Comedy

• Anita And Me | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set in 1972 this new comedy tells of the friendship that develops between twelve-year-old Meena and her new neighbour, the fourteen-year-old outrageous Anita.

• Billy Connolly - Two Night Stand | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £52.37   |  Saving you £-32.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stand up comedy from Billy Connolly recorded in London and Glasgow during his 1997 British tour.

• Daddy Day Camp/Are We There Yet?/Are We Done Yet? | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Daddy Day Camp: This hilarious sequel to the smash hit %3Ei%3EDaddy Day Care finds dads Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson in another kid harried adventure as they take over running a summer day camp. Armed with no knowledge of the great outdoors a dilapidated facility and a motley group of campers it doesn't take long before things get out of control. Up against threats of foreclosure and declining enrollment Charlie is forced to call on his estranged father to help bring the camp together and teach everyone about teamwork perseverance and the power of forgiveness. Are We There Yet?: Smooth operator Nick (Ice Cube) is interested in young attractive divorcee Suzanne (Nia Long) mother of a 7-year-old-boy and an 11-year-old-girl. Trying to get together with Suzanne Nick volunteers to bring her children to meet her out of town. Missing the plane they must make the long journey by car. What Nick doesn't know is that Suzanne's children think that no man is good enough for their mom and will do everything they can to make the trip a nightmare for him... Are We Done Yet?: Nick Persons (Cube) and his new wife Suzanne (Long) move into his tiny bachelor pad with her two loveable - but outspoken - kids. When Suzanne drops the bombshell that she is pregnant something has to give and the whole family move to a bigger house in the country. Their idea of a dream home is turned upside down by the local wildlife the amount of work that needs doing and the crazy contractor they hire to do it John C. McGinley (Wild Hogs TV's Scrubs) in a brilliant star turn as Chuck Mitchell Jr. the builder with a bizarre approach to home improvement. Will the Persons' family realise their dream and finish the house before the family expands? Are We Done Yet? is a hilarious slapstick comedy that proves a move to the country and a bigger house does not automatically mean an easier life!

• Idol On Parade | DVD | (07/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rare 2012 UK release of this classic film.Anthony Newley found his career taking off after being cast as the singing idol 'Jeep Jackson', the 'King of Rock-A-Boogie', who is called up to National Service in this 1959 British musical comedy. Jeep does his best to fit in as a squaddie - but soon there are hordes of screaming pop fans at the barracks gates, the other recruits think he's after their girls - and the C.O.'s daughter (Anne Aubrey) decides that he is the boy of her dreams! Jeep's devious manager (Sid James) is determined that a little thing like National Service won't spoil his star's career. He smuggles him out of camp at every opportunity to perform pop concerts and to cut new hit records. But Jeep's Sergeant (William Bendix) is getting very suspicious of what's going on after lights out... Idol On Parade features no less than five songs from Anthony Newley, including Idle Rock-A-Boogie, Sat'Day Night Rock-A-Boogie, Won't Get No Promotion, Idle on Parade and I've Waited So Long - two of which were to become smash chart hits.

• Omid Djalili: Live In London | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £5.21   |  Saving you £14.78 (73.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Omid Djalili: Live In London

