Comedy

• Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story | Blu Ray | (15/09/2008) from £10.75   |  Saving you £9.23 (85.86%)   |  RRP £19.98

  Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller dodge speeding balls in this comedy about an underdog local gym fighting off a takeover from a mammoth chain.

• She's All That | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £4.69   |  Saving you £11.30 (240.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  She's All That is a witty and charming romantic comedy set in the capricious world of a trendy Los Angles High School.

• The Comedians - Series 1-7 - Complete | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £11.99   |  Saving you £40.00 (400.40%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The quintessential quickfire stand-up comedy show The Comedians is one of the great successes of ITV1 - lasting from 1971 until 1993 and making household names of many of its stars. With routines that were honed to perfection in the hard-knock territory of Northern working men's clubs Frank Carson Charlie Williams Bernard Manning Colin Crompton and Ken Goodwin all became masters of the one-liner and the knowing wink. The Comedians was immediately popular with the viewing public scoring high ratings and gaining a BAFTA nomination for Best Light Entertainment Programme. It lasted for eleven series and several specials over twenty-two years. This specially-created compilation from its early years contains some of the best moments from series one.

• Everybody Loves Raymond - Series 5 | DVD | (07/03/2006) from £8.65   |  Saving you £27.34 (316.07%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Ray Barone seemingly has it all. A wonderful wife a beautiful family a great job a nice house on Long Island. There's only one problem...His obnoxious parents (who live across the street) and his jealous brother are always getting in the way! The complete fifth season of HBO's award winning comedy Everybody Loves Raymond. Episodes comprise: 1. Italy (Part 1) 2. Italy (Part 2) 3. The Wallpaper 4. Meant To Be 5. Pet Cemetary 6. The Author 7. The Walk To The Door 8. Yo

• The Darjeeling Limited | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Director Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other - to become brothers again like they used to be. Their spiritual quest however veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers Indian cough syrup and pepper spray) and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases a printer and a laminating machine. At this moment a new unplanned journey suddenly begins. Owen Wilson Oscar Winner Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman star in this film about their adventure and their friendship.

• Extras - The Christmas Specials | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £5.07   |  Saving you £14.92 (294.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As Andy's celebrity rises Maggie's life is in freefall. But is life at the top any better than it is at the bottom? Will Andy get respect as a serious actor and break free from the albatross that is the catchphrase hell of his sitcom character Ray? Or should he just settle for playing a giant slug in Doctor Who? Sit back and enjoy both Christmas specials that had the nation glued to their screens featuring the usual cavalcade of celebrity cameos in this hilarious and often touching rumination of the cult of fame.

• Black Books - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second series of Black Books somehow succeeded in being even further off the wall than the first. A larger team of writers no doubt helped, but Dylan Moran's greater input clearly shows. His Bernard Black doesn't get the best lines (that honour is always Bill Bailey's), but he definitely gets the best visual gags: a wine-bottle ice lolly, a dinner jacket made from tax receipts and a talent for the piano that defies logic. Aided by the hapless Fran (Tamsin Greig), the bookshop boys survive plenty of adventures, such as a touch of Dave's Syndrome, transforming into a restaurant, falling in love and even a few molluscs on the walls. Guest actors are all aware that they need to be at their funniest in order to register amid the madness: Johnny Vegas is the perfect slimy landlord, Jessica Stevenson revels in being the ultimate health-fad flake and Rob Brydon is terrific in his office-boss cameo. All this series lacks is any sense of closure for the characters, which, without the prospect of a third series, is a terrible tease. --Paul Tonks

