Anna Faris

Summary

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Episode Summary: Anna Faris (May 27, 2026)

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Episode Theme & Purpose

The "Off Menu" podcast welcomes acclaimed comedic actor Anna Faris to the magical dream restaurant, where she joins hosts Ed Gamble and James Acaster to create her perfect meal and dive into candid, hilarious, and insightful conversation. The episode serves as both a classic menu-based interview and a playful improvisational romp, with Anna stepping into character and the trio reflecting on comedy, past roles, personal growth, and the process of self-description and identity.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Welcome and Anna Faris's Comedy Legacy

• The hosts express genuine excitement and nostalgia about Anna’s career, especially her defining role in the "Scary Movie" franchise.
  • Ed: "One of my favorite comedy actors of all time." (05:14)
  • James reminisces about attending "Scary Movie" screenings as a teenager and their laughter "mixing in the atmosphere" (05:18–05:44).

2. Anna’s Journey in Comedy & Return to "Scary Movie"

• Anna shares her unexpected path into comedy and her initial lack of comedic confidence.
  • Anna: "I was never known as a comedic person at all. I desperately wanted the world to take me seriously... My very first audition was for Scary Movie, and I got the part." (13:12–14:10)
• She discusses reconciling with the Wayans Brothers and the unique storm of returning to the franchise after years apart.
• Insightful quote on spoofing:
  • "Studios...think that it's about the movie that you're spoofing. It's never about the movie that you're spoofing...it's about what's current, what's exciting, what people are really enjoying." – (19:24)

3. The Dream Restaurant Scene: Improv and Character Work (Starting ~23:10)

• Anna invents the character "Syrah" (later "Sarah"), an exaggerated, self-describing American woman lunching on the Amalfi Coast with "Tom Berenger" (played by Ed).
• The trio improvises a whole restaurant scene, including playful banter with "waiter" James.
• The routine touches on restaurant etiquette, tipping culture, and self-awareness in LA.

Notable improv moments:

• On bread vs. poppadoms: "I think I'll do panee…Bread." – Anna as Syrah (27:37)
• On tipping: "You have to provide the cash tip...like 30 grand or something." – Anna as Syrah (35:00)

4. Comedy, Self-Description, and LA Personas (~38:09)

• Anna reflects on encountering the "self-describer" in LA – people who label themselves in conversation regardless of evidence.
  • "I really wanted to develop a character around this person, which I loosely described as the self-describer." (39:03)
• Linkage to her "Lost in Translation" role, and how that performance was informed by these encounters.

5. Stories from Hollywood

• Audition anecdote: Anna recounts a surreal experience during "Lost in Translation" auditions with Sophia Coppola and a surprise interruption by Warren Beatty. (40:00–42:06)
• On joining the final season of "Friends", highlighting the warmth of the cast, their emotional state, and her own sense of belonging (49:14–50:22), noting how Paul Rudd "muscled in on a group hug" for the sake of a laugh.

6. Food Choices & Menu Discussion

Table Setting & Water Questioning (24:39)

• Syrah insists on "both still and sparkling water, in separate vessels."

Bread Choice (27:37)

• Prefers "daily bread" but insists it be "guilt-free" – a playful religious reference.

Starter

• Settles on "bruschetta with vine-ripened tomatoes" (53:32, 66:28).

Main Course

• Signature dish: "Hand-rolled pasta (priest’s neckties)" with "vongole" (clams) – emphasis on honoring the bivalve (53:12, 45:08, 66:47).
• Later musings on potentially wanting wild boar with zucchini ("cinghiale") or fish, reflecting indecisiveness and further improv (64:03).

Dessert

• "Lemon sorbet" or "peach sorbet" ("sorbetti")—tying to both character and personal history (65:23).
• Anna shares a story about eating an entire lemon on a date, as a misguided power move, leading to vomiting ("I ate the whole thing…like I was mad at him." – 54:00).

Drink

• "A beautiful white wine, something appropriate to the Amalfi Coast." (53:45)

7. Reflections on Tipping Culture (35:04–46:53)

• Ed (as Tom) debates American tipping, saying, "If people are being paid properly, you wouldn’t need to tip them…I also think tipping’s out of control."
• Anna (in both character and as herself) speaks to the normalization and emotional significance of tipping in America, but also recognizing its flaws and excesses.

8. Identity, Vulnerability & Self-Acceptance

• Anna discusses her lifelong effort to be "taken seriously," shifting perceptions of attractiveness, and appreciating the road "you've been on” (56:46–59:34).
  • “Please look at me, don't look at me. Please look at me, don't look at me.” (57:01)
• Hosts appreciate her honesty and introspection, adding sincerity to the otherwise high-spirited session.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “You seem so natural at [comedy].” – Ed Gamble (16:46)
• "Because you had no idea what you were doing." – Anna recalling Keenan Ivory Wayans’ casting comment (17:53)
• "All I want is vongole and then sorbet." – Ed as Tom, infected by Anna’s desire for simplicity (63:41)
• "You get to be a brat…especially when everyone else is underplaying everything so much" – Anna on comedic roles (44:22)
• “You gotta respect the road you’ve been on a bit.” – Anna (59:23)
• “Have you waited tables, either of you?” – Anna flipping the interview (48:29)
• On bread: “Our daily bread. Well, I’ve heard daily bread on the podcast before. It’s very religious daily bread.” – Ed (32:45)
• On LA’s influence: "I sound like LA has infiltrated, don’t I? Like, you gotta respect the road you’ve been on." – Anna (59:31)
• "Who's paying?" "I'm paying." "No, I'm paying…And got a tip and I got a tip! I got a tip and I’m tipping on the yacht as well." (67:01)

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | Details | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 05:10–06:04 | Welcoming Anna; Scary Movie nostalgia | Childhood memories and anticipation for the new film | | 13:12–18:59 | Anna on her comedy career & return to Scary Movie | Early career, confidence, and reconciling with the franchise | | 23:10–30:00 | Improvised Amalfi Coast lunch as "Syrah" & "Tom" | Role-played menu decision, banter, and character play | | 35:04–46:53 | Tipping culture debate | Economic, cultural, and personal perspectives | | 39:03–45:04 | Character development & "Lost in Translation" | Inspiration for LA character types | | 54:00–57:10 | The Lemon Date Story | Anna’s bold but misguided college dating experiment | | 49:14–50:22 | Joining "Friends" and cast tension | Final season dynamics, Paul Rudd anecdote | | 53:12–66:59 | Finalizing the dream meal, self-reflection | True dishes selected, food memories, and further improv | | 67:00–72:00 | Closing reflections, wrap-up | Confusion over characters, summary of the chaotic energy |

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Menu Ordered by Anna Faris

| Course | Selection | |-----------|--------------------------------------------------| | Water | Still and sparkling, in separate vessels | | Bread | Daily bread (“guilt-free”), served before meal | | Starter | Bruschetta with vine-ripened tomatoes | | Main | Hand-rolled pasta ("priest’s neckties") with vongole (clams); Considered wild boar with zucchini as alternative | | Drink | Beautiful white wine, local to the Amalfi Coast | | Dessert | Lemon or peach sorbet ("sorbetti") |

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Tone & Episode Flow

True to Off Menu’s signature blend of mischief, improv, and heart, the episode cruises between genuine reminiscence, absurdist role-play, emotional candor, and restaurant-based banter, all filtered through the hosts’ and Anna’s sharp comedic sensibilities. Anna’s ability to slip between herself and "Syrah" adds meta-comedic texture, while Ed and James play off her cues, sometimes losing control of the proceedings (with much delight).

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Memorable Episode Highlights

• Anna’s humility about her comedic origins and her vulnerability in discussing self-confidence and industry pigeonholing.
• The extended, improvisational Amalfi Coast lunch scene, with Anna fully embodying a character and Ed and James gamely improvising as Tom (the lunch companion) and Dominic/Luigi (the overbearing waiter/genie).
• The hosts openly sharing how much Anna’s work meant to them, and Anna’s appreciation for their group-viewing memories of the "Scary Movie" franchise.
• The comedic but sincere debate about tipping, reflecting the cultural gap between the US and UK.
• The recurring motif of “honoring the bivalve” through a dream meal and all the digressions it inspired.

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For First-Time Listeners

If you haven’t heard the episode, expect a joyful blend of playful theatricality, behind-the-scenes Hollywood stories, and genuine reflections on identity and creativity. Anna Faris is equally game for vulnerability and farce, and the hosts’ affection and improvisational chemistry make for a lively, unpredictable ride that’s alternately side-splitting and sincere. The “menu” is only the beginning—a springboard into the hilarious and honest spaces that only happen when comics, actors, and friends sit down to lunch, real or imagined.

