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Over and over. That’s what I told ya.

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The boy ran to France, and I loved that boy.

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Tidings of comfort and joy to all! Finally, we complete the Mel and Sue set and welcome Mel Giedroyc to the Dream Restaurant for our first Christmas special of 2022.

Watch Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable on Dave and UKTV Play.

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Walk over and hit that drum in exactly 9.58 seconds. Also, there are two bonus points for the person with the most magnificent walk.

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Pants on a stick, waving from side to side, pants on a stick! Whose pants? My pants! Your pants! Oh no!

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In the final episode of series 8, bonafide foodie and global treasure Stanley Tucci joins us in the Dream Restaurant. But will he raise a toast?

Stanley Tucci’s book ‘Taste: My Life in Food’ is available now in paperback. Buy ithere.

‘Inside Man’ is available on BBC iPlayer.

Follow Stanley on Instagram@StanleyTucci

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Bonus:

#cold lasagne hate myself 1999

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Petts wins prizes is this week's episode, as acclaimed stand-up (and Ed’s regular support act) Chloe Petts orders her dream meal. Amazing this episode survived, considering the water spillage.

Chloe Petts is on tour with ‘Transience’ in 2023. Visitchloepetts.orgfor dates and tickets.

Follow Chloe onTwitterandInstagram@ChloePetts

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“At the end of the Repertoire shows, I felt I’d taken the idea of making up lies on stage, telling them and having the whole thing be a metaphor for my real life as far as I could,” he says, referencing his four, hour-long, character-based Netflix specials. “I thought I should talk about my real life a bit more. At the end of Cold Lasagne, I felt I’d done that, it was fun and I could progress further down that route, but my relationship with the audience wasn’t good – and it hadn’t been good, really, since day one.”

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Email From James to His Mailing List

Hello everybody!

Today is a good day. I have some big announcements and I hope you’re as excited as I am about them. Music, audio sitcoms and let’s not forget my glorious book! Here we go! 

Temps

I’m about to release some music!

I spent most of the lockdowns of 2020/21 working on music in my flat and am delighted to announce that no,no by Temps will be released on 04/11/22. The track features; Quelle Chris, Xenia Rubinos, NNAMDÏ, Shamir, John Dieterich, Joana Gomila, Laia Vallès and Seb Rochford. It’s the first single from a bigger project and we’ll be putting out a music video to accompany it (filmed by the fantastic Turtle Canyon).

The Temps bandcamp page can be found here:

https://tempsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/no-no And some awesome people will be running social media for all this. You can find that here: https://linktr.ee/tempsmusic This is the first release of many and I can’t wait for you to hear everything we’ve been working on. 

Springleaf

I’m launching a Kickstarter for a brand new audio sitcom!

On Tuesday 1st November, at 10am, I'm launching a Kickstarter for my new comedy podcast SPRINGLEAF (www.springleafpodcast.com) It's a true crime podcast, using undercover cop Pat Springleaf's wire recordings to blow apart the biggest case he ever worked on. It's a ten-part, limited series, scripted audio comedy and it is something I've wanted to make for absolutely years. We've decided to go the independent route to fund it, because we want to have complete creative control and want to make it available for everyone to listen to, not stuck behind a paywall. However, it turns out making scripted comedy is not as cheap as I thought it would be - and we want everyone involved to be paid fairly - hence the Kickstarter. We've come up with some pretty sweet rewards at a range of price levels, things like:

Exclusive video downloads

Backer exclusive mini-episode

Tickets for online events, in-person gigs and the launch party

Badges, signed postcards and stickers

Signed scripts

Personalised video messages from James

Some of these rewards are limited edition, and there's limited early-bird pricing too - to get in first, you can follow the Kickstarter page now to be notified the second it launches on Tuesday. You can also follow @springleafpod on Twitter and Instagram for campaign updates. And if you'd like to support this but money is tight at the moment, then we'd also really appreciate any retweets/re-grams/general spreading the word - it's all-or-nothing funding, so if we don't hit the target by the end of November, we can't make the series. Which, I think you'll agree, would be a real shame. A note from my producer: We've had someone generously offer to sponsor ten Tier 1 Springleaf rewards for anyone who would like to support the campaign, but isn't able to commit the cash. If that sounds like you, drop us an email at [email protected] - no need to justify your financial situation or anything, just express your interest. We'll randomly choose ten people from all those who ask.

James Acaster’s Guide to Quitting Social Media

My book is now available to pre-order in the US and Canada!

It’s been a few weeks since JAMES ACASTER'S GUIDE TO QUITTING SOCIAL MEDIA, BEING THE BEST YOU YOU CAN BE AND SAVING YOURSELF FROM LONELINESS VOL. 1 entered the universe and people all over the world are living their best lives.

Here’s how my book has changed the lives of REAL ACTUAL PEOPLE: *****

‘Laughed so much I nearly choked to death on a Jacobs cream cracker’  ***** ️️️️  ️‘Love this book. Maybe don’t read if you are looking for actual self-help.’ ***** ️️️️  ️‘Had to write this before I tarred my phone and got on a train to a lock up…. Please buy this book, or as I did, listen in audible for that extra special Acaster touch.’  ***** ️️️️  ️‘I used to be a stand-up comedian, then I read this book, quit social media, and now I'm an undercover cop, totally worth £14!’ ***** ️️️️  ️ ‘Following the advice in this book and going full cold turkey offline will of course mean you can no longer post a glowing review thanking James for making your life so much better. That's probably why there aren't millions of five star reviews here.’  ***** ️️

If you haven’t read it yet, why? Unless you’re in North America, in which case, do I have good news for you. My book is available to pre-order now from all good US and Canadian booksellers! Coming 22nd November, so enjoy your precious doom scrolling while you can.

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