock then, isn't it? Yeah.
Really? Yeah, it's sort of thematic. It's nice to know what your jizz smells of. It's quite a gourmet jizz. I think there's a lot of women who love truffle jizz. I'm a lucky guy. Very hackneyed, very stoked. I do truffle jizz.
You've really come up in the world. No, the truffle pasta is a wonderful addition. I've made it at home once. Because, yeah, my wife loves truffle pasta. We'd been to that restaurant, Gloria. Do you know Gloria in Shoreditch? It's an Italian restaurant. They do a really nice truffle pasta. And I looked up the recipe and ordered a truffle. Really? Delivery. Online? Online.
Chapter 6: What are the favorite types of pasta and their significance?
Got it delivered to the house. A lovely black truffle. A lovely black truffle. Bought a truffle shaver as well.
Wow.
Obviously, he's never needed the truffle shaver since. I imagine, probably knowing you, sliced your finger open on it. Yeah. I do that a lot. Do you? Yeah. Let me have a look. Well, can you see my thumb there? There's a line there. Yes. Yeah, that is a scar from a dauphinoise accident.
Oh, I'm sorry. Your hands are all right, though, aren't they?
Yeah, they're all right, generally, yeah. Are you happy with your hands? I think so. I mean, there's not much I can do now, really.
I've got the same hands as the king.
Have you got the fingers?
Little fat sausages, like the king.
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Chapter 7: How is the topic of music addressed in the restaurant setting?
Oh, yeah, little stubby fingers. Yes, like his majesty.
Yeah.
You've seen it all. Yours look less of a medical worry, though, I would say.
His look like they're about to pop off. Oh, well, that's kind of you, but I'm not quite his age. When I am, they'll probably pop off. Have little fat stumps. Your dream side dish then, Harry? Oh, well, I do like horta. What's that? It's basically like greens. It's a bit like spinach or something, but it's Greek or they do it in Greece and they call it horta and it's delicious.
You know, it's just a bit garlic and all that. So I love a bit of that. Yeah. But basically, I try to be good because I'm a fucking now. So with my penis, I should like some horta or, you know, the usual broccoli with bits of shit on it. You know, chilli. Yeah. Chilli and that stuff. Yeah. All the greens. Yeah. I'd like a bit of that on the side or cabbage on the side, please.
And then they say, would you like any chips? Yes. Yeah. I can't stop it. You love chips. This triple fried thing. Yeah. When did they start that? It's great, isn't it? Yeah. Can you get quadruple fried chips?
I'm sure you could. There's a gap in the market for that, isn't there? But then it's an arms race.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of the chocolate lolly gift?
Then when does it end, Harry? Yes, exactly. Then we're having 50 times cooked chips. I think it's a Heston thing, you know. Heston started it. The triple-cooked chip feels like a Heston thing. Does it, yeah. Sorry if I'm wrong, but they're parboiling, then doing once in the oil for a little bit, taking them out, letting them rest, and then frying them for a final time. I really want one now.
Yeah.
I'm salivating.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a dog. I think it's very nice that you're having greens, that you're like, I have to have the greens. Got to have the greens. But the chips are going to be on this menu as well.
You see it and think, well, I'll just have two. Yeah. And then, in fact, recently I had lunch with some mates, including Trevor Eve. Do you know the very bad actor? Not bad actor, I mean, he's a bad man. Yeah, yeah, I'm aware of Trevor Reeve, yes. We'd get some chips. So I got some chips, he ate them all. Yeah. Except for two. Bad man. Sorry, I'm eating your chips.
But that's sort of what you want though, isn't it? Because you only want to have two chips. Yes, you do. It's like girls, like Ben used to do a routine, it was brilliant.
Yeah, not Benito.
No, Ben Elton. That wasn't in his magic routine. About chips and how he'd order chips. and his girlfriend at the time, before he was married, would not order chips. He said, girls don't order chips. And then they say, well, can I have one of yours? I said, I'll buy you your own fucking plate of chips. Just don't touch mine. Can't you have your own? But I'm not like that. I'm much nicer than Ben.
Yeah. So I'd obviously go, yes, please have a chip.
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