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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

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

Sell out warning! Destigmatising sex work through bad bitch cabaret? Sexquisite’s mission of education, activism and entertainment’s a vital one for Bristol, slowly unstitching the prudish Marvin Rees legacy with high heels, hoops and hilarious gags. Show some support and detoxify your mind! Sexquisite Events are an award winning performing arts company platforming the hottest sex worker artists, creating fierce, political and multi-disciplinary work.

Gleefully chaotic and camp queer excellence for a very pertinent cause! Two of Bristol’s performance powerhouses join forces to bring a stacked evening of cabaret, drag, spoken word, comedy, circus prowess and much more from a whole host of local stars - all raising funds for NOT A PHASE’s vital work uplifting trans+ lives. SCRiTCH Cabaret and EDOLL Events team up to bring you a fundraiser for NOT A PHASE!

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From: Susie McCabe: Best Behaviour

“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

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From: Finlay Christie: Cannibal F*ckboy