Transcript

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[Ed Gamble]

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[James Acaster]

That's a gamble. My name is James Acaster. Together we own a dream restaurant. Every single week, we invite in a guest and asking their favorite ever start a main course, dessert side dish and drink. Not in that order. And this week, our guest is Anna Faris.

[Ed Gamble]

Very excited to have Ana on. James, of course.

[James Acaster]

We are one of the goats.

[Ed Gamble]

One of the goats.

[James Acaster]

One of my favorite comedy actors of all time.

[Ed Gamble]

We love Scary Movie.

[James Acaster]

We were teenagers when the Scary Movie movies came out and we weren't even friends then. Weren't even friends. But our laughter was joining in the atmosphere. Yes. As we laughed in Wimbledon and Kettering, respectively.

[Ed Gamble]

And the universe knew that we'd one day be friends.

[James Acaster]

We'd one day be friends. Because our laughter had mixed up before Everyone else was laughing at Scary Movie.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

All our laughter was swirling together in the atmos and nowhere we are, we get to meet Anna Faris.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Pretty cool.

[James Acaster]

A huge moment.

[Ed Gamble]

Huge moment for both of us. And another huge moment, James, There's a new scary movie coming out.

[James Acaster]

There is on 5th of June. Basically everyone's come back for it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Marlon Wayne's at the helm. You got Anthony Anderson's in it. Gina Hall's in it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Like all the big players. Yeah. It's very exciting.

[Ed Gamble]

Huge. I'm very excited. James. We should go to the cinema to see it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, let's go to the cinema and see it. Just like we used to.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

When I laughed and mixed in the atmosphere.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Very excited about having Anna Faris on the podcast. But if Anna says the secret ingredient, an ingredient which we deem to be unacceptable, we will be forced to kick her out of the dream restaurant. Not that we want to.

[Ed Gamble]

No.

[James Acaster]

And this week, the secret ingredient is Malteser bunnies. The house bunny was a film that Ana did.

[Ed Gamble]

The eyes and the nipples of the face.

[James Acaster]

And so we've gone bunny themed and gone for Malteser bunnies, which are very nice. But hopefully she won't choose it because. Very UK centric.

[Ed Gamble]

Very UK centric. We love Malteser bunnies. Of course.

[James Acaster]

Of course we do. But we've just got Easter, by the way, recorded.

[Ed Gamble]

It's just been Easter. I didn't have much chockies, though.

[James Acaster]

Oh, it's a shame.

[Ed Gamble]

My mum bought me a little bag of lint eggs.

[James Acaster]

Oh, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Which are very nice.

[James Acaster]

So, Amy, Annette bought my partner because my partner's birthday recently. Yes. A Terry's chocolate orange.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

Because our cat's called Terry. Yeah. But my partner doesn't like orange chocolate. Which she told Amy to her face. Yeah. And so I was given the chocolate orange.

[Ed Gamble]

That's nice.

[James Acaster]

On the way home.

[Ed Gamble]

They're not Easter, though, are they?

[James Acaster]

But on the way home, it's Christmas. Went past a shop and I did a double take because they had a. I've not seen this before. I'm really into Sour Patch Kids these days, as I think I discussed with John Mulaney on our podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And they had some cola flavored Sour Patch Kids. I was like, I've not seen that.

[Ed Gamble]

You made that noise.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I've not seen cola flavored Sour Patch before. So I grabbed that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Went home. I sat in front of. I think I was watching on the floor like a little boy watching Atlanta. I started getting. I'd get a segment, just a single segment of the Terry's Chocolate Orange.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And I put two.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Sour Patch colas on them and eat it like a canopy. And it was delicious. You wouldn't think it would work, but I might start like a restaurant just to have this as a little petty for.

[Ed Gamble]

It's really. I think it's fascinating for the listener and the viewer to know that you live this.

[James Acaster]

I live this.

[Ed Gamble]

It's not a joke.

[James Acaster]

I live this. Is not a joke. I live this.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. He lives this.

[James Acaster]

I think I was watching Atlanta.

[Ed Gamble]

That's not the key part of the story, is what I'd say.

[James Acaster]

Huh?

[Ed Gamble]

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[James Acaster]

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It's shaping up to be another absolute humdinger of a show, but let's get

[James Acaster]

on with the episode.

[Ed Gamble]

This is the off menu menu of Anna Faris. Welcome, Ana, to the Dream Restaurant.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you.

[James Acaster]

Welcome, Arnold Father's to the Dream Restaurant, but he's making some time.

[Anna Faris]

Wow. Where's the table?

[Ed Gamble]

What are you imagining? If you walk into your dream restaurant, what are you imagining?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, gosh. A hammock. I'm wondering if. I don't know. I. I am delighted by robots so far in life. We'll see how you know the future.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, sure.

[Anna Faris]

You know what I mean?

[Ed Gamble]

How they are now is pretty cool, right?

[Anna Faris]

They're ridiculous.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

But I mean, I'm just. If. Dream restaurant, hammock and robot.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. So do you have a favorite food, a favorite robot? Currently? No, no, no. It's not. It's not who you like. I'm particularly charmed by that one.

[Anna Faris]

No, no.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you have the robot wishes?

[Anna Faris]

We're gonna. I wish I had a wittier answer for you.

[James Acaster]

No, no, no.

[Ed Gamble]

You gotta be honest.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Ed Gamble]

Do you have the robot vacuum at home?

[Anna Faris]

No.

[James Acaster]

No.

[Anna Faris]

I'd like the idea of it, though.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I like the idea of it. But then I feel a bit sorry for them when you see videos of them. They can't get upstairs and they're, like, desperate to get up the stairs.

[Anna Faris]

Yes, yes.

[Ed Gamble]

They really want to get up the stairs, but they can't get up the stairs.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

They must think about it a lot. Like, what's up there?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

We're, like, taking on the frustration of a robot. Oh, boy. Guys, this is going to be bad. We are going to be banging our heads. Yeah, just like that. Roomba.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

That'll be us soon.

[Anna Faris]

Can I ask you guys a question that I was thinking about?

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Anna Faris]

This is sort of a takeover, so please take. Take it back whenever I. You know what I'm saying? But do you think podcasting has changed how you communicate with your partners?

[James Acaster]

Wow.

[Anna Faris]

Or with people in general?

[Ed Gamble]

Interesting. I don't think so, necessarily. I don't think my wife would accept me interviewing her in a podcast style. She's very disengaged from a lot of my work in a very healthy way.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, that's great.

[Ed Gamble]

Like, we will just have, like, a normal life and, you know, she'll come to my shows now and again, but she'll come to the big show at the end of a tour and be like, well done. Congratulations. But she's not constantly engaged in what I'm doing, which I think is. Which is pretty healthy, I think.

[Anna Faris]

That's.

[James Acaster]

Sure. You know, she doesn't really know much of Ed's career.

[Ed Gamble]

She's not a fan.

[Anna Faris]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

You know, she's a fan of me as a person. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely humble. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. But the question was, does it change how you communicate with your partner? It wasn't, does your partner like you?

[Ed Gamble]

No. But. But that. That is also the same question.

[Anna Faris]

The more broad question is, do you find yourself having unexpected moments of truth, of articulating emotions or feelings a little bit more openly in, or have there been moments that have taken you by surprise?

[James Acaster]

No. I think if anything on this podcast, I'm not, you know, I'm just messing around, talking about food, pretending to be a genie, pretending to burst out of a lamp. Probably more honest and open with My partner than I am on the podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

You'd hope so.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I think this podcast, I would never categorize it as necessarily open and vulnerable all of the time.

[James Acaster]

Although you can be if you want

[Anna Faris]

the last 10 minutes.

[James Acaster]

No, no, no.

[Ed Gamble]

Because we're also guided by the guest

[Anna Faris]

actress, like, is annoyingly, like, serious, you know.

[James Acaster]

Listen, this is a great. I don't know if it's been conveyed to you, but this is a great honor for us to have you on the podcast. We've been very excited about this for a long time.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you.

[James Acaster]

My. My catchphrase on the group chat has been, I love Anna Faris. Every single time we're talking about getting you on.

[Ed Gamble]

We've been very excited.

[James Acaster]

You're huge to us.

[Anna Faris]

That means a lot to me.

[James Acaster]

So you can be as earnest as you like.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Because we know how funny you are.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you.

