Comedy

• Picture This! | DVD | (16/02/2009) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A nobody is about to become a somebody... and impress EVERYBODY. Ashley Tisdale (High School Musical The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) is picture-perfect and downright delightful in this hilarious comedy that gives cell phone a whole new meaning. Mandy has just been invited to the biggest party of the year by the most popular boy in school but there's one problem - she's grounded! When her father agrees to let her go study with friends he insists on checking in every half hour via video cell phone. Trapped by technology Mandy and her cell mates need a little ingenuity - and a lot of imagination - to make it to the party with exposing the plan to Dad's prying eyes!

• Almost Christmas | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £5.16   |  Saving you £3.32 (152.99%)   |  RRP £5.49

  When Dennis (Paul Giammati The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Saving Mr. Banks) is released from prison just before the Christmas holidays, he is intent on getting his life back on track. But he soon realises going straight doesn't come easy. Not only has his estranged wife told his young daughter he is dead, but he finds out she's now shacked up with his ex-partner in crime Rene (Paul Rudd, Ant Man, Anchorman 2). Determined to turn things around and buy his daughter the present she's always wanted, he gets back in business with Rene, selling Christmas trees in New York City. First, he just has to smuggle himself across the border, resist all light-fingered temptations, and compete with the big-budget Christmas tree stall across the street. With business dwindling and Rene going AWOL, things don't look so bright, but with the help of one of their customers, a straight-talking house sitter named Olga (Sally Hawkins, Made in Dagenham, An Education), they orchestrate a masterful heist just in time for Christmas.

• Lord Tramp - Seriies 1 | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's hilarious fun for all the family when penniless tramp Hughie Wagstaffe suddenly discovers he's a Lord with a grand stately home in this 1970s ITV comedy classic getting its first ever release on DVD! Hugh Lloyd (Hugh & I Hancock) stars as Hughie whose life changes overnight when he discovers he's heir to a massive estate complete with servants! Hughie finds it pretty difficult to adjust - and isn't about to give up his old tramp ways in a hurry - much to the horror of his snooty neighbours! His staff are a little perplexed too and housekeeper Miss Pratt (Joan Sims - Carry On) leads the fight to turn grubby old Hughie into a fine upstanding gentleman! With guest stars including Alfie Bass Leslie Dwyer and Jack Watling Lord Tramp first ran on ITV from 1st August to 12th September 1977. All six episodes are included here.

• Prizzi's Honor | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Director John Huston was a master of storytelling and Prizzi's Honor was his black comedy masterpiece. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Anjelica Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her caustic performance. Charley Partanna a do-it-yourself kind of guy has been loyal to 'The Family' since he can remember. If you need somebody rubbed out he's your eraser ready to kill at the drop of a dollar. Boss Don Corrado Prizzi's daughter Maerose has eyes for Charley but Charley has already fallen for a sultry hit-woman named Irene Walker. Their unlikely romance hits a snag however as Irene and Charley have each been hired to knock off the other.

• Youth In Revolt | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £3.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (358.93%)   |  RRP £17.99

  "Youth In Revolt" is a coming-of-age comedy that puts a fresh and outrageous stamp on a tale of adolescent obsession and rebellion.

• Lenny Henry - In Pieces | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After some years making a name for himself as a serious actor and television presenter, Lenny Henry in Pieces sees the comedian return to the world of the TV sketch show. Having always struggled to find a suitable format for his comedy (remember Delbert Wilkins?), Henry has this time settled on a fairly frantic style, with mixed results. The best bits, as has often been the case with his material, come when he draws on the rich vein of West Indian humour, particularly the more mature characters. When he heads more for the middle of the road, however, Henry starts to falter. The movie pastiches are largely uninspired, ironically coming across as little more than cast offs from French and Saunders, and the show is lacking in the energy that so infuses Henry's stand up routines. There certainly are some good characters (Weekend Dad and the homo-erotic trawlermen Pete and Steve especially) but after a while the lack of variety in even these creations becomes frustrating. Such repetition works in the superior ensemble piece of The Fast Show, but this falls flat over the course of the eight episodes. Looks like Lenny Henry might need to go back to the drawing board. On the DVD: Lenny Henry in Pieces has a running time of nearly four hours, so the lack of extras may be understandable but is no less disappointing. The interactive menu is handy for skipping through some of the less engaging moments but is not detailed enough to help pinpoint specific scenes. The audio and picture quality is good enough television quality. Additional material is limited to 14 minutes of cringingly unfunny out-takes, further proof (if it were needed) that watching someone forget their lines over and over again does not necessarily mean great comedy. --Phil Udell

