"Actor: Rik Mayall"

• The Young Ones - Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £10.99   |  Saving you £0.89 (8.10%)   |  RRP £11.88

  A mad helter-skelter rude awesomely violent unpredictable swaggering staggering joyously infantile exhilarating steamroller of a sitcom The Young Ones provided the breakthrough for the new generation of aggressive and forthright 'alternative' comedians. Join Rik Vyv Neil and Mike in their crazy and surreal comedy adventures!

• The New Statesman - the Complete Series Box Set | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  'The New Statesman' is a multi-award winning masterpiece of political satire. Rik Mayall stars as the ruthless Alan B'Stard the egocentric MP who will stop at nothing to further his political career. With no morals no depth to which he wouldn't sink and no plot too cunning following the antics of such an immoral MP makes for unbelievable nonstop comedy. This DVD box set features all four series of 'The New Statesman' culminating with the feature length special 'Who Shot Alan B'Stard'. Episodes Comprise: 1. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 2. Passport To Freedom 3. Sex Is Wrong 4. Waste Not Want Not 5. Friends Of St. James 6. Three Line Whipping 7. Baa Baa Black Sheep 8. Fatal Extraction 9. Live From Westminster 10. A Wapping Conspiracy 11. The Haltemprice Bunker 12. California Here I Come 13. May The Best Man Win 14. Piers of the Realm 15. Labour Of Love 16. The Party's Over 17. Let Them Sniff Cake 18. Keeping Mum 19. Natural Selection 20. Profit Of Boom 21. Back From The Mort 22. H*A*S*H 23. Speaking In Tongues 24. Heil And Farewell 25. A Bigger Splash 26. The Irresistible Rise Of Alan B'Stard 27. Who Shot Alan B'Stard?

• The Young Ones: The Complete Collection | Blu Ray | (28/11/2022) from £22.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Do not lean out of the window! Join Vyv, Rick, Neil, and Mike in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the iconic cult sitcom, THE YOUNG ONES. Released on Blu-ray for the very first time - so you can enjoy the squalor as never before. Including 10 new exclusive audio commentaries, featurettes and never-before-seen bonus material. From Scumbag College to the AEC Routemaster, this is the ultimate complete collection of this classic British comedy. There was Mike, the suave, sensible one; Vyvyan, the psychotic punk-metal mohican; Neil, the lentil loving hippy and Rick, right-on anarchist revolutionary and Cliff Richard fan: four students - desperate for money, excitement, girls or just something to help fill the day - sharing a house. From this simple set up came an amazing speedball of comic caricature, slapstick, infantile humour, animation, musical performances, rants, violence, abuse and surreal jokes - leaving an impression as jaw-dropping as finding one of Vyvyan's steel-capped boots through our television screens. The Young Ones brought the irreverence, anarchy and energy of the new alternative comedy movement to situation comedy - and it would never be the same again. Product Features 10 new commentaries from cast and crew Never seen before deleted scenes Rediscovered rushes from the cutting room floor Extensive photo gallery featuring the original music score and unpublished images from the production team Raw studio footage A workprint edit of 'sick' Fundamental frolics featuring an early appearance from rik And for the first time, both episodes of 'boom boom out go the lights', introduced by the producer who put alternative comedy on the telly Also including: 'alternative rebellion', 'the making of the young ones' and 'the guest stars of the young ones' featurettes

• Drop Dead Fred | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This not-quite-black comedy was probably a laugh riot on paper. The translation almost works, but the execution is flawed. Phoebe Cates is a recently separated young woman who suddenly begins to see her supposedly imagined childhood friend (the titular Drop Dead Fred) after moving back into her mother's home. Is he a manifestation of her secret desires to ditch the boorish spouse? Or was he real all along? Rik Mayall is a limber, carrot-topped comic with the lamentable assignment of trying to make us laugh with vulgar, sophomoric trickery. He is supposedly the repository of Cates's fastidious repression but is more annoying than cathartic. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Bottom - Series 1 To 3 | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £12.05   |  Saving you £27.94 (231.87%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This box set features all the episodes from series 1-3 of Bottom. Rik Mayall is 'Richie' Richard Richard - He's nice in a smarmy creepy disgustingly oozy oil-tongued sort of way Adrian Edmonson is Eddie Hitler- the kind of person you cross the road to avoid. Infesting a squalid flat in a seedy part of London they belch curse and smash their way through crisis and boredom alike in an orgy of destruction. Each episode sees them spin into a madcap whirlwind of slap

