April 25, 2025 • 14 mins
Ed Gamble is a man of many hats.
Champion of the Taskmaster UK, podcast co-host, author, television host, standup comedian – on top of this, he’s an absolute food fanatic.
He’s bringing a feast of comedy to New Zealand with his new show ‘Hot Diggity Dog’, filled with his classic “ranting, raving and spluttering”.
Gamble told Jack Tame he describes the show as a collection of things that have happened to him since he last did a show, including a bit about his disastrous honeymoon and one about buying a cat with his wife.
“It’s a lot more exciting than my description of it makes it sound,” he reassured.
“I promise you’ll be on the edge of your seat, even though it sounds incredibly tedious and middle class.”
He’ll be performing live in Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland – tickets available on TicketMaster.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks at b D.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Gamble is a man of many hats. He is a
Taskmaster champion in the UK. He is a podcast co host.
He's an author, a television host, a stand up comedian,
and most of all, he is an absolute food maniac.
Well maybe not a maniac, a food fanatic at the
very least. He's bringing a feast of comedy to New
(00:34):
Zealand with his new show Hot Diggity Dog, and ahead
of his trip, he'd Gamble is with us this morning, Calda.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good morning, Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How are you. I'm very well, thank you, very excited
that you're bringing Hot Diggity Dog to New Zealand. Just
just give us the sort of the back of the
envelope explanation, tell us about Hot Diggity Dog.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hot Diggity Dog is a very funny show and you
should all buy tickets. Whenever I'm asked what the show
is about, I'd normally say it's a collection of things
that have happened to me since the last time I
did a show. There's a long bit about my disastrous
honeymoon to Las Vegas, there's a long bit about me
buying a cat with my wife, and it's a lot
(01:17):
more exciting than my description of it makes it sound.
I'll promise you'll be on the edge of your seat,
even though it sounds incredibly tedious of middle class.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is Las Vegas a romantic destination.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, I wouldn't say so. I'd say it's one of
the grossest places I've ever been in my life. We
just thought it would be a fun, sort of mad
thing to do as a honeymoon. And I would now
disagree with my past self. A disgusting place.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I mean, I ken and I'll be all of those
things can not be fun and mad and disgusting and
also fun.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes it can be, I would say not if you
have my personality Necessarily, I don't like gambling. I don't
like necessarily staying up past midnight. It was a terrible choice.
We did have a lot of fun, and let me
tell you, I've got a twenty five minute bit of
stand up comedy out of it, so it must.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Have been worth Okay, that's good. Just tell us what
was the single grossest thing you saw you observed in
the single most repellent observation you made in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean, I mean as soon as soon as you arrive. Really,
I mean we saw it's going to make me sound
like a real prouve.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Is it the people? Is it the people gambling at
the airport? Because I always found that really alarming.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, that's obviously insane because you know, why would you
gamble at the airport when you could just get in
a cab and do it in a bigger place with
more people doing it? Hugely alarming I found we did.
We did do some fun stuff. We went to a
drag brunch that was a lot of fun, but then
we got essentially beaten up at a time massage parlor.
(02:55):
It was, you know, there was there's a lot of
things going on. Yeah, there's a lot of things going
on in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, at the very least, you know that with Vegas
you're always going to get stories, Youre always gonna eat
conteent time in From from a comedian's perspective, am I
right in thinking that hot diggity dog got you in
trouble with the advertising people in the UK because apparently
you were advertising junk food.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yes, so the poster is me massively eating a hot dog.
I'll be honest, that's where the title of the show
came from, because I didn't know what I was going
to call the show, but I came up with the
idea for the poster, and we worked backwards, and then
we tried to put up posters on the Tube for
my London shows and they bounced it back and said,
we can't put this up because it's advertising junk food.
(03:38):
But I look like an absolute peg while I'm eating it.
If anything, it was putting people off junk food. So
rather than not advertise it on the Tube, we photoshopped
the poster and changed the hot dog to a cucumber
and they put it up. So it's a bizarre poster.
