-Our next guest is a fantastically funny
actress and comedian you know from shows like
"Living With Yourself" and "This Way Up."
She stars in "Home Sweet Home Alone,"
which premieres Friday on Disney+.
Let's take a look.
-I swear to you that boy was not in the house when we left.
-And where do you think he was, Stu?
At the -- at the Four freaking Seasons?
-He had the fish curry on the plane.
We probably got a hard 30 before we're going to see Stu.
-You do realize that, because of you,
I'm in Japan and my 10- --
10-year-old son is at home by himself.
-Yeah, but -- but first-world problems, you know.
-First-world... -Stop it!
Listen, listen! Stop it!
I got that at Brookstone!
-Please welcome back to the show
our friend Aisling Bea, everybody.
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Aisling, it is great to see you again.
-Thank you, Seth. It is also great to see you.
Well, the first bit's gone real well!
-We are natural. People know we're friends.
You're a -- This is a good night for you to be here.
You're also a Taylor Swift fan. -Yes, yes, yes.
I'm the headline act this evening.
Glad to be here.
I was -- Well, I didn't -- 'Cause I didn't run into her,
which I was kind of happy about, because the last time
I saw Taylor Swift was when I accidentally ended up
in her apartment.
-How did that happen? -In her sitting room.
And -- Which is not like, "Oh, that's what I told the police."
I -- Of course we were going to have
maybe a moment where I could explain.
-Right. -But, no, she ran away.
-So she saw you tonight and remembered,
"This is the strange woman who showed up in my sitting room."
-Well, I think her security might have, yeah.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-But I -- Yeah, basically, I was --
When I was doing "Living With Yourself,"
I was living in New York.
And my friend was here, and we were going to go ice-skating,
And I'd had a long old day at work.
And, so, I was dressed up, ready for ice skating, kind of --
you know, your snow boots, giant, you know --
paraphernalia, a hat, ice pick, the whole shebang.
Not an ice pick.
And he was like, "Oh, I'm just at my friend's house,
having a beer if you want to come and join us."
You know, he's an actor.
And I was like, "Yeah, yeah, I'll join you,
but what time are we doing ice skating?"
He's like, "Oh, yeah, we'll definitely go ice skating.
I'm just having a beer at my friend's house."
And I was like, "Okay."
And he was like, "Um, yeah, just come to the door, ring the bell,
and, you know, someone will come down."
And I was like, "Okay, sounds a bit 'cool.'"
You know, a bit retro.
And then this man came down.
He was, like, a really big man in the lift.
And I was like, "Oh, hi!
Thank you so much for having me."
He was like, "Yeah."
And I was like, "Oh, what a warm man."
And then we went up in the elevator,
and it opened and I was in Taylor Swift's sitting room
with Taylor Swift in her sitting room playing pool.
And I was -- She looked so beautiful.
And she looks and looked like Elsa from "Frozen,"
just kind of like, "Hi, welcome."
And I was there dressed like Olaf just like, "Aaah!
Oh, my God! Aaaah!"
And then I -- We didn't go ice skating,
because we were --
-Why would you? Yeah.
-I kept on trying to look at my friend, being like,
"Why didn't you tell me
that we were going to be in Taylor Swift's house?
I would not have worn this out...
Yeah, I'd love a gin and tonic, Taylor.
Thank you so much."
-It's very rude. -It is very rude.
Because I'm a massive fan, so to just turn up --
And then I've just felt creepy by my existence.
-Yeah. -So I was like...
"Lovely smell."
-I am so happy that you're here, because you --
And I'm happy to see you're recovered.
You did catch COVID.
-Yes, COVID. -In the fall.
-Yeah.
-You had to miss a lot of things,
so we're very happy to have you here in person.
-Yeah, I did. I got the --
Oh, thank you very much!
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That's all you need nowadays. I survived COVID.
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Yes, I did.
Double-vaxxed, but I got the stars variant,
so contracted that one.
And, yeah, but it was my first week off,
and I'd organized my best friend's bachelorette party.
And then there was her wedding.
And then the next day was her son's christening,
and I'm one of the godparents.
And that was all during my 10 days.
-So you couldn't do any of it. -Couldn't do any of it.
But I did -- I was like,
"Well, how can I sort of be there in spirit in some way?"
-And you -- I think this is a very good solution.
