Comedy

• The Milagro Beanfield War | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Milagro New Mexico. Population 426. Nothing had changed here for 300 years. But there's something about this day... In Milagro a small town in the American Southwest Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by constructio

• My Family - Series 4 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £6.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (189.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the hilarious BBC sitcom My Family dentist Ben Harper (Robert Lindsay) is long suffering husband to Susan (Zoe Wannamaker) and father to three very different and often difficult children - Nick (Kris Marshall) Janey (Daniela Denby-Ashe) and Michael (Gabriel Thomson). This release features all the episodes from Series 4. Episodes Comprise: 1. Fitting Punishment 2. They Shoot Harpers Don't They? 3. The Great Escape 4. The Return Of The Prodigal Prat 5. Owed To Susan 6. De

• Looking For Richard | DVD | (03/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by and starring Al Pacino this quasi-documentary is Pacino's passion in his quest to make Shakespeare more accessible to modern day America. Shakespeare's most performed play 'Richard The Third' is the vehicle he uses to bridge the gap between Victorian soap opera and twentieth century culture. As well as hearing the views of the man on the street we also meet Pacino's friends and fellow actors in his film version of 'Richard The Third'. These include Kevin Spacey Winona

• Cheech And Chong's Things Are Tough All Over | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Cheech and Chong are at it again in this their fourth film. But this is the first time they've appeared on the screen in dual roles. Tommy Chong plays Prince Habib a maniacal Arab as well as the famous spaced-out wanderer. Richard ""Cheech"" Marin is Habib's wily brother Mr Slyman in addition to his usual role. Everybody has problems these days and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They're hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to La

• The Galton And Simpson Playhouse - The Complete Series | DVD | (19/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Galton And Simpson Playhouse: The Complete Series

• Funny Bones | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Funny Bones, directed by Peter Chelsom (Hear My Song), is a weird but intriguing comedy with a particularly dark edge. Oliver Platt plays a would-be comedian, the son of a major comedy star (Jerry Lewis); dad's reputation even overshadows his son's Las Vegas debut. After that flop the son tries to go back to his roots and heads across the Atlantic for his father's launch pad in Blackpool. There, he meets his previously unknown half-brother (Lee Evans), a bizarre comedy savant who teaches him a thing or two about taking risks to get laughs, and discovers a secret about how his father got started. Platt is likably lost and Lewis is perfectly overbearing, but the real find here is Evans, making his cinematic debut as the rubber-faced, protean comic with always surprising material. --Marshall Fine

• Happy Gilmore | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Adam Sandler fans are sure to enjoy this no-brainer comedy, but everyone else is strongly advised to proceed with caution. Before scoring a more enjoyable hit with his 1998 comedy The Wedding Singer, the former Saturday Night Live goofball played Happy Gilmore, a hot-tempered guy whose dreams of hockey stardom elude him. But when he discovers his gift for driving golf balls hundreds of yards, he joins a pro tour to win the prize money needed to rescue his beloved grandma's home from repossession. The trouble is, Happy's not so happy. He's got a temper that frequently flares on the golf course (he even dukes it out with celebrity golfer Bob Barker), but a retired golf pro (Carl Weathers) and a compassionate publicist (Julie Bowen) help him to perfect his putting game and adjust his confrontational attitude. How much you enjoy this lunacy depends on your tolerance for Sandler's loudmouthed schtick and a shocking number of blatant product-placement endorsements, but if you're looking for broad comedy you've come to the right tee-off spot. --Jeff Shannon

• Cedar Rapids | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  To call insurance agent Tim Lippe (The Hangover's Ed Helms), 'naive' is a gross understatement. He's never left his small hometown. He's never stayed at a hotel. And he's never experienced anything like Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

• Gervase Phinn - Live | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £6.15   |  Saving you £13.84 (225.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gervase Phinn is a popular writer and performer and is best known for his autobiogrphical novels Up and Down in the Dales The Other Side of The Dale Over Hill and Dale and Head Over Heels In The Dales. On this DVD Gervase Phinn shares his hilarious tales of life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales. Filmed in front of a full house of eager followers at Wakefield Theatre Royal as part of his sellout 2007 tour his warm gentle witty tales told with lovable enthusiasm had people begging for more.

