{"title": "Silent Laughter Weekend 2026", "start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T23:59:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£8 – £35", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "35.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/silent-film/comedy"], "description": "Silent Laughter Weekend 2026 is a two-day festival of silent film comedy at The Cinema Museum in London. It is presented by Kennington Bioscope, a series of silent film screenings with live musical accompaniment that has welcomed audiences to the museum for more than 10 years. The programme takes a deep dive into the world of silent comedy, featuring icons like Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon and Harold Lloyd, as well as unjustly forgotten performers like Marie Prevost, Max Linder, Charley Chase, Lloyd Hamilton and Anita Garvin. It includes rarities, premieres and showings on real celluloid, with films marking their centenary from 1926, live piano accompaniment from the UK's top accompanists, and introductions by silent film authors, enthusiasts, collectors and historians.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/silent-laughter-weekend-2026-39082/", "official_url": "https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/silent-weekend-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b740bcd9bd7b96315cf66832cade9a742553f58666984d75057ce9ebd798ff93-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T23:59:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "GEMMA & ROBERT ROSS - THE COMEDY SALON", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T12:00:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£40", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": "40.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/classic", "comedy"], "description": "The Comedy Salon is a full day devoted to classic British comedy, with hilarious anecdotes, rare treasures from the vaults and special guests. It is hosted by Robert Ross, the author and comedy historian whom Barry Cryer dubbed 'Britain's Comedy Historian', together with Gemma Ross, co-author of the best-selling book The Carry On Girls. Guests include familiar faces from the golden age of British comedy, television, film and theatre, such as Jeffrey Holland, Su Pollard, Melvyn Hayes and Madeline Smith. Visitors can have books signed, buy signed photographs, take photos with the stars and mingle in the intimate surroundings of The Cinema Museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gemma-robert-ross-the-comedy-salon-39078/", "official_url": "https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/gemma-robert-rosss-comedy-carnival-ix/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11cbe312c0e38e190df7910faaaa69b5e87df734ed556d2dd692ae7a34ef66a5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Giggle Film Festival", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "from £10 per person", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Giggle Film Festival is a one-night evening of comedy short films at Big Penny Social. London's biggest comedy short-film festival, it returns for its third year with original and award-winningly funny shorts from UK and international filmmakers. The curated programme aims to surprise, provoke and delight, and takes place in the venue's giant viewing hall with access to bars and food.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/giggle-film-festival-42962/", "official_url": "https://bigpennysocial.co.uk/whats-on/gigglefilm-festival", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60a983810ce62207977cc746d92ce8311ea438ea5d949b738e296f962db6d513-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Film screenings with live improvised soundtrack | Darius Battiwalla", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Christ Church Spitalfields", "address": "Commercial Street, E1 6LY London", "price": "", "price_from": "11.55", "price_to": "16.96", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Film screenings of Sherlock Jr. and two Charlie Chaplin shorts with live improvised soundtrack. Darius Battiwalla plays an instrument like no other in the world alongside the films.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-screenings-with-live-improvised-soundtrack-darius-batti-45739/", "official_url": "https://spitalfields.church/upcomingevents/pgclfjfjl96eadkr7lmmeakqklj64q-5kh8r", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91d5ad1a2e6836483ee2e9c966b9189fcfaa1cb1bff92a347e489df9458e465f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Who Is Detective Muffins?", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "comedy"], "description": "A documentary screening followed by a Q&A and live comedy performances. The film follows comedian and performer Orla Ridpath as she prepares to perform as Detective Muffins ahead of the final of Sketch Off 2026, while the question of where she is and wants to be on her \"comedy quest\" keeps coming back. It was made by independent filmmaker Matteo D'Alesio as a one-person-crew documentary. The performances after the screening feature Orla Ridpath, Kieran & Andy (3rd place, Sketch Off 2026) and Lady Bolognese (2nd place, Sketch Off 2026).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/who-is-detective-muffins-36222/", "official_url": "https://genesiscinema.co.uk/event/115433", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c264cf21dc716a09a983f36569a70516cc96a07dfe5facf0d0e66ab3e422057c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #2: Plot Twist", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "comedy"], "description": "An evening of five short films exploring the surreal, the silly and the unexpected, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Ellie Dobbs. It is Night #2: Plot Twist of SET Film Festival 2026, an independent, grassroots festival for contemporary, artist and archival film run by London-based arts organisation SET. The films play with performance and improvisation, finding humour where the plot unravels and nothing goes to plan: a cigarette-break reverie, best friends on a shoplifting spree, a fishing trip-cum-stag do, a conversation in bed and an extra in a replica of the American Museum of Natural History. The festival was founded in 2023 and is curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist-38497/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aaa63208465b67b4e2d2096ddd2499cbcc0ff1f7fa15c3fcb16a5feecd554a53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Chris Lewis presents: Jerry Lewis's Home Movies, plus Q&A", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of Jerry Lewis's 16mm home movie productions, followed by a question-and-answer session. It is presented by Chris Lewis, Jerry Lewis's son and president of the American Wheelchair Mission, and organised and moderated by Charlotte Ross, curator of I'll Say She Is. The programme offers highlights of the home movies Lewis wrote and directed with his close friends more than a decade before his directorial debut The Bellboy (1960), including the full films An Eye For An Eye and Come Back Little Shiksa and excerpts from parties and premieres at his Pacific Palisades home. Before the screening, Chris Lewis signs copies of his book Jerry Lewis on Being a Person, with proceeds going to the Cinema Museum's fundraiser.