Welcome to the home of Bath Comedy - for the award-winning Spring time Bath Comedy Festival, now in its 16th year, and year-round Bath Comedy events including Bath Comedy Club shows, July Edinburgh Preview season and many one-off specials.
BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2025
This year's Bath Comedy Festival runs from Monday 31st March to Monday 21st April 2025
All events are online and on sale. Read an overview of the festival here.
Some events are already selling out so please book your tickets in advance if you can - this also helps us, the venues and performers deliver you the very best experience
SEE THE COMEDY EVENTS DIARY FOR DETAILS OF ALL FORTHCOMING SHOWS HERE.
You can read the printed programme online too:
Basil Brush is excited to bee "headlining" Bath Comedy Festival, in what Glastonbury Festival would call the "Legends Spot" on Easter Monday...
Please help us with our crowd fund for
BATH COMEDY 2025, 2026 and beyond - DONATE HERE
Dear Bath Comedy Supporters
It has been a Herculean task to wean the public back to live performances over recent years, and no one could have worked harder to keep the festival going through a horrendous period for all live entertainment, but there's a limit to how long hand to mouth can sustain things..
We're already very busy programming for future festivals and our year-round programmes, and are appealing to you all for your help to ensure the survival of Bath Comedy - an essential annual part of our city's cultural offering which would be sorely missed if it were to disappear.
Bath has so much more to offer than just it's beautiful old buildings - let's do our best to keep Bath's cultural and comedic heart beating!
Here are some selected moments from the last year of shows:
Pledge your support online -
CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE CROWD FUND
Aside from the crowd fund, our Friends of the Festival scheme is another way to support - sign up for £75 a year to enjoy invitations to VIP receptions, discounted tickets, advance notice of popular events and a chance to win your money back. See below.
All monies received will go to artists and the direct costs of bringing more laughter to Bath.
With huge thanks for your support.
Nick Steel, Festival Director
Pledge your support online -
CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE CROWD FUND
See what long time Friend of the Festival, German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn had to say...
Become a Friend of the Festival
The Festival is not regularly funded and relies on support from businesses' sponsorship and support from YOU too!
Join our merry band of Friends for an annual £75 and enjoy such benefits as:
- Invitations to exclusive VIP receptions
- 'Thank you' accreditations on our web site and printed programme
- Concession rate tickets for selected events
- Early notice of special events
- Membership of an exclusive group of donors whom, by their generosity, contribute to the long term success of the Festival.
Alternatively if you would just like to donate please use the other checkout link below - all contrbutions are very gratefully received and go towards bringing more laughter and fun to our city!
MUSIC GIGS
Festival Director Nick Steel also promotes "regular-irregular" music gigs.
Nick is continuing to bring top class live music back to the street at The Ram pub in Widcombe, Bath. The ever-improving revamped cafe/pub now incorporates Widcombe Deli, selling their fabulous home made fayre during the daytimes (including breakfasts fom 8.30am) with food available in the evenings too, (busy sporting fixtures permitting!).
After a break from music last summer (football and other things rather take over), live bands started again in September 2024, including trios featuring some of the country's finest blues guitarists.
Live bands this season confirmed so far:
2025
Fri 10th Jan - Courting Ghosts
Fri 17th Jan - I Smelll Burning
Fri 24th Jan - Bob Bowles Trio
Fri 31st Jan - Guthrie Kennard
Fri 7th Feb - Jon Amor Trio
Fri 14th Feb - Mireille Mathlener Band
Fri 21st Feb - Innes Sibun Trio
Fri 7th Mar - Ben Fletcher Blues Cafe Orchestra
Fri 14th Mar - The Patsy Gamble & Muddy Manninen Blues Collective
Fri 21st Mar - Bob Bowles Trio
Fri 4th April - The Barton Street Regulators
Fri 2nd May - Made By Martians
Fri 9th May - Pat Slide & The Transfers
Fri 16th May - Marko Gallaidhe & Friends
Fri 23rd May - Flash Harry
Fri 20th Jun - Future Plan
Click here for the complete Music events diary.
Nick Steel's Radio Interviews
Listen to a selection of Nick's recent radio interviews, and some famous performers too - click here
Nick says:
I'm always excited about what we have in store for the next Bath Comedy shows, and I'm so proud that we managed to not only survive the pandemic/lockdown periods, but also produce over 60 shows in 2020 and over 75 in 2021, when not much else was able to happen, and then hold full Bath Comedy Festivals every year since.
Bath Comedy recently reached the top three in category at the 2022 Bath Business Awards - Tourism and Hospitality Resilience Award, and was a finalist in both the Bath Life Awards 2023, 2024 and 2025, and Creative Bath Awards 2023 and 2024.
WATCH THIS SPACE - MORE EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING VERY SOON!
See the what's on calendar for more details of all shows as they come on sale, including Bath Comedy Club nights, Edinburgh Previews season, and all year-round tour shows and one-off events. We're already booking into next year and beyond...lots of excitement to come!
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