[James Acaster]

So, like, you know, we grew up with. Well, grew up when we were teenagers. We're going to watch the original scary movies. Go movie 2. In Ketryn, where I'm from, is a little small town. There wasn't many moments where everyone, like, really crammed in the screen and properly laughed for a whole movie. And me and my friends went to see those films multiple times with everyone laughing. So it's pretty. Pretty special stuff. So it's a big deal for us to be doing this pod with you and you're doing another scary movie film, which is massive.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you. And I love it that your memory is like a group experience. And one of the. This coming back under these circumstances with the Wayans brothers, the way this is all culminated has been such, like a wonderful storm for me, just in a way that I really didn't imagine ever happening and reconciling. I had never done comedy when I was cast. I was never known as a comedic person at all. I. I desperately wanted the world to take me seriously. You know, I leaned into emotion, I leaned into feeling, and I enjoyed performing, but it always felt pretty intimate. Anyway, I was never a funny person. And my very first audition was for Scary Movie and I got the part.

[James Acaster]

Oh, wow.

[Anna Faris]

And then it became a huge thing and it became absolutely defining of the next 26 years of my life. And I always felt that, you know, LA didn't. I didn't understand kind of who I was. I never felt strong comedically, at least in those early years. And I couldn't even get auditions for dramatic work. And I sort of for this movie to come back around with the Wayans Brothers because I never Got to thank them. I never got to after. I wasn't even sure what happened. I still. I'm not all that clear. But their franchise was taken away from them and I didn't see them. I was under contract for three, and then I did four on my own, but I didn't talk to them. My last conversation was with keenan briefly in 2002. So after. In my early 20s, being, like, naive and confused and thrilled, like, there. I remember having a great time, but it was dizzying, the whole experience. I was like a foreign exchange student. I was a stranger in a strange land. Did not know what was going on at all. And now getting to realize that when people see me, they think of that time in the theater, in the small town with their friends and family or whatever, laughing, laughing hard. And when they see me at the mall or whatever, at the grocery store, gas station, I recognize now that people, like, light up because they think about something dumb that I did. And it is. It brings me so much joy, and I'm so grateful for it. So thank you. You know what I mean? Like, that's how. And then to do this movie like this, I always thought that if I did another scary Movie, I would feel like I was doing it for the mortgage, you know, that I would feel the attitude in the industry felt like making comedies is easy.

[James Acaster]

Right.

[Anna Faris]

And kind of anybody could do it. It's that it's like a.

[Ed Gamble]

Which we know is a crazy point of view because.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, it's hard.

[Ed Gamble]

It's hard.

[Anna Faris]

At least if you.

[Ed Gamble]

It's hard to make good ones, certainly.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's mad to me that you're saying you didn't feel comedically confident when you first started doing them, because you seem so natural at it.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you. I think I've just finally. So In Scary Movie 2, I asked Kenan, I. I had the courage because I was just quiet. I was just like, keep your head down. Don't get fired. You know, I really was. And everyone was larger than life, and everything was larger than life. And I was just hanging on. I just felt like, lay low, like that. You're a soldier. Something's crazy is happening in your life. So I finally had the courage one day to ask Kenan why he cast me, which is. It's an indulgent question to ask and a silly one.

[Ed Gamble]

Kind of like, I think on the. During the sequel. It's fine, though. I think you can ask it when.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. But I just worshiped that man, and I still do. I owe him everything. But he said in that moment, he said. He looked at me and he grinned and he said, because you had no idea what you were doing. And that rattled around in my head for a while. And I feel like doing this project has made me feel like. I'm starting to understand, like, what. What he meant.

[James Acaster]

This latest one.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, it felt great to be on set and to be like, oh, I'm good. It felt great. It felt. It felt so good. I hadn't. I hadn't really associated that feeling with this franchise.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Anna Faris]

And getting to act with Regina and getting to thank and work with Sean and Marlon and getting to thank Keenan and tell him that I loved him and I'm so grateful for everything. And I can't believe that he picked me. You know, that meant the world to me. This whole thing, talking with you guys, you guys, letting me tell this story, it just has been incredible.

[James Acaster]

There must have been so many times over the years where you've been. Cause, like, there's been such a. Which is why it's such a great time to make this movie now is because there's been such an explosion of horror films again, and people watching them. There must have been times over the years where you've been watching these big horror films and thinking, we could do a funny twist on this scene, or.

[Anna Faris]

No.

[James Acaster]

You don't think about that?

[Anna Faris]

No, I didn't think I would return to the franchise.

[James Acaster]

Right. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

They didn't ask. I mean, I did, but I didn't. Like, I really. That's why I felt like if I were to return, I would feel bad a little bit about it because I knew I would be compromising something fundamental in me. And I'm also not really a huge fan of horror movies. I could have just gone with that answer. No. But I also think this is a little bit of a sidetrack. But it is sort of related that Marlon said something. He articulated it so well. Which the idea that studio. He said something on set. He says, you know, studios, they always think that it's about the movie that you're spoofing. It's never about the movie that you're spoofing. We could be spoofing anything. He said it so well, which I think. And it is like a large idea, because it's not exactly true. It is about the movies that we're spoofing. It is about what's current, what's exciting, what people are really enjoying. And so there is that tension. And he knows that very well. But also the other truth is giving, I guess Giving us a little more credit, which is the idea that we've created. I'm hesitant to call Cindy Campbell Nuanced because I'm not sure that's quite right. But we've created characters that feel that we've been able to put our imprint on, you know, so that wasn't. I really rambled, didn't I?

[James Acaster]

No.

[Anna Faris]

I think you were gonna maybe ask me, like, what movies we were spoofing

[James Acaster]

in, if I enjoyed. No, no, no, no.

[Anna Faris]

But that's my journey.

[James Acaster]

Let's get into your dream meal proper now, August.

[Anna Faris]

I' shoot a hammock and robots. Why did I choose that?

[Ed Gamble]

You're in the hammock.

[Anna Faris]

Wait, wait.

[Ed Gamble]

Wallop.

[Anna Faris]

Let's do something you don't want the robots. Let's do. Yeah, let's abandon it. Can we.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Yes.

[Anna Faris]

Could we do Italian Coast?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, sure.

[James Acaster]

Of course.

[Anna Faris]

Could we do, I don't know, Amalfi?

[Ed Gamble]

We can do Amalfi.

[Anna Faris]

Okay, let me guess.

[Ed Gamble]

I think it's a shame to lose the robots, but.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, you do.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, no, but it's up to your dream meal. But, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Don't let him sway you.

[Ed Gamble]

Just to let you know, when I'm imagining it, I'm imagining a beautiful restaurant on the Amalfi coast, but occasionally a robot. You just hear a robot go past.

[James Acaster]

Wow.

[Anna Faris]

A robot that can, like, climb those, like, 16th century stones.

[Ed Gamble]

Now it sounds like one of those scary army robots that you see.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, I know.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, we don't want that.

[Anna Faris]

I think we should choose Elaine. Do we do hammocks and robot?

[Ed Gamble]

It's up to you, Ana.

[Anna Faris]

I can go back. I really can, mentally.

[Ed Gamble]

Let's do a malfi coaster.

[James Acaster]

Amalfi.

[Ed Gamble]

I think that's where you want the restaurant to be.

[Anna Faris]

No, but you guys have partners. I'm married.

[James Acaster]

I. I don't know why that's relevant.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, it totally is. We're on Amalfi coast podcast.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. That's beautiful. The Amalfi Coast's beautiful.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Are we doing Amalfi?

[James Acaster]

I think you've got to. That's where. Yeah, I can tell that's where your heart is.

[Anna Faris]

Okay, then maybe I'll be a character, since this doesn't feel exactly like me. Shall I be obnoxious?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, go as obnoxious as you. As you can. Who's the character in your. Do you reckon? What's their background?

[Ed Gamble]

This is amazing, by the way, because we just saw some acting happen live. Kazana completely changed her posture when.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, completely. Something changed in your eyes?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah,

[Anna Faris]

I. Bethany. But maybe Bethany's too evocative. I'm breaking for a second. I'm trying to think of his name.

[Ed Gamble]

You're free to break.

[James Acaster]

This is your process.

[Anna Faris]

Do you guys have a good. You know what? Let's do. Let's. Let's just do Sarah. Sarah.

[James Acaster]

That's the character's name?

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And it's. Is it spelled like Sarah? But it's pronounced Sarah.

