Comedy

• Boogie Nights | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.58%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson

• Russell Brand - Scandalous - Live At The 02 | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £4.19   |  Saving you £15.80 (79.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed in front of 16 000 at London's O2 the most thrilling comedian of his generation delivers his first live DVD for two years. With 80 minutes of blistering boundry-pushing stand-up featuring Brand's first hand experience of hosting the MTV Video Music Awards his rise to Hollywood fame sexual notoriety and the media storm around 'Sachsgate'.

• Riding In Cars With Boys | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drew Barrymore stars in the true life tale of a teen mother who overcame all sorts of hardships and went on to become a succesful writer in later life.

• Paul | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy sci-fi Paul as two geeks whose pilgrimage to America's UFO heartland brings them face-to-face with the titular alien.

• Johnny English - Fully Loaded Edition | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £2.86   |  Saving you £7.13 (249.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He knows no fear. He knows no danger. He knows nothing!Bumbling British intelligence officer Johnny English has to step into the breach when all his fellow agents are suddenly bumped off. With the machinations of mysterious millionaire Pascal Sauvage becoming increasingly threatening, it's up to Johnny to save the crown jewels and the very fate of the Royal family!

• Back to Life - Series 2 | DVD | (25/10/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's three weeks after the friendship-shattering revelations of Series 1, and Miri Matteson has retained her determination to live her life after coming out of prison and returning to her childhood home in Hythe. She's got a trial shift at the supermarket; she and her neighbour Billy are going for a not-date-date and a flat of her own is in her sights. But not only must Miri cope with the fact that her mother, Caroline, and ex-boyfriend, DOM, were until recently having an affair, she has to try and avoid Mandy, her ex-best friend. Miri is finding it hard to forgive Mandy for hiding the truth behind the events that led to Lara's death, and put Miri behind bars for 18 years. And Miri's desire to put the past firmly in her rear-view mirror is about to be seriously challenged by the return of Lara's father, Mr Boback. Meanwhile, Caroline and Oscar realise that forgiveness is easier said than done, and that Miri could be the main thing they have in common. Series 2 sees Miri continue to be hounded by her past but maintain her optimism about her future in the face of awkward encounters, challenging life admin and a man intent on revenge. Staring Daisy Haggard, Adeel Akhtar, Geraldine James, Richard Durden & Jamie Michie

• What Happens In Vegas | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £14.61 (73.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two strangers find themselves married in Vegas and hitting the jackpot! Through their constant bickering the two find themselves coming closer together.

• Three Men In A Boat/Three Men In Another Boat | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £16.34   |  Saving you £3.65 (22.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

• South Park - Season 4 | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £20.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (21.02%)   |  RRP £24.99

  ""Special"" people in wheelchairs! Contorting Quintuplets! And the making of a Boy Band! See the boys discover all-new four-letter words in the all-new South Park Season 4 box set. Includes all 17 classic episodes from South Park's legendary fourth season available for the first time in this exclusive 3 disc collection.

• Roy Chubby Brown - The Good, The Bad And The Fat Bastard | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rest assured Chubby's still the crudest and rudest comedian on the circuit. Watch him 'shooting out the gags' live from The Forum Theatre Teesside filmed on his 2007 nationwide tour. Enjoy Chubby's unique take and review of Brokeback Mountain and him tackling such subjects as dealing with crocodiles! One things for certain he's still the worlds most outrageous and extravagant comedian out there.

• The Animal | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £8.96   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This comedy stars Rob Schneider ("Deuce Bigalow")as a police cadet who, after nearly dying in a car accident while driving through a remote area, is rescued by a strange beast who performs surgery on him in a barn, using animal parts as transplants.

• He Snoops to Conquer | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £3.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (203.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Fomby is joined by Robertson Hare in this fabulous 194s British Musical comedy, available for the very first time on DVD. The war is over and it's time to build a better Britain - but not if the crooks on Tangleton Town Council have their way! Knocking down Tangleton's slums will ruin their business interests. When Council tea boy George Gribble (George Formby) is employed to go door-to-door filing in a council survey, he uncovers just how poor and unhappy the townspeople are - and the Council have to bury the results. He also gets to meet the eccentric and reclusive inventor Sir Timothy Stawbridge (Robertson Hare) - a meeting that results in wanton destruction with a mechanised road sweeper, a spot of house breaking and a furious police chase! When news gets out that the survey has been hushed up, the townspeople want George's blood - and the only way he can set things right is to team up with Sir Timothy's beautiful daughter and take on all the bigwigs from the council!

• O.C. and Stiggs (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/07/2023) from £18.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• How To Irritate People | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Anyone can make themselves unpopular - but it takes a past master like John Cleese to be really irritating. The secret he says is to let the other person believe it's all totally unintentional - and that's the first of many tricks of the trade he gives away in How To Irritate People. With the help of fellow Python cohorts Michael Palin and Graham Chapman Connie Booth from Fawlty Towers and Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor Cleese demonstrates the uncanny ability to keep his victims just the right temperature under the collar...one degree below boiling point! Recorded live in front of a thoroughly irritated audience and including the famed 'Airline Pilot' sketch How To Irritate People is a lesser known classic of British comedy.

• The Wedding Tackle | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Harking back to the wilderness days of British cinema, The Wedding Tackle is an unsophisticated comedy of manners and relationships. Dealing with the impending matrimony of Hal and Vinny, a union that neither are particularly keen to enter into, the story intertwines a number of characters during the events of Hal's stag night. As the title suggests, much of the humour is aimed below the waist, and although it does wend its way to some sort of romantic conclusion, subtlety is not the film's strong point. Victoria Smurfit's Clodegh is by far the best character, an urban Tank Girl whose morals are as erratic as her driving skills. Bold, brash and noisy, The Wedding Tackle isn't the worst film around, but we can do so much better. --Phil Udell

• One Foot In The Grave - Series 4 | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £5.22   |  Saving you £12.03 (303.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""I don't believe it!"" yet more One Foot In The Grave featuring the famously impatient Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) and his long-suffering wife Margaret (Annette Crosby). Retirement isn't the walk in the park he thought it would be! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Pit and the Pendulum 2. Descent into the Maelstorm 3. Hearts of Darkness 4. Warm Champagne 5. The Trial 6. The Seceret of Seven Sorcerers

• I Capture The Castle | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £13.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (28.59%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.

• Gavin And Stacey - 2008 Christmas Special | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (60.12%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay in Essex Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island in South Wales. After months of speaking on the phone to each other at work they finally meet fall in love and get married.

• Fat Friends - Series 3 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kay Mellor's comedy drama series following a collection of characters whose personal life struggles are relayed to each other during their weekly slimming class... Episodes comprise: 1. Eat Your Heart Out 2. Leggs Over Easy 3. Food For Thought 4. Bacon Bagels And The Bishop 5. Afters 6. Food Of Love

• Surviving Christmas with the Relatives | DVD | (11/11/2019) from £5.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two sisters and their families spend - or rather, endure - Christmas at their late parents' dilapidated country house.