January 2022 to February 2024
Celebrating the Onscreen Comedy of Robert Lindsay: The Aardman Slapstick Comedy Award
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. 20:30 – 22:00 Bristol Old Vic Theatre)
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
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. (19:30 Studio, Bristol Old Vic)
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
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. (18:00 Bristol Old Vic)
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
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. (17:00 Studio, Bristol Old Vic)
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
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. (3.30pm Bristol Old Vic)
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
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. (14:30 Studio, Bristol Old Vic)
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
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. (12:00 Bristol Old Vic)
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
21 November 2023
Sunday 18th Feb. (9.30am Watershed)
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
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (21:45 Lantern Hall, Bristol Beacon)
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
21 November 2023
Saturday 17th Feb. (19:45 Lantern Hall, Bristol Beacon)
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
Before January 2022, all of our events were listed collectively on a single page that was categorised by year