• An American Werewolf in London UHD | Blu Ray | (18/07/2022) from £17.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the greatest directors of the 1980s, John Landis (The Blues Brothers, Trading Places), expertly combines macabre horror with dark humour in the lycanthropic classic, An American Werewolf in London. American tourists David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. David awakes in a London hospital to find his friend dead and his life in disarray. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse (Jenny Agutter, Walkabout) to recuperate, he soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body, undergoing a full-moon transformation that will unleash terror on the streets of the capital... An American Werewolf in London had audiences howling with laughter and recoiling in terror upon its cinema release. Landis' film has gone on to become one of the most important horror films of its decade, rightly lauded for its masterful set-pieces, uniquely unsettling atmosphere and Rick Baker's truly ground-breaking, Oscar-winning special make-up effects. Now restored and presented with an abundance of extra features, this big beast of horror can be devoured as never before... Product Features 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original uncompressed 1.0 mono and optional 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by Beware the Moon filmmaker Paul Davis Audio commentary by actors David Naughton and Griffin Dunne Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf, a feature-length documentary by filmmaker Daniel Griffith, featuring interviews with John Landis, David Naughton, Joe Dante and more An American Filmmaker in London, an interview with John Landis in which he reflects on British cinema and his time working in Britain I Think He's a Jew: The Werewolf's Secret, a video essay by filmmaker Jon Spira (Elstree 1976) about how Landis' film explores Jewish identity The Werewolf's Call, Corin Hardy, director of The Hallow and The Nun, chats with writer Simon Ward about their formative experiences with Landis' film Wares of the Wolf, a featurette in which SFX artist Dan Martin and Tim Lawes of Prop Store look at some of the original costumes and special effects artefacts from the film Beware the Moon, Paul Davis' acclaimed, feature-length exploration of Landis' film which boasts extensive cast and crew interviews An American Werewolf in Bob's Basement and Causing a Disturbance: Piccadilly Revisited, two 2008 featurettes filmed by Paul Davis Making An American Werewolf in London, a short archival featurette on the film's production An Interview with John Landis, a lengthy archival interview with the director about the film Make-up Artist Rick Baker on An American Werewolf in London, the legendary make-up artist discusses his work on the film I Walked with a Werewolf, an archival interview with Rick Baker about Universal horror and its legacy of Wolfman films Casting of the Hand, archival footage from Rick Baker's workshop showing the casting of David Naughton's hand Outtakes Storyboards featurette Original trailer and teaser plus TV and radio spots Extensive image gallery featuring over 200 stills, posters and other ephemera Reversible sleeve featuring original poster art and artwork by Graham Humphreys

• The Young Ones - Series One | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A horrible, vile, disgusting sitcom about four students who live in the most revolting house in Britain", The Young Ones became an instant BBC comedy landmark in 1982 by launching an all-out assault on the moribund sitcom, mixing Monty Python-esque madness with post-punk anarchy. There are no real stories, only a succession of often hysterically funny scenes as ingenious gags collide with deliberately corny lines, cartoon-like ultra-violence, pop music breaks, surreal interludes with characters ranging from the Three Bears to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and gross-out moments based on various bodily functions and substances. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan are the four housemates: Rick (Cliff Richard-worshipping radical sociology student), Vyvan (violence-loving punk medical student), Neil (put-upon suicidal hippie) and Mike (self-styled cool guy). Alexei Sayle appears regularly playing various mad Russians. Taking a cue from National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) the show now seems to anticipate the teen gross-out flicks of the late 1990s but to far more amusing effect. In retrospect The Young Ones is cheerfully un-politically correct in a way which may shock more now than 20 years ago; certainly some of the insults and drug-taking would have trouble getting on TV today. The first series was followed by a second equally hilarious series; Mayall and Edmondson played essentially similar characters in Filthy, Rich and Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991-5). On the DVD: The Young Ones on disc has disappointingly no extra features except optional English subtitles. The sound is full, clear mono and the 4:3 picture is as good as can be expected from a 1980s BBC comedy shot on video and certainly far better than the show appeared when it was broadcast.--Gary S Dalkin

• Filthy, Rich and Catflap - 25th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Showbiz superstar and sex symbol Richie Rich (Mayall), his generally disgusting minder Catflap (Edmondson) and dead drunk agent Ralph Filthy (Planer) are set for all sorts of adventures in this sitcom precursor to 'Bottom'!

