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• W.C. FIELDS – Global Stage to Silent and Talking Films and Radio (February 2, 2025)
• EXAMPLEARTICLE (January 10, 2025)
• Martin Freeman to host birthday gala (December 11, 2024)
• Harry Enfield's Comedy Favourites (December 11, 2024)
• 20th Anniversary (December 5, 2024)
• Slapstick 2025: for the love of silent comedy (November 8, 2024)
• Slapstick Festival 2024 (February 27, 2024)
• The Big Comedy Bash '24 (February 22, 2024)
• 20th Slapstick Festival (November 23, 2023)
• Celebrating the Onscreen Comedy of Robert Lindsay: The Aardman Slapstick Comedy Award (November 21, 2023)
• The Laurel & Hardy Cabaret (November 21, 2023)
• The Dark Comic Genius of Terry Gilliam (November 21, 2023)
• The Laugheologists (November 21, 2023)
• Adam Hills’ Desert Island Comedy Flicks (November 21, 2023)
• Cult Figure: Kenneth Williams (November 21, 2023)
• Onscreen: Brazil with Terry Gilliam (November 21, 2023)
• Big Jim and The Figaro Club (November 21, 2023)
• Phantom of The Paradise (November 21, 2023)
• Sylvester McCoy: WHO's Funny (November 21, 2023)
• Harry Hill's The Last Caveman (November 21, 2023)
• Tim Vine: The Physical Years (November 21, 2023)
• Adam Hills & Mike McCartney present: The Timeless Genius of Buster Keaton (November 21, 2023)
• Tim Vine's FEARMOTH (November 21, 2023)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) (November 21, 2023)
• Painfully Funny! When Stunts Go Wrong (November 21, 2023)
• Silent Comedy Gala (November 21, 2023)
• Live from New York - Buster Keaton: Camera Man (November 21, 2023)
• Leading Women: Kiki (1926) (November 21, 2023)
• Lloyd Hamilton: The Comedians’ Comedian (November 21, 2023)
• Laurel & Hardy – Year One (1927) (November 21, 2023)
• The Thinking Woman’s Guide to The Goodies (November 21, 2023)
• Laurel & Hardy: Last Dance of The Cuckoos (November 21, 2023)
• Live from New York - Halloween in February Spooktacular (November 21, 2023)
• Leading Women: Up In Mabel’s Room (1926) (November 21, 2023)
• Keaton Speaks! 12A (November 21, 2023)
• What Happened to Jones (1926) (November 20, 2023)
• Alasdair Beckett-King’s, Even Stranger Films (November 20, 2023)
• The Cat & The Canary (1927) (November 20, 2023)
• Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow (November 20, 2023)
• Leading Women: Exit Smiling (1926) (November 20, 2023)
• Slapstick Festival 2023 (October 9, 2023)
• Slapstick’s Silent Comedy Gala (September 6, 2023)
• Stand Out Stand Up For Slapstick (September 6, 2023)
• The Big Comedy Bash, Oct 2023 (August 14, 2023)
• Save the Date: Slapstick 2024 (August 4, 2023)
• The Big Comedy Bash 2023 (May 9, 2023)
• Gender Rebels: Post event notes (April 24, 2023)
• Fab Fools: The Beatles, The Rutles & Rock ‘n’ Roll Comedy (March 13, 2023)
• Gender Rebels (March 13, 2023)
• Victor / Victoria (March 13, 2023)
• Beverly of Graustark (1926) (March 13, 2023)
• I Don't Want to be a Man (March 13, 2023)
• Competition Time (December 22, 2022)
• Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! (1923) (November 29, 2022)
• Slapstick 2023 Announcement (November 28, 2022)
• MICHAEL PALIN: Beyond Python (November 26, 2022)
• Good Listening To...Robin Ince (November 26, 2022)
• Monty Python’s LIFE OF BRIAN onscreen (November 26, 2022)