[Anna Faris]

It's spelt like Sarah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Hold on.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, some sunglasses.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, it's so beautiful here.

[James Acaster]

You guys on the Amalfi coast.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. Where is the waiter?

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Oh, just.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Hello, Sarah.

[Anna Faris]

I'm gonna get the Vongole.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, hang on, Sarah, because we've not got to that bit yet.

[Anna Faris]

I was just telling you guys.

[James Acaster]

Chatting to you before.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry, Sarah.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, no, that's a good.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, it's the kind of chat you

[Anna Faris]

have before I correct you, though.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[James Acaster]

And do you usually like to have chat, like before the waiter comes around, chats with your friends about, like, what are you going to have and what. What are we thinking? You know?

[Anna Faris]

Do you mean do I ask my friends what they're going to order? Sometimes.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I don't.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Have you had conversation before? Oh, my God.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, good point.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry about him. Sarah.

[James Acaster]

Sorry, Sarah. On the way to. Would you like still or sparkling mortar?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, maybe both.

[James Acaster]

Both.

[Anna Faris]

Wait, where is it from?

[James Acaster]

Oh, that's a good question that I've never been asked.

[Anna Faris]

Fine. Yeah, no, never mind. It's fine.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, it's fine. Both.

[Anna Faris]

It's fine. Yeah. Thank you.

[James Acaster]

Mixed together or in separate. Separate vessels.

[Anna Faris]

Separate. Separate vessels, yeah, yeah. Is your dishwasher broken? Yes. Separate vessels, please. You guys want separate vessels, right?

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Friends, do you want separate vessels?

[James Acaster]

Yeah. You're a dining partner for this.

[Ed Gamble]

Turns out me and Sarah are having dinner or lunch. What are we having? Are we having lunch? Is it lunch?

[Anna Faris]

It's lunch.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's lunch.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's nice.

[James Acaster]

Long. And how do you know your friend here, if I may ask? As the waiter. How. Who's this?

[Anna Faris]

You're the waiter.

[James Acaster]

I'm the waiter. Yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

And you're sitting down. Well, I mean, I like a family style restaurant on this beautiful Saturday. I didn't realize a table for three was happening.

[James Acaster]

He's a genie as well, so. Well, just. That's gonna come.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Sorry.

[Anna Faris]

No, but it literally is a really interesting story.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

We met at Cannes.

[James Acaster]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Like three years ago. And now we're just like catching up.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. And what's his Name?

[Anna Faris]

Tom.

[James Acaster]

Tom Behringer.

[Ed Gamble]

And from Cannes.

[James Acaster]

Does Tom work in the film industry?

[Anna Faris]

Am I like being set up? This is our waiter, Right? Like, I don't get this. Are there cameras? Tom, what the is happening?

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know. I'm so sorry, Sarah. He's. He's really got ideas above a station, this guy.

[James Acaster]

Just asking if he works in the inventory. Why are you asking?

[Ed Gamble]

Why are you trying to find out what I do?

[Anna Faris]

I know. Are you concerned about our relationship? You.

[Ed Gamble]

We know what you do. You're the way here.

[Anna Faris]

We're secure. We want Vongelay.

[Ed Gamble]

We're getting Vongole. Okay.

[James Acaster]

You want to still just spark the water.

[Ed Gamble]

Don't be concerned with what I do. Be concerned with what you do, which is a waiter.

[Anna Faris]

Maybe this is one of those restaurants that are, like, so family that they hire, like, the cousin who's never experienced.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Life before.

[James Acaster]

You two talk. What are you talking about? What do you mean, you guys?

[Anna Faris]

Did they tell you to come sit down here?

[James Acaster]

Well, I said I've got to find out what you want to eat.

[Anna Faris]

Yes. The Vongelay

[James Acaster]

Pop knobs or bread? Pop noms or bread? Anna Faris. Oh, no, sorry. Syrah. Syrah. Poppadoms or bread?

[Ed Gamble]

Maybe I think he's saying poppadoms or bread. I think this is the first choice in this restaurant is poppadoms or bread.

[Anna Faris]

Poppadoms.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know how you feel about the choice between poppadoms or bread, but I think this waiter would like to know that.

[Anna Faris]

I think I'll do panee.

[James Acaster]

Bread.

[Anna Faris]

Bread.

[James Acaster]

Bread.

[Ed Gamble]

Bread. That's bread. James.

[Anna Faris]

Tom.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Anna Faris]

Okay. So how are the kids?

[Ed Gamble]

They're good. Well, there's so many of them now.

[Anna Faris]

I know.

[James Acaster]

How many?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, my gosh. You guys just can't stop. I know. I meant to make it to Angelica's baby shower, but I couldn't, and I'm so sorry. But I did send that little Moncler baby jacket.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes. Thank you.

[Anna Faris]

Did you get it?

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you for sending that.

[Anna Faris]

Did you get it?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. It doesn't fit her because she's gigantic.

[Anna Faris]

Angelica. It wasn't for Angelica.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh.

[Anna Faris]

It was for Rosie. Your baby.

[Ed Gamble]

No. That makes more sense.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. You need to go home more, Tom.

[Ed Gamble]

I know, but I'm here on the Amalfi coast.

[Anna Faris]

I know.

[Ed Gamble]

With my friend Sarah, who I met in Cannes.

[Anna Faris]

Literally. So nice. It was so beautiful.

[James Acaster]

Do you have any parenting tips for Tom, Sarah?

[Ed Gamble]

Parenting tips?

[Anna Faris]

I know what he said. I just can't believe he's back.

[James Acaster]

Are you still.

[Anna Faris]

Why does he want parenting tips.

[James Acaster]

Well, it might be nice for Tom cuz Tom's got so many kids.

[Ed Gamble]

I think he wants to know what sort of bread we want. Do you have a bread preference, Sarah?

[James Acaster]

Course. She won a service called Mom. What? Huh?

[Anna Faris]

Does he know? Does he? Why is he asking me about parenting?

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, he's.

[Anna Faris]

Does he know that I never wanted kids?

[James Acaster]

You have to save his mom.

[Anna Faris]

Parenting tips. Okay, let's see if I can come up with a parenting tip. I don't know. Don't abandon your kid.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that's a good tip.

[James Acaster]

That's a pretty good tip, I guess.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Tom would never do that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

You should write a book. He's still here.

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[James Acaster]

Well, I have to ask for your dream starter.

[Ed Gamble]

You see, we don't know what sort of bread, though.

[James Acaster]

Oh, God.

[Anna Faris]

Just like your daily bread or whatever.

[James Acaster]

Oh, like Jesus. Like Jesus with a handout. The Lord, he's.

[Ed Gamble]

I think this waiter's quite religious day.

[James Acaster]

Our daily bread. Well, I've heard daily bread on the podcast before.

[Ed Gamble]

It's very religious daily bread.

[Anna Faris]

I do get a lot of guilt when I'm in Italy.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I mean, it's just guilt everywhere.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Don't you think? Don't you feel guilty here?

[Ed Gamble]

You feel guilty to be here?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, I always feel guilty.

[Ed Gamble]

Why? Why do you feel so good?

[Anna Faris]

I don't know. Don't you? It's only human.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Do you feel guilty all the time?

[Ed Gamble]

No, I give a lot to the world. Tom Berenger gives a lot to the world.

[James Acaster]

What do you give?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, you do?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I've got. I've got 11 kids, so, you know, I'm putting a lot of that's taken

[James Acaster]

away from the world.

[Ed Gamble]

No, I'm taking away from the world and putting some great.

[Anna Faris]

What's your name again?

[James Acaster]

The waiter.

[Anna Faris]

Waiter. You've got to have a name. Luigi Dominic.

[James Acaster]

The guy who popped the CEO. Yeah. Dominic. Dominic. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

We can't be say Luigi as a name is not now the guy who popped the CEO.

[James Acaster]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

He's still Mario's brother.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I don't really agree with Tom. I think that's a super narcissistic view.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, it's very narcissistic.

[Ed Gamble]

11 kids. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I mean, just thinking that that's being generous.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. It's kind of weird, isn't it?

[Anna Faris]

But I pay my taxes mostly. Oh, my gosh. Do you want to go? Do you and Angelica and maybe like three.

[Ed Gamble]

My wife.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I hope so. Is anything. Has anything changed? Okay. So do you Guys want to go? There's a yacht that we can use for, like, four days in the Med.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Next spring.

[Ed Gamble]

We'd love that. Can the kids come?

[Anna Faris]

Four, Like, I think there's. Because there aren't that many, like, state rooms. I gotta check.