• Carry On: Collection 1 | Blu Ray | (18/11/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Lavender Hill Mob (60th Anniversary Edition) | Blu Ray | (01/08/2011) from £11.99   |  Saving you £10.99 (122.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Charles Crichton, who would much later direct John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda (1988), 1951's The Lavender Hill Mob is the most ruefully thrilling of the Ealing Comedies. Alec Guinness plays a bowler-hatted escort of bullion to the refineries. His seeming timidity, weak 'r's and punctiliousness mask a typically Guinness-like patient cunning. "I was aware I was widiculed but that was pwecisely the effect I was stwiving to achieve". He's actually plotting a heist. With more conventionally cockney villains Sid James and Alfie Bass in tow, as well as the respectable but ruined Stanley Holloway, Guinness' perfect criminal plan works in exquisite detail, then unravels just as exquisitely, culminating in a nail-biting police car chase in which you can't help rooting for the villains. The Lavender Hill Mob depicts a London still up to its knees in rubble from World War II, a world of new hope but continued austerity, a budding new order in which everything seems up for grabs; as such it could be regarded as a lighter hearted cinematic cousin to Carol Reed's 1949 masterpiece The Third Man. The Lavender Hill Mob also sees the first, fleeting on-screen appearance of Audrey Hepburn in the opening sequence. --David Stubbs

• Ticket to Paradise | Blu Ray | (12/12/2022) from £9.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award® winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the big screen as exes who find themselves on a shared mission to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made. From Working Title, Smokehouse Pictures and Red Om Films, Ticket to Paradise is a romantic comedy about the sweet surprise of second chances.

• Only Fools And Horses - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Regularly touted as one of the best British sitcoms ever, Only Fools and Horses kicked off in 1981 when mobile phones were the size of bricks and wine bars were the ultimate places to hang out. The formula was simple enough: Cockney wideboy Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (brilliantly played by David Jason) dreams of better things for himself while sharing a cramped council flat in the nicely named Peckham tower block Nelson Mandela House with his unworldly brother Rodney and his sweet but doddery old grandad. Trouble is, Del's endless money-making schemes (such as his attempt to flog a consignment of one-legged turkeys, or his plan to sell bottled tap water under the label "Peckham Spring") inevitably backfire, like the beat-up old Robin Reliant van he uses to cart around all this faulty gear in. Created by John Sullivan, who also sings the very catchy theme tune, Only Fools and Horses is a wonderful mix of dodgy but loveable characters (such as Del Boy's dimwit friend Trigger), knockabout slapstick (no-one falls down with as much comedic grace as Jason) and brilliantly crafted dialogue. Sadly, Leonard Pierce, who played Grandad, died in 1983 (his armchair in the Trotter household was filled in 1985 by Buster Merryfield as Uncle Albert, an old merchant seaman who used to bore Del and Rodney with tales of his war days). The show ran to seven series and ended with characteristic warmth in 1991, when Del Boy became a father; but the Trotters made occasional returns to the small screens with six hugely popular one-off Christmas specials. This, as Del Boy himself might say, is "lovely jubbly". --Edward Lawrenson

• About Last Night | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  For better or worse, David Mamet's hit play Sexual Perversity in Chicago is watered down into this romantic comedy about a couple (played by Rob Lowe and Demi Moore) who get together and then fall apart due to Lowe's character's inability to commit. Jim Belushi is on hand as the gratuitously swinish best friend who looks at women as meat, and Elizabeth Perkins is entertainingly arch as Moore's gal pal and Belushi's nemesis. There is nothing about this 1986 film by Edward Zwick (co-creator of TV's thirtysomething and director of Glory and Courage Under Fire) that is at all reminiscent of Mamet, but that doesn't make it bad or dull. While one can feel the script straining to fill in gaps where chunks of the original play have disappeared, Zwick often successfully tells the story without words at all, relying on the actors to convey pure emotion. Lowe is good, and the then-willowy Moore's understated performance reminds one of the actress she might have been before she became a spectacle. --Tom Keogh

• Only Fools And Horses - All The Best - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £4.46   |  Saving you £12.79 (399.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The first installment of the best episodes from Series 1-7 featuring 'Big Brother' 'The Russians Are Coming' 'A Losing Streak' 'No Greater Love' and 'A Touch Of Glass'.

