Laura Smyth
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Who is Laura Smyth and why is she on Off Menu?
Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast, taking the marzipan of conversation, crafting into the imitation fruits of humour, and presenting in a wonderful box with some tissue paper around it. Marzipan fruits, imagine that.
That is Ed Gamble, my name is James Edcastle. Together we own a dream restaurant, and every single week we invite a guest, ask them their favourite ever start, a main course dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week our guest is... Laura Smith!
Laura Smith, a wonderful comedian, James.
Fantastic comic. So funny. Laura and I do Glastonbury every year together. Yes. It's a fallow year this year, so we won't be doing Glastonbury. So therefore, Laura's on the podcast. Yes. So I get my annual dose of Laura Smith.
James can't afford to let his friendships go fallow. Yes. Along with the Glastonbury schedule.
That's right. I'm very excited that Laura's coming on.
You miss Glastonbury, don't you? You put a long drop in your garden because you miss it so much.
Yeah, I do. And I do a big poo in there. And then I go and I sit in, well, I get my phone and I play my favourite bands, but I make sure that I put my phone as far away from me as possible, like several blocks away. And then I watch from really far back in my garden. I don't really have a garden, but it's fun to actually fantasise about having a lawn job in my garden, actually. I feel quite fancy now.
Laura is fantastic, and she's on tour with her show Born Aggie. That's in the autumn, and she's doing the event in Apollo, James. Well worth a visit.
Get this, though, right? We like Laura, but we will kick her out the dream restaurant if she picks the secret ingredient, an ingredient we deem to be unacceptable. And this week, get this, the secret ingredient is... Eggie bread.
Eggie bread.
Born Eggie. Eggie bread. Born Eggie. So Eggie sounds like Aggie, so we've done Eggie bread. Eggie bread. Pretty good.
Enjoy. Enjoy this episode. It's the Off Menu Menu of Laura Smith.
Welcome, Laura, to the Dream Restaurant.
Thank you for having me. Welcome, Laura Smith, to the Dream Restaurant. We've been expecting you for some time.
Yeah, indeed. Thanks for having me.
Most welcome, of course. Thanks for coming. It's very exciting to have you here.
Thank you.
I feel like you and I only really see each other at Glastonbury each year.
We do. This is great. I am a huge, huge fan of your comedy, but I have to say, when you and Mr Nish Kumar are DJing, it's a next-level fandom. Thank you. It might be something to do with my altered state at Glastonbury. Yeah, sure. But you've never quite noticed me, but I'm usually at the front row going, guys, you know me! As you mix Missy Elliott and Natalie Imbruglia, and I can still have flashbacks of your mixes. I love it. I love it. And I said to Nish, I said, it's like when the geeks in the common room get the aux cord. He went, no, it's not like that. LAUGHTER It is that.
Yeah, yeah. I love seeing these guys DJ. It's not enough to make me go to Glastonbury.
Why? No, no, no.
This guy hates it.
This guy. Download. Download, girlie.
Download's great. It's the right size. It's the right bands. It's the right paving.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. I'm just not interested. Glastonbury's too big. And I'm not interested in any of the bands, I'd say. Maybe three, but that's not enough for a weekend, is it? And I don't want to get into an altered state, Laura.
You don't want to get into an altered state, but there's something else about Glastonbury when you play it as a comedian. You could quite happily have your whole weekend just tucked up behind with Charlotte the Booker and her crew of hippie legends making you tea. And there's that vibe of like... oh, I suppose I'd better go and watch Roger Stewart then. Yeah, yeah. Oh, going to town. I sometimes think if my whole classroom was just talking nonsense with other comedians and watching Basil Brush and Acaster and Kumar DJing, I'd go home happy.
Yeah, Basil Brush sang Purple Rain last year. What do you think about that? Yeah. Bet you'd have liked to have seen that.
Don't get that a download, my friend.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Laura Smyth and why is she on Off Menu?
0:13–10:12
2
How do Laura and the hosts describe their Glastonbury DJing and festival memories?
10:12–16:00
3
What are Laura's go-to entertaining dishes and slow-roast lamb tips?
16:00–37:21
4
How did Laura get into podcasting and what is 'Shouldn't Laugh But…' about?
37:21–1:03:40
5
What travel and spring water memories inspire Laura’s food choices?
1:03:40–1:07:39