Comedy

• Micky Flanagan: Peeping Behind the Curtain | DVD | (07/06/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Very Best Of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads (Box Set) | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £28.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (3.49%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the best British sitcoms of all-time The Likely Lads focuses on the friendship between two working-class men James Bolam and Rodney Bewes living in the north east of England. Bob (Bewes) is the 'sensible' one doing his best to get on with his job and 'better' himself. Terry (Bolam) is the 'irresponsible' one intent on living life to the full. He's forever getting himself (and Terry) into trouble of one kind or another... Several Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais re

• Never the Twain: The Complete Series | DVD | (21/10/2019) from £41.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Donald Sinden and Windsor Davies as two curmudgeonly antique dealers, Never the Twain rapidly became one of Thames Television's most popular comedies. Created by sitcom legend Johnnie Mortimer who, with Brian Cooke, created Father Dear Father, Man About the House and George and Mildred this classic comedy was a constant favourite with the viewers throughout its whopping ten year run. Showcasing guest appearances by Honor Blackman, Gabrielle Drake, Barbara Murray, Prunella Scales and Christopher Ellison, this set contains all eleven series and the 1989 Christmas special. Simon Peel and Oliver Smallbridge are not the easiest of neighbours. Simon is a blue blooded Oxbridge snob while Oliver is a former barrowboy with a chip on his shoulder the only thing they have in common is a willingness to stoop to endless lengths to do the other down. But when Simon's son and Oliver's daughter begin to show more than a passing interest in each other, what was a mutual cold war rapidly turns into something decidedly hotter!

• Drop Dead Fred | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.86   |  Saving you £5.13 (105.56%)   |  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 £11.69   |  Saving you £28.30 (242.09%)   |  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

• Beetlejuice | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What's a young ghost couple to do when their quaint New England home is overturn by trendy New Yorkers? They hire a freelance bio-exorcist to spook the intruders. And everyone gets more than he she or it bargained for! Alec Baldwin Geena Davis Winona Ryder and Sylvia Sidney share starring honours with the movie's wondrous production design Harry Belafonte soundtrack tunes and Academy Award winning Best Makeup. So exorcise your right to fun. Say the word three times and have a wonderful Day-O!

• The Simpsons: Complete Season 4 | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £19.47   |  Saving you £20.52 (105.39%)   |  RRP £39.99

  By its fourth series, The Simpsons had come far enough for Lisa to make a self-referential joke about Dustin Hoffman's and Michael Jackson's pseudonymous guest voice appearances in series 2 and 3, respectively. In this series, no less than Elizabeth Taylor (in two episodes), Bette Midler and even the reclusive Johnny Carson blessed The Simpsons with their iconic presences. Awhile back, US magazine Entertainment Weekly ranked the top 25 Simpsons episodes. Five gems from series 4 cracked the top 12, including the (debatable) choice for No. 1, "Last Exit to Springfield". Other episodes that loom large in the Simpsons legend are "Mr Plow" (you know the jingle: "Call Mr Plow / That's my name / That name again is Mr Plow"), "Marge vs. the Monorail", featuring a Music-Man-style extravaganza, and "A Streetcar Named Marge", the episode that outraged New Orleans residents, who heard their fair metropolis referred to as "a city that the damned call home". The Simpsons smartly subverts traditional family sitcom convention, but anyone who thinks the show doesn't have a heart is advised to watch "I Love Lisa" and "New Kid on the Block", two fourth-series gems that absolutely nail the agony and ecstasy of unrequited crushes ("You won't be needing this", a heartbroken Bart fantasises his babysitter saying while dropkicking his heart into a wastebasket in "New Kid"). While the Simpsons' celebrated ensemble gets all the glory, we must pause now to praise the peerless writing staff, among them George Meyer, Al Jean, Jon Vitti, John Swartzwelder, David Silverman and Conan O'Brien. One can only marvel in astonishment at the alchemy that went into creating, week after week, such essential episodes as "Kamp Krusty", "Streetcar", the profane and profound "Homer the Heretic" and "Lisa the Beauty Queen" (and that's just disc 1!). The animators, too, rose to the occasion, particularly in "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", with its dead-on, ultra-violent sinking of the seminal Disney cartoon "Steamboat Willie". Another benchmark in The Simpsons' rise to the TV pantheon is its very first clip show. What Homer says about donuts in "Monorail" holds true as well for The Simpsons itself: is there anything this show can't do? --Donald Liebenson

• Blackadder Remastered - The Ultimate Edition | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £14.55   |  Saving you £-1.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.47

  Like a skidmark through history the Edmund Blackadders left an indelible dirty stain on every era they passed through. No one knows where the notorious Blackadder family originated from - some say the shallow end of the gene pool others just nod and point to the cess-pit behind the pig-sheds. Every new era produces a more contemptuous Edmund Blackadder each incarnation bearing a striking resemblance to the last carrying forward the family traditions of cowardice treachery and political corruption. Accompanying each generation of Edmund Blackadders is the 'Baldrick' family a loyal breed of human pack-animal and the byword for all things stupid.

