Comedy

• Lee Evans Roadrunner Live at The O2 - Triple Play | Blu Ray | (21/11/2011) from £6.44   |  Saving you £20.55 (319.10%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Wired And Wonderful was huge... XL was big... Big was even bigger... now the legendary Lee Evans embarks on his most ambitious tour to date.Roadrunner is Lee's amazing new show with over 60 nights in the biggest arenas in the country. Lee will be playing to more fans than ever on this record- breaking tour of the UK and Ireland in 2011 with the show filmed for DVD during his 5 nights at the 02.

• Knowing Me, Knowing You/Knowing Me, Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ah-Ha! In 1995 Norwich's most famous son Alan Partridge made the transition from radio to TV with Knowing Me, Knowing You, a chat-show so wholly misunderstood that one clever-clog TV critic described it as "moribund". By way of rebuttal, just consider Alan's parade of fantastic guests, including a hypnotist who persuades Alan that he's an owl; a US pop diva with whom Alan shares a memorable Abba duet that happens to be in all the wrong keys for him; raunchy male dance-act Hot Pants; Cirque des Clowns, whose extreme violence upsets Alan; and, most exciting of all, Roger Moore (via mobile phone from a traffic jam on the Chiswick roundabout). Steve Coogan's creation fell on hard times later--as chronicled in the magnificent I'm Alan Partridge Series 1 and Series 2--but here he's revelling in his prime-time exposure with no thought of becoming "clinically sad" or gorging on Toblerone bars. Co-writers Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber lovingly recreate everything that's fake and contrived about the whole chat-show genre: the shameless plugging, the recalcitrant celebs, the novelty acts and, most of all, the insufferably smug host oblivious to his own tediousness. Coogan's regular guests are ably played by some faces familiar from The Day Today: Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, David Schneider and Patrick Marber himself. Other game guest stars are John Thomson (as a naval officer also called Alan Partridge) and Minnie Driver (as a transsexual agony aunt), not forgetting Steve Brown as disconcertingly gay music director Glen Ponder. The high-water mark of Alan's career arrived with his Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule in which his own living room was lovingly recreated at Television Centre. Unfortunately, and despite the presence of Mick Hucknall, the new Chief Commissioning Editor of BBC TV, Tony Hayers, is deeply unimpressed with the show and gets punched in the face by Alan, who, it turns out, is handy with a turkey. On that bombshell, Alan's career took a downward turn. On the DVD: Knowing Me, Knowing You is a two-disc set including all six episodes and the Christmas special. There's a group commentary throughout with contributions from Armando Iannucci plus Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Steve Brown and Dave Schneider speaking in and out of character. Other extras include the original pilot show, Alan on Comic Relief, Alan's rural rambles, his TV trailers, plus stills and cast biographies. --Mark Walker

• Men And Chicken | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Upon their father s passing Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) and Gabriel (David Dencik) are shocked to find out that they are adopted. Despite their differences and dislike for one another, Elias and Gabriel grudgingly decide to seek out their natural father and set out to the remote island where he lives. Meanwhile, a surprise awaits Elias and Gabriel there. Surrounded by the island s many odd personalities, Elias and Gabriel discover a most paralysing, yet liberating truth about themselves and their family.

• Gavin & Stacey : Complete BBC Series 2 | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £2.91   |  Saving you £3.08 (105.84%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Following triple success at the British Comedy Awards and triumph at The South Bank Show Awards Gavin & Stacey the critically acclaimed comedy written by James Corden and Ruth Jones returns for a second series.

• The Story of Only Fools and Horses | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £4.03   |  Saving you £11.96 (296.77%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's been emotional. It's been gripping. But most of all it's been completely hilarious. 21 years after first appearing on our screens audiences (which have reached 24 million) are still devoted to the antics of Del and Rodney and their muckers. But what is it about this Peckham posse that makes their marketplace wheelings and dealings so endearing to generations? Who would know better than the show's writer and the cast..? For the first time ever John Sullivan David Jason Nich

• The Actors | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two struggling, rather eccentric actors Tom (Dylan Moran) and O'Malley (Michael Caine) prove the little known adage that bad actors make great crooks.

• Money Talks | DVD | (17/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This formulaic 1997 comedy becomes needlessly complicated at points but feeds off the high energy of Chris Tucker (The Fifth Element, Rush Hour). Tucker plays a two-bit con man, Franklin Hatchett, framed for the prison breakout of a ruthless criminal. Hunted by both the police and the bad guys, Hatchett finds his only hope in a smarmy, self-serving television reporter played by the perfectly cast Charlie Sheen (Platoon), who agrees to protect the nervous, hapless patsy only to further his own career. The plot of Money Talks is at times just plain dumb, and the requisite car chases and explosions happen a bit too frequently. But Tucker's manic energy and off-the-wall humour, as he is thrown into situations of mistaken identity and mortal danger, make the movie a frenetic and entertaining romp. --Robert Lane