It says hot diggity dog and there's a picture of
me eating a cucumber. But they didn't seem to mind
that I was now promoting vegetables.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I feel like there's going to be a real streisand
effect with that kind of thing, you know, like by
doing that, the victually drawn far more attention to your show. Now,
I'm not sugg think we weren't have had a lot
of attention alreally, but it's kind of done you a
favor in a scenes.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, as soon as that happened, Jack, of course, my
management were all over this, and there was a press
release out and I was interviewed on the radio for
Today program, which I would not have been interviewed on
were that not to have happened. I suddenly, I suddenly
turned into a newspiece, which is, to be honest, the
dream when you're trying to sell tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Will you? Were you asked to pass judgment as to
whether or not advertising drunk food on the tube is
a morally good or bad thing?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Of course I was, and I would not be drawn
on it. I just kept saying where the show was,
because I don't really have an opinion on that, although
I think broadly my opinion is, yeah, probably advertised junk
food to young people a little bit less. But you know,
I wasn't going to just necessarily say that it was
much better to be a pariah and one of these
(04:57):
comedians who says, you can't say anything anymore that they
seem to sell tickets, So why can't I be that
guy from it?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yet? Yeah, fure enough to I feel like it goes
without saying that most of us have been thinking about
food for most of our lives but I think for
you it's kind of it's a it's another it's in
another strainers for you. Maybe I don't know that kind
of reaches another demention or something, right, because there are
all these ways in which kind of food is this
kind of little patina in your life. And you know,
(05:22):
hot theyggny dog in your cucumber hot dog experience on
the tube is only as only the latest. How do
you how do you kind of think about the role
that food plays in your in your life more broadly
outside of just nourishing you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, I mean I think about food probably I'd say
like eighty percent of the day if I'm not if
I'm not eating food, I'm thinking about the next thing
I Am going to eat, and getting excited about restaurants
and what I'm going to cook, and you know, coming
up with the recipes and reading cookbooks and doing all
of this stuff. So I spend a long time thinking
about it. I get a lot of joy from food.
Food is one of one of the things that I
(06:01):
know will always offer me joy, and I've managed to
parry that into a career as well. I mean, I
do a food podcast. I'm a judge on a fod show.
I've written a food book. There's that people. People seem
to enjoy it when I talk about food, and I
enjoy talking about food as much as I enjoy eating it.
So it's worked out pretty well.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Going back to Vegas, then, did you do one of
those horrible all you can eat things? I know you're
ti Wan, so I don't. It would just mean a
whole lot of insulin.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I presume, yes exactly. I mean the whole trip to
America meant a whole lot of insulin, to be honest.
But I've become as a proper foodie and also Type
one diabetic. I've become a bit of a bit of
an expert on on on insulin doses. I'm pretty it's
one of my true pure skills is looking at a
bit of food and working out how much insulin I
(06:46):
need to give. We did do a buffet. We did
the Win the Win Hotel buffet, which I think is
one of the higher end ones. So me and my
wife went in there with almost a spreadsheet of the
order of things we needed to do. So it was,
you know, screaming high quality proteins at each other when
we first went in, just being like hit up the
prime rib and the lobster and the prawns straight away,
(07:07):
and then if there's room move on to some of
the lower grade cabs.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Was it a pleasurable experience? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Not by the end, I'd say I'd say maybe the
first two plates definite pleasure because it's quite good stuff.
But you know, when you're getting towards the sort of
the back end of the buffet plate eight or nine,
you're very much doing it out of a sense of duty.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, It's that classic thing is that you
sort of think I've got to get my money's worth.
There's some sort of weird primal switch that happens, right
You're like, yeah, hang on, I can. I can nourish
myself obscenely, so I don't need any more, you know,
energy for the next three days. Yeah. Anyway, So you
mentioned the podcast, and I mean you and you and
(07:52):
James A. Kester have just had so much you know,
love and iteration for what you guys have achieved over
the last few years. And the podcast is brilliant. It's
such a kind of simple concept in a way, and
you through talking to people about food, you sort of
get a kind of it's like a leans into their
life in a strange way. So for people who are
(08:13):
him and heard the podcast, basically you ask them to
describe a menu and they can come in and they can
talk about a sideplight, they can talk about a main,
a dessert, all that kind of thing. What has been
the most alarming answer that you have received and off
menu over the last.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Few years, We've had some pretty alarming ones, I'll be honest.
The first bad one we had so it stands up
as a bit of an icon, is the comedian Joel Domit,
who is a very healthy boy. He's in incredible shape,
but the way he eats is just so weird, and
he the main issue with his was his dream drink
(08:48):
was a strawberry protein shake, which is so unacceptable. I mean,
you know, in the years, after speaking to him now
and again, I have delved into the world of protein shakes.