• The Secret Of My Success | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £24.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Derivative fluff from 1987, The Secret of My Success is made tolerable by its bawdy exuberance and an appealing performance by Michael J Fox, who was still enjoying TV stardom and the career momentum he earned by travelling Back to the Future. Here he plays a Kansas farm boy who dreams of scoring big in New York City... but reality turns out to be brutal to his ambition. When his uncle (Richard Jordan) gives him a mail-room job in the high-rise headquarters of a major corporation, Fox occupies an empty office and poses as a young executive, winning the attention of a lovely young colleague (Helen Slater) and having an affair with his boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). Sporadically amusing as a yuppie comedy and rather off-putting as a wannabe sex farce, the film's still recommendable for its lively cast and a breezy style that almost succeeds in updating the conventions of vintage screwball comedy. Whitton is a standout performer here, so you may wonder why her comedic talent has been underrated, apart from a good role in the first two Major League movies. This may be little more than a big-screen sitcom, but it's not without its charms. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Disney Pixar's Elio 4K Ultra HD/BD steelbook | Blu Ray | (06/10/2025) from £29.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Girls Trip (DVD + Digital Download) | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £4.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hilarious comedy starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, Regina Hall and Kate Walsh. When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

• The Terry Thomas Movie Collection | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £14.96   |  Saving you £-4.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.89

  The three films in this Terry Thomas Collection--The Naked Truth, Too Many Crooks and Make Mine Mink--are each an unalloyed delight from beginning to end. Though produced on slim budgets they possess witty scripts by Michael Pertwee, deft direction in two instances by Mario Zampi, inventive music scores and marvellous casts featuring two generations of British actors, from Athene Seyler to a young Kenneth Williams. Individually and as an ensemble these players are a pleasure to watch. But of course Terry Thomas, the catalyst of the collection, runs the gamut with a plethora of facial expressions, body language and verbal repartee that contribute so much to the unbuttoned joy of each film. In the earliest of them, The Naked Truth (1957), TT plays a dodgy peer of the realm being blackmailed in the company of Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount and Shirley Eaton by a gutter press journalist, Dennis Price ("Don't try to appeal to my better nature, because I haven't one"). The moments of slapstick are brought off to a tee as when the larger-than-life Peggy Mount attempts a suicide drop from her window to be saved by an awning on a shop front. Too Many Crooks (1959) has TT being blackmailed once again, this time for the hoards he's stashed away as a renowned tax dodger. Look out for the very funny court scene, where TT makes three appearances on separate charges, before a bemused magistrate, John Le Mesurier. Make Mine Mink (1960), the odd one out in this collection, was adapted from a West End stage farce, Breath of Spring. TT leads a gang of middle-aged biddies who decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life", by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. The splendid cast includes Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams. On the DVD: The Terry Thomas Collection comes in an attractive box containing the three discs. All are 4:3 ratio and with mono sound. The only extras are a trailer for each film which, in the instance of Make Mine Mink, is introduced by Terry Thomas himself, who presents us to his gang of fur thieves as the voice on the soundtrack announces him as "fur, fur funnier than you've seen him before". --Adrian Edwards

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £3.23   |  Saving you £16.76 (518.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A group of British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you begin to let go of the past. From the Director of Shakespeare In Love and featuring an all-star British cast, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a charming, life affirming comedy drama about life, love and new beginnings...

• 17 Again | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "17 Again" offers the question; what if you could go back and do things a little differently? Well, a man heading nowhere fast wishes exactly that and one morning wakes up as his 17-years-old self with a chance at rewriting history!

• It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Series 1 - 8 Box Set | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £14.65   |  Saving you £0.34 (2.32%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fall In!...for a feast of classic fun as the boys from the concert party parade their special brand of army camp. This classic BBC comedy series stars the members of the Royal Artillery Concert Party including Gunner 'Gloria' Beaumont (Melvyn Hayes) Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden (Don Estelle) and 'La De Da' Gunner Graham (John Clegg) all under the watchful eye of Sergeant Major 'SHUUUT UUUUP' Williams (Windsor Davies).

• Chewin' The Fat | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.65   |  Saving you £13.34 (200.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  All your favourites from the smash-hit sketch show together on one disc for the first time ever. Classic antics featuring Ronald Villiers Scotland's best-loved but worst actor steamy recollections from Betty (the OAP with the XXX love life) and a glimpse of Jack and Victor when they were young(er) and still game for a sing-song. Plus don't forget the Big Man the Banter Boys News for Neds Ballistic Bob Bish and Bosh the painter n' decorators the Lonely Shopkeeper and the Invi

• Legally Blonde/Legally Blonde 2/Legally Blondes | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Legally Blonde: Reese Witherspoon gives a glittering performance as Elle Woods, the natural blonde sorority queen who enrolls at Harvard Law School. Expecting her boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis) to propose, Elle is mortified when instead he says he needs somebody serious as his wife. When Elle discovers Warner's brother is engaged to a law student, she discovers enrolling at Harvard might be the way to prove she is serious. She studies for the LSATs, submits a video ess...

• Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As the private eye of private eyes, Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He s tough, rough and ready to take anything when Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheese-maker 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, etc, Reardon gets his man. An exciting, action-packed film the way 40s films used to be!

• Man About the House - Complete Box Set | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £21.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Chrissy and Jo share a bedsit flat at 6 Myddleton Terrace in the Earls Court district of London. The morning after a farewell party for a third (female) flatmate and in sore need of the extra financial contribution they prepare to start looking for her replacement. Unbeknownst to them asleep in the bath after drinking too much of an appalling concoction they called punch is Robin Tripp the friend of a friend of a friend of a friend and a catering student to boot. Since he can cook they invite him to become the third flatmate offering him the spare bedroom and warning him to keep out of theirs.

• Secretary | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £5.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A powerful and very unique love story, which tells with bold, unflinching humour of the sadomasochistic love affair between a troubled young woman and her domineering boss.