• Guest House Paradiso | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Richie and Eddie run Guest House paradiso: possibly the worst hotel in the world.

• The Young Ones - Series 2 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The second and final series of The Young Ones was screened in 1984 and continued in the anarchic, surreal, scatological, slapstick yet subtly satirical vein of the first series. When hippie Neil's blazer and furcoat-clad parents step horrified into the filthy student digs he shares with prissy sociology student Rick (Rik Mayall), the psychotic punk Vyvyan (Ade Edmondson) and wide-boy Mike (Christopher Ryan) a parody of The Good Life promptly ensues, signalling just what a giant leap this show represented from mainstream sitcom of the time. Nigel Planer's put-upon Neil is as fine a creation as the putting-upon Vyvyan. Guest appearances from Alexei Sayle, Stephen Fry, co-writer Ben Elton and Jennifer Saunders among others confirmed The Young Ones' status as an academy for future establishment comedians. But Mayall's creation is still the show's greatest legacy: Rick is self-righteous to the point of fascism in his right-on-ness, a mass of studenty pretentiousness, pathetic inadequacy and egotism ("Hands up who likes me!"). Anything went in The Young Ones--talking hamsters and toilets, bizarre digressions into period sketches, subliminal images, guest appearances by bands from Dexy's Midnight Runners to Motorhead--yet through Rick in particular, the show implicitly mocked shopworn Goodies-style notions of "zaniness" ("You have to watch me, I'm a bit nutty!"). This series includes "Bambi", the University Challenge episode; "Cash", in which Vyvyan announces his pregnancy; and the final show, a parody of Cliff Richard's The Young Ones itself, in which the quartet exit ingloriously. The Young Ones is among the most youthful and radical of all sitcoms, yet it still manages to contain a timelessly astute critique of youthful radicalism--and bottom-burp jokes aplenty. On the DVD: The Young Ones, Series 2 comes to DVD with no extra features. Visually, it's well up to the usual BBC standards but the transfer can't disguise the datedness of some of the early 80s special effects. --David Stubbs

• Man Down - Series 1 | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Greg Davies acclaimed stand-up comedian Mr Gilbert in the hit TV series and film The Inbetweeners and BAFTA-nominated star of Cuckoo writes and stars in this new series which also features 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer winner Roisin Conaty (Impractical Jokers) Rik Mayall (The Young Ones) Deirdre Mullins (Whitechapel) 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Mike Wozniak (Live At The Electric) Gwyneth Powell (Grange Hill) and Jeany Spark (Wallander). This new sitcom introduces Dan (Greg Davies) a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life. Crushing character flaws an unwanted teaching job uniquely dysfunctional friends and a willfully insane Dad conspire to keep this Man Down. Dan’s world is at near collapse his girlfriend Naomi (Deidre Mullins) is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks while his best friends are Jo (Rosin Conaty) who has what can only be described as the loosest of grasp on reality and Brian (Mike Wozniak) a straight-laced financial adviser who is regularly dumbfounded by the complete idiocy of his two friends. To compound matters Dan’s listless teaching career sees him begrudgingly teach a version of the same lesson every day inexplicably popular with all but one of the pupils with his only highlight coming in the form of Miss Lipsey (Jeany Spark) a head mistress who views Dan with a mixture of pity and despair. Tormented daily by his father (Rik Mayall) whose driving motivation in life seems to be to ensure his son is humiliated at every turn not to mention regularly physically attacked does so while keeping it almost completely under the radar of his wife and Dan’s mum (Gwyneth Powell).

• Drop Dead Fred (DVD) | DVD | (29/08/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Her marriage on the rocks, Lizzie Cronin (Phoebe Cates) is forced to return to her domineering mother. In desperation, Lizzie calls upon Fred (Rik Mayall), the imaginary friend of her childhood, to help her through this difficult period. But Fred proves to be more hindrance than help - the effects of his actions are far from imaginary and Lizzie must take the blame.