• Griff Rhys Jones: Why I still love Laurel & Hardy (November 26, 2022)
• Monty Python's Book Shambles (November 26, 2022)
• A Hard Day's Night (November 26, 2022)
• Ode to Joyce (November 26, 2022)
• The Rutles: All You Need is Cash (November 26, 2022)
• The Scaffold: A Celebration (November 26, 2022)
• Comic Strip Stories (November 26, 2022)
• The Comic Strip Presents: More Bad News (November 26, 2022)
• Harry Hill: Breaking the Silence (November 26, 2022)
• The Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers (November 26, 2022)
• Harold Lloyd in Speedy (1928) (November 26, 2022)
• The Scaffold: Live at Talk Of The Town (1969) (November 26, 2022)
• A Violin Over The Head (November 26, 2022)
• Harry Langdon: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) (November 26, 2022)
• Raymond Griffith: You'd be Surprised (Remastered) (November 26, 2022)
• A Private Function (1984) (November 26, 2022)
• Silent Comedy Gala Special (November 26, 2022)
• Monty Python & The Holy Grail (November 26, 2022)
• Paths To Paradise (1925) (November 26, 2022)
• Free Online Event: Paths to Paradise (November 26, 2022)
• I Kiss Your Hand, Madam (1929) (November 26, 2022)
• Charlie’s London: A Success Story (November 26, 2022)
• East Of Ipswich (1987) (November 26, 2022)
• This Is Spinal Tap (November 26, 2022)
• Onscreen Wonder Women (November 26, 2022)
• Fred Karno: The Legend Behind The Laughter (November 26, 2022)
• The Cigarette Girl Of Mosselprom (1924) (November 26, 2022)
• Mary Poppins (November 26, 2022)
• Some Like it Hot (November 26, 2022)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (November 26, 2022)
• The Big Comedy Bash 2022 Review (November 15, 2022)
• Slapstick Sunday: Feb 2023 (November 13, 2022)
• Stranger Films, With Alasdair Beckett-King (September 13, 2022)
• The Big Comedy Bash 2022 (September 12, 2022)
• Review of Slapstick Festival 2022 (September 7, 2022)
• Slapstick Festival 2022 (September 7, 2022)
• Legacy award for the Tiswas team (May 3, 2022)
• Tiswas Stars Reunite for One-Off Reunion (April 18, 2022)
• Slapstick Sunday (April 18, 2022)
• Tiswas: The Reunion (February 19, 2022)
• The Big Comedy Bash 2022 (February 19, 2022)
• Trafic (1971) (February 19, 2022)
• Playtime (1967) (February 19, 2022)
• Mon Oncle (1958) (February 19, 2022)
• Tati Day: Pass to all 3 films (February 19, 2022)
• Barry Cryer: A Tribute (February 5, 2022)
• Our Dear Friend Barry Cryer (January 28, 2022)
• Screening Notes (January 25, 2022)
• THE MYSTERY OF BILLY LANCET – AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY (January 22, 2022)
• THE MYSTERY OF BILLY LANCET (?1919-1965) (January 22, 2022)
• Stop Motion Animation - A Timeless Art Form (January 18, 2022)
• Best of The Best - Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd (January 18, 2022)
• The Goodies Forever (January 12, 2022)
• Barry Cryer: An Audience With A Comedy Legend (January 10, 2022)
• Lee Mack’s Desert Island Comedy Flicks (January 10, 2022)
• In The Best Possible Taste! Tim Vine salutes Kenny Everett (January 10, 2022)
• BARRY CRYER: A Tribute With a Little Help from His Friends (January 10, 2022)
• Paddington (2014): Introduced by Andy Day (January 10, 2022)
• Review: The Real Charlie Chaplin (November 22, 2021)
• Welcome Back to Slapstick! (November 9, 2021)
