Aisling Bea, the BAFTA-winning writer and star of This Way Up, brought Older Than Jesus, her first stand-up tour, to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.
Aisling Bea, the Irish comedian who created and starred in This Way Up, played Older Than Jesus at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on Sunday 5 April 2026. It was her first stand-up tour.
Bea grew up in County Kildare. She studied at Trinity College Dublin, then trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
She won So You Think You’re Funny at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2012. Television followed, from QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats to Taskmaster and Live at the Apollo.
This Way Up, which she wrote for Channel 4, won her a BAFTA for comedy writing.
Older Than Jesus was billed as stories of travel, home, immigration, sex, babies and lovers, with questions taken from the audience. The title refers to the age of 33, the age at which Jesus died, which she had passed some years before the tour. Doors opened at 18:30 for the single Hammersmith night.