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/chris-lewis-presents-jerry-lewiss-home-movies-plus-qa-39083/", "official_url": "https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/chris-lewis-presents-jerry-lewiss-home-movies-plus-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4813424b8ce0fc441451d95ca80beb2bbc003f0ecb063c251a4374b48424b35a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spread a Smile Comedy Night 2026", "start": "2026-11-16T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Comedy Store", "address": "Oxendon Street 7, SW1Y 4EE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up", "occasion/charity"], "description": "Spread a Smile Comedy Night 2026 is a charity stand-up comedy night at The Comedy Store in London. It is hosted and curated by comedian Suzi Ruffell and features performances by Tom Allen, Joel Dommett and Dinesh Nathan, raising funds for Spread a Smile's work bringing entertainment to seriously ill children in 39 NHS hospitals and six hospices across the country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spread-a-smile-comedy-night-2026-60331/", "official_url": "https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/spread-a-smile-comedy-night-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14f28ba673a6e7a9a5ff5a8fdabe74c4bdd722f766e3e1a59deab5de0f2fd436-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026: Comedy Shorts", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "A programme of comedy short films, running for 90 minutes. It is part of NFF 2026, shown through Picturehouse, and brings together several short funny films in one sitting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-comedy-shorts-37867/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74728dee9e7ed911bf7f82dcbf7ca58fd3edf28bcc5b49b591f470d734f88010-1200.webp"}, {"title": "MUBI Fest", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hackney Picturehouse", "address": "Mare Street 270, E8 1HE London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "MUBI Fest is a three-day mini film festival taking place at a cinema in Hackney, London. It is hosted by MUBI, an art-house streaming service and film distributor. The programme presents the distributor's buzziest upcoming titles on the big screen ahead of their theatrical release, alongside indie classics worth revisiting. Highlights include new films with director and cast Q&As, plus anniversary screenings of films like 'Donnie Darko', 'Drive' and 'The Handmaiden', the first followed by a live recording of the Evolution of Horror podcast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mubi-fest-83353/", "official_url": "https://mubifest.com/en/london", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e2043e85e4958c2ff9bdda7cb02a606dc0ea9ab59982f8e07cd622e71f8d0a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art Laughs: Art-Themed Comedy Night", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00Z", "place": "Leighton House", "address": "", "price": "£25; Students & Under 30's £15; includes museum admission.", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["art/painting", "comedy/stand-up"], "description": "Art Laughs: Art-Themed Comedy Night is an evening of stand-up routines inspired by paintings in the Leighton House collection. It was founded by art historian and comedian Verity Babbs, who is joined by award-winning comedians Bebe Cave, Mary O'Connell, and Rosalie Minnitt. Art Laughs brings stand-up, improv, guided tours, quizzes and panel talks to galleries, museums, fairs and auction houses, encouraging us to take art a little less seriously. Doors open at 6:30pm to explore the historic house and current exhibition, with the performance in Leighton's studio from 7pm to 8pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-laughs-art-themed-comedy-night-36976/", "official_url": "https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/museums/art-laughs-art-themed-comedy-night", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24d11948f5e85385dc2a0156161153f059b63f8baf2128fa163e3ce452d4149c-600.webp"}, {"title": "French Film Festival London 2026", "start": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "The French Film Festival London 2026 is a fortnight of cinema with over 40 films and almost 100 screenings at Ciné Lumière. It is organised by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and explores the breadth of voices in French cinema, from emerging and established directors, through fiction, documentaries, animation and restored classics. The programme includes many UK premieres, films such as Minotaur, a new partnership with the Cinéma du réel festival, and guests including Sophie Marceau, Sandrine Kiberlain and Laetitia Masson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/french-film-festival-london-2026-74199/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-and-series/french-film-festival-london/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2839698898d8c15c543995a257435e5bdd74812cf1c6c2317fdd9f12553db86c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Festive Fun with Peppa Cinema Experience", "start": "2026-11-14T12:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["film/animation", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "Festive Fun with Peppa Cinema Experience is a 60-minute cinema experience for young children and families. It takes place at Genesis Cinema on Mile End Road in London and centres on festive fun with Peppa. The programme is rated U and falls under the children and family genre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/festive-fun-with-peppa-cinema-experience-69838/", "official_url": "https://genesiscinema.co.uk/event/115582", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b911a77da4d786fb18fcddb7211a9a5904dba58631b9b042f71138d9a21a0b9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026 Shorts: Award Winners Showcase", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "A showcase of award-winning short films presented as part of the NFF 2026 shorts programme. The screening takes place at Picturehouse Central in London. The programme runs 120 minutes and carries an 18 age rating.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-award-winners-showcase-37926/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/122d1d6c7fbc8e6910062a1b61c58f768643e5f0d1a2ed670878401d156bdaec-1200.webp"}]}