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Bristol's Comedy Scene

Bristol is an essential stop-off in the UK comedy circuit. The Comedy Box is probably the city’s most prolific stand up promoter, regular shows bring crowds to The Hen and Chicken, The Tobacco Factory and Colston Hall’s ‘The Lantern’. In summer The Comedy Garden in Queens Square brings a who’s who in British comedy with past guests including Stewart Lee, Marcus Brigstocke, Mark Watson and Shappi Khorsandi. The Loco Club (beneath Temple Meads train station) is home to occasional stand up nights promoted by Bristol Underground Comedy. In the city centre alongside the headliners found at Colston Hall and Bristol Hippodrome, Riproar Comedy host stand-up every Friday and Saturday evening.

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The origin story of the UK Government’s public rap enemy number one is easily the all time funniest film about colonial oppression. Now lavished with His Majesty’s latest badge of honour (suspected terror charges), Kneecap is the musical revolution on everyone’s lips, screened alongside an exhibition of Sławek Rzewuski’s photos from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Join us at KIT FORM for a screening of Kneecap, alongside the exhibition 'Architecture of Fear and Resistance'

Tim Robinson brings a confrontational cocktail of beige chaos and full-throttle absurdism to his first full-length feature. He and Paul Rudd navigate the disorienting tenderness of male intimacy with a tonal palette that veers from sitcom slapstick to Bergman-esque levels of dread. Essential one for the I Think You Should Leave fans. A black, absurdist comedy following a suburban dad who becomes obsessed with being friends with his charismatic new neighbour.

In ELEFANTIN, Cree Barnett-Williams invites Barbie onto the psychoanalytic couch of dance-theatre-satire. Splicing music videos with sketch-show absurdism, this piece peels back 66 years of gendered choreography and asks what happens when the dreamhouse decays. A Dance-theatre-satire By Cree Barnett-Williams exploring the human hopes of a plastic icon.

20th century master auteur and a favourite of David Lynch, Wes Anderson and Geta Gerwig, it’s Jacques Tati June over at The Cube! If you can only catch one screening, make it satirical triumph ‘Mon Oncle’: a philosophical, meandering and distinctly French take on modernity crisis comedy that sees Tati’s bumbling hero Monsieur Hulot matching Chaplin and Keaton for slapstick charm. Old world meets new in this brilliantly observed satire of suburban modernity

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From: Susie McCabe: Best Behaviour

“"He’s a brand of comedian that is getting rarer and rarer to come by these days, and if you’re among those who fear comedy has gotten too politically correct, this show will put those fears to rest." ★★★★ TimeOut”
From: Michael Shafar - Inappropriate

“Phil has been getting better at comedy since March 1987. One of these days he may just get it right. Until then Phil just keeps trying. If at first you don’t succeed, try and try your best. This is a tour of Phil, trying his best!”
From: Phil Nichol - Trying My Best

“Pretty good. Also, how funny is it that one of my quotes is from a website called Web Wombat? And I have to keep putting that name in show descriptions because the quote is good. I have to be like, see, I'm good at comedy, Web Wombat said so.”
From: Peter Jones Performs Stand Up Comedy

“This year’s headline feature is Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), a landmark in film history and Chaplin’s first full-length masterpiece. Hilarious, heartfelt, and unforgettable, The Kid captures Chaplin at the peak of his creative powers, blending visual comedy with deep emotional resonance.”
From: Silent Comedy Gala 2026: The Kid