You know, you get older, you start trying to work
out a bit and work out your macros and things.
But that is no one's dream drink that should be that.
But he genuinely he loves strawberry protein shake. It just
(09:10):
feels like that was pretty fel.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
If you're drinking a strawberry protein shake. Call me off fashion,
but I just like I like food and drink to
actually be food and drink. And if you're drinking a
protein shake, it's the ingredient to numbers, you know. And
oh yeah, this sort of incredibly artificial.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yes, it wasn't It wasn't a great choice, But he's
been he's been rightly hauled over the calls for it
so many times, and I think now it must be
five years later, and I think people still shout him.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And radio interviews across the world, people are still criticizing
him for that call. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I once
upon a time went through the online dating thing and
prided myself on trying to in these dating situations throw
questions at various dates just to just because I thought
(09:58):
you'd get a bit of an insight into their persona.
And one that I always asked was, if you could
only have one cuisine for the rest of your life,
so it's not just one dish, but one cuisine every day,
every meal for the rest of your life, what would
you go with. And it's not necessarily that there is
a wrong answer, but you need to I always thought
you need to be able to give a kind of
strong justification as to why you chose that cuisine. Is
(10:21):
there anything like off the top of your head that
would that you would choose if there was one cuisine.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think you need to. I mean, I'm not professing
to know everything about every cuisine and all the things
they offer across the world, but I think you need
to select something that sometimes you can eat light and
it's delicious, and then sometimes if you really want to
go for it, you can find stuff to do that
as well. And I think for me it would probably
be Japanese food because there's so many there's so many
(10:48):
options that are fresh and light and delicious and high
quality and amazing. But then also you can absolutely go
for it. If you've ever been to Japan and gone
into like you know, Tokyo late at night, you can
just get fried chicken and you can get all this amazing,
amazing stuff. So I think it would have to be
It would have to be Japanese food for me.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, someone said to me, and I'm not joking. Someone
said to me English food and I was like, hmmm,
And I said to them beforehand, I was like, there's
no wrong answer, but you know, but.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Look, we have we have some wonderful foods and wonderful
traditional dishes. They are they are all. They are all
dishes built for the dead of winter and working down
a coal mine, and I just I think they all
they're all stick to your ribs stuff. We have some
incredible restaurants, but I think what we do very well
here in the culinary scene is absorbing other cultures as well.
(11:45):
So we've got some fantastic restaurants, but there aren't many
that I would consider to be purely British food.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah. Hey, how do you find the the sort of
British sense of humor? And I know that it's a
pretty broad, all encompassing term, but how do you find
it translates to New Zealand and Australia because of the
kind of you know, the sort of a cultural connection there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, I think we've got enough sort of shared cultural
stuff and enough shared references that it actually translates incredibly well.
I mean, like we've so many British comics come to
New Zealand and Australia, and likewise we get so many
Kiwi and Australian comics come over and it just it
just seems to click. It works really nicely. But yeah,
(12:26):
like you say, there's no specific one type of British humor,
just just as there isn't in New Zealand and Australia,
although I would argue that I think the New Zealand
center of humor is more distinctive than both of those
two things.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Really interesting, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I think I have an idea of what New Zealand
humor is in my head. I've got more of a
set idea, and it's more, you know, it's more laid back,
it's more offbeat, it's slightly more surreal, but in a
self deprecating way. And I think that's why that's why
the UK enjoys New Zealand huma as well.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah. Hey, finally, then how do you personally find it?
Given you a lot of the work you do as
sort of collaborative stuff, whether it's with James or whether
it's on the panel shows and that kind of thing
in the UK, how do you personally compare the experience
and thrill of writing and then performing a live show solo.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I love it, I mean I love I love being
the only one who's put it together and the only
one who shaped it. And you get you get a
huge amount of pride, especially being able to fly to
different countries and do it whilst you know, doing it alone,
and I love collaborating as well, Like we've done some
off menu live shows recently and being on stage with
James and messing around and you know, getting big laughs
(13:34):
out of those audiences is an incredible feeling. But you
do sort of feel like you're getting away with it,
whereas when when you've written, when you've written stand up
and you're performing it in front of people, you're like, Okay,
I feel like I've worked for this and I've probably
earned it.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, I was so excited to have you here.
