Slapstick Festival 2024 Featuring our long-awaited return of our cherished Gala to the venue where it all began, now renamed Bristol Beacon and looking and sounding truly glorious after its extensive refit. This year we had over 30 unique comedy events and over the course of the week (Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 February) we … Read more
Slapstick Festival, a renowned celebration of silent, visual, and classic film comedy, is seeking a passionate and organised individual to fill the crucial role of Personal/Executive Assistant to the Director.
Slapstick Festival 2023 This was the 19th edition of Bristol’s very own Silent, Visual and Classic Comedy Festival. Music has been a key ingredient of every Slapstick since the festival began, and for the 19th annual edition, we gave it extra special attention. As well as live accompaniments to all our silent films, we celebrating … Read more
Weds 14 Feb – Sun 18 Feb 2024
Slapstick Festival Returns
Sunday, 19th February 2023
Seven Events at Bristol Old Vic. Featuring Michael Palin, Stephen Merchant , Stephen Mangan, Rob Brydon, Cheryl Knight, Robin Ince, Chris Grimes and more
Saturday 12th November 2022 (9pm)
The Slapstick Festival are launching a brand new event in partnership with The Room Above Theatre and BFI: Stranger Films.
Discover the crazy world of early comedy with your host Alasdair Beckett King
Monday 7th November 2022 (7.30pm)
Slapstick Festival’s annual comedy fundraiser is back at Reading’s Hexagon theatre. Event features, Alan Davies, Ed Byrne, Stephen K. Amos, jay Lafferty and more
Slapstick Festival 2022 For 2022 The Slapstick Festival of visual comedy announced a fantastic line up of comedy and comedy writing talent from the likes of Stephen Mangan, David Mitchell, Sally Phillips, Ronni Ancona, Richard Herring, Armando Iannucci, Arthur Smith, Lucy Porter and many more. There were also significant contributions from a number of film … Read more
The Tiswas Team receive their Legacy Awards, given in recognition of creating significant new work in the medium of silent and visual comedy
Tiswas Stars Reunite for One-Off Reunion Our slapstick season finished on an absolute high, with the stars of the classic children’s TV series Tiswas reuniting for an evening of fun and mayhem. Chris Tarrant, Sally James, John Gorman and Bob Carolgees, along with Spit the Dog, were among those that took to the stage on … Read more
Slapstick Sunday Our last full day of festival events began with Paddington (2014), introduced by Andy Day, and concluded with Lee Mack’s hilarious Desert Island Comedy Flicks. In between there was a moving tribute to the late great Barry Cryer hosted by his friend and long-time comic collaborator Les Dennis, with Barry’s Son Bob Cryer … Read more
Sat 16th April 2022
8:00pm
Join Bob Carolgees, John Gorman, Sally James and Chris Tarrant as they re-unite on stage to discuss their much-loved show Tiswas.
Tuesday 12th April, 8:00pm
Hosted by Al Murray, with Angela Barnes, Rory Bremner, Shazia Mirza
Sat 2nd April 2022, 6.00pm
Sat 2nd April 2022, 2.15pm
Sat 2nd April 2022, 11.15am
Sat 2nd April 2022, 11:15 – 20:20
Sun 27th March 2022
3:30pm
Barry Cryer: A Tribute
Hello everyone, As you will no doubt have heard, yesterday we learnt the news that we had lost singular comedy genius and very dear festival friend, Barry Cryer.
We have screening notes for a number of our programmes, you will find them on the programme pages for the individual films.
For years animation has been one of the most impressive and entertaining disciplines in cinema.
Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin. All three began their careers more than a century ago
Saturday 29th January 2022
2:20pm
Robin Ince, comedian and host of infinite monkey cage, will be celebrating the work of those super chaps EVENT SOLD OUT
Sun 27th March 2022
3:30pm
Join for Jokes, stories and much more as Barry discusses his incredible unmatched life in comedy
Sun 27th March 2022
8:30pm
Lee Mack teams up with Slapstick Festival as part our Slapstick Sunday’s series of events at the Redgrave Theatre
Sun 27th March 2022
6:30pm
Tim Vine adores Kenny Everett and wants to tell the world why
Sun 27th March 2022
3:30pm
Barry Cryer: A Tribute
Sun 27th March 2022
12:30pm
Sunday 30 January 2022
5.30pm
Settle down for a laughter-filled evening of off-the-wall humour with comedian, writer and broadcaster ARTHUR SMITH
Sunday 30 January 2022
2.30pm
Armando Iannucci has been a major force in satirical TV/film comedy for more than three decades EVENT SOLD OUT