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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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Our recent comedy recommendations

Sell out warning! With six stages, beautiful sound systems, unrivalled musical variety and an on-site pub – AnExperience is all about the authentic love shared between pals. Let genres and borders melt away in a hedonistic mush of carnival samba, your Dad’s old ska records and amens running riot on the Sinai system at 4am. 6 stages, a boozer & lots n lots of nooks and crannies

Sell out warning! An Edinburgh Fringe sensation, Macbeth: The Musical reimagines Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy as a fevered jukebox opera. Six gleeful actors wield pop classics like poisoned daggers - ABBA, Queen, B*Witched, all marinated in absurdity and lurid stagecraft. What’s at stake? Everything, if you ask the witches. "Is this a real knife? Is this just fantasy?" Enjoy Shakespeare's spooky tragedy like never before with wittily rewritten pop classics!

Bristol’s glitterati, this is your summer solstice sermon! Comedy don Jeff Innocent and antihero of anarchic verse Attila the Stockbroker top a riotous cabaret lineup of satire, reggae, absurdism and sleight-of-hand. A stacked bill of chaos, charisma and counterculture with a dancefloor basted in enough dub to summon the ghost of DJ Derek. RIOT ACT proudly presents the very best in Comedy, Poetry, Music and everything inbetween from the South West and beyond

This criminally underrated family adventure finds a teenage Holmes and Watson interrupting their boarding school hijinx to hunt down a sinister Egyptian death cult (as you do). Produced by Spielberg and writer Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Home Alone) at the peak of their powers, come relive Young Sherlock’s 80s fantasy revelry with an introduction by Sherlock himself! Before Harry Potter, there was Young Sherlock Holmes!

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What our editors say

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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

“Liam has over 10million TikTok/Instagram views and his 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Chronic Boom’ was a sellout success and received widespread critical acclaim, racking up sixteen 4 and 5 star reviews, making it one of the best reviewed comedy shows of 2023.”
From: Liam Withnail: Big Strong Boy

“Lewis Spears, the irreverent maestro of comedy, commands the stage with a wit as sharp as his style. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Lewis Spears has carved out a niche as one of the most fearless voices in stand-up comedy. With his unapologetic approach to tackling taboo subjects and his razor-sharp observational humor, Spears fearlessly navigates through the absurdities of modern life.”
From: Lewis Spears: Serial Pest

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From: Andrew White: Rhinestone Comedian