DNAYS return to Bristol for 2025 – Improvised comedy sketches and scenes inspired by TED-style talks from guest speakers. Previous guest speakers include a professional extreme snowboarder, a Greenpeace activist, the scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep, a Game of Thrones superfan and a piracy expert.

Grab your glitter and strut on down to Clifton, Dragprov is back in Brizzle! ‘Christian Adore’ and ‘Eaton Messe’ are a drag double act performed by Francesca Forristal and Ed Scrivens. Using your suggestions, this lovable soft-boy and sassy queen will create dazzling songs, sketches, raps, and entire musical right before your eyes! It’s RuPaul’s glamour meets corset-splitting improv hilarity. With smash hit shows from the Edinburgh Fringe to Glastonbury Festival, the dazzling duo returns to the Bristol Improv Theatre for a Pride extravaganza.

Following its sell-out Soho Theatre run, the cult hit comes to Bristol. Together with his audience, veteran improviser Elms 'builds a comedy mind palace before your very eyes. You'll want to move in for good' (Phil Wang).

Wednesday 10th September | 20:00 - 21:00 (Bar Open: 19:00) 'The most renowned sketch troupe of them all' (Independent) embark on their annual tour once again! The Cambridge Footlights are back with five of Cambridge's best student comedians putting on a brand-new show featuring their funniest sketches! "The Cambridge Footlights are at the top of…

We are the UK's premier pan-Asian improv group and we’re on a mission to bring laughs from the diasporASIA to the UK comedy scene!. We do a playful mix of short and long form improv and host a monthly night of Asian comedy in London.

Friday 26th September | 20:00 (Doors Open: 19:30) Created by Max Dickens and Conor Jatter, the ground-breaking fusion of improv comedy and live jazz comes to the BIT after sell-out Edinburgh Fringe and London shows. Improvisation meets improvisation as top UK comedians and virtuoso jazz musicians inspire each other in real time to create an…

5 improvisers, a series of ridiculous tasks and 1 almighty Tasklord to judge them all.

We've set a group of local improvisers a range of challenges, all overseen by the ever-vigilant Tasklord. Expect an evening of creativity, competition, and spontaneous fun from some of the most inventive performers in the Bristol improv scene.