[Ed Gamble]

So four kids can come out of the 11?

[Anna Faris]

I think that's about right.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Do you want to pick your favorites quickly? And I'll bring those with me.

[James Acaster]

Your favorite.

[Ed Gamble]

The favorites are my kids.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I mean, listen, they're good kids. They are, like. But I think I'm being really generous. The only thing, though, Tom, you should know this, I think, is that you have to provide the cash tip.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[Anna Faris]

Which it does get a little pricey.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, how?

[Anna Faris]

Like 30 grand or something.

[Ed Gamble]

30 grand? Cash tip.

[Anna Faris]

It has to be in cash.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't really.

[Anna Faris]

You have to present it at the end.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I've seen blow debt, Captain. I don't really agree with tipping culture. Ooh.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, do elaborate.

[Ed Gamble]

Just think if. If the people on the yacht are being paid properly, which I'm assuming is your job, then they wouldn't need a tip.

[Anna Faris]

No, it's a present. It's a gift.

[Ed Gamble]

Oh, it's a gift.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay.

[James Acaster]

Okay.

[Anna Faris]

Well, I'll bring gifted.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

The four days on the yacht.

[Ed Gamble]

So do you want to split the tip then? Half and half if you're.

[Anna Faris]

I don't know if I can.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, I'll bring the tip.

[Anna Faris]

You still didn't really.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

So tell me more about this tipping culture thing. As an American, it is like second nature.

[Ed Gamble]

I just think if people are being paid properly, you wouldn't need to. You wouldn't need to tip them.

[Anna Faris]

I would agree with that.

[Ed Gamble]

I also think that the tipping's out of control.

[Anna Faris]

Agreed.

[Ed Gamble]

I think when the. When you're buying a coffee and the baseline is 20%, I think that's too much.

[Anna Faris]

Well, you know, I used to be married to that. To Roman.

[Ed Gamble]

I remember Roman. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

He was an oligarch. Was.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

So I know about, like. It has kind of gotten out of control. Like the oligarchy in general.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say that has gotten out of control.

[Anna Faris]

It's just, you know.

[James Acaster]

What would you like as your starter?

[Anna Faris]

Just the vongolet.

[James Acaster]

As a starter?

[Anna Faris]

Just the vongole Starter and finito. Okay.

[James Acaster]

The whole meal is just the vongolet. You don't want dessert or anything later on?

[Anna Faris]

Maybe a sorbet?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, Fongolet sorbet. So the whole menu rhymes.

[Ed Gamble]

Hey, this is always going to end with an a. All of the dishes.

[Anna Faris]

So a vongolet and a sorbet.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. But the vongolet is like, you don't want a starter, you're skipping the starter.

[Anna Faris]

This lunch is going to be all about honoring a bivalve.

[Ed Gamble]

We've got to honor the bivalve. Do you understand?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, we. I met anyone. I haven't had anyone in this restaurant before. He wants to honor a bivalve, which is great.

[Anna Faris]

I just want you to go into the kitchen, get me my vongela.

[Ed Gamble]

This is how people should be reacting to the genie waiter, by the way, because he hangs around for so long.

[James Acaster]

Hey, Tom.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorry, Tom. Tom's a bit of an asshole.

[Anna Faris]

Syrah is a real jerk.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, no, I like Syrah a little bit. I'm on Syrah's side, but I like Syrah, though.

[Anna Faris]

You do?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I like Sarah.

[Anna Faris]

I don't know.

[Ed Gamble]

You slipped into that character very easily.

[Anna Faris]

She's lurking.

[Ed Gamble]

She's. Yeah, she's not well.

[Anna Faris]

You know, when I first moved to Los Angeles, I met a specific type of person that I hadn't encountered before. And I really wanted to develop a character around this person, which I loosely described as the self describer. I'd never met a culture, I'd never met people where they had neatly framed themselves, which I think now with social media and dating apps is a little more common. But at the time, you know, you're meeting people telling that are saying to you, oh, I'm just a really spiritual person or I'm. I'm just really creative or like, the self description in the fad culture was new to me and I thought it was an interesting idea because often the

[Ed Gamble]

self describers show no evidence of being the thing they're self describing as.

[Anna Faris]

That is what I found that there was a lot of, like, who are you telling the story to here?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Was that a bit of an inspiration for your character in Lost in Translation?

[Anna Faris]

That character was. I did do some improv, but on the page it read hysterically to me. Like, I really felt like I saw her. I saw how obnoxious, how intrusive, how, what a space like invader she was. Yeah, maybe I've become. I didn't know here at my perfect meal that I'd be doing a lot of self examination.

[Ed Gamble]

That's what we like. We like to put our guests on edge.

[James Acaster]

That character's hilarious. Especially when you do the martial arts in it. For the photographers.

[Anna Faris]

Thanks.

[James Acaster]

Makes me laugh out loud.

[Anna Faris]

It's so, so fun. I was very scared. It was early on When I was auditioning for that role, I was in a room about this size with Sophia, and she's. And I'm singing. Nobody does it better. Like, I'm doing this karaoke scene, and the door handle starts jiggling, and in walks Warren Beatty. And this is, like, out of body, you know? Like, I. I stop singing because what else are you going to do? And I'm clocking both of them as they're greeting each other, and they hugged. And Warren said, how you doing? Without even looking at me like, I'm over here. I'm like, I should excuse myself. This is now inappropriate. Like, how do I get to the door? I have to walk through them. And Warren said, how are your parents doing, Sophie? And she said, oh, good, they're in Thailand. Dad's opening up a hotel. And she said, how's Annette? And he said, oh, good. You know, Annette's hunting and fishing with the boys up in Montana. And I'm just like, is my car gonna start? How do I get out of here? What do I do? This is highly inappropriate. I'm like. And I remember it so vividly because I was so terrified. That's why I just. I remembered the dialogue. Montana, Thailand, like, taking it all in. And Sophia said, this is that actress from Scary Movie. And meekly was like, hi. And he looked over at me like, oh, there's someone else in the room. And said, ah, that was pretty funny.

[Ed Gamble]

Amazing.

[Anna Faris]

And I. To this day, I'd like to think you said you were pretty funny, but I think it was that

[Ed Gamble]

you're still part of the compliment, you know, still take it.

[Anna Faris]

I felt then I didn't get the role, though, for, like, another six months.

[Ed Gamble]

Wow.

[Anna Faris]

I thought it was gone. I think they had offered it to a bigger name. I don't know who. And, like, got turned down or something. So for me, it was like, can you be in Tokyo next week? And so I was also terrified. And I thought, I'm being too loud for this movie. Everybody's acting was down here. I didn't quite know. I didn't trust that the explosive performance is kind of what, like, was good for the movie. At the time, everyone was tired. It was a final week of shooting in Tokyo. So I'm coming in with an, like, it's all new, you know, Like, Sophia, Bill, Skylar. I don't know what is going on. Getting yelled at in Japanese. Oh, God. You know, But I just remember thinking at the time, this is probably. It's a character. It's the kind of person that I'VE now met in Los Angeles that has a very innate, terrifying core of confidence that's confounding.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Well, it plays so well against them because everyone else is like having literally like a midlife crisis, a quarter life crisis. They don't know who they are. They don't know what they want to do. You know, they are just, you know, very withdrawn and not really speaking about how they feel all the time or whatever. So like your character coming in and just like.

[Anna Faris]

Just an asshole.

[James Acaster]

Not caring about, but also like, you know, jerk.

[Anna Faris]

Taking in anything.

[James Acaster]

Not self conscious at all, not self aware.

[Anna Faris]

Doesn't seem to observe.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is. Is. Is great because it's this. The. Perfect for everyone, like coming in and just like. Yeah. Just being the opposite of everyone else is perfect.

[Anna Faris]

There's a delicious delight in being able to play those kinds of characters too. It is like a childish event for me, you know?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I get to be a brat.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah. That must be so funny.

[Anna Faris]

You get to be awful.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Anna Faris]

It is pretty.

[Ed Gamble]

Especially when everyone else is just underplaying everything so much and you just get to come in and sort of trample.

[Anna Faris]

Well, I wish I had felt that way. It was more like, I'm too big. Yeah, I'm too big. I'm. Wait a minute. They're all down here. I should be down here too, at least a little bit, you know, but. So I wish that I had had a little bit more confidence at that time as a performer, as an actor. I was hard on myself.

[James Acaster]

Tell me what you love about Von Gole.

