Rare live stage appearance

Harry Enfield has joined the line-up of next  year’s Slapstick comedy festival, making a rare live stage appearance to talk about his career.

He will be interviewed by Robin Ince at the Bristol Old Vic on Sunday February 16 to talk about his favourite film and TV comedy moments and their influence on the characters he has created.

Slapstick’s director Chris Daniels says: ‘This will be a very special one-of-a-kind event. Harry Enfield hardly ever makes live stage appearances and it is rarer still to hear him sharing insights into the many characters he’s woven into the nation’s consciousness, among them his astute satire of Thatcherite economics, Loadsamoney; the well-meaning but hopeless Tim Nice-But-Dim, the hormonal teenage duo Kevin and Perry (with Kathy Burke) and, with The Fast Show’s Paul Whitehouse, radio DJs, Smashie and Nicey.’

Other stars attending the festival, which runs from February 12 to 16 across Bristol, include Ben Elton, Adam Hills, Graeme Garden and Lucy Porter

Published: 16 Nov 2024