It's yeah, fantastic. You're making your way to New Zealand.
All the very best with Hot Diggity Dog and we
will see your son.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Can't wait.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Thanks Jack, That is I gamble. All the details for
Hot Diggity Dog will be up at News Talks. He'd
be dot Co Darling did Ford slash Jack alongside everything
else from our shows.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
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follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Gamble is a man of many hats. He is a
Taskmaster champion in the UK. He is a podcast co host.
He's an author, a television host, a stand up comedian,
and most of all, he is an absolute food maniac.
Well maybe not a maniac, a food fanatic at the
very least. He's bringing a feast of comedy to New
(00:34):
Zealand with his new show Hot Diggity Dog, and ahead
of his trip, he'd Gamble is with us this morning, Calda.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good morning, Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How are you. I'm very well, thank you, very excited
that you're bringing Hot Diggity Dog to New Zealand. Just
just give us the sort of the back of the
envelope explanation, tell us about Hot Diggity Dog.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hot Diggity Dog is a very funny show and you
should all buy tickets. Whenever I'm asked what the show
is about, I'd normally say it's a collection of things
that have happened to me since the last time I
did a show. There's a long bit about my disastrous
honeymoon to Las Vegas, there's a long bit about me
buying a cat with my wife, and it's a lot
(01:17):
more exciting than my description of it makes it sound.
I'll promise you'll be on the edge of your seat,
even though it sounds incredibly tedious of middle class.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is Las Vegas a romantic destination.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, I wouldn't say so. I'd say it's one of
the grossest places I've ever been in my life. We
just thought it would be a fun, sort of mad
thing to do as a honeymoon. And I would now
disagree with my past self. A disgusting place.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I mean, I ken and I'll be all of those
things can not be fun and mad and disgusting and
also fun.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes it can be, I would say not if you
have my personality Necessarily, I don't like gambling. I don't
like necessarily staying up past midnight. It was a terrible choice.
We did have a lot of fun, and let me
tell you, I've got a twenty five minute bit of
stand up comedy out of it, so it must.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Have been worth Okay, that's good. Just tell us what
was the single grossest thing you saw you observed in
the single most repellent observation you made in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean, I mean as soon as soon as you arrive. Really,
I mean we saw it's going to make me sound
like a real prouve.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Is it the people? Is it the people gambling at
the airport? Because I always found that really alarming.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, that's obviously insane because you know, why would you
gamble at the airport when you could just get in
a cab and do it in a bigger place with
more people doing it? Hugely alarming I found we did.
We did do some fun stuff. We went to a
drag brunch that was a lot of fun, but then
we got essentially beaten up at a time massage parlor.
(02:55):
It was, you know, there was there's a lot of
things going on. Yeah, there's a lot of things going
on in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, at the very least, you know that with Vegas
you're always going to get stories, Youre always gonna eat
conteent time in From from a comedian's perspective, am I
right in thinking that hot diggity dog got you in
trouble with the advertising people in the UK because apparently
you were advertising junk food.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yes, so the poster is me massively eating a hot dog.
I'll be honest, that's where the title of the show
came from, because I didn't know what I was going
to call the show, but I came up with the
idea for the poster, and we worked backwards, and then
we tried to put up posters on the Tube for
my London shows and they bounced it back and said,
we can't put this up because it's advertising junk food.
(03:38):
But I look like an absolute peg while I'm eating it.
If anything, it was putting people off junk food. So
rather than not advertise it on the Tube, we photoshopped
the poster and changed the hot dog to a cucumber
and they put it up. So it's a bizarre poster.