• The Smallest Show On Earth | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £20.37   |  Saving you £-7.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An amiable knock-off of the Ealing comedy style, The Smallest Show on Earth starts with aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his "nice gel" wife Virginia McKenna inheriting a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discovering that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, which specialises in those "smash 'em in the face, knock 'em over the waterfront" pictures, but the decrepit Bijou, known locally as "the fleapit". The initial plan, set up by lawyer Leslie Phillips, is to sell off the cinema to the owner of the Grand so he can knock it down to make a car park, but our heroes are put off by the arrogant bullying of the rival manager (Francis De Wolff) and succumb to the inept charms of the crazed, aged staff--drunken projectionist Peter Sellers, doddery commissionaire Bernard Miles and dotty ticket lady Margaret Rutherford (who joined the team as a piano accompanist). In the 1950s, there was a run of gentle British comedies in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions (steam trains, tugboats, vintage cars) were saved by collections of committed eccentrics who despised the new-fangled bus services or soulless council bureaucracies and were willing to resort to a little larceny (in this case, arson). The Smallest Show slots in perfectly with the cycle, getting laughs from the Bijou's already outmoded programme of scratchy Westerns and desert dramas (which increase ice cream sales) and sentiment over the staff's midnight screenings of silent movies that remind them of better days. It's likeable rather than hilarious, with Sellers and Miles buried under crepe hair and fake wrinkles competing to out-dodder each other and losing the picture to the inimitable Rutherford, who doesn't have to fake her eccentricity. Pin-up, June Cunningham, is the glamorous usherette and Sid James plays her annoyed Dad. On the DVD: The Smallest Show on Earth is presented in a decent print, but with no extras. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection. --Kim Newman

• Dear Green Place | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the creators of smash hit Still Game starring Ford Kiernan & Paul Riley. Winner of BAFTA Scotland Best Entertainment Award 2006. Episode 1 - Rocksalt: Woody and Wallace attend a lecture on rocksalt MacAllister and Riordan are on the graveyard shift while Henderson finds out there's more than one Argos in the city. Episode 2 - Sorry: MacAllister accidentally reveals his secret relationship with Michelle while Henderson suffers an allergic reaction. Episode 3 - Pish: Woody and Wallace are set to fail a mandatory drugs test until Wallace's granny provides the solution. MacAllister meanwhile invents a bogus girlfriend to make Michelle jealous. Episode 4 - There's Been A Murder: The Fairweather Players visit the Botanics with Mid-Summer Night's dream. Henderson and Toner are on the trail of a swan murderer and Riordan queues against his will for Robbie Williams tickets. Episode 5 - Gimme Shelter: Michelle Riordan and Gavin discover some air raid shelters in the park. Woody and Wallace do a nightshift in the museum and Henderson is exposed as a closet jazz musician. Episode 6 - Bandstand: An eco-warrior chains himself to a bandstand threatened with demolition as the group see off the annual taxi outing to Troon. MacAllister is temporarily blinded with deadly results.

• The Last Remake of Beau Geste | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Following his unforgettable performances in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and Silent Movie Marty Feldman wrote directed and starred in his own classic spoof. He plays Digby Geste the 'identitcal' twin brother to Beau (Michael York) but without his dashing sibling's do-or-die heroics. When a priceless family heirloom is stolen their fates are sealed the lunacy escalates and the laughs come thick and fast.

• Lost In Paris | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

• Mums' Night Out | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful grown-up evening of dinner and conversation...a long-needed mums' night out. But in order to enjoy high heels adult conversation and food not served in a paper bag they need their husbands to watch the kids for three hours - what could go wrong?

