Comedy

• Billy Connolly - Live 2002 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £5.72   |  Saving you £14.27 (249.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As you might have guessed already, Billy Connolly Live 2002 presents highlights from the Big Yin's 2002 stage tour. The programme is divided in two, the first part offering an hour from his Dublin show, the second delivering 45 minutes of highlights from eight other performances. Now 60, age has not withered Connolly--even if, as he is fond of reminding us, his pubic hair has turned grey--and his restless energy, enthusiasm, casual obscenity, and anger is as intense as ever. He is also, of course, still very, very funny. Whether talking about the horrors of a prostrate examination or reminiscing about a prank played by fellow ex-Humblebum Gerry Rafferty, Connolly has the Dublin audience in hysterics. Killarney is treated to an explanation of why he hates beaches and Newcastle gets a wonderful demonstration of how his wife suffers from his sleep apnoea. In London, Billy delivers a spot-on lecture on the difficulty of buying an airline ticket, while Manchester discovers "Hungry Bum Syndrome", and Bournemouth gets a hilarious tale involving vegemite and bed sheets. Finally Connolly's Sheffield account of filming a sex scene for the movie The Big Man (1990) is just priceless. Crude, rude and not for the remotely easily offended, this is Connolly the stand-up comedian on top form. --Gary S Dalkin

• Borat | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £4.90   |  Saving you £18.09 (369.18%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The intrepid Kazakhstani reporter heads to the US in his own movie.

• The Wedding Date | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £6.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (190.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will & Grace's Debra Messing hires a male escort to help her face her ex-boyfriend in this romantic comedy.

• What A Girl Wants | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In this new teen comedy a free-spirited American 19-year-old (Amanda Bynes)travels to England to establish a relationship with her father, a prominent political figure.

• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | DVD | (11/07/2022) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nicolas Cage stars as... Nick Cage in the action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal).Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones. With a career built for this very moment, the seminal award-winning actor must take on the role of a lifetime: Nicolas Cage.

• The Plank | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £4.85   |  Saving you £8.14 (167.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Written and directed by Eric Sykes this is a classic silent comedy about two workmen and a plank of wood with chaos not far round the corner...

• Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes | DVD | (27/11/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Between 1968 and 1977, the BBC broadcast 84 television episodes of 'Dad's Army'. Across nine seasons and seven Christmas specials, the programme continues to be one of the most beloved of all British sitcoms. However, not every episode of 'Dad's Army' still survives in its original format. Five episodes were never formally archived by the BBC and are today presumed lost. No footage is known to exist from any of these episodes. They are collectively some of the most sought-after of all lost television programmes. Happily, audio-only recordings have survived of all five of these lost classics. These audio recordings (starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn) have been painstakingly reassembled and restored and are now used as the basis for a series of new animated episodes of 'Dad's Army' - featuring all new hand-drawn black and white animation, synced up to the words of the original actors. These new animated episodes give audiences a chance to enjoy five original episodes of this much-loved comedy classic for the first time in over fifty-years.

• Smokey and the Bandit | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £11.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (26.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Marvel Studio's Thor 1-4 Complete Box set - DVD | DVD | (02/10/2022) from £20.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Marvel Studios- four Thor adventures! In the first Thor film, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) fights to save Asgard, then tries to dispel darkness in Thor: The Dark World. In Thor: Ragnarok he must escape imprisonment. And in Thor: Love and Thunder, he battles Gorr. Product Features Thor 4 Deleted Scenes Road to The Avengers Featurette Commentary by Director Kenneth Branagh Thor: The Dark World 4 Deleted Scenes Road to The Avengers Featurette Commentary by Director Kenneth Branagh

• Never Been Kissed | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £5.52   |  Saving you £8.73 (204.93%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) wants more out of life. As a bright twenty-five-year-old copy editor at Chicago's revered newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times, she yearns to be a reporter.

• Mrs Brown's Boys: Christmas Corkers | DVD | (11/11/2019) from £3.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There are more adventures for Mrs Brown and her boys in another pair of festive specials. Agnes has a Christmas decoration competition to win and Buster has an internet date, so Rory and Dino give him one of their famous makeovers. Maybe they could all do with some help from Mrs Brown's new wifi assistant? And in the New Year episode, Agnes invites Winnie and Sharon to live with her when the pipes in their house burst but it soon becomes clear that best friends don't necessarily make the best house guests. Meanwhile, Father Damian asks Agnes to perform the eulogy after the death of neighbour and Buster drops a bombshell.

• The Rhod Gilbert Collection 1-3 | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Rhod Gilbert is one of the UK's hottest stand-up comedians. Show-stopping appearances on The Royal Variety Performance and Live at the Apollo have earned him his own hilarious hit TV shows Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience and Ask Rhod Gilbert. Each of these three live DVD's takes you on a comedic roller-coaster ride with Rhod's unique, surreal style of observational humour. With his fantastical rants on life's minor irritations, from boastful mince pies, over-packaged potatoes, mind-blowing torches and disappearing luggage, to the incomprehensible duvet tog rating system, pointless tattoos and much more besides, very little of our stupid modern world is free from Rhod's razor sharp tirades. The multi award-winning comedian barely stops for breath in each of these hilarious recordings of his sell-out tours. Now all 3 live DVDs are available in one fantastic box set. Titles Comprise: Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie Rhod Gilbert and the Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst Rhod Gilbert: The Man with the Flaming Battenberg Tattoo