[Anna Faris]

Well, you know, I love a bivalve. We've already talked about that. And anything that clings to Roc.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, yeah.

[James Acaster]

There's something that, as an, as an actor, as a performer, do you relate to that feeling of clinging onto a rock?

[Anna Faris]

I think we all long to just be able to take things in and then spit them back out.

[James Acaster]

Sure.

[Anna Faris]

You know, it's a goal.

[James Acaster]

That's. That's. That's acting.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

In a way you're just taking everything in from the world around you.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And then you're spitting it out onto

[Anna Faris]

the screen, the other end.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

It's a horrible way of describing acting, actually.

[James Acaster]

Or beautiful.

[Anna Faris]

Listen, maybe it's spitting. Maybe. Maybe once we realize that we're bivalves, you know, we're not that complex.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

And I don't think we'll be better for it, actually.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I think you went on a real journey in your head there, actually.

[Anna Faris]

Older. I do think we should celebrate Ourselves.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

So I am, I, I really appreciate the no tipping idea.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Anna Faris]

I do think that was Tom Barringer. Oh. Oh, it was.

[James Acaster]

Oh, yo, Tom again.

[Ed Gamble]

That was. No, that was Tom who doesn't like tipping.

[Anna Faris]

Oh.

[Ed Gamble]

I actually quite like tipping when I go to America. Makes me feel like, I just felt, I feel engaged in the society when I'm tipping and I feel like you're, you're helping people.

[James Acaster]

Interested.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't. You know, here in the uk, it, tipping is for good service. So you give a big tip. If you think it was really good service, there'll be like, included stuff on the bill. But in the us, I quite like, I quite like the tipping culture.

[Anna Faris]

I, I, it's so Tom Beringer doesn't in me, you know, but I, I, it's important to me. Yeah, I, I like tipping as much as often as I can. I definitely, I like to have a lot of cash on me, so. A lot of cash.

[James Acaster]

What if you, if you think that.

[Anna Faris]

A whole lot of cash. Oh, no, Syrah Seura's bad.

[James Acaster]

Sarah has a lot of cash for her all the time.

[Ed Gamble]

Syrah's great because you can, if you accidentally say something that you regret saying, you can just blame it on Syrah.

[Anna Faris]

Turns out, like the whole gig of comedy you can get, you're off the hook for everything.

[James Acaster]

Earlier, you were giving Tom Beringer. Yeah. You didn't want to give Tom advice on parenting, even though you yourself have been a surrogate.

[Anna Faris]

Well, I think that Sarah really couldn't get over the intrusive waiter.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. That felt like it was really, it was playing on Seurat's mind, wasn't it?

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, it was.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

It mean we should be here, you know?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Also, that's the truth, I'm gonna admit. When you pointed it out, I was like, why am I. Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, I've always said this about this podcast, that it's the waiter, the waiter takes the order for so long. Oh, it's so important. But within the format of the podcast, the waiter is taking the order for, you know, over an hour sometimes. Imagine if you went to a restaurant and you had to talk through all of your choices with the waiter for so long, Genie or not, you know, Genie or not.

[Anna Faris]

Have you waited tables, either of you?

[Ed Gamble]

I've done, I've worked in part in a pub where it was like some, some waiting tables on Christmas Day. Christmas Day was table service.

[James Acaster]

Also. I just got it wrong. So you weren't a surrogate and friends.

[Anna Faris]

Yes, I was.

[Ed Gamble]

You were.

[Anna Faris]

No, I Was pregnant. So it wasn't a surrogate. I was the adopted.

[James Acaster]

Yes.

[Anna Faris]

Baby.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

So I got it. I got it wrong and I felt like I should clear that up.

[Anna Faris]

That's very kind and generous of you

[James Acaster]

because I get destroyed.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you. I appreciate that. I don't know if I would have clocked it, to be honest.

[James Acaster]

The listeners would have.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, the listeners would.

[James Acaster]

I'll be destroyed.

[Anna Faris]

Yep.

[James Acaster]

I'll be destroyed. What was it like coming into something like that

[Ed Gamble]

for the. It was the final season.

[Anna Faris]

Right.

[Ed Gamble]

As well.

[Anna Faris]

Final season. And they were very emotional and they were all lovely to me. I was scared. I was. It was. I just didn't. I was never attention consuming in those environments. I don't ever. I remember just still feeling like, oh boy, I'm not in comedy. Even though I had been, I think at least a decade. Well, you know what? I don't know what the timeline is, but. But they were very emotional. They were doing group hugs on the floor. And more than once I was like only a few feet away from them and the only one a few feet away from them. So there were a couple times that they would be like, come on. And I knew, like, I don't need to. Like, I haven't. I know, like, but we were about to rehearse again. Or like. And that awkward feeling of, oh, you guys really don't need to include me. It feels actually very inappropriate if. To be included.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Didn't Paul Rudd muscle in on a group hug or something?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, really?

[James Acaster]

Yeah. He went over to them and said the same story.

[Anna Faris]

Cause he was also.

[James Acaster]

Guys, can you believe this crazy journey is what you said to them. Yeah. In the same kind of thing as it did.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, that's great.

[Ed Gamble]

Which is basically two opposite reactions to the same feeling, right?

[Anna Faris]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

You were thinking, I better stand back and just let them do this. And Paul was like, this is going to be funny. Yeah. If I ruin this moment for them.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

That is awesome.

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[James Acaster]

And I bring you over a drink because the whites.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, can I just clarify. I'm going to clarify something.

[James Acaster]

Listen, I think it's been very clear by Syrah, there's no starter, there's no start.

[Anna Faris]

It was Serra all about the Vongelai.

[Ed Gamble]

That was Serra. But is Ana also about the vongale?

[James Acaster]

Sometimes you can tell.

[Ed Gamble]

So Seura wanted Vongelay, but does Ana want a dream starter and a different mane or is Ana just having Vongole?

[James Acaster]

I think sometimes you sense when the character is speaking more truth than even the person could in their own right.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay, well, is it, is it spaghetti Bungalow then or just the. The clams themselves?

[Anna Faris]

I'd like a hand rolled pasta, you know.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

What do they call the ones? It's like the priest's neckties. Thank you. Wow, this guy Tom is finally good.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, that was. Tommy said that.

[James Acaster]

That was Tom. Absolutely Tom.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Maybe a beautiful bruschetta with fine ripened tomatoes, that kind of thing.

[Ed Gamble]

Lovely.

[James Acaster]

What's.

[Ed Gamble]

What sort of drink are you having with this? Your dream drink?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, maybe a beautiful white wine, like, you know, something appropriate in the area.

[Ed Gamble]

We can, I'm sure we can sort something appropriate.

[Anna Faris]

Beautiful lemons. Let's do lemons all around.

[James Acaster]

Like you'd like lemons.

[Anna Faris]

Well, one time. I have not dated that much in my life, but I was out on a date in college and I don't know what was wrong with me, but we were at a bar and I took from the basket. Working in a bar, you would have hated this kind of drunk college student. I was like just a little weird and took this lemon, this small lemon, and I ate the whole thing in front of my date. Like I was mad at him. Yeah, like, watch me. I was vomiting for a long time, so maybe we don't go with lemons.

[James Acaster]

So you were drunk. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, yeah. I didn't know how you were like,

[James Acaster]

this will be funny.

[Anna Faris]

I thought it would be daring.

[James Acaster]

Sure.

[Ed Gamble]

It's impressive. Yeah, it is impressive.

[James Acaster]

I'm the. I'm the one who ate the letter.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Like make an impression on this guy.

[Anna Faris]

Would. Would you have ever been drawn to that kind of person?

[Ed Gamble]

I. I really. Yes.

[James Acaster]

Really depends. Genuinely, he would have loved it.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Really heavy metal.

[Anna Faris]

That's nice to hear that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Bands like that. So he would love it if someone ate a lemon and puked all over the place.

[Ed Gamble]

Also, that's the sort of thing my wife would have done on our first date.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. She's funny.

[Anna Faris]

I like that.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, she's a crazy lady. I'm pretty sure she set fire to a newspaper on our first date.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, I love that. Yeah, There you go.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And I thought that was hilarious.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

So, yeah, you know, the eating the lemon.

[Anna Faris]

She liked you for sure.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how you know when she likes someone.

[Anna Faris]

But I didn't like this guy very much.

[James Acaster]

No, no, you said you did it like you were angry at him.

[Anna Faris]

Like, I think. Well, I was angry at men, I think.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. And why not? That's fair enough.