• 30 Rock Season 3 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Warning: The third season of 30 Rock may cause fits of "lizzing" (an elevated state of hilarity that involves laughter plus whizzing) with its brilliantly loopy word play, "what the what" situations, and deft turns by a stellar roster of A-list guest stars. Liz Lemon (Emmy-winning geek goddess Tina Fey) trying to avoid jury duty by dressing as Princess Leia? Jenna (Jane Krakowski) starring in a biopic about Janis Joplin (or Jackie Jomp-Jomp due to rights complications that forbid use of Joplin's name and music)? Steve Martin as a fabulously wealthy agoraphobe? I want to go to there! This season, Liz increasingly yearns for a normal life outside of the demands of her sanity-testing job as head writer of TGS, a Saturday Night Live-esque comedy show. Happiness will find Liz, but not before two hilariously doomed relationships, one with a little person (guest star Peter Dinklage), whom she initially mistakes for a child, and the other with a neighbor (Mad Men's Jon Hamm) who doesn't realize people have allowed him to skate through life because of his impossibly good looks. She also has a rude awakening when she joins a group of Ladies who Lunch while on forced administrative leave. Her friendship with Master of the Universe mentor Jack Donaghy (indispensable Emmy-winner Alec Baldwin) is the series' endearing sweet spot. 30 Rock is unlike any other workplace comedy on television. Dancing to its own comic rhythms, the series takes great delight in tweaking sitcom clichés and conventions. In "The Bubble," the scene is set for a montage of Id-driven Tracy Jordan's (Tracy Morgan) wackiest moments on the show. Instead, Liz dreamily reflects, "I'm thinking of some of them right now." Family Guy's got nothing on 30 Rock when it comes to the surreal arbitrary gag, as when naive NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBreyer) realizes he is being sexually harassed by a Miss Vierra (Meredith from The Today Show), or when sociopathic, narcissistic Jenna is taught a lesson by the writers who have banded together as the feathered Fedora-clad Pranksmen. 30 Rock makes truly inspired use of the actors, TV icons, and musicians who appear this season. In "Believe in the Stars," Oprah Winfrey, smelling of "rose water and warm laundry," hilariously appears as herself, kind of. In "The One with the Cast of Night Court," Jennifer Aniston is upstaged by Harry Anderson, Markie Post, and Charles "Mac" Robinson. Salma Hayek makes for an exotic love interest for Jack in a multi-episode arc. The season finale features Sheryl Crow, Clay Aiken, Elvis Costello (a.k.a. Declan McManus, international art thief), Adam Levine, and others brought together for a benefit to find a kidney for Jack's long-lost father (Alan Alda). But the joy of 30 Rock is not the stars, but such brain-tickling lines as, "I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it wasn't a new Star Trek," and the charming character grace notes, like seeing the world as Kenneth does, populated by Muppets. In the season finale, Liz remarks that she figures TGS (30 Rock?) has two years left. Say it ain't so! --Donald Liebenson

• Something Wild | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  That Jonathan Demme's Something Wild is compelling from first to last is down to the chemistry between Melanie Griffith (Lulu) and Jeff Daniels (Charlie). She's bad, trashy and into handcuffed sex with strangers in motel rooms: she even manages to look sexy in a black bobbed wig. He's Mr Ordinary, with suit and steady job and--apparently--a wife and kids. Lulu has him mesmerised from the very start, as she offers him a lift back to the office but instead drives to Pennsylvania for her high-school reunion, stealing from garages along the way. Passing Charlie off as her husband, they run into problems when she meets her real one--the greasy, violent Ray, recently out of jail (Liotta, superb here)--and Charlie bumps into a guy from his office. Ray is not about to give up Lulu and pursues the couple relentlessly back to New York, the chase culminating, inevitably, in violence. It's a most unlikely love story, but as Charlie discovers he's less of a grey man than we all first thought, and a softer side of Lulu is revealed, it seems possible that we could be looking at a happy ending. This is a film that seems as fresh today as when it first appeared and remains one of Demme's finest achievements. On the DVD: Something Wild is a pretty basic DVD package. There are no extras beyond the bog-standard trailer and scene-selection options. The picture quality itself is fine, though it's not as pristine as you'd find with more recent films. The spoken languages and subtitles are restricted to English and Spanish. --Harriet Smith

• The Mighty Boosh Live 2 | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £5.61   |  Saving you £14.38 (256.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Mighty Boosh: Live 2

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

  There's nothing wrong with being different. Lucas a nerdy 14-year-old has skipped two grades and is having a tough time fitting in with his older classmates. The jocks make fun of him and the girls barely know that he's alive. During the summer Lucas's life is brightened by his new neighbor who quickly becomes his good friend. Unfortunately to Lucas she's a lot more than that and when school begins again he realizes to his dismay that Maggie no longer belongs to him alone. W

