Comic was out cold...

James Acaster has told of how he once missed an international gig – because he’d binged on too much ice-cream.

The comedian said he went into a ‘hibernation state’ after gouging himself on Ben & Jerry’s while already jet-lagged, and ended up sleeping through the show.

Speaking on the Off-Menu podcast he co-hosts with Ed Gamble, Acaster said: ‘I arrived in Canada once. I was meant to do a show that night, but I missed it because I'd gone out, got a tub of Ben & Jerry's that you can't get here. and halfway through just passed out on the bed.

‘I was jet-lagged. But alsoI W as just so into eating this Ben & Jerry’s that it put me into this like hibernation state, and  hat was it. 

‘I woke up and the gig had already been and gone. I had multiple texts on my phone from the promoters and a Ben & Jerrys tub in my hand and a spoon in the other, just on my bed.’

Published: 7 Nov 2024