Katherine Ryan (Tasting Menu – Live at the Royal Albert Hall)

**Ed Gamble** (0:14)
Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast, but it's a bonus.

**James Acaster** (0:17)
Bonus!

**Ed Gamble** (0:19)
It's a bonus live episode from the Royal Albert Hall, James. It was show two of six at the Royal Albert Hall.

**James Acaster** (0:25)
The first matinee we did.

**Ed Gamble** (0:27)
Matinee?

**James Acaster** (0:28)
I hardly know her.

**Ed Gamble** (0:30)
Matinee.

**James Acaster** (0:31)
This is Katherine Ryan, of course, a classic Off Menu guest, coming back for a tasting menu, when she gets given the menu of another past guest. What a woman. What a woman, what a comedian, what a celeb, what a national treasure.

**Ed Gamble** (0:50)
Genuine star quality, James.

**James Acaster** (0:53)
She got star quality, she got the X factor.
And that's what you want at a matinee at the Royal Albert Hall. Very happy that Katherine came and did this.

**Ed Gamble** (1:00)
Some of our guests at the Royal Albert Hall had no star quality, James.

**James Acaster** (1:04)
Absolutely. I mean, we're obviously talking about Nish, and a little bit about Tim.
But like, still glad that they all said yes.

**Ed Gamble** (1:14)
Yeah.

**James Acaster** (1:15)
There will be some stuff we say to Katherine, and maybe Katherine will say to us that won't make sense, because there was a first half in the Royal Albert Hall, where we messed around and said a bunch of stuff. Benito is actually toying with the idea of editing some of the first half of the Royal Albert Hall and putting out the highlights, which I think is mad.

**Ed Gamble** (1:30)
Yeah, you think it's mad.

**James Acaster** (1:31)
He says it's his job.

**Ed Gamble** (1:32)
Yeah. You think it's mad. The way you reacted to that was like Benito said, I'm going to go and troll through a big pile of human shit.

**James Acaster** (1:40)
Yes. That's what he said. I feel like in Jurassic Park, when they get out the car and they're going to go, we're going to like troll through this triceratops dung. And Jeff Goldblum is like, you shouldn't do that.

**Ed Gamble** (1:51)
Benito is like the guy who lost all his Bitcoin and he wants to go and search the dump.

**James Acaster** (1:57)
Yeah, he's exactly like that.

**Ed Gamble** (1:58)
Yeah.

**James Acaster** (1:58)
Searching the dump for his Bitcoin.

**Ed Gamble** (2:00)
Bad for that guy, man.

**James Acaster** (2:01)
Yeah?

**Ed Gamble** (2:02)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's just got to let it go, but...

**James Acaster** (2:05)
I guess he can't. At this point, the more that he pursues it, less likely, the more he's got to lose if he backs out. So he's got to kind of like... Because this is time now, not just his money.

**Ed Gamble** (2:14)
Yeah. Well, this is the situation of Benito.

**James Acaster** (2:17)
This is what Benito is in. It's his time and his money. So he's too proud to back out at this point, but he shouldn't edit down those first halves because it will not be worth it.

**Ed Gamble** (2:26)
Yeah.

**James Acaster** (2:27)
Not for him.

**Ed Gamble** (2:27)
We said some funny stuff.

**James Acaster** (2:29)
We said some funny stuff in the first half.

**Ed Gamble** (2:30)
Like Barrymore we got in the audience.

**James Acaster** (2:32)
Yeah. We walked into, we discovered that walking into the audience was the way to go.

**Ed Gamble** (2:35)
Yeah.

**James Acaster** (2:35)
That was the-

**Ed Gamble** (2:36)
Like Barrymore.

**James Acaster** (2:38)
Like Barrymore. Should we listen to Katherine Ryan? Yeah. Yeah.

**Ed Gamble** (2:42)
It's so good.

**James Acaster** (2:43)
Yeah. Okay.

**Ed Gamble** (2:44)
This is the Off Menu Tasting Menu of Katherine Ryan.
Welcome to the Off Menu Podcast. Taking the... Thank you. Absolutely heartbreaking if that was the opening of the whole show. Taking Claire Bear's Noodle Soup of Conversation, and throwing it in the bin because it's an unhealthy mother and son relationship.

**James Acaster** (3:20)
That is Ed Gamble, my name is James A. Castle, and together we own a dream restaurant, and every single week we invite the guests and ask them their favorite ever star, a main course dessert, side dish, and drink, not in that order. This week we're doing a Tasting Menu, and our guest is Katherine Ryan.

**Ed Gamble** (3:36)
Very, very excited to have Katherine back on the pod. Of course, it's a Tasting Menu. Katherine will be receiving the dream menu of another previous fan favorite guest. Who that will be will be revealed when we bring Katherine to the stage. But let's get on with it, James. Please, welcome to the stage, Katherine Ryan.

**James Acaster** (4:03)