Bristol Slapstick Events, Articles, Blog
Slapstick 2025: for the love of silent comedy
Bristol Slapstick Events, Articles, Blog
Slapstick Festival 2024
Slapstick Festival Yearly Archive
20th Slapstick Festival
Blog, Articles
Celebrating the Onscreen Comedy of Robert Lindsay: The Aardman Slapstick Comedy Award
2024 Event, Events: Archive
He is feted as one of the UK’s most versatile actors – justly praised for his performances in dramas, thrillers, biopics, musicals and Shakespeare plays on stage, film and TV
The Laurel & Hardy Cabaret
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Lucky Dog Theatre Productions return to Slapstick with a follow-up to their internationally loved and award-winning 'Hats Off To Laurel And Hardy'
The Dark Comic Genius of Terry Gilliam
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Film and comedy enthusiasts have long marvelled at Terry Gilliam’s artistic, inventive imagery, and his ability to craft extraordinary worlds since his early days contributing animated content to the groundbreaking Do Not Adjust Your Set (1968) and the iconic Monty Python series (1969–1974)
The Laugheologists
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Taking Mark Twain’s advice "Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story", humourists Barnaby Eaton-Jones and Robert Hammond offer up an illustrated lecture delving into comedy's history and introducing a hilarious cast of overlooked, and possibly spoof, comedians who never quite made it.
Adam Hills’ Desert Island Comedy Flicks
2024 Event, Events: Archive
In a rare and unique live appearance Adam Hills MBE, Aussie-born stand-up, host of the award-winning Channel 4 series THE LAST LEG
Cult Figure: Kenneth Williams
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Actor/impressionist Colin Elmer, who has played the unique and much beloved Kenneth Williams in many touring stage productions, including of Round The Horne, brings his one-man show to Bristol
Onscreen: Brazil with Terry Gilliam
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Slapstick dives into political dark comedy with a screening of Python Terry Gilliam’s uproarious , Orwell-influenced, satire of bureaucracy, technology, surveillance and more in the company of its Oscar-nominated and double BAFTA-winning director.
Big Jim and The Figaro Club
2024 Event, Events: Archive
It has been called ‘the lost great sit-com’, ‘an unsung masterpiece’, ‘a delight’ and ‘ahead of its time’ but now you can enter the world of this lamentably short-lived Made In Bristol series
Phantom of The Paradise
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Step into a world where music, mystery, and mayhem collide in "Phantom of Paradise," a cinematic masterpiece that transcends time and genre.
Sylvester McCoy: WHO’s Funny
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Celebrating Sylvester McCoy, an actor probably best known now as the darkly clown-like 7th incarnation of The Doctor in the BBC TV series DOCTOR WHO, a role he has returned to several times, including in the reboot’s 2022
Harry Hill’s The Last Caveman
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Step into the hilarious and heartwarming world of Harry Hill's THE LAST CAVEMAN, a cinematic experience that will leave you smiling! It’s a lonely life being a caveman, especially if you believe you’re the last one on Earth.
Tim Vine: The Physical Years
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Tim Vine shares video clips from his life and career where he falls over or does something physical in search of humour. As well as moments from Tim’s TV appearances this show includes previously unseen footage of Tim aged 18 being deliberately visual.
Adam Hills & Mike McCartney present: The Timeless Genius of Buster Keaton
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Join us for a laugh-out loud afternoon as Mike McCartney hand picks his favourite Keaton short films, reminiscing from childhood.
Tim Vine’s FEARMOTH
2024 Event, Events: Archive
This is only the second public big screen showing of FEARMOTH. Written, directed and starring Tim Vine and supported by John Archer and Mona Al-Habib Nmeir
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
2024 Event, Events: Archive
A fun-for-all-the-family ‘relaxed screening’ of comedy horror masterpiece in which one of the USA’s most popular Slapstick comedy double acts takes delivery of new items for a horror museum only to find themselves besieged by dangers from Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and a werewolf.
Painfully Funny! When Stunts Go Wrong
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Christina Newland, lead film critic at the i Newspaper and contributing editor at Empire, in an hour long story-telling session about the hijinx, dangers, and sometimes not-at-all death-defying adventures in the early days of silent comedy and beyond.
Silent Comedy Gala
2024 Event, Events: Archive
DOWNTON ABBEY, THE GOLD and PADDINGTON films star Hugh Bonneville introduces a triple bill of laugh-out-loud silent comedy classics, back in the auditorium where Slapstick began: THE GOLD RUSH (1925), COPS (1922), BIG BUSINESS (1929)
Live from New York – Buster Keaton: Camera Man
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Andrew Kelly hosts a live conversation direct from New York with Dana Stevens, author of the best-selling, rave reviewed, book Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Leading Women: Kiki (1926)
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Norma Talmadge is best-remembered for silent melodramas but she was a fine comedy actor, too, as proved by this Paris-set romcom.
Lloyd Hamilton: The Comedians’ Comedian
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Graeme Garden discovers why Charlie Chaplin once confessed Lloyd Hamilton was the comedy film actor he most envied
Laurel & Hardy – Year One (1927)
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Author/Comedian Robin Ince hosts Patrick Vasey, Andy Hollingsworth and Matt Holt, an enthusiastic panel of Stan & Ollie admirers, as they revel in the global effort which has gone into finding and restoring the films made by Stan and Ollie in 1927
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to The Goodies
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Broadcaster Samira Ahmed quizzes Graeme Garden on whether it is time to re-appraise the hit 1970s/80s TV series The Goodies
Laurel & Hardy: Last Dance of The Cuckoos
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Join Marcus Brigstocke, Andy Hollingworth & Matt Holt for the South West premiere of their new Laurel and Hardy doc
Live from New York – Halloween in February Spooktacular
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Halloween is past, but Ben Model and Steve Massa bring it back with a live performance of three surreal and scary shorts. A Fraternity Mixup (1926), Local Showers (1916), The Haunted House (1921)
Leading Women: Up In Mabel’s Room (1926)
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Actor/comedian Lucy Porter introduces this silent romantic farce in which Marie Prevost marries Harrison Ford (Hollywood’s first of that name) only to divorce him after she discovers he’s secretly bought some daring female underwear
Keaton Speaks! 12A
2024 Event, Events: Archive
Silent comedy superstar Buster Keaton continued working long after sound was added to pictures. Here Keaton researcher Polly Rose focuses on three films exemplifying the best of Keaton’s speaking roles
What Happened to Jones (1926)
2024 Event, Events: Archive
This delightful comedy showcases the unique comedy style of silent star Reginald Denny, known for his portrayals of the all-American man.