-Yeah. It's kind of like a new COVID thing.
Just send a cardboard cutout of yourself.
-I mean, that is just --
And, also, like, just a fun cardboard cutout.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm glitzy. I'm fun. I'm a great wedding guest.
You know, and people did say afterwards --
they were like, "You were so much more chill
than your normal personality at the wedding.
We should hang out more,
yeah, because you were just better to be around."
-I notice your co-star from the fantastic show "This Way Up,"
Tobias Menzies.
-Tobias Menzies.
-Who is, I will say -- Yeah, Tobias, you know,
now an Emmy winner from "The Crown."
-Yep.
-You kind of knew him when, right?
-I what? -You knew him when.
You, like -- You got in on the ground floor.
-I though you said, "I knew him win."
And I was like, "Seth, that's not great English."
"You knew him win!" -You knew him win.
You call me.
You call me and say, "Tobias win."
You knew! -You knew him win Emmy!
So natural.
-Aisling, it's Seth. You knew him win!
-You knew him win Emmy!
-I hang up now.
-No, stop, stop. -Mm!
-Knew him win Emmy, but, also, yeah, he was --
He's the other godparent. -Ah!
-So, we also -- So, in my show, "This Way Up" --
All available on Hulu.
Watch it, please. -Fantastic.
-He plays a character called Richard,
and he's also Prince Philip in "The Crown,"
which is what he won the Emmy for.
But we're also godparents together of this child,
and the other godmother is actually Emerald Fennell,
who wrote "Promising Young Woman" and won an Oscar.
-Yeah. -So I'm, like, the crappy one.
-Yeah.
-And I'm literally a cardboard cutout.
So I'm not, like, the quality beef of godparents.
-Years from now, he'll say, "So, the award winners came."
-Yeah, the award winners, and then in spirit
was the sort of -- You know the damp one?
We threw her in the lake, and she floated, yeah.
So, yeah -- So -- But in "This Way Up,"
the second series I've actually set in March 2020,
which you find out as it is goes along --
So, technically, it's now a period drama,
and it's a bit more like "The Crown."
So that's what I've done. -Oh, very wise.
Very wise move for the award pandering.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Did you -- Making this "Home Alone" remake,
was "Home Alone" a film that you were aware of growing up?
-Yeah! I didn't grow up in, like, you know, the North Pole.
Even the North Pole is a bad reference,
because that's where Santa Claus lives.
Yeah, yeah, I was massive -- But I do think, like,
at the time, when movies came out in America,
you were like, "Oh, God, it's come out in America.
All we need to do is wait for one to three years,
and we'll see it soon!
Ahhhh!"
So, stuff used to come out like a year or two later
than America, but, like, we got, like, to --
If I was to tell my baby self that,
"You're going to become an actor and end up in the
'Home Alone' movie," I think I'd really have understood that
as a sign of things are going well.
-Yeah, things are going very well.
Now, I will admit that not a lot of --
We didn't get a lot of Irish kid stuff over here.
It was not a two-way street.
-That is a giant loss for you guys.
-Yeah. Well, you sent this, and I'm not sure
it was a giant loss, because I think this is disturbing.
-Let me tell you something.
You're about to get canceled in Ireland.
-Okay.
-These were our children's entertainer presenters.
They hosted a show called "The Den."
These are two aliens who came to Ireland from space.
That was the destination that they were most --
And then, eventually, they sort of adopted
a puppet turkey from Dublin, who then went on --
Do you know what the Eurovision is?
-Yeah.
-Yeah, The Eurovision, what he does --
The Eurovision is, like, a massive competition
of, like, musical things from around Europe,
plus Australia for some reason.
And we sent Dustin the Turkey
as our representative to sing on behalf of Ireland.
Just in case you're wondering, like,
"How could you sum up a culture?"
We sent him to sing on behalf of Ireland.
-Yeah.
-But he's a massive -- He's a massive deal there.
-How did he do?
-Oh, we lost. We did not win at all.
-So, he probably finished highest of the Turkeys.
-Yeah, I'd say so.
Well, you say that, but then...
-It is always such a delight to see you.
-Thank you so much.
-Thank you so much for being here.
You guys, that's Aisling Bea.
"Home Sweet Home Alone" premieres Friday on Disney+,
and "This Way Up" is streaming on Hulu.