It says hot diggity dog and there's a picture of
me eating a cucumber. But they didn't seem to mind
that I was now promoting vegetables.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I feel like there's going to be a real streisand
effect with that kind of thing, you know, like by
doing that, the victually drawn far more attention to your show. Now,
I'm not sugg think we weren't have had a lot
of attention alreally, but it's kind of done you a
favor in a scenes.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, as soon as that happened, Jack, of course, my
management were all over this, and there was a press
release out and I was interviewed on the radio for
Today program, which I would not have been interviewed on
were that not to have happened. I suddenly, I suddenly
turned into a newspiece, which is, to be honest, the
dream when you're trying to sell tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Will you? Were you asked to pass judgment as to
whether or not advertising drunk food on the tube is
a morally good or bad thing?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Of course I was, and I would not be drawn
on it. I just kept saying where the show was,
because I don't really have an opinion on that, although
I think broadly my opinion is, yeah, probably advertised junk
food to young people a little bit less. But you know,
I wasn't going to just necessarily say that it was
much better to be a pariah and one of these
(04:57):
comedians who says, you can't say anything anymore that they
seem to sell tickets, So why can't I be that
guy from it?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yet? Yeah, fure enough to I feel like it goes
without saying that most of us have been thinking about
food for most of our lives but I think for
you it's kind of it's a it's another it's in
another strainers for you. Maybe I don't know that kind
of reaches another demention or something, right, because there are
all these ways in which kind of food is this
kind of little patina in your life. And you know,
(05:22):
hot theyggny dog in your cucumber hot dog experience on
the tube is only as only the latest. How do
you how do you kind of think about the role
that food plays in your in your life more broadly
outside of just nourishing you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, I mean I think about food probably I'd say
like eighty percent of the day if I'm not if
I'm not eating food, I'm thinking about the next thing
I Am going to eat, and getting excited about restaurants
and what I'm going to cook, and you know, coming
up with the recipes and reading cookbooks and doing all
of this stuff. So I spend a long time thinking
about it. I get a lot of joy from food.
Food is one of one of the things that I
(06:01):
know will always offer me joy, and I've managed to
parry that into a career as well. I mean, I
do a food podcast. I'm a judge on a fod show.
I've written a food book. There's that people. People seem
to enjoy it when I talk about food, and I
enjoy talking about food as much as I enjoy eating it.
So it's worked out pretty well.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Going back to Vegas, then, did you do one of
those horrible all you can eat things? I know you're
ti Wan, so I don't. It would just mean a
whole lot of insulin.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I presume, yes exactly. I mean the whole trip to
America meant a whole lot of insulin, to be honest.
But I've become as a proper foodie and also Type
one diabetic. I've become a bit of a bit of
an expert on on on insulin doses. I'm pretty it's
one of my true pure skills is looking at a
bit of food and working out how much insulin I
(06:46):
need to give. We did do a buffet. We did
the Win the Win Hotel buffet, which I think is
one of the higher end ones. So me and my
wife went in there with almost a spreadsheet of the
order of things we needed to do. So it was,
you know, screaming high quality proteins at each other when
we first went in, just being like hit up the
prime rib and the lobster and the prawns straight away,
(07:07):
and then if there's room move on to some of
the lower grade cabs.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Was it a pleasurable experience? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Not by the end, I'd say I'd say maybe the
first two plates definite pleasure because it's quite good stuff.
But you know, when you're getting towards the sort of
the back end of the buffet plate eight or nine,
you're very much doing it out of a sense of duty.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, It's that classic thing is that you
sort of think I've got to get my money's worth.
There's some sort of weird primal switch that happens, right
You're like, yeah, hang on, I can. I can nourish
myself obscenely, so I don't need any more, you know,
energy for the next three days. Yeah. Anyway, So you
mentioned the podcast, and I mean you and you and
(07:52):
James A. Kester have just had so much you know,
love and iteration for what you guys have achieved over
the last few years. And the podcast is brilliant. It's
such a kind of simple concept in a way, and
you through talking to people about food, you sort of
get a kind of it's like a leans into their
life in a strange way. So for people who are
(08:13):
him and heard the podcast, basically you ask them to
describe a menu and they can come in and they can
talk about a sideplight, they can talk about a main,
a dessert, all that kind of thing. What has been
the most alarming answer that you have received and off
menu over the last.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Few years, We've had some pretty alarming ones, I'll be honest.
The first bad one we had so it stands up
as a bit of an icon, is the comedian Joel Domit,
who is a very healthy boy. He's in incredible shape,
but the way he eats is just so weird, and
he the main issue with his was his dream drink
(08:48):
was a strawberry protein shake, which is so unacceptable. I mean,
you know, in the years, after speaking to him now
and again, I have delved into the world of protein shakes.
You know, you get older, you start trying to work
out a bit and work out your macros and things.
But that is no one's dream drink that should be that.