• Alan Partridge - I'm Alan Partridge - Episodes 1 To 6 | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £5.94   |  Saving you £17.04 (577.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I'm Alan Partridge finds Steve Coogan's media creation back in his native Norwich, having lost his beloved chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and now reduced to the pre-Breakfast slot playing old T'Pau and Soft Cell singles to an audience of farmers and all-night bakery workers. He's also lodged at the Linton Travel tavern, whose permanently smiling manageress, bland decor and themed buffets are redolent of what vast tracts of England have become. He's very much at home there. While there's much media satire in Partridge's pitiful pitches of programme ideas to the BBC ("Inner city sumo? Monkey tennis?"), I'm Alan Partridge is more a bleakly hilarious take on Modern Middle English Man, irascible and profoundly bored. Between innumerable moments of high, wild comedy, such as a disastrous video Partridge does for a boating agency and an encounter with his one (insane) fan, the most telling moments of the series come with his efforts to fill his dismally empty days, taking a trouser press to pieces, staring at the astro turf at an owl sanctuary or walking to a service station to buy windscreen cleaning fluid just for something to do. All this proved a little too darkly uncomfortable for mainstream audiences--yet Alan Partridge was probably the finest British comic creation of the 1990s. --David Stubbs

• Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £5.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (117.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Voted the top comedian of 2009 by Humor Mill Magazine, Kevin Hart stars in his second solo stand-up performance live from Cleveland, Ohio. Seriously Funny features Kevin Hart performing in front of a sold-out crowd at the Allen Theater. In this unforgettable night of comedy, Kevin Hart is in rare form and funny as ever!

• Status update | DVD | (04/06/2018) from £4.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From producers Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot (17 Again, the Step Up Franchise, and Hairspray) comes a timeless story for the millennial generation. When Kyle (Ross Lynch), a social outcast, happens upon a magical phone app that causes anything he posts to come true, he uses it to create his idea of the perfect life. He even wins the affection of the two most beautiful girls in school, Dani (Olivia Holt) and Charlotte (Courtney Eaton). However, he soon learns that the life he created is far from perfect, and that being yourself, imperfections and all, is the only way to find true happiness in life. Starring Ross Lynch (Austin & Ally), Olivia Holt (I Didn t Do It), Harvey Gullien (The Thundermans), Courtney Eaton (Mad Max: Fury Road), Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids), John Michael Higgins (Pitch Perfect) Rob Riggle (Modern Family), Famke Janssen (X-Men), Josh Ostrovsky (Nerve). Status Update is directed by Scott Speer.

• Carry On Cleo | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (183.64%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ninth entry in the Carry On series. Ancient British slaves save Caesar (Kenneth Williams) from assassination in Rome 50 B.C. Meanwhile Mark Antony (Sid James) romances Egyptian Empress Cleopatra (Amanda Barrie). Revolting Britons include Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey while Warren Mitchell plays a partner in the slave-trading firm Markus & Spencius.

• The Talk Of The Town | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £15.20   |  Saving you £-2.21 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A condemned murderer eager to prove his innocence stages a spectacular escape from prison. Injured in the breakout he hides out at a friend's house disguised as the gardener. His only chance rests with a Supreme Court candidate who is renting the house for the summer. But all hopes are dashed when he refuses to help.

• Old School | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three friends are disenchanted with life and try to recapture the chaos of their college days by moving in together.

• Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £5.31   |  Saving you £14.68 (276.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo" marks the triumphant return of two hilarious, slacker anti-heroes.

• Chris Rock - Never Scared | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £4.19   |  Saving you £11.80 (73.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stand up has never been this dangerous! Chris Rock winner of 3 Emmy awards stars in this solo stand up special filmed at Washington DC's Constitution Hall. Featuring his unique insightful and hilarious views on a host of social political and celebrity issues Rock confirms his stature as one of the leading comic of our time!

• Tony Hancock Double Bill | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Punch & Judy Man: Tony Hancock is a melancholy Punch and Judy man trying to establish himself as an important citizen in the seaside town where he works. When his snobbish wife is taught a lesson at an important social event it looks like the British comic genius may just get the new lease of life of which he's always dreamed... (Dir. Jeremy Summers 1963) The Rebel: Tony Hancock portrays a bored city clerk who has ambitions of becoming an artist in France. (Dir. Robert Day 1961)

• Les Dawson On ITV - The Specials | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £14.02   |  Saving you £10.97 (78.25%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Les Dawson At ITV: The Specials (3 Discs)

• Bubba Ho-Tep | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Elvis and JFK are living in a retirement home in LA when an ancient Egyptian monster named Bubba Ho-Tep starts sucking the souls of the residents.

• Victoria Wood - All The Trimmings | DVD | (25/11/2001) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings contains exactly what it says on the box. Harking back to the classic BBC Christmas comedy specials of yesteryear, the show features a star-studded cast: Alan Rickman, Richard E Grant, Michael Parkinson, Bob Monkhouse, Hugh Laurie, Angela Rippon, Roger Moore, Caroline Aherne, the list goes on. The show takes a typically idiosyncratic canter through a dream set of telly programmes for Christmas Day. Thus we get expertly played skits of A Christmas Carol (with Delia Smith as the cook); Brassed Off (in which Tony Blair solves the North/South divide by declaring everything The South); Brief Encounter (Parky as the station master, with a side order of drugs and lesbianism); a regency romantic drama (with the line "could you not stick your hand in your muff?") and lots more. What makes the production a true cut above, however, is the linking theme that takes a blatant pot shot at the modern BBC--or as Wood sees it--BBC Upmarket, BBC Downmarket, BBC Newmarket (for racing), BBC Makeover, BBC Takeover, etc. This is funny, cutting and achingly on the ball about the state of modern television.--Ian Watson

• Tim Minchin and The Heritage Orchestra - Live at The Royal Albert Hall | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £8.23   |  Saving you £11.76 (142.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Comedy rock super star Tim Minchin is back with his biggest live show ever! This show includes brand new songs as well as thise much loved Minchin classics but this time as you've never heard them before- with a 55 piece orchestra!