• Married To The Mob | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £8.92   |  Saving you £4.07 (45.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is fed up with her life Married to the Mob. As luck would have it, her hubby Frank (Alec Baldwin) is knocked off by head honcho Tony "the Tiger" Russo (an Oscar-nominated Dean Stockwell), which leaves her free to start a new life in the Big Apple. The only problem is that the FBI are desperate to nab Tony, and manage to send the one Agent (Matthew Modine) most likely to fall in love with her. Plot-wise, then, this is predictable fluff. The joys are in the details of Jonathan Demme's direction: New York's streets come alive under his hand-held camerawork; a lot of dialogue is comically delivered direct to camera (a device he used for dramatic effect later with The Silence of the Lambs); and background characters each leave their mark given memorable--often-hilarious--screen time. As a black comedy it isn't quite so memorable as Demme's explosive earlier work on Something Wild, but if there's one thing sure to stick with you here it's the sensationally colourful late-80s fashions and hairstyles. On the DVD: Married to the Mob is a bare-bones release that only adds a trailer. It is presented in its original widescreen ratio, however, and for the most part the transfer is pretty clean. --Paul Tonks

• Eulogy | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Last rites. Last words. Last laughs..... When three generations of a dysfunctional family gather in Rhode Island to bury the family patriarch all members of the clan are at each others throats in no time at all! Son Daniel is a secret porn actor. Daughter Lucy is a lesbian and brings her lover Judy to the family gathering much to the disgust of Lucy's aggressive neurotic sister Alice. Finishing off the crowd are dim brother Skip whose rude twin sons offer abrasive comment

• Easy Money III - Life Deluxe | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £3.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (552.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  JW now lives in exile and is more determined than ever to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm.

• Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This groundbreaking five-part fantasy action comedy epic stars Sean Maguire and the BAFTA award-winning Matt Lucas. "Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire" as seen on BBC2 is available on DVD from 23rd November, courtesy of 4DVD.

• Game On - The Complete First Series | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.13   |  Saving you £8.86 (144.54%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From the BAFTA award-winning producers of 'Father Ted' 'Have I Got News for You' and 'Dicing with Debt' comes the complete first series of the comedy series 'Game On'. See flat-sharing in an all new light... Join Matthew (the agoraphobic self obsessed macho man); Martin (the wimpish sex-starved underdog) and Mandy (the gorgeous blonde who always seems to end up dating the wrong men) in this outrageously funny flat-share comedy that is anything but politically correct! Epis

• Best Of The Buzzcocks | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (208.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Never Mind the Buzzcocks host Simon Amstell and team captain Phill Jupitus have a rare out of hours get together to look back at some exclusive never-before-aired deleted material from the last 3 series. This Exclusive DVD Featurette includes clips ranging from the too rude too drunk too nasty too sweary too awkward and in absolutely no instances too funny for TV. Also featured on this 'Best of' DVD are compilation special episodes from the last three series presented by Simon Amstell (2007-2009): Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Technically the Best Series Ever. A thrilling look back at what were technically some excellent moments from the last series. Featuring a galaxy of technically good celebrity bookings and many many technically funny sentences. Yes! Never Mind The Buzzcocks - A Moving Tribute. A touching retrospective on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Imagine a mildly amusing panel show. Alan Yentob takes a look back at the most talked about moments from the series including Amy Winehouse spitting Preston walking and Lilly Allen controversially wearing funny glasses.

• Gogs | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Gogs family are a pre-historic clan with their own unique style of off-beat humour - when they're not kicking hell out of each other they're letting rip with all kinds of obnoxious bad habits!! Gogs is award-winning claymation which was garlanded with the Bafta for Best Children's Programme and a Banff award for Best Animation. This DVD includes Gogs Gogs II and Gogwana.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 1 - A Chump At Oxford/Related Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.16   |  Saving you £1.83 (43.99%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy from Laurel and Hardy. Contains: A Chump At Oxford (b/w) A Chump At Oxford (colourised) From Soup to Nuts Another Fine Mess (b/w) Another Fine Mess (colourised) One of Laurel & Hardy's best-loved feature films 'A Chump At Oxford' sees them travelling to England to obtain an education only for Stan to be revealed as a long-lost British aristocrat! Also included is the classic silent comedy From 'Soup To Nuts' which the team remade as a section of 'A Chump At Oxford' - only with Stan switching his character to that of Agnes the maid! Also in this compilation is an earlier glimpse of Agnes in one of their greatest talkie shorts 'Another Fine Mess'.

• Psychoville | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen this bizarre gothic comedy sees a chain of events triggered when a mysterious letter writer contacts five seemingly disparate characters with the chilling message: 'I know what you did'. An embittered hook-handed clown a desperately misguided midwife a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf a blind avaricious collector and a murder-obssessed manchild: all are affected in different ways by the letters and their already bizarre lives are hilariously turned on their heads. As the series progresses the characters are forced to confront what happened to them in the past and the secret that binds them together.