The core Slapstick Festival team and volunteers with actor Mina Anwar having a well-earned post-festival drink
A month after celebrating our 20th anniversary, we are still awed by all of your support in making it happen!
The team (pictured w/ guest @hildabaker.bsky.social) have been resting this month but are already planning future events.
We can’t announce anything yet but stay tuned 📺👀 #slapstickfest25
Robin Ince, Nigel Planer and Ben Elton sat in conversation at Slapstick Festival for Rik! The Anarchic Genius of Rik Mayall
A black and white headshot of Rik Mayall
On this day, we celebrate the birthday of Rik Mayall, who would have been 67 🎂
It was brilliant to have #NigelPlaner and surprise guest #BenElton in conversation with @robinince.bsky.social at #SlapstickFest25 paying tribute to Rik and his anarchic genius!
#rikmayall #OTD
Screenshot from Epigram article, with poster of Silent Comedy Gala
Excerpt of Silent Comedy Gala by Lima Assi in Epigram
More pieces from #Epigram covering #SlapstickFest25!
Thanks again for the kind words and glad you all enjoyed your time at the festival.
Read more below 🧵
Thanks to Felix from Epigram for this lovely write-up!
#slapstickcomedy #slapstickfest25 #silentmovie #melbrooks
epigram.org.uk/bristol-slap...
Happy Birthday to Nigel Planer!
A great moment featuring him at #SlapstickFest25 last week
Martin Freeman and Rick Wakeman having a laugh on stage
Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant accompanied by Günter A. Buchwald, the Bristol Ensemble and the European Silent Screen Virtuosi
The lovely audience at Bristol Beacon
The Matinee Idles, DARTS and Paul McGann
Looking back at the 20th anniversary #SilentComedyGala!
📸 Thank you to David Betteridge Photography for these shots and everyone who helped put it all together.
🎬 What films would show at your Silent Comedy Gala?
#slapstickfest25 #martinfreeman #rickwakeman #paulmcgann #bristolbeacon
Why You Came to Slapstick Festival w/ @popcornchat.bsky.social
We are so fortunate to have speakers like @theflyingeditor.bsky.social and @busterkeaton.bsky.social's
Melissa Talmadge Cox to intro Silent Films to younger audiences.
Comment 👇 why you joined us at #SlapstickFest25
#BusterKeaton
⚠️ WARNING: MORE 🦫 VIOLENCE ⚠️
Following #SlapstickFest25 at the Megascreen reffed by @robinince.bsky.social, @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social is coming back to the South West!
Catch them at Exeter Picturehouse 21st Feb and Little Theatre Cinema on 24th Feb as part of their UK & Ireland Tour.
Me smiling, eyes closed, outside of Watershed, backdrop of the harbourside. Photo credit: Ella McDonald
Slapstick Crew badge pinned to a corkboard
Another year older, another festival finished ✅
A lot of laughs last week at @slapstickfest.bsky.social, culminating in over 3 months of hard work.
Thank you to the team for the support whilst they pulled together such an incredible feat.
Photo credit: Ella McDonald
#slapstickfest25
Graeme Garden and Samira Ahmed sat in white chairs opposite each other with a table in-between, and a screen behind them with The Goodies - Thinking Women and their headshots on a lime green background
Graeme Garden and Samira Ahmed posing for a photo together from Slapstick Festival 2024
Happy Birthday to our beloved patron and one of comedy's greats Graeme Garden!
It was brilliant having Graeme at the festival on Sunday with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social; here's to more celebration of The Goodies next year 🎂 🎉
#graemegarden #thegoodies #samiraahmed #slapstickcomedy #SlapstickFest25
Ben Elton (wearing a grey blazer and black shirt) holding the Aardman Slapstick Comedy Legend award
The Aardman Slapstick Comedy Legend award outside of the glass case, a morph dressed like Ben Elton doing stand-up (with microphone and microphone stand, wearing a grey suit and red tie) on a black plinth and plaque with "The Slapstick Awards - Comedy Legend Ben Elton 2025" engraved.
Congratulations to #BenElton on winning the #Aardman Slapstick Comedy Legend Award!
Thank you to Aardman for over 20 years.
It was brilliant having Ben with #AdamHills yesterday at Bristol Old Vic - please tag us in any photos you've taken!
#SlapstickFest25 #morph #slapstickcomedy #bristololdvic
Forgot to take a "before" but here's the state of me post-Slapstick Festival, after a few overstimulated tears, in my Funky Gibbon dungarees. Today was back-to-back shows from 9:30am to almost 11pm (and now I never want to sit in a theatre again) #SlapstickFest25
Adam Hills and Ben Elton at Bristol Old Vic
Thank you to everyone who came to Day Five and any of #slapstickfest25!
