Nicola Coughlan (Tasting Menu – Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
7/13/20261 hr 9 min
It’s Royal Albert Hall Tasting Menu time, and joining us for this live episode is ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Derry Girls’ star Nicola Coughlan. On Nicola’s original episode she locked herself out of her flat. Will she do the same at the Royal Albert Hall?
Nicola is starring in the next of Channel 4’s anthology series, ‘I Am’, with ‘I Am Helen’ being released later this year.
She’s also joined the cast of ‘Only Murders in the Building’, so look out for the new series.
Follow Nicola on Instagram @nicolacoughlan
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Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Recorded by Matt Mountford-Lister for Storm Productions Group live at the Royal Albert Hall.
Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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First 90 secondsEd Gamble· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to the Off Menu podcast. Bonus.
James Acaster· Host0:15
Bonus.
Ed Gamble· Host0:17
A bonus live episode from the Royal Albert Hall, James.
James Acaster· Host0:21
The Royal Albert Hall. We did six shows there. Absolutely bonkers. This is our second matinee- Yes ... of course.
Ed Gamble· Host0:28
Nicola Coughlan is our guest.
James Acaster· Host0:29
Nicola Coughlan.
Ed Gamble· Host0:30
A returning guest to do a tasting menu.
James Acaster· Host0:32
The first time Nicola came on was over Zoom. She locked herself out of her house.
Ed Gamble· Host0:36
Yeah.
James Acaster· Host0:37
Um, so we're quite keen to have Nicola on a live episode where there's zero chance of that happening, I would say.
Ed Gamble· Host0:44
Would've been funny, though.
James Acaster· Host0:44
Would've been hap- would've been very funny. Um- Lock herself out of the Royal Albert Hall. You know what I've just remembered as well?
Ed Gamble· Host0:49
Go on.
James Acaster· Host0:50
Is that, uh, 'cause I remember, like, popping in to say hi to Nicola before, um, the show, and there was, like... each guest had some snacks and stuff in their room.
Ed Gamble· Host0:59
Yeah.
James Acaster· Host0:59
And Benito had gone out of his way to make sure they had stuff that related to their initial episode.
Ed Gamble· Host1:04
Yeah, it was pretty- It was very nice ... it was pretty nice. And the, the guests were always... when, when they saw that, they'd thank me and James so much.
James Acaster· Host1:10
Yeah. We got so many thank yous, I didn't even know it had happened.
Ed Gamble· Host1:12
Yeah.
James Acaster· Host1:12
And they were like, "Oh, just, like, you got my dream drink there."
Ed Gamble· Host1:15
Yeah.
James Acaster· Host1:15
And sometimes it was a cocktail- Yeah ... that they'd mentioned. And, like, Benito had got all the ingredients for their dream drink and made sure that they got their- Yeah ... dream cocktail before going on to the Royal Albert Hall. Very, very nice of him.
Ed Gamble· Host1:25
Really, really, uh, thoughtful.
James Acaster· Host1:26
Really thoughtful. And the whole Plosive team arranged that,