• Bread - Series 3 And 4 | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £20.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (53.06%)   |  RRP £31.99

  Welcome to Liverpool at the height of Thatcher's reign where you had to be resourceful to survive. Just like the Boswells. They always knew how to work the system. And in the centre of this large Catholic family is matriarch Nellie Boswell (Jean Boht) surrounded by her sons Joey Jack Adrian and Billy and daughter Aveline while her husband Freddie is rarely to be seen. With Grandad next door Billy's Julie and their Francesca over the road and ""that tart"" Lilo Lil always in the ba

• Get Him to the Greek - Extended Party Edition | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Get Him to the Greek reunites Jonah Hill and Russell Brand with Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller in a story of a record company executive with three days to drag an uncooperative rock legend to Hollywood for a comeback concert. The comedy is the latest film from producer Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin Knocked Up Funny People). Aaron Green (Hill) gets things done. The ambitious 24-year-old has been given a career-making assignment. His mission: Fly to London and escort a rock god to L.A.'s world famous Greek Theatre for the first-stop on a huge comeback tour. His record mogul boss Sergio Roma (Sean Combs) gives him one warning: The artist is the worst person on Earth. Turn your back on him at your own peril. British Rocker Aldous Snow (Brand) is a brilliant musician but due to a bad break up and nose-diving career has fallen off the wagon and is now a drunken disaster. Weary of yes men and scared he's entering the greatest hits moment in his career Snow's in the midst of a nihilistic downward spiral. When he learns his true love model/pop star Jackie Q (Rose Byrne) is in L.A. Aldous makes it his quest to win her back... right before kick-starting his world domination. As the countdown to the concert begins one innocent young man must navigate a minefield of London drug smuggles New York City brawls and Vegas lap dances to deliver his charge safe and sort of sound...all while trying to remain faithful to his med student girlfriend (Elizabeth Moss). He may have to coax lie to enable and party with Aldous but Aaron will get him to the Greek.

• Mr Bean: Series 1, Volume 2 (20th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Five episodes of the Live TV Series of Mr Bean including: Mr. Bean Rides Again Merry Christmas Mr. Bean Mr. Bean in Room 426 Mind The Baby Mr. Bean Do It Yourself Mr. Bean

• Secrets And Lies (Wide Screen) | DVD | (16/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  If a film fan had never heard of director Mike Leigh, one might explain him as a British Woody Allen. Not that Leighs films are whimsical or neurotic; they are tough-love examinations of British life--funny, outlandish and biting. His films share a real immediacy with Allens work: they feel as if they are happening now. Leigh works with actors--real actors--on ideas and language. There is no script at the start (and sometimes not at the end). Secrets and Lies involves Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), an elegant black woman wanting to learn her birth mothers identity. She will find its Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), who is one of the saddest creatures weve seen in film. Shes also one of the most real and, ultimately, one of the most loveable. Timothy Spall is Cynthias brother, a giant man full of love who is being slowly defeated by his fastidious wife (Phyllis Logan). There is a great exuberance of life in Secrets & Lies, winner of the Palme DOr and best actress (Blethyn) at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival--not Zorba-type life but the little battles fought and won every day. Leighs honest interpretation of daily life is usually found only on the stage. Secrets & Lies is more realistic than a stage production, however, especially when Leigh shows us uninterrupted scenes. Critic David Denby states that Leigh has "made an Ingmar Bergman film without an instant of heaviness or pretension." If that sounds like your cup of tea, see Secrets & Lies. --Doug Thomas

• Rock Star | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £15.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Mark Wahlberg stars in the tale of the lead singer in a heavy metal tribute band who is recruited by his idols to replace their departed frontman!

• King Of Queens - Series 6 | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £10.00   |  Saving you £24.99 (71.40%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Kevin James continues to deliver the laughs as parcel deliveryman Doug Heffernan in the sixth hysterical season of The King Of Queens.

• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As the private eye of private eyes Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father a noted scientist philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Burt Lancaster Humphrey Bogart Charles Laughton