• The Witches Of Eastwick | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £3.64 (35.17%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Jack Nicholson was born to play the devil and in George Miller's adaptation of John Updike's novel he plays it for all he's worth. As a wolfish womaniser summoned by three bored women in a picturesque New England town, he's sating all of his appetites with a rakish grin. Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer play the women who discover their untapped magical powers by accident. The smart and sexy singles, out of place in the conservatism of their village, find happiness, however briefly, in the arms and bed of the libidinous devil but he's got his own ulterior motives. Miller revels in the sensual display of sex, food and magic, whipping up a storm of effects that finally get out of hand in an overblown ending. It's a handsome film with strong performances all around but the mix of anarchic comedy and supernatural horror doesn't always gel and Miller seems to lose the plot in his zeal for cinematic excitement. The performances ultimately keep the film aloft: the hedonistic joy that Nicholson celebrates with every leering gaze and boorish vulgarity is almost enough to make bad form and chauvinism cool. --Sean Axmaker

• War Of The Roses | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito are reunited for a third time to fabulous effect in The War of the Roses. This is a dark, disturbing comedy of marital trauma and revenge, which couldn't be more different from their sunnier outings in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile. Douglas and Turner, in career-best performances, are the materialistic, consumer-driven Roses of the title (Oliver and Barbara) whose seemingly perfect marriage has soured beyond repair; their only point of contact is their meticulously maintained dream house, which Douglas bought and Turner decorated to perfection. When Turner gets a taste of financial independence, she asks Douglas for a divorce--all she wants is the house and everything in it (aside from his clothes and shaving kit). He laughs at her and she punches him in the face. Things only get worse from there, as nasty divorce proceedings (with DeVito as Douglas's lawyer) give way to insults, threats, ruined dinner parties and pet abuse. And through it all, the Roses begin destroying their beloved home and its contents, just to spite each other. DeVito, who also directed, takes Michael Leeson's blacker-than-black screenplay and gives it a hyper-stylised spin, complete with skewed camera angles and wonderfully expressionistic cinematography (by Stephen Burum) as Douglas and Turner barricade themselves in their house, both refusing to give an inch. Shocking for a mainstream studio picture, with its unsympathetic protagonists, escalating bitterness and disturbing finale, Roses is a poisonously funny valentine to both marriage and 1980s materialism, tempered only by its framing device as a cautionary tale. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Joe Lycett: That's The Way, A-Ha, A-Ha, Joe Lycett | DVD | (21/11/2016) from £5.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joe Lycett's outrageous comedy tour That's The Way, A-Ha, A-Ha, Joe Lycett

• The IT Crowd - Complete Series 1-4 Box Set | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £49.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Written by Graham Linehan (Father Ted Black Books) and produced by Ash Atalla (The Office) The IT Crowd centres on the worlds of Roy Moss and Jen who make up the IT department of Reynholm Industries. While their social betters work upstairs in fantastic surroundings the IT dept. work in a horrible dark basement underneath it all...

• Miss Congeniality | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £7.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (137.97%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Sandra Bullock is an FBI agent who goes undercover as Miss New Jersey at a national beauty pageant after a terrorist group threatens to bomb the event.

• Thin Blue Line, The - The Complete Thin Blue Line | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £20.57   |  Saving you £-10.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in a fictitious suburb rather like, say, Pinner (only more so), The Thin Blue Line is the wickedly funny story of a rather down-at-heel police station headed by Inspector Raymond Fowler (Rowan Atkinson), a pompous, repressed but well-intentioned anachronism who wants to do the right thing but who is constantly hampered by his own shortcomings, not to mention his blundering CID colleagues. Atkinson expertly balances his character's inflated sense of self-importance with the insight born of old-school police values, for which his galumphing, shiny-suited CID counterpart, DI Grim (David Haig) has no time at all. Strongest among the supporting cast is Sgt Pauline Dawkins (Serena Evans), who also happens to be Fowler's live-in lover--a moral dilemma that his traditional values won't allow him to resolve. He salves his conscience by avoiding sex with her whenever possible, an amusing subplot enhanced by Evans's brilliant performance--she positively vibrates with contained, ladylike lust in a manner only equalled by Penelope Keith in the classic sitcom To the Manor Born. Scripted by Ben Elton, this series manages to satirise provincialism, institutionalised pig-headedness and dated moral values in one fell swoop, while also being chock-full of quick-fire, Blackadder-esque dialogue. --Roger Thomas

• The Money Pit | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £6.78   |  Saving you £3.21 (47.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Steven Spielberg produced this underwhelming 1986 effort at a slapstick spin on Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. The pre-Oscar Tom Hanks stars with Shelley Long as a married couple whose efforts to finish construction on their home are sabotaged by costly and sporadically funny accidents. The unfinished domicile becomes a metaphor for their troubled relationship, as evidenced by the attraction of Long's character to a madman violinist (Alexander Godunov). Hanks is the only reason at this point to check this film out. Richard Benjamin (My Favorite Year) directs but with no flair or distinction. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Acorn Antiques | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £5.39   |  Saving you £10.60 (196.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  All the sketches from the classic spoof soap! Thrill to the heartwarming exploits of these antique-loving scallywags as they ply their skilled (or perhaps not so skilled) trade in that tiny (and yet at times not so tiny) shop on the outskirts of Manchesterford. All your favourite episodes are here all the rascally yet therapeutic shenanigans that showered fame fortune and glittering prizes!