WINNER – Best Pro Comedy Night & Best Live Comedy Format for Wales & the West (Chortle Awards, 2025) ⭐
Winner – Best Comedy Format in Britain: Midlands & the West (Chortle, 2024)
Winner – Best Themed Comedy Night in the UK outside London (Chortle, 2023)
Live from the Red Lion, featuring a hand-picked line-up of comedians:
Gary Walsh ✅ (beat the gong at The Comedy Store; VIRAL)
Jess Lo ✅ (British Comedy Guide Stand Up and Deliver Finalist)
Jomi Cruz ✅ (2024 BBC New Comedy Awards Shortlist)
Sameera Bowers ✅
Troy Orchard ✅ ("A very refreshing and original voice to the Bristol comedy circuit" - Chappers Comedy)
Ben Docs ✅
& Danny Scott as MC ✅ (Max Turner Semi Finalist 2023; Best in Class 2025)
Join us at “the wokest pub in Britain” (New York Post) for a night with The People’s Comedy – the award-winning stand-up night that’s original, countercultural, and downright hilarious.
Why The People’s Comedy?
Since 2018, we’ve been on a mission to spotlight comics with something to say – smart, original, countercultural voices – and make sure they’re actually paid fairly. Revolutionary.
✔ We’ve raised tens of thousands for comedians through our equal pay structure.
✔ Comedy shouldn’t just be “bread and circuses” – it should make you think, laugh, and question.
Curious about the Red Lion’s “woke” credentials? Check this out: https://www.bristol247.com/culture/comedy/big-laughs-small-room-comedy-at-bristols-wokest-pub/
Note: The more we make through tickets, the more we can pay acts! Please only give as much as you can comfortably.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio