Slapstick Festival

Slapstick Festival is one of the world’s biggest festivals dedicated to preserving and screening silent classic comedy movies and it’s one of Bristol biggest comedy festivals, featuring your favourite comedians introducing and discussing films that inspired them. Slapstick aims to introduce a new younger audience to classic and silent slapstick cinema.

 

Tim Vine host of the Bristol Slapstick Festival Silent Comedy Gala 2018 on stage at the Colston Hall

Slapstick Festival

Slapstick, January 2020

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