• Arthur Smith: Laughs, Stories, a Song and a Poem (October 30, 2021)
• Armando Iannucci: A Life in Satire (October 30, 2021)
• Richard Herring’s The Sunday Chat (October 30, 2021)
• Animation Fanatics (October 30, 2021)
• Richard Herring’s Desert Island Comedy Flicks (October 29, 2021)
• The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021) (October 29, 2021)
• Silent Comedy Gala 2022 (October 28, 2021)
• Slapstick Conversations: Buster Keaton (October 28, 2021)
• The Patsy (1928) (October 28, 2021)
• W.C. Fields: Sally of the Sawdust (October 28, 2021)
• Slapstick Divas: Hosted by Sally Phillips and Ronni Ancona (October 27, 2021)
• David Mitchell's Top Comedy Moments (October 27, 2021)
• Lloyd: The Kid Brother (1927) (October 27, 2021)
• First Women in Comedy (October 27, 2021)
• An Old Gangster Molls (1927) (October 27, 2021)
• Chaplin: The Circus (1928) (October 26, 2021)
• My Grandmother (1929) (October 26, 2021)
• Max Linder: Be My Wife (1921) (October 26, 2021)
• Silent Ozu: Days Of Youth (1929) (October 26, 2021)
• Ben Model & Steve Massa Live from New York (October 25, 2021)
• Slapstick Conversations: W.C.Fields (October 25, 2021)
• Slapstick Live Online (October 10, 2021)
• Sorry I Haven't a Clue Live (October 8, 2021)
• Slapstick Festival 2021 (September 26, 2021)
• Big Comedy Bash 23rd September 2021 (July 22, 2021)
• Charlie Chaplin – Early Life (June 21, 2021)
• Charlie Chaplin's Life - The Beginnings (June 21, 2021)
• SLAPSTICK 2021 IS LIVE! (May 18, 2021)
• Slapstick Festival 2020 (May 1, 2021)
• Fundraisers Archive (October 30, 2020)
• Laurel & Hardy: Bacon Grabbers (1929) Live At Slapstick Festival With Marcus Brigstocke (July 10, 2020)
• French & Saunders: Live @ Slapstick Festival Comedy Legend Awards with Mel Giedroyc (June 24, 2020)
• Laughter In Lockdown #10 - Ken Dodd at the Aardman Slapstick Comedy Awards (June 19, 2020)
• Laughter In Lockdown #9 - Jo Brand's Top Comedy Picks (June 5, 2020)
• Laughter In Lockdown #8 - Lee Mack hosts Laurel & Hardy's Liberty (1929) (May 29, 2020)
• Laughter In Lockdown #7 - Tim Vine's Top Comedy Picks with Richard Herring (May 22, 2020)
• Laughter In Lockdown #6 - Remembering the comedy genius of Victoria Wood (May 15, 2020)
• Laughter in Lockdown 5 - The Goodies 50th Anniversary LIVE with Robin Ince (May 8, 2020)
• Laughter in Lockdown 4 - Harry Hill's Top Comedy Picks (April 30, 2020)
• Laughter in Lockdown 3 - I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again... Again! (April 24, 2020)
• Laughter in Lockdown 2 - John Cleese, Rory Bremner and Friends hosted by Tim Vine (April 17, 2020)
• SLAPSTICK LIVE ONLINE (April 9, 2020)
• Laughter In Lockdown – Slapstick To Release One-Off Gems From Its Archives (April 7, 2020)
• Gold Rush Competition (February 15, 2020)
• Neil Innes 1944 - 2019 (December 31, 2019)
• The Goodies 50th Anniversary Poll (November 25, 2019)
• Slapstick Volunteer Call Out (November 15, 2019)
• Slapstick Sunday At Bristol Hippodrome - In Photos (February 18, 2019)
• Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin The Composer (February 2, 2019)
• For A Few Days Only - 2 for 1 on Slapstick Festival Tickets! (January 30, 2019)
• Slapstick Festival 2019 (January 28, 2019)
• Silent Comedy Spectacular with Barry Humphries at the London Palladium (January 24, 2019)
• Comedians at Slapstick Festival (January 15, 2019)
• A Celebration of Laurel & Hardy at Slapstick Festival (January 14, 2019)
• 24hr Flash Sale - Slapstick Festival 2 for 1 Tickets (January 14, 2019)
• The Goodies - VIP Competition (January 2, 2019)
• The Inbetweeners - VIP Competition (December 29, 2018)
• Competition! Win A copy of The Goodies: The Complete BBC Collection (October 26, 2018)
• Young Slapstick Reviewers (February 9, 2018)
• Slapstick 2018 - In Photos (January 29, 2018)
• Three Ages Program Notes (January 27, 2018)
• Keaton: The MGM Years Program Notes (January 27, 2018)
• The Vagabond Queen Program Notes (January 26, 2018)
• Skinner's Dress Suit Program Notes (January 26, 2018)
• Spite Marriage Program Notes (January 26, 2018)
• Win Tickets To Ronnie Golden: First A Fender – A Beginner’s Guide to Rock (January 25, 2018)
• It's Just a Jump to the Left! (December 30, 2017)
• Slapstick Festival 2018 (November 28, 2017)
• Pordenone Diaries - Day 3 (October 20, 2017)
• Pordenone Diaries - Day 2 (October 8, 2017)
• Pordenone Diaries - Day 1 (October 4, 2017)
• The Boot Cake (August 1, 2017)
• Why is Slapstick Violence Funny? (July 20, 2017)
• French and Saunders: Bop-a-dooey-oo (June 21, 2017)
• Victoria Wood and Julie Walters (May 6, 2017)
• Lucy and Ethel - Sitcom's Best Friends (April 18, 2017)
• Anita Garvin and Marion Byron - A Classic Comedy Duo (April 6, 2017)
• Website & Digital Marketing Volunteer Job (March 29, 2017)
• French & Saunders: Comedy Legends (March 27, 2017)
• Ronnie Golden and Neil Innes perform a song for Donald Trump (March 27, 2017)
• In Photos: Slapstick 2017 (March 26, 2017)
• It all started with Alice... (March 17, 2017)
• Field Trip (March 6, 2017)
• Max Linder - French Silent Star (February 11, 2017)
• A Bit About The Freshman (February 2, 2017)
• A Few Reviews (January 27, 2017)
• A summary of Slapstick 2017 (January 27, 2017)
• Day 5 of Slapstick 2017 - A Quick Recap of Yesterday (January 22, 2017)
• Day Four at Slapstick Festival 2017 - Reliving the Gala (January 21, 2017)
• Slapstick Festival Day 3 - A chat with Daan van den Hurk (January 20, 2017)
• Slapstick Festival 2017 - 2 Days In! (January 19, 2017)
• The 2017 Slapstick T-shirt: The Year Of The Custard Pie (January 15, 2017)
• Simon Callow On His Passion For Charlie Chaplin (January 10, 2017)
• Keaton/Beckett (January 5, 2017)
• An Epic Day (December 28, 2016)
• Tommy Cooper - Intentional Bumbling (December 20, 2016)
• 2017 Festival Information (November 17, 2016)
• 2017: Wednesday (November 14, 2016)
• Slapstick Festival 2017: SUNDAY (November 13, 2016)
• Slapstick Festival 2017: SATURDAY (November 13, 2016)
• Slapstick Festival 2017: FRIDAY (November 13, 2016)
• Slapstick Festival 2017 (November 12, 2016)
• In Photos: Michael Crawford - Visual Comedy Legend Award Show (October 24, 2016)
• In Photos: Slapstick's Slap Up Feast Of Fun (October 3, 2016)
• In Photos: Stand Out - Stand Up For Slapstick (September 22, 2016)
• Ken Dodd Award Page (September 13, 2016)
• Silent Comedy Gala 2017 (July 28, 2016)
• Granddad Defies Odds to Attend Slapstick Festival Every Year (July 6, 2016)
• Slap Up Feast of Fun (July 1, 2016)
• Slapstick Festival 2016 (June 28, 2016)
• Aardman verdict + Slapstick embraces Europe (June 28, 2016)
• A Tribute to Victoria Wood (May 13, 2016)