There's more photos and clips to come so tuned.
Peter Lord and Wallace at Watershed
Wallace being held, wearing a suit and bowtie, holding a BAFTA
From #SlapstickFest25 at @wshed.bsky.social to winning at #EEBaftas!
Congrats Aardman Animations and #WallaceandGromit 🏆
The moment @robinince.bsky.social welcomes Nigel Planer and a surprise guest to celebrate #RikMayall.
Thank you Ben Elton for coming to #SlapstickFest25 ahead of being awarded the Aardman Comedy Legend award with Adam Hills this evening!
#bristololdvic #benelton #nigelplaner #theyoungones
First half of Day Five SlapstickFest programme
Second Half of Day Five SlapstickFest Programme
It's the final day of #SlapstickFest25!
Welcome to #SlapstickSunday 🎭
Stephen K Amos and Dr Matthew Sweet in front of an audience at Bristol Beacon
Thank you all for coming to #SlapstickFest25 Day Four!
First half of Day Four SlapstickFest25 programme
Second Half of Day Four Slapstickfest25 programme
Welcome to Day Four of #SlapstickFest25 - it's the weekend (!) and we've squeezed in as much comedy as possible 🎭
The audience at Bristol Beacon
Thank you everyone who turned up to #SlapstickFest25 and #SilentComedyGala at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social!
If you attended, please fill out the feedback form through the link below 👇
First half of Day Three Slapstickfest25 programme
Second half of Day 3 Slapstickfest25 programme
Entering Day 3 and the mid-point of #Slapstickfest25!
We've got the Soviet Cinema and @robinince.bsky.social smashing melons before the Silent Comedy Gala 🎉
Thanks to everyone who turned up to #SlapstickFest25 Day Two!
Still a long weekend of Slapstick to go 🎉
First half of Slapstickfest25 Day Two programme
Second half of Slapstickfest25 Day 2 programme
Day 2 of #SlapstickFest25 has arrived!
There's still some of those pesky 🦫 hanging around before we get into our first #BusterKeaton double bill and a @misterabk.bsky.social double bill.
A full house at Bristol Megascreen, with a beaver posing thumbs up with three audience members
Thanks to everyone who turned up to #SlapstickFest25 Day One!
See you bright and early for Day Two tomorrow 🦫
Welcome to the 20th anniversary of Slapstick Festival! And happy birthday
#Gromit 🎂
Kicking us off today is documentary Cartoon Carnival, with director Andrew Smith and Aardman's Peter Lord CBE.
#slapstickfest25 #aardman #cartooncarnival #peterlord #gromit #happybirthdaygromit
Clapperboard Logo
We've partnered w/ @clapperboardle.bsky.social for a special #SlapstickFest25 variation of their amazing free-to-play game!
For each day of the festival, decipher the Slapstick actor/director from five hidden film titles in under six tries to win:
slapstick.clapperboardle.com
Volunteers at our merch table
Our #SlapstickFest25 merch table will be located at Watershed and is card only this year - apologies for any inconvenience.
Half of the Day One Schedule for Slapstick Festival, with logo and Day One in yellow
The other half of the Day One Schedule at Slapstick Festival 2025
Welcome to Day One of #SlapstickFest25 🥳
What are you looking forward to most 🦫
#CartoonCarnival #TheNuthillLeague #RunningWild #TheFreshman #HundredsOfBeavers
Screenshot of BBC Radio Bristol afternoon show with headshot of host Joe Lemer
On BBC Radio Bristol around 3:30pm, @robinince.bsky.social speaks with Joe Lemer on all of the events he's hosting at #SlapstickFest25 & #SmashingMelons 🍉
🎧 Listen from 2pm via the link below 👇
Screenshot from Watershed's Letterboxd list of Slapstick Festival's programme
Screenshot from Watershed Weekly Newsletter detailling some of the Slapstick Festival programme
Thanks @wshed.bsky.social for highlighting us in your weekly newsletter- sign up through their link in bio!
What films are you seeing at #SlapstickFest25?
Headshot of Briony May Williams sitting in for Claire Carter on BBC radio Bristol 04/02/2025
Photo of Lucy Porter holding a microphone and wearing a green cardigan and sparkly black top
Listen out for @lucyportercomic.bsky.social on BBC Radio Bristol around 3:30pm talking all things #SlapstickFest25!
Link to 🎧 below 👇