[Anna Faris]

I have an older brother. But I also really struggled with the idea of feeling attractive. Like the feminist in me. I grew up as my identity was the short kid. Like that's. Oh yeah. The short kid over there. And the fact that I pronounce my name Anna instead of Anna, which my parents did to me, it really gives, I think, a false uptight impression of who I am. It's been an unfortunate journey, but I prefer Anna over Anna because it sounds a little softer, you know, like a long haired rabbit or something.

[James Acaster]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

How did you feel when Frozen came out?

[Anna Faris]

Much better.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Because people understood.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

You know, seven and under.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. The newest generation completely now. Yeah. They identify with that. That's good.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. I got completely off track, didn't I?

[Ed Gamble]

Well, we, we. Well, but given we started on you

[James Acaster]

eating a whole men at the time.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, yeah. So I think when I finally started feeling attractive like one, I didn't know how to absorb that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I was like, please look at me, don't look at me. Please look at me, don't look at me.

[James Acaster]

And then I know how to deal with this. And eat a whole lemon in front of him.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

And that all. And then we'll see who likes me then.

[Anna Faris]

That's right. It's a short game.

[Ed Gamble]

Imagine that guy going to the movie theater.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Scary movies on. He's like, that's that crazy lemon lady.

[James Acaster]

Well, he thinks, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, she's funny.

[James Acaster]

I just didn't get the joke at the time.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, I didn't either.

[James Acaster]

That was on me.

[Anna Faris]

Yep.

[James Acaster]

You know, he's probably going away looking at himself.

[Ed Gamble]

He'll be gutted, that guy.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, that guy be gutted. I bet he's got a pathetic life now, you know?

[Ed Gamble]

Can't eat lemons anymore.

[James Acaster]

Can't eat lemons.

[Anna Faris]

I. Maybe he dodged a bullet, though. Yeah, well, you know, I don't know.

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[Ed Gamble]

It's very rare. It's very rare someone says that about themselves on a date.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Normally it's like, oh, I dodged a bullet there. No one really ever says they dodged a bullet.

[James Acaster]

I dodged a bullet there.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I think that's. You know, I am really impressed with how, like, millennials are speaking about. They're articulating things that I was never taught to or. Or it just felt inappropriate or a waste of time. But I don't. I'm against the idea of broad. Of Anglo Saxon categorization. We can get into that on our next podcast.

[James Acaster]

We can speak about it on this one.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, well, there's a bit to say and. But I do appreciate labeling ideas of that. It helps us all feel less insane, you know, And I think I had a lot of learning and growing to do, and I still do, I think.

[James Acaster]

But you saying, like, if you could go back in time now to the Night of the Lemon, with everything that you know now, with everything you know now, the vocabulary that the Internet has given you.

[Ed Gamble]

Are you gonna eat the lemon?

[James Acaster]

Would you still eat the lemon if

[Anna Faris]

I was getting paid? Yeah, I hope so.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I hope so. I think it's cool.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, I think it's a cool thing.

[Anna Faris]

You got. You gotta. You have to respect the. You gotta respect the road you've been on a bit.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I sound like LA has infiltrated, don't I?

[James Acaster]

Like a. Like, you gotta respect the road you've been on.

[Anna Faris]

Like, I say things like journey and, like, healing and karma, but that's nice

[Ed Gamble]

if it helps, you know?

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Because. Where did you move from?

[Anna Faris]

Where I grew up, north of Seattle. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but we moved to Seattle when I was six years old. Right, right. And. And then I went to school in Seattle at University of Washington.

[James Acaster]

You get to go back to Seattle much?

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. My family's still there.

[James Acaster]

Molly moons.

[Anna Faris]

What'd you say?

[James Acaster]

Molly Moons.

[Anna Faris]

Molly Moons, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Ice cream place.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. But I think, I think it came into origin after I left.

[Ed Gamble]

He's obsessed with molly moons, this guy.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Absolutely dynamite. Yeah. Brilliant ice cream. They do a cobbler ice cream much?

[Anna Faris]

It's like if you grew up in a place that's now viewed as really hip and cool, but at the time did not feel that way. Like, I get undeserved legitimacy from growing up in the Northwest and I get annoyed every time I go back because it's such an awesome place to be. It has great ice cream now.

[Ed Gamble]

And I had a great Malaysian meal in Seattle, actually. I had a fantastic maker meal.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Just gorgeous. And I, at the time, I couldn't wait to leave. I wanted my world to be bigger. I wanted to move to London and now I can't wait to go back. It's. I don't know. Age, I guess.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

But it's also la and. And my career has felt like nothing settling. If home is a feeling of content settlement in your gut and homesickness, the feeling of almost nausea, that dull pain is its opposite. Like Washington, Seattle area does have that contentment feeling. It has been a career that, like, you have to. You have to prioritize it above all things, which is tough. That's a tough compromise. I'm on my third and final marriage. You know, like it's. It requires hustling. You're your own small business.

[James Acaster]

So is this advice to Tom?

[Anna Faris]

It's a lot of advice. Oh, where are my glasses?

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

So you have to be an entrepreneur.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

You have to find your own brand and you have to advocate for that. You have to be like, these are my principles.

[Ed Gamble]

Thank you so much.

[Anna Faris]

Stand by them. And Luigi or Dominic, if you ever wanted to open up your own restaurant.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Bungali bungalow. Then I would suggest like returning to school for a minute. Getting, you know, just like educate yourself small business wise. That's what I would recommend.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Oh, so I should study small business. I shouldn't study, like. Okay.

[Ed Gamble]

And maybe understand more how to be a waiter brand. You're still here.

[Anna Faris]

Think about who you are and what makes you different.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, well, I know what makes him different as a waiter. He doesn't, he doesn't leave the table.

[Anna Faris]

I know, I know.

[Ed Gamble]

Crazy.

[Anna Faris]

I get. You're right, though. How do you capitalize on that?

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

How is your brand? Like, immovable annoyance? Like what, what is that?

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

I, I thought it was charming. I thought, I thought you have Grown on me. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, you really have.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Like, literally.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

You're special. There is something special. Weird, but special.

[Jake Stauch]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm hungry. I'm so fucking hungry. I'm so hungry.

[James Acaster]

Oh, come on, Tom.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm so hungry.

[James Acaster]

You're not tipping anyway. I don't care about serving you.

[Anna Faris]

What do you want, Tom?

[Ed Gamble]

I want vongole.

[Anna Faris]

Just vongole.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, it's all this in my head now. All I want is vongole and then sorbet.

[Anna Faris]

Just vongole.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Just vongole.

[Anna Faris]

Just vongole.

[Ed Gamble]

Just pure vongole all day long.

[Anna Faris]

That is so weird.

[Ed Gamble]

We both want vongolet.

[Anna Faris]

I actually. I don't know if I want von gollet anymore. Yeah, I kind of want something with zucchini or like, maybe cingale, you know, wild boar.

[James Acaster]

Oh, wow.

[Anna Faris]

Do you have anything like that?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I can, like, stuff a wild boar with a bunch of. I guess you would call it zucchini. I'd call it courgette. Personally.

[Anna Faris]

I don't want you to go to any trouble, though.

[James Acaster]

I'll do it.

[Anna Faris]

You sure?

[James Acaster]

Yeah, I'll get.

[Ed Gamble]

We don't want you to go to any trouble.

[Anna Faris]

Wild boar. I don't think they're in, like. They're not local. I don't think they're local here. So.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, it's not local.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

To the Amalfi Coast.

[Anna Faris]

The Amalfi coast, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Come. Trotting out the water, getting people maybe

[Anna Faris]

like Pesce Evangel was Pesce.

[James Acaster]

Vongelai, Joe Pesci.

[Anna Faris]

Fish and Vongelay.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

But. But then we keep ordering and you're still here.

[James Acaster]

I don't.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know. What.

[James Acaster]

Well, it keeps changing, you know, I want to make sure I definitely get the order right.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

What a strange guy. This is so weird, Tom.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't know. I don't. I'm sorry I recommended this place. I don't know what's going on here.

[Anna Faris]

Well, I'm charmed.

[James Acaster]

That's good.

[Ed Gamble]

You're charmed. This guy's getting on my nerves still.

[James Acaster]

Okay, well, I'll read your menu back to you.

[Ed Gamble]

Are we having dessert? Are we ordering?

[James Acaster]

Sorbet, wasn't it?

[Anna Faris]

Yes. Sorbetti.

[James Acaster]

Lemon sorbet.

[Anna Faris]

Sorbet.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorbet.