• Inside No 9: A Quiet Night In (May 6, 2016)
• In Photos: When Victoria Wood Hosted The 2013 Slapstick Festival Gala (April 22, 2016)
• Stand Up For Slapstick 2016 - Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter & More... (April 8, 2016)
• Slapstick festival comes to London (January 19, 2016)
• Michael Crawford: Visual Comedy Legend (January 8, 2016)
• Ian Lavender: Why I Love Ben Turpin (January 6, 2016)
• Bed and Sofa (Tretya Meshchanskaya) (1927) (December 23, 2015)
• Jollywood! (November 27, 2015)
• Here Come The Double Deckers! (November 27, 2015)
• Rediscovered and Restored (November 27, 2015)
• Chaplin’s the Kid: Inside Story (November 26, 2015)
• Mack Sennett: King Of Comedy (November 26, 2015)
• SPECIAL EVENT: Chicago (1927) (November 26, 2015)
• Way Out West (1937) (November 26, 2015)
• Bill Oddie’s Saturday Banana (November 26, 2015)
• At Last the 1948 Show Revisited! (November 25, 2015)
• Wild and Woolly (1917) (November 25, 2015)
• Anita Loos: Hollywood Pioneer (November 25, 2015)
• Home James (1928) (November 25, 2015)
• The Awful Truth (1937) (November 25, 2015)
• Slapstick International: Bed and Sofa (November 25, 2015)
• Silent Comedy Westerns (November 25, 2015)
• Matt Lucas’ Banana Skin (November 5, 2015)
• Tim Vine: Why I Love SGT Bilko (November 5, 2015)
• Stephen Merchant's Top Comedy Moments (November 5, 2015)
• Danny Baker: Why I Love Ben Turpin (November 5, 2015)
• Passionate About Buster (November 5, 2015)
• Marcus Meets the Goodies (November 5, 2015)
• Barry Cryer & Ronnie Golder: Past Masters (November 5, 2015)
• Ken Dodd OBE: Comedy Legend (November 5, 2015)
• Hooray For Harold Lloyd, Barry Cryer and Friends! (November 5, 2015)
• It's Shaun the Sheep! (November 5, 2015)
• Become a Slapsticker! (November 4, 2015)
• Intertitle Competition (October 26, 2015)
• Matt Lucas's Banana Skin (October 9, 2015)
• Slapstick Festival 2015 (August 25, 2015)
• Slapstick Festival’s Silent Comedy Gala returns to Colston Hall (July 15, 2015)
• Barry Cryer: Comedy Legend - photo gallery by Adam Johnson (July 13, 2015)
• SUFS3! Photos from the night! (July 9, 2015)
• Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances (1925) (June 15, 2015)
• Festival Programme 2016 (June 15, 2015)
• Barry Cryer: Comedy Legend - photo gallery by Adam Johnson (March 23, 2015)
• Slapstick 2015 - a massive thank you! (February 4, 2015)
• NEVER MISS A LUBITSCH! (January 15, 2015)
• The Mishaps of Musty Suffer (January 9, 2015)
• The Festival Trailer Has Arrived! (November 28, 2014)
• Chris Addison Announced as Host for Slapstick Festival Comedy Gala (September 10, 2014)
• Keaton Find! Exciting Discovery on Keatons The General! (July 15, 2014)
• Slapstick Festival 2014 (July 9, 2014)
• Celebrating Dads Army: an Evening of Entertainment with Ian Lavender! (June 15, 2014)
• June Whitfield CBE and Nick Park CBE to become Festival Patrons (June 11, 2014)
• Slapstick Supports The Grand Appeal (May 13, 2014)
• Slapstick Festival 2013 (July 9, 2013)
• Slapstick Festival 2012 (July 9, 2012)
• Slapstick Festival 2011 (July 9, 2011)
• Slapstick Festival 2010 (July 9, 2010)
• Slapstick Festival 2009 (July 15, 2009)
• Slapstick Festival 2008 (July 15, 2008)
• Slapstick Festival 2007 (July 15, 2007)
• Slapstick Festival 2006 (July 15, 2006)
• Slapstick Festival 2005 (July 15, 2005)