Aisling Bea
- 41 years old
- Irish
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 15
Preview - QI: The Occult
This week's QI has plenty of devilish goings on.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 19th January 2018Aisling Bea interview
Award-winning funny girl Aisling Bea only went into comedy because she couldn't find work as a serious actress. Now she has achieved plan A - playing it straight in new BBC crime drama Hard Sun.
Daily Mail, 7th January 2018Aisling Bea on her father's suicide
The comedian's father killed himself when she was three. She was plagued by the fact he made no mention of her or her sister in the letter he left. Then, 30 years after his death, a box arrived.
Aisling Bea, The Guardian, 4th November 2017Preview - QI: Oceans
This week the intellectual comedy plumbs the depths of the ocean to find some interesting facts.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 3rd November 2017The O-centric 15th series of the wilfully esoteric panel perennial continues, this week rolling in the deep with an instalment devoted entirely to oceans. Quizmaster and commander Sandi Toksvig is joined by salty first mate Alan Davies and the rather lubberly crew of Aisling Bea, Joe Lycett and David Mitchell, all hoping to reveal some unexpected depths to their maritime knowledge. But do they know their oars from their ice floes?
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 3rd November 2017Taskmaster: series 5, episode 8 review
It's the grand final!
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 1st November 2017Taskmaster - series 5, episode 7: Boing Boing review
In the penultimate episode of the series Greg Davies has a coconut thrown at him, Alex Horne claims to be a strong, independent man, and a stuffed French cat gets trapped and eaten.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 25th October 2017Taskmaster: series 5, episode 6 review
This time Greg Davies needs to have a chat with Nish Kumar, Alex Horne is born, and Aisling Bea sends a golden pineapple to Kildare.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 18th October 2017Taskmaster - series 5, episode 5 review
Passing the half-way point of the fifth series, we sample a balloon bruschetta, a lot of cheeky texts, and a geographical inaccuracy.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 11th October 2017Taskmaster: series 5, episode 4 - review
This week the panel perform a task you'll either love or hate, we see Bob Mortimer snort white pepper, and realise that Alex Horne is sometimes unnoticeable.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 4th October 2017