• Blast From The Past | DVD | (13/03/2000) from £11.22   |  Saving you £8.77 (78.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Coasting on the successes of Gods and Monsters and George of the Jungle, Brendan Fraser turns in yet another winning performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy in which Pleasantville meets modern-day Los Angeles, with predictably funny results. Fraser stars as Adam, who was born in the bomb shelter of his paranoid inventor dad (a less-manic-than-usual Christopher Walken), who spirited his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek, in fine comic form) underground when he thought the Communists dropped the bomb (actually, it was a plane crash). Armed with enough supplies to last 35 years, the parents bring up Adam in Leave It to Beaver style with nary any exposure to the outside world. When the supplies run out, and dad suffers a heart attack, Fraser goes up to modern-day LA for some shopping and long-awaited culture shock. More of a cute premise with lots of clever ideas attached than a fully fleshed out story, Blast from the Past is also supposed to be part romantic comedy, as the hunky Adam hooks up with his jaded Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and tries to convince her to marry him and go underground. The sparks don't fly, though, because Silverstone is saddled with the triple whammy of being miscast, playing an underwritten character, and suffering a very bad hairdo. Fraser, however, carries the film lightly and easily on his broad, goofy shoulders, mixing Adam's gee-whiz innocence with genuine emotion and curiosity; only Fraser could pull off Adam's first glimpse of a sunrise or the ocean with both humour and pathos. Also winning is Dave Foley as Silverstone's gay best friend, who manages to make the most innocuous statements sound like comic gems. -- Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Bachelor of Hearts | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An enjoyable late 50's British comedy about the adventures of young German scholar Wolf Hauser (Hardy Kruger - The One That Got Away; The Flight of the Phoenix), who arrives for a year at Cambridge, and tries to fit in. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on whilst also finding time to romance pretty Girton-girl Ann (Sylvia Syms - Ice Cold in Alex).

• The Man With One Red Shoe | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £12.90   |  Saving you £0.09 (0.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An innocent man is targeted for surveillance by the CIA. However the intelligence agency finds it increasingly difficult to liquidate the musician as he continues to be oblivious of the attempts to kill him...

• I Hate Valentine's Day | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £6.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (203.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this Manhattan-set romantic comedy 40-something florist Genevieve Gernier (Vardalos) has had a tricky time with love. In order to avoid the complications and risks she associates with lasting relationships she has devised a rule for herself that she may have no more than five dates with a man. However her trusted edict is put to the test when she meets Greg Gatlin (John Corbett) a handsome restaurateur who sets up a new business near her shop.

• The Night Before | Blu Ray | (28/03/2016) from £23.13   |  Saving you £-16.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.77

  Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity.

• My Name Is Bruce | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £7.51   |  Saving you £5.48 (72.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bruce Campbell, B-Movie God and "Evil Dead" star, is back as Bruce Campbell in this postmodern twist on the man, the chin and the legend!

• Abbott And Costello - The Abbott And Costello Collection | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were one of the funniest and most popular comedy teams of all time. Joining up in the early thirties to work in vaudeville houses Abbott & Costello made their screen debut in 1940. In this remarkable collection you'll get the very best of Abbott & Costello including two complete feature length films 'Africa Screams' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' several episodes of their classic fifties TV show a complete Colegate Comedy Hour from 1952 a rare wartime

• Dead Snow | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £6.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (172.99%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Gory, disturbing and brilliant...get ready for the horror comedy of the year as a car-load of backpackers come face-to-face with undead Nazis!

• Allo Allo : Complete BBC Series 6 & 7 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Welcome to the Cafe Rene in the French village of Nouvion where you can get fine wines paintings by Van Clomp (not all originals) and a selection of German and British officers. The owner Rene Artois (Gorden Kaye) who may have his mind on other things -''- like his waitresses Yvette and Mimi ''-- will look after you. Just don''t tell his wife Edith (Carmen Silvera)!

• Phoenix Nights: Series 1 | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £14.43   |  Saving you £5.56 (38.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Legendary social club owner Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars are determined to make Phoenix Club a success no matter what. Not even a racist folk band an unforeseeable psychic or a drunken horse will get in the way of their dream that 'Clubland will never die'.

• Bromwell High - Complete Series | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £22.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (25.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bromwell High is a highly irreverent animated comedy which follows the exploits of three exceptionally naughty girls - Keisha Marie Natella and Latrina - one maverick headmaster and a group of desperate overworked and underpaid teachers. It is extremely non-PC in its edgy approach to the material. Keisha Marie Natella and Latrina are the kind of schoolgirls you see on the back seat of the bus - talking too loudly on their mobiles and abusing fellow passengers! Incl