The Big Issue

‘I can either spaff out six episodes set in a café... or fly a bit closer to the sun’

“Today I might have pneumonia, but last night was lovely.”

Aisling Bea is feeling under the weather when The Big Issue calls.

Because the previous night, she was literally under a lot of heavy weather, performing stand-up at the

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London.

“It was so sunny when I was on my way, then as soon as I got on stage, it started to rain and from then on it was hilariously stormy throughout the whole gig,” she says, voice a little croaky from making herself heard above the downpour (and possibly the post-show drinks with her pal Nish Kumar).

“It was torrential at one point – and I was totally out in the open. When they say Open

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