Update on the Slapstick Festival 2016 Events
15/01/2016 06:06 GMT

Posted by JG_PeckinPahs

Update. According to the recent Slapstick newsletter, Graeme is unable to attend the the Mack Sennett and Harold Lloyd, Barry Cryer and friends events. And 'the respected film historian and critic David Robinson' is filling in for him on the Friday.

Mack Sennett: King Of Comedy Cert: U
with Graeme Garden

Fri 22nd Jan | Watershed | 11:30AM
Tickets: �6.00/�8.00 (plus booking fee)

Graeme has championed many silent comedians at Slapstick Festival in his discovery series over the years including Harry Langdon, Charley Chase and Max Davidson. Here Graeme celebrates the mastermind of early Slapstick comedy, the actor and producer, Mack Sennett. Graeme will reveal a selection of his best comedies shorts from the 1910s and 1920s featuring performers from the Keystone stable including Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle and perhaps even a glimpse of Sennett�s �Bathing Beauties� and the renowned, often imitated Keystone Cops. With live accompaniment By John Sweeney on Piano.

http://www.slapstick.org.uk/mack-sennett-king-of-comedy/

At Last the 1948 Show Revisted Cert:PG
with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Aimi MacDonald

Sat 23rd Jan | Watershed | 9:15AM
Tickets: �6.00/�8.00 (plus booking fee)

�At Last the 1948 Show� triggered a revolution that was destined to change the face of TV comedy forever. Bursting onto the nation�s small screens in an explosion of unrelated and often surreal sketches, its main perpetrators were Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman and Aimi MacDonald. What �At Last the 1948 Show� began the Monty Python and The Goodies would finish in their own inimitable way. Four �lost� episodes of At last the 1948 Show have recently been recovered from the David Frost Collection. Here we offer a rare opportunity to watch excerpts from the show�s best bits and from some of the newly discovered editions followed by a Q&A as Tim and Aimi discuss this seminal comedy show on stage with presenter Chris Serle.

http://www.slapstick.org.uk/at-last-the-1948-show-revisited/


Bill Oddie�s Saturday Banana Cert:U

Sat 23rd Jan | Watershed | 11:15AM
Tickets: �6.00/�8.00 (plus booking fee)

Bill Oddie introduces highlights and extracts from popular Slapstick children�s television programmes from the 1960s and early 70s. Bill hosted the popular children�s TV programme Saturday Banana in the late seventies whilst being one third of comedy legend trio The Goodies. Here Bill shares his memories of children�s television from this period in a fun packed family programme featuring highlights from Here Come The Double Deckers! (1971), The Banana Splits (1968-70) , Batman (1966-68) and more.

http://www.slapstick.org.uk/bill-oddies-saturday-banana/


Marcus Meets The Goodies

Sat 23rd Jan | St. George�s | 5:00PM
Tickets: �15.00/�12.00/�6.00 (plus booking fee)

Satirist and comedian Marcus Brigstocke (God Collar, The Brig Society) meets the UK�s finest comedy trio reunited at Slapstick Festival for a rare public screening of their western comedy classic �Bun Fight at the OK Tea Rooms� (1975) Dir Jim Franklin, UK, 28mins.

From 1970 to 1982, television audiences roared with laughter in their millions at weekly editions of the visually inventive and stunt-led episodes of The Goodies that made Tim, Bill and Graeme household names. Here Marcus meets the classic comedy team as they discuss their legacy in comedy, their comic influences, western comedies and much more. With a chance too for Q&As, this is a unique opportunity to see these legendary performers together on stage discussing their love of silent comedy.

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Hooray For Harold Lloyd, Barry Cryer and Friends!

Sun 24th Jan | St. George�s | 2:30PM
Tickets: �15.00/�12.00/�6.00 (plus booking fee)

Join us for a classic double bill of Lloyd�s finest onscreen comedy hosted by �king of the one liners� and national treasure Barry Cryer. Harold appears in two of his finest comedy shorts �Now or Never� (US 1921, 35mins) and �I Do� (US 1921, 25mins). In addition Barry will be joined onstage by fellow �I�m Sorry I Haven�t a Clue� team mates Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor who will lead a �Kazooalong� audience accompaniment to two additional animated shorts including a rare Felix the Cat short. A delightful classic silent comedy double bill with a twist of clue. With live musical accompaniment from multi-instrumentalist Stephen Horne.

http://www.slapstick.org.uk/hooray-for-harold-lloyd-barry-cryer-and-friends/

Laurel & Hardy: Way Out West (1937) Cert: U
introduced by Bill Oddie

Sun 24th Jan | Watershed | 9:15AM
Tickets: �6.00/�8.00 (plus booking fee)

What better way to start your Slapstick Sunday than with a Stan & Ollie Classic? Way Out West is perhaps Laurel and Hardy�s greatest feature-length film and is being screened here in a newly restored digital print. Spike Milligan said: �From the moment I saw Laurel and Hardy on the screen I knew they were my friends� and friendship is at the heart of their 1937 spoof Western comedy, which contains their most famous song and one of the most charming dance sequences in cinema history. Laurel &Hardy admirer and Goodie Bill Oddie introduces.

http://www.slapstick.org.uk/way-out-west-1937/


Barry Cryer & Ronnie Golder: Past Masters

Sun 24th Jan | St. George�s | 8:00PM
Tickets: �15.00/�12.00/�6.00 (plus booking fee)

Live music and classic comedy from this exceptional pair as they close the weekend Slapstick Celebrations. Expect comedy songs and gags galore from the well-loved duo, just back from the Edinburgh Fringe and proving they are still alive and old is cool. Barry will have an aviary of new parrot jokes and Ronnie will be cleaning up after them. �Two of comedy�s most fabled masters� FESTIVAL TIMES

http://www.slapstick.org.uk/barry-cryer-ronnie-golder-past-masters/



For more information on the festival you can visit the Official website at
http://www.slapstick.org.uk/