• CARRY ON COLUMBUS / CARRY ON C | DVD | (05/01/2010) from £9.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wood And Walters - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £7.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (52.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Comedy sketch show from the 80's written and starring Victoria Wood alongside Julie Walters.

• Jonathan Creek - The Clue of the Savant's Thumb | DVD | (06/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's time to dust off the duffle coat as Alan Davies and Sheridan Smith return to star in a brand new Jonathan Creek mystery, involving secret societies, seeming supernatural events at a girls' boarding school and the miraculous disappearance of a body in front of several witnesses. But as Creek and Joey soon discover, there is more to this case than a mere locked-room mystery - what is the link with the baffling red rings which appeared on the foreheads of convent schoolgirls in the 1960's, and the horrifying, ghostly death of a student? And what could explain the repeated appearance of St Barnabas himself to the girls? Something supernatural is hiding in the old convent school grounds, but Creek has an inkling that not all is as it seems. Using his powers of deduction and lateral thinking, Creek races against time to uncover a number of intriguing clues which lead him to the unbelievable truth. Can he once again render the impossible, possible?

• Guest House Paradiso (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £19.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a decade of honing their signature characters, Richie and Eddie, across TV and stage-show appearances, British comedy legends Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (The Comic Strip Presents..., The Young Ones) finally gave the pair the big-screen outing which they truly deserved in the riotous, vomit-soaked entertainment that is Guest House Paradiso. When Mr Nice (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) and his family check in to 'the cheapest hotel in Britain' - run with maximum inefficiency and malfeasance by Richie and Eddie - it sets off an outrageous chain of events involving rubber underwear, a beautiful Italian film star (Hélène Mahieu), her abusive fiancé (Vincent Cassel, Irreversible), and a consignment of radioactive fish. Featuring a spectacular supporting cast, which also includes Fenella Fielding (Carry On Screaming!, Hammer's The Old Dark House) and Bill Nighy (Love Actually), this slapstick tour-de-force is a latter-day classic of disreputable British comedy, which has to be seen to be believed. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration from the original interpositiveOriginal 5.1 surround sound and stereo audio tracksThe Making of 'Guest House Paradiso' (1999): archival documentary featuring interviews with actor, co-writer and director Adrian Edmondson, actor and co-writer Rik Mayall, producer Phil McIntyre, and actors Fenella Fielding, Hélène Mahieu and Simon PeggParadiso Pegg (2023): interview with celebrated actor, writer and comedian Simon Pegg in which he looks back at his time making the filmInterview with Colin Towns (2024): the prolific film and television composer discusses his scoreInterview with Sean Barton (2024): the veteran editor recalls his work on the filmInterview with Tom Brown (2024): the production designer explores the guest house's unique challenges From the Cutting Room Floor (1999): outtakes from the film's productionOriginal theatrical trailersImage gallery: promotional and publicity materialNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingLimited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Jon Robertson, archival articles on the making of the film, and full film creditsUK premiere on Blu-rayLimited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• Bottom - Live 2001 | DVD | (18/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You laughed at their antics in 'The Young Ones'. You loved them as the Dangerous Brothers. You enjoyed their gross-out humour as Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler in 'Bottom' on the telly. Then it got even better when they took their 'Bottom' show on the road - live with loads of improvised moments of hilarity. Now it's Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in their biggest ever tour - 'Bottom Live 4'. This is the recorded version of their most recent show entitled '2001 - An Arse Oddity'.

• Bottom - The Complete Bottom - Series 2 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  They're two revolting sad pervies... and they're back! Adrian Edmondson and Rick Mayall return in their anarchic black comedy series about sub-culture lifestyles of two repellent flatmates. Living in a grubby flat with only a worn out TV for entertainment they only seek to enjoy themselves. However for these two no-hopers even a trip to the fairground or the local pub ends in disaster. Six horrible episodes (the whole of Series Two) of sad depravity including: Digger:

• Bottom - The Big Number 2 Tour - Live | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Bottom - Live - The Stage Show | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99