• The Truth About Women (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (14/08/2023) from £9.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN (1957), which Muriel Box called her most personal film, reveals the complex lives of women and the assertion that women can and should be ˜an equal partner in the business of life'. A witty and touching comedy with a great cast including Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Eva Gabor, Mai Zetterling and Diane Cilento, the film features striking cinematography from Otto Heller and sumptuous costume design by Cecil Beaton.Product Features An Equal Partner In The Business of Life: Muriel Box & The Truth About Women The Woman Behind the Picture: Archive interview with Muriel Box Part 2 Behind the Scenes stills gallery Original Trailer

• Sleepless In Seattle | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £9.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (3.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Christmas is a magical time when anything can happen. And for Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) a down-to-earth newspaper reporter is just about to. Whilst driving to her fianc''es house on Christmas Eve she hears a radio broadcast that will change her life. Eight-year-old Jonah is worried about his recently widowed father and calls a radio station agony aunt. Persuaded onto the phone Jonah's dad Sam (Tom Hanks) tells of his love for his dead wife and how their time together was pure magic. Annie is so touched by his heartfelt sentiment that she becomes determined to meet him. But there are a few problems: Sam's in Seattle Annie's in Baltimore and Sam doesn't even know that Annie exists!

• Major Payne | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £24.68   |  Saving you £-14.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He's looking for a few good men... or a few guys old enough to shave! Damon Wayans stars as the eponymous title character in this hilarious escapade that commands laughs aplenty! When peace breaks out in America killing machine Major Benson Winifred Payne United States Marine Corps Special Forces is given his marching orders... to the unemployment line. Unable to cope with civilian life Payne is thrust back into the military regimen as commander of the Madison Academy Ju

• Daniel Sloss Live | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (55.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is the debut stand-up DVD of internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedian Daniel Sloss. We could bore you with all the standard credits of TV shows he's been on, which your eyes will skim over and not register because you've already decided if you're buying this DVD or not. (Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, 8 out of 10 Cats, Set List etc etc). Or we could just tell you that it's a pretty great DVD recorded in front of an amazing crowd at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow and it's a 70 minute special of all of his best stand-up material so far. It's a proper good laugh. If you like Daniel Sloss then you’ll love this DVD and you should buy it for yourself/family/loved ones/dog. If you don't like him, just buy it for one of your enemies. They'll hate you eternally.

• The Hooligan Factory | DVD | (14/07/2014) from £5.34   |  Saving you £7.65 (143.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Hooligan Factory tells the story of Danny (Jason Maza) who wants something more from life. Expelled from school and living in his grandfather's flat he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father 'Danny Senior'. Meanwhile legendary football hooligan Dexter (Nick Nevern) is about to be released from ShowerShank prison and is on a quest of his own one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader 'The Baron'. But when Danny's and Dexter's paths cross they embark on a journey as old as hooliganism itself. The Hooligan Factory is a hilarious take on the football hooligan genre you've seen Foot soldier you've seen Football Factory and you saw Green Street but you have never seen anything like this. Special Features: 1 Hour Making of

• Will And Grace - Season 7 - Complete | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (150.08%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Meet Will & Grace. Grace is a sassy and smart interior designer Will is a gorgeous and supercool lawyer. They're both looking for love and they're made for each other in every way except for one thing - Grace is straight Will is gay. Their lives are complicated even further by their outrageous friends Karen & Jack. This DVD box set contains all the episodes from the seventh season: Episodes Comprise: 1. FYI: I Hurt Too 2. Back Up Dancer 3. One Gay At A Time 4. Company 5

• To Be Or Not To Be | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An elegant comedic story of a Polish acting troupe who help in their small way to resist the Nazi occupation. When it is discovered that a Polish hero residing in Britain is actually a German agent a Polish RAF officer is deployed to stop him. Upon arriving in Poland the RAF officer together with the already forewarned actors concoct a convoluted charade designed to collect the information from the spy kill him and pass on the false information to the Gestapo.

• Confessions Of A Shopaholic | Blu Ray | (29/06/2009) from £6.98   |  Saving you £20.00 (501.25%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Based on the best selling novels, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Abroad by Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic stars Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) as New York journalist and shopping addict Rebecca Bloomwood.

• Adelphi Collection Volume 3: T | Blu Ray | (14/02/2011) from £7.29   |  Saving you £12.70 (174.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The third release of the BFI's pioneering Adelphi Collection is a double bill showcasing two early films by John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno Death on the Nile). The Crowded Day (1954) is an engaging bittersweet comedy-drama focusing on the intertwined lives of a group of shop girls working in a London department store in the 1950s with a wonderful cast including John Gregson Joan Rice Dora Bryan Thora Hird Prunella Scales Sid James and Dandy Nicholls; Song of Paris (1952) is a charming romantic comedy which sees an archetypal Englishman - suavely played by Dennis Price - return from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign Count in a duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.