[James Acaster]

Lemon sorbetti.

[Anna Faris]

Lemon peche. Peche. Sorbet.

[James Acaster]

Fish. Fish.

[Ed Gamble]

Sorbet.

[James Acaster]

Fish. Sorbet.

[Anna Faris]

No, no, no. Pesce, like peach. Oh, pesce. Maybe. Tom, you speak Italian.

[Ed Gamble]

See?

[James Acaster]

Go on.

[Anna Faris]

I would like fish and vangueli.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

Peach and peach sorbet.

[Anna Faris]

Sorbet.

[James Acaster]

And a white wine Peche sorbet.

[Ed Gamble]

So better, eh? Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

He's not okay. €10 if he actually gets up and goes to the kitchen. It's not happening.

[James Acaster]

I'm just gonna read your menu back to you.

[Ed Gamble]

Why bring us the food, man.

[James Acaster]

Huh? Why are you reading the menu? I got it right.

[Ed Gamble]

Why are you reading the menu back to us? You've not brought us the food you want.

[James Acaster]

Still unsparkling water.

[Anna Faris]

Oh my God.

[James Acaster]

You would. You would like daily bread.

[Anna Faris]

Different vessels.

[Ed Gamble]

Different vessels.

[James Acaster]

Daily bread. Yeah. Still sparking water in different vessels.

[Ed Gamble]

Different vessels.

[James Acaster]

You want daily bread starter guilt free bread. Guilt free, please.

[Anna Faris]

There's enough guilt around here.

[James Acaster]

I think we landed on bruschetta with vine ripened tomatoes for your starter.

[Anna Faris]

Tom.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[Anna Faris]

Do you think that hell is that bad?

[Ed Gamble]

It can't be any worse than this Maine.

[James Acaster]

You wanted hand rolled straws and pretty.

[Anna Faris]

I just don't want to burn. I don't know.

[James Acaster]

Vongelay and fish.

[Ed Gamble]

Drink.

[James Acaster]

A beautiful white wine. Something appropriate in the area. And dessert, a peach sorbetti.

[Anna Faris]

Yes.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

Sound good? Yeah, sounds nice.

[Ed Gamble]

Who's. Who's paying?

[Anna Faris]

Oh, Tom, I'm paying.

[Ed Gamble]

I'm paying.

[James Acaster]

You got a pay.

[Ed Gamble]

And got a tip and I got a tip. I got a tip and I'm tipping on the yacht as well.

[James Acaster]

Yes. You're paying 30 grand on the yacht

[Anna Faris]

to the cat Finance.

[Ed Gamble]

Well, Sara and indeed Ana, thank you so much for coming to the dream restaurant. You've been a delight.

[James Acaster]

Thank you.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you so much. You guys. I. I had so much fun.

[Ed Gamble]

Good. We loved having you. Thank you so much.

[Anna Faris]

Thank you. Thank you. Good to kind of.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Wave at the camera. Any final messages for people watching?

[Anna Faris]

I just had the time of my life. Thank you guys so much. And I appreciate your listeners and watch your viewers.

[Ed Gamble]

There we are. James, Anna Faris. My head's spinning. I don't know about you. We had two guests on the episode, so.

[James Acaster]

Three guests. Tom Beringer was on it.

[Ed Gamble]

Tom Berenger, of course.

[James Acaster]

What a guy.

[Ed Gamble]

I had the Tom Barringer thing sprung on me a little bit.

[James Acaster]

Really.

[Ed Gamble]

So I felt like I could have got more into a character, but also I felt like I was having to marshal the episode slightly.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Cause.

[Ed Gamble]

Cause I didn't.

[James Acaster]

I was getting boxed out a lot.

[Ed Gamble]

You were getting boxed out. And I felt like I needed to. I didn't know whether Sehrar was giving her menu.

[James Acaster]

Yeah.

[Ed Gamble]

And then Ana was gonna give her genuine menu.

[James Acaster]

Sure.

[Ed Gamble]

It turns out Von Gole is A is an interest of both of theirs.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. But slightly different types.

[Ed Gamble]

So I could fully be Tom Beringer because I would have later on I maybe got, you know, quite aggressive with the waiter. So that was Tom, by the way.

[James Acaster]

Nice.

[Ed Gamble]

Good. But I. I just want. I wish I'd got more into character. Cause I think maybe show Nana that I could get deep into character and improvise so I could be in a

[James Acaster]

project with her the next scary movie.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, yeah.

[James Acaster]

Being in that scary movie film. Yeah, that would have been good but you blew it, so that's a shame. I didn't blow.

[Ed Gamble]

It was quite, quite good.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. I guess you were very convincing that you were against tipping culture. And then it's revealed that actually you as a quite like tipping when I'm in America. So that's. That. That was good. Yeah. I think, you know, the listeners can safely categorize this episode in, you know, one of the ones where we lost

[Ed Gamble]

control of our podcast 100 and we knew that was going to happen.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. So that's, you know, that will join the Dan Aykroyd, Robert De Niro.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Anna Faris. Yes. We've lost control.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And hopefully everyone enjoyed the ride as much as we did.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. Crazy.

[James Acaster]

I loved it.

[Ed Gamble]

Crazy times. Don't forget Scary Movie is out on Friday 5th June. Go and see it in cinemas.

[James Acaster]

Absolutely. Go and see Fresh Hell, which is Ed Gamble's tour show. Edgamble.co.uk for tickets.

[Ed Gamble]

Lovely.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, Pretty good.

[Ed Gamble]

And are you still on tour, James?

[James Acaster]

No. Well, yes, actually by the time this is out, I am on tour at the time of recording. There is still a few tickets left, so I guess. Jamesacastle.com Just go on there, see if. See if there's any tickets to my show left. I hope there isn't.

[Ed Gamble]

And I would say if you're listening to this, go and watch it on YouTube for the full character experience.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah, for this. Because you didn't. If you just listened to it, you wouldn't have seen Seurat put the sunglasses on.

[Ed Gamble]

Yes.

[James Acaster]

And that's when the character comes to life.

[Ed Gamble]

Body change.

[James Acaster]

When she went into character, everything changes. And you know Tom Beringer.

[Ed Gamble]

No, Tom Beringer was the head.

[James Acaster]

There's a really different aura that really

[Ed Gamble]

took on the body position and aura of a stressed podcast host.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, it's very different. It's very good. I like Tom Behringer and Sarah. It was pleasure to meet both of them.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I wonder if the way Anna came up with the name Tom Berenger suggests that Tom Beringer is a real name.

[James Acaster]

It sounds like it was the real person.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. That she knows it.

[James Acaster]

Maybe she's phone. And now on the way home and going, tom, I need to make sure you're okay with something.

[Ed Gamble]

Tom, you're a character on a podcast now.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Just so you know, you don't.

[Ed Gamble]

And he doesn't like tipping and that's his main character. That's his main character trait. Yeah.

[James Acaster]

Well, Tom Behringer, if you are listening, you want to come on the podcast and defend yourself, but you have to

[Ed Gamble]

come in character as a gamble.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. That's the deal.

[Ed Gamble]

That's the deal.

[James Acaster]

Oh, of course, Anna didn't say Malteser Bunny. Huh?

[Ed Gamble]

How's he gonna put that in?

[James Acaster]

What do you mean? He can deal with that.

[Ed Gamble]

Okay. Oh, and of course, Anna did not say Malteser Bunny. James.

[James Acaster]

Yeah, yeah. Which is good.

[Ed Gamble]

We've got a couple of options there, but.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. Well, he's going to use both of them.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

So good to know that she didn't choose the buddy.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah. I don't know why Tom was eating with Sarah.

[James Acaster]

No, No, I don't think they got on.

[Ed Gamble]

No.

[James Acaster]

But. But it was. It was nice to see them together. And it's nice to have the secret ingredient not mentioned.

[Ed Gamble]

And therefore by either guest.

[James Acaster]

By either guest.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah.

[James Acaster]

And we did the whole menu, more or less. No start.

[Ed Gamble]

Yeah, no start.

[James Acaster]

Normally you'd kick off about that, but you were Tom Behringer, so you couldn't.

[Ed Gamble]

Couldn't. Couldn't do that.

[James Acaster]

Yeah. What a. What an experience. What an experience. We lost control and now we're off to regain control of our lives. I guess once we finish recording this.

[Ed Gamble]

I don't think I ever will.

[James Acaster]

I don't think. I don't think you can.

[Ed Gamble]

Bye.

[James Acaster]

Oh, goodbye.

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