A contestant from 8 Out Of 10 Cats has revealed all about their experience on the show, including a struggle hidden from screens.
Comedian Aisling Bea featured on the recent episode of Saturday Kitchen, hosted by TV chef Matt Tebbutt.
She opened up about what it’s like to appear on the long-standing panel game show on Channel 4.
Aisling has starred on multiple episodes of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, hosted by comic Jimmy Carr and Matt admitted he ‘loves’ the show.
The comedian revealed the one part of the show she finds tricky – the rolling news segment.
She said: ‘The rolling news part of it is the bit you have to try… when something’s newsworthy, a lot of peoples brains come to a similar type of joke around the same time so the stress of it can be like, ‘Oh I wonder does that person have the same angle on royal baby, or Brexit, or whatever it is’.
A contestant from 8 Out Of 10 Cats has revealed all about their experience on the show, including a struggle hidden from screens. Pictured: Rob Beckett, Jimmy Carr and Aisling Bea
Comedian Aisling Bea (right) featured on the recent episode of Saturday Kitchen , hosted by TV chef Matt Tebbutt (left)
She opened up about what it’s like to appear on the long-standing panel game show on Channel 4
‘And if they do, you’re like ‘Oh God, can I think of anything else, quickly’.’
Aisling revealed a tactic for trying to make sure she’s got enough funny lines prepared.
She added: ‘You have to have sometimes like eight jokes on one subject matter, hoping you’ll remember why it’s funny.’
The comic described QI, another game show she has appeared on multiple times as ‘so much fun’.
‘It’s just improv so all of that is improvised, you don’t know what’s coming up,’ she said.
Aisling admitted the ‘pressure’s a bit more off on the ones that are more improvised’.
It comes after Aisling recently confronted her ‘shameful’ family history on an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?
In an episode back in May of the BBC show, which sees celebrities explore their heritage, the actress looked through some historical documents during a meet up in County Limerick with historian Dr Richard McMahon.
Aisling has starred on multiple episodes of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, hosted by comic Jimmy Carr and Matt admitted he ‘loves’ the show
The comedian revealed the one part of the show she finds tricky – the rolling news segment
Richard opened up to the comedian, from Kildare, Ireland, about her great-grandmother Martha Sheehy and her time during the great famine.
However he could find records from the early 1850s which gave him a sense of position that she was in at the time.
Aisling said: ‘Before famine 40 acers in area of court, then her estate in Ballycannon she had 115 acres post famine…’
Richard tells her: ‘The family have a larger farm by the end of the famine then they had pre famine Ireland.
‘So during this devastating period in Irish history, which would have such a long terrible legacy for all of us afterwards, how does someone come to have more land if owned than renting so soon after the famine?’ Aisling asks him.
Richard explains: ‘During the famine landlords would have evicted 100,000s of people off the land and when they are moved of the land, the land is taken over by farmers like your great great great grandmother Martha.’
Aisling Bea gasps ‘that’s hard to hear’ as she confronts ‘shameful’ family history on BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?
A previous instalment of the BBC show, which sees celebrities explore their heritage, saw the actress look through some historical documents during a meet up in County Limerick with historian Dr Richard McMahon
Aisling tries to wrap her head around it and replies: ‘So while she might not be evicting them, she maybe using it as an opportune moment.’
‘Some people got larger farms on the back of people getting moved off the land,’ Richard tells her.
Aisling brutally says: ‘That is hard to hear. I’ll be honest.
‘Having spent all our childhood learning about the Irish famine in our history classes, anyone who, any terrible situation profited…
‘It does make me feel a little bit shameful to be honest.’