• Doctor Dolittle / Doctor Dolittle 2 | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Doctor Dolittle Betty Thomas directs and Eddie Murphy stars in Doctor Dolittle, the 1998 hit film which, while ostensibly aimed at children, has a high quotient of hip and even mildly gross humour. Murphy stars as John Dolittle, whom we see as a child talking to a neighbourhood dog who explains that the reason mutts sniff each others' butts is to assess their characters when first meeting them. Little John promptly tries this out on being introduced to his school principal. Warned off such social eccentricity, Dolittle stops talking to animals and as an adult becomes a respectable doctor running his own medical practice--until a bump on the head revives his capacity to understand animals, whereupon mayhem, mortification and a menagerie of needy and freeloading creatures are heaped upon his ordered existence. Murphy plays it relatively straight. It's the animals, some of them vividly enhanced by Jim Henson's animating team, who provide the real laughs here, and a thoroughly worldly, wisecracking bunch of characters they prove to be. There's a couple of hard-boiled, squabbling rats, a pigeon who complains of impotence, Rocky the guinea pig (voiced by Chris Rock) with a neat line in hip backchat, while Albert Brooks voices the gruff, melancholy tiger whose life Dolittle must try to save. A sweet but by no means saccharine comedy. --David Stubbs Dr Dolittle 2It's only a marginal improvement, but Dr Dolittle 2 defies the odds by rising above its popular 1998 predecessor (and once again, let's not confuse these movies with the earlier Rex Harrison musical). Eddie Murphy plays the title role with ease and with the confident professionalism of a comedian who knows when to share the spotlight--especially when he's being upstaged by a bunch of animals who steal all the punch lines. And once again the film is aimed at a pre-teen audience: so many of those punch lines involve flatulence, bodily functions and frequent use of the word "butt". The difference this time is that Dr Dolittle has settled into his talk-to-the-animals routine; his 16-year-old daughter (Raven-Symone) is getting to be a feisty handful (it turns out she's coping with a hereditary gift); and his lawyer wife (Kristen Wilson) is representing him in a trial against corporate villains who want to clear-cut a local forest. Naturally, the local critter mafia (their Don is a beaver... fuggeddaboudit!) want Dolittle to fight for their cause, and this involves the successful mating of an endangered bear and a domesticated circus bear who's forgotten all the bear necessities of life in the wild. The bears are voiced by Lisa Kudrow and Steve Zahn and they almost steal the show, but the whole menagerie (with digitally animated "talking") is equally amusing. Adults might wish that the filmmakers had tried harder to make a truly memorable sequel, but this is a movie for kids, and they're going to love it without quibbling. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Eddie Murphy Box Set - Trading Places / Coming To America | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eddie Murphy's 1988 vehicle Coming to America was probably the point at which his status as a mainstream big-screen comedian finally gelled, following the highly successful 48 Hours pairing with Nick Nolte. Never mind the hackneyed storyline: under John Landis's tight direction, he turns in a star performance (and several brilliant cameos) that is disciplined and extremely funny. Murphy plays an African prince who comes to New York officially to sow his wild oats. Privately, he is seeking a bride he can marry for love rather than one chosen by his parents. With his companion (Arsenio Hall, who pushes Murphy all the way in the comedy stakes), he settles in the borough of Queens and takes a job in a hamburger joint. A succession of hilarious satire-barbed adventures ensue, plus the required romantic conclusion. The script is crammed with ripe one-liners , but "Freeze, you diseased rhinoceros pizzle" has to be the most devastating hold-up line of all time. Film buffs will appreciate a brief appearance by Don Ameche as a down-and-out, but this is Murphy's film and he generates warmth enough to convert the most ambivalent viewer. On the DVD: The only--rather pointless--extra on offer is the original theatrical trailer which adds nothing apart from a rapid recap of the story. But the 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation (the picture quality is diamond sharp) and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack recreate the original authentic cinematic experience. The choreography of 1980s pop diva Paula Abdul in the lavish wedding scenes and Nile Rodgers' pounding musical score are the main beneficiaries. --Piers Ford