His Girl Friday (Cary Grant Festival)

The Cube, Bristol – Sat 25 Nov, 12.30pm

An effervescent mix of hard-boiled newsroom drama, hilarious wisecracks and exuberant romantic comedy that fully showcases its stars’ impeccable comic timing.

Gay as in Hilariously Funny at Exeter Phoenix

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch + Live musical drag performances from the Ambigious-a and Boparhys – Tue 4 Dec, 7.30pm

A must see in any queer catalogue, cult favourite Hedwig is funny, heart tingling and fabulous film with a kick-ass soundtrack.

• Shorts #4: Gay as in hilariously funny + panel discussion – Thur 29 Nov, 7.30pm

A programme examining queerness and onscreen comedy featuring self-loathing and loathable gay men, butch lesbians in denial and queer femmes in their own carefree universe. Followed by a panel discussion on queer comedy, on and off the screen, featuring comedian Rosie Jones and more guests.

Comedy Genius at Watershed, Bristol

Sundays at 12pm in December

A season of side-splitting comedies celebrating some of cinema’s best-loved works of comic genius…

• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Melding melodrama with screwball farce, this hilarious study of sexual mores was Pedro Almodóvar’s international breakthrough.

• Sidewalk Stories

A homage to Chaplin’s The Kid, Charles Lane’s hilarious comedy has all the elements of great silent comedies: physical grace, perfect timing and sly social commentary.

• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Holidays are never boring with the well-meaning but chronically accident prone Monsieur Hulot – Jacques Tati’s glorious comic masterpiece.

• Duck Soup

Filled to bursting point with gags and justly considered one of the top film comedies of all time, this anti-war, anti-nationalist satire is an incredible showcase of the talents of one of the greatest comedic teams in history – the Marx Brothers.

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Embark on on a sublimely irreverent and jaw-droppingly hysterical medieval quest with this classic Arthurian hallucination.

Come The Revolution Presents No BS!

An excitingly extensive season of Black and Black British comedy – highlights below, much more to come!

• Shoot the Messenger at Colston Hall, Tue 11 Dec

After reading a report that black pupils from inner city schools are being failed by the education system, IT consultant Joe (David Oyelowo) decides to become a teacher.

• Hollywood Shuffle at Watershed, Sun 16 Dec

A deeply satirical look at the racial stereotyping that black people face in Hollywood.

• Bamboozled at Colston Hall, Sun 16 Dec

Spike Lee’s rarely seen classic satire Bamboozled in which African American TV executive Pierre Delacroix ( Damon Wayans) creates a grotesque showto force his bosses to understand the stereotypes that they force him to create.

• Bad Boys, Jumpin Jack Flash, Girls’ Trip and Stir Crazy at Arnolfini, Fri 18-Sat 19 Jan

A star-studded line up over two days with Will Smith, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah featuring in classic comedies.