But he genuinely he loves strawberry protein shake. It just
(09:10):
feels like that was pretty fel.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
If you're drinking a strawberry protein shake. Call me off fashion,
but I just like I like food and drink to
actually be food and drink. And if you're drinking a
protein shake, it's the ingredient to numbers, you know. And
oh yeah, this sort of incredibly artificial.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yes, it wasn't It wasn't a great choice, But he's
been he's been rightly hauled over the calls for it
so many times, and I think now it must be
five years later, and I think people still shout him.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And radio interviews across the world, people are still criticizing
him for that call. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I once
upon a time went through the online dating thing and
prided myself on trying to in these dating situations throw
questions at various dates just to just because I thought
(09:58):
you'd get a bit of an insight into their persona.
And one that I always asked was, if you could
only have one cuisine for the rest of your life,
so it's not just one dish, but one cuisine every day,
every meal for the rest of your life, what would
you go with. And it's not necessarily that there is
a wrong answer, but you need to I always thought
you need to be able to give a kind of
strong justification as to why you chose that cuisine. Is
(10:21):
there anything like off the top of your head that
would that you would choose if there was one cuisine.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I think you need to. I mean, I'm not professing
to know everything about every cuisine and all the things
they offer across the world, but I think you need
to select something that sometimes you can eat light and
it's delicious, and then sometimes if you really want to
go for it, you can find stuff to do that
as well. And I think for me it would probably
be Japanese food because there's so many there's so many
(10:48):
options that are fresh and light and delicious and high
quality and amazing. But then also you can absolutely go
for it. If you've ever been to Japan and gone
into like you know, Tokyo late at night, you can
just get fried chicken and you can get all this amazing,
amazing stuff. So I think it would have to be
It would have to be Japanese food for me.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, someone said to me, and I'm not joking. Someone
said to me English food and I was like, hmmm,
And I said to them beforehand, I was like, there's
no wrong answer, but you know, but.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Look, we have we have some wonderful foods and wonderful
traditional dishes. They are they are all. They are all
dishes built for the dead of winter and working down
a coal mine, and I just I think they all
they're all stick to your ribs stuff. We have some
incredible restaurants, but I think what we do very well
here in the culinary scene is absorbing other cultures as well.
(11:45):
So we've got some fantastic restaurants, but there aren't many
that I would consider to be purely British food.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah. Hey, how do you find the the sort of
British sense of humor? And I know that it's a
pretty broad, all encompassing term, but how do you find
it translates to New Zealand and Australia because of the
kind of you know, the sort of a cultural connection there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, I think we've got enough sort of shared cultural
stuff and enough shared references that it actually translates incredibly well.
I mean, like we've so many British comics come to
New Zealand and Australia, and likewise we get so many
Kiwi and Australian comics come over and it just it
just seems to click. It works really nicely. But yeah,
(12:26):
like you say, there's no specific one type of British humor,
just just as there isn't in New Zealand and Australia,
although I would argue that I think the New Zealand
center of humor is more distinctive than both of those
two things.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Really interesting, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I think I have an idea of what New Zealand
humor is in my head. I've got more of a
set idea, and it's more, you know, it's more laid back,
it's more offbeat, it's slightly more surreal, but in a
self deprecating way. And I think that's why that's why
the UK enjoys New Zealand huma as well.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah. Hey, finally, then how do you personally find it?
Given you a lot of the work you do as
sort of collaborative stuff, whether it's with James or whether
it's on the panel shows and that kind of thing
in the UK, how do you personally compare the experience
and thrill of writing and then performing a live show solo.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I love it, I mean I love I love being
the only one who's put it together and the only
one who shaped it. And you get you get a
huge amount of pride, especially being able to fly to
different countries and do it whilst you know, doing it alone,
and I love collaborating as well, Like we've done some
off menu live shows recently and being on stage with
James and messing around and you know, getting big laughs
(13:34):
out of those audiences is an incredible feeling. But you
do sort of feel like you're getting away with it,
whereas when when you've written, when you've written stand up
and you're performing it in front of people, you're like, Okay,
I feel like I've worked for this and I've probably
earned it.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, I was so excited to have you here.
It's yeah, fantastic. You're making your way to New Zealand.
All the very best with Hot Diggity Dog and we
will see your son.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Can't wait.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Thanks Jack, That is I gamble. All the details for
Hot Diggity Dog will be up at News Talks. He'd
be dot Co Darling did Ford slash Jack alongside everything
else from our shows.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
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