Tim Key (Tasting Menu – Live at the Royal Albert Hall)

**Ed Gamble** (0:14)
Well, it's the Off Menu podcast, Bonus.

**James Acaster** (0:16)
Bonus!

**Ed Gamble** (0:17)
This is one of the Bonus live episodes from the Royal Albert Hall, James, on our run at the Royal Albert Hall.

**James Acaster** (0:23)
Record-breaking run.

**Ed Gamble** (0:24)
Record-breaking run at the Royal Albert Hall. The record is most amount of times we've been in the Royal Albert Hall.

**James Acaster** (0:30)
Yeah, no one can take that away from us.

**Ed Gamble** (0:32)
Yes.

**James Acaster** (0:33)
This is Tim Key, of course.

**Ed Gamble** (0:34)
Tim Key! Doing a tasting menu, he's been on the pod before, he's back on the pod receiving the menu of another previous fan favorite guest. This was a fun one, James. As it always is when Tim's in the room.

**James Acaster** (0:46)
Yes, Tim brings the fun, everyone knows that about Tim. The key stands for...
Key to the Fun House.

**Ed Gamble** (0:54)
Key to the Fun House, yes, and it's a universal key.

**James Acaster** (0:59)
Yeah. Skeleton Key?

**Ed Gamble** (1:01)
Skeleton Key.

**James Acaster** (1:02)
We've all got skeletons in us.

**Ed Gamble** (1:03)
There's so many good titles he could have if he just...

**James Acaster** (1:07)
Oh, if he wanted to go down the pun route, he'd never ever run out of stuff.

**Ed Gamble** (1:11)
But he's too like, oh, he's above that, isn't he?

**James Acaster** (1:14)
He is.

**Ed Gamble** (1:15)
If he just decided he wanted to be for the people, he'd have some really good titles.

**James Acaster** (1:20)
He'd have quite the career on his hands.

**Ed Gamble** (1:21)
Yeah, he could do a show with his family called Bunch Of Keys.

**James Acaster** (1:24)
Oh, Bunch Of Keys. They can all stand in a circle.

**Ed Gamble** (1:27)
Yeah.

**James Acaster** (1:27)
Key rig. Look, some of the stuff that we say in this episode might not make sense, because there was a first half as well, so we might be referring back to that at some point.

**Ed Gamble** (1:37)
Or it just might not make sense.

**James Acaster** (1:38)
When we went on and talked to the audience. Sometimes it might not make sense.

**Ed Gamble** (1:41)
It's a fun episode though, James. So let's get on with it. This is the Off Menu Tasting Menu of Tim Key.
Welcome to the Off Menu podcast, taking the roast dinner of conversation, putting it in the blender of humour, hitting the big red button of chat, and serving it all up as just normal prison food. If you're just listening to this podcast, you wouldn't have heard the opening half. So that prison food was a reference to a hilarious running joke in the first half about the serial killer Ted Bundy.

**Tim Key** (2:29)
That's Ed Gamble, my name is James Day Gaster, huh?

**Ed Gamble** (2:31)
You said Ted Bundy at the same time as me as if he was our guest.

**James Acaster** (2:35)
Walked out.

**Ed Gamble** (2:38)
I love whatever's good, whatever's good.

**James Acaster** (2:40)
It was famously charismatic, so I think he'd be a good guest.

**Ed Gamble** (2:43)
He'd be a good guest, yes, yes, yes. I did a bit of research. It was what they normally serve to death row prisoners if they don't request anything. Steak, eggs, hash browns, coffee, orange juice, and then he didn't even eat it anyway.

**James Acaster** (2:55)
He didn't eat it?

**Ed Gamble** (2:55)
He didn't eat it.

**James Acaster** (2:56)
I guess he probably had everything on his mind.

**Ed Gamble** (2:58)
Yeah.

**James Acaster** (3:00)
I guess I'm about to die.
That's Ed Gamble. My name is James Acaster. Together we own a Dream Restaurant. And every single week we invite in a guest. And that's the favorite ever start-up main course, dessert, side dish and drink. Not in that order. And this week, it's a tasting menu. And please welcome to the stage, our guest, Tim Key.

**Ed Gamble** (3:31)
Hello, Tim.
Right there, Tim. It's Tim Key.

**James Acaster** (3:39)
Tim Key is here.

**Ed Gamble** (3:42)
Tim Key. How are we doing, Tim?

**Tim Key** (3:45)
Not bad, is it? Phone's off. Yeah.

**James Acaster** (3:48)
I thought that was in the dressing rooms for us, but yeah.

**Ed Gamble** (3:51)
Phone's off, I think.

**Tim Key** (3:52)
That's on silent.

**Ed Gamble** (3:53)
Thank you.

**James Acaster** (3:55)
Thank you for that.

**Ed Gamble** (3:57)
A very respectful podcast guest.

**James Acaster** (3:59)
What's the last text that you got?

**Tim Key** (4:01)
Last text. In we go.
It's Tim Vine.

**James Acaster** (4:11)
Tim Vine.

**Ed Gamble** (4:12)
Tim Vine.

**James Acaster** (4:13)
And the text says...