Comedy

• Ben Elton - Definitive Live Collection | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Live 97 2. Get A Grip 3. The Very Best Of Live 4. Very Live

• Ali G - Aiii | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £10.25   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  By the time Ali G--the inspired creation of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen who debuted on the lame satirical series The 11 O'Clock Show--first got his own series, the gangsta rapper from Berkshire was already one of the biggest things on TV. Ali G--Aiiii is a compilation of the best bits from his own series, Da Ali G Show. Part chat show (Paul Daniels makes a memorably awful appearance; Gail Porter turns up and Ali dims the house lights and gets all soppy), and part saucy variety show (Ali's duet with Jarvis Cocker is fun, but no-where near as good as his improvised rap with Mohammed Al Fayed "from Arrods"), the material here is richer and more varied than his 11 O'Clock appearances, which more or less depended on his interviewees not knowing he was stitching them up. At various points, Ali reports from the States--the Staines rapper's spiritual home, you suspect--and the bemused reactions of the unsuspecting people he meets there makes for some of the video's funniest moments ("Has anyone ever been killed by a gun?" he asks someone from the National Rifle Association).Ali G--Aiii also features Cohen's newest character Borat, a reporter from Kazakhstani television who is producing a guide to Britain for his viewers back home. Amazingly, Cohen ran into trouble with the Kazakhstani embassy in Britain over his portrait of the bumbling reporter with only the faintest grasp of English, but in fact it's the Brits he interviews who patronise Borat who come off a lot worse. (See, for example, the embarrassed silence which greets Borat's attempt at introductory small talk at a society dinner party: "My wife, she is dead"!) Like the rest of the show, there is a smart satiric edge to the comedy but it's also very, very funny. Ali introduces the compilation, keepin' it real with a promise that profits from the sale of the video will be channelled back into the Staines ghetto. --Edward Lawrenson

• Will and Grace: Complete Series 1 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £6.03   |  Saving you £43.96 (729.02%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Will & Grace debuted with a controversial splash because one of its two lead characters is gay--but smart writing and topnotch performances, not politics, have made the show a hit. Two neurotic and sharp-tongued urbanites--gay lawyer Will (Eric McCormack) and straight interior designer Grace (Debra Messing)--delight in their volatile but enduring friendship as they share a sumptuous New York apartment. Sweeping into the mix are Will's unapologetically queeny friend Jack (Sean Hayes) and Grace's wildly eccentric assistant Karen (Megan Mullally). Much like Seinfeld, the humour on Will & Grace springs from self-obsession, petty jealousy, and compulsive interfering in each other's lives--basically, the building blocks of human nature. The show's writers apparently feel compelled to keep the lead characters warm and likeable in the usual sitcom mode (which hardly seems necessary, as McCormack and Messing are naturally engaging). As a result, it's Jack and Karen who get free reign to be truly obnoxious and ridiculous--which, of course, makes them incredibly funny and charismatic. Hayes and Mullally rise to the occasion, ripping through absurd situations and arias of narcissistic wit with dazzling panache. Will & Grace's plots routinely center around scenarios that could feature a married couple or two same-sex roommates: Will and Grace bicker over buying a dog, find their relationship tested by apartment renovations, or discover they're both pursuing the same guy--standard sitcom material that the gay factor gives a clever spin. Though their relationship gets in the way of their sex lives, the two take so much pleasure in each other's company that they can't help but stick together--a surprisingly chaste theme for such a culturally groundbreaking show, but one that Will & Grace's addicted audience undoubtedly appreciates. --Bret Fetzer

• La Cage Aux Folles | Blu Ray | (02/04/2018) from £23.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Outrageous, Uproarious Smash ArtHouse Comedy of The 1970S! Renato (La grande bouffe's Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Diabolique's Michel Seerrault) a middleaged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in St. Tropezagree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato's son's fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off a wild and warmhearted farce about the importance of nonconformity and the beauty of being true to oneself. A modest French comedy that became a breakout arthouse smash in America, Edouard MolInaro's La Cage aux Folles inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake The Birdcage. But with its hilarious performances and aheadofitstime social message, there's nothing like the audacious, dazzling original movie. Features: New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with director Edouard Molinaro Archival footage featuring actor Michel Serrault and Jean Poiret, writer and star of the original stage production of La Cage aux Folles New interview with Laurence Senelick, author of The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre French and U.S. trailers New English subtitle translation Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Ehrenstein

• Being There | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Peter Sellers stars as Chance a dapper mentally deficient gardener who has spent his entire life in the home of a rich recluse. He has learned of the outside world only through television and speaks in minimal easy-to-digest sound bites. When Chance steps out into the world for the first time though his idle sayings are interpreted as philosophical wisdom by a wealthy industrialist and soon after swallowed whole by the American public to the point where Chance becomes a media celebrity...

• One Foot In The Grave - Series 5 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One Foot In The Grave returns for the penultimate series. Long-suffering wife Margaret (Annette Crosby) looks on as Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) the uber-grump continues his run of rudeness and misfortune. Retirement isn't the walk in the park he thought it would be! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Man Who Blew Away 2. Only A Story 3. The Affair Of The Hollow Lady 4. Rearranging The Dust 5. Hole In The Sky 6. The Exterminating Angel 7. The Wisdom Of The Witch (Christmas

• Kevin Bridges Live: A Whole Different Story (Limited Edition Amazon Pre-Order Signed Sleeve) | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Blue Mountain State - The Rise Of Thadland | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle (Alan Ritchson; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school Principal threatens to clean up the Blue Mountain State image by auctioning off the infamous Goat House, Alex, Sammy and the boys must find a way to convince him to get involved. Despite his new fortune and fame, there is one small favour that Thad needs done before he saves the day: the biggest booze fest in BMS history. Welcome to Thadland!

• Roy Chubby Brown - Clitoris Allsorts | DVD | (05/10/2001) from £12.74   |  Saving you £3.25 (25.51%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Another seventy minutes of live and lewd stand up with Roy Chubby Brown. Filmed live in Blackpool.

• Scrooged | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times and not nearly wicked enough. Still, if you are a Murray fan, you have to enjoy his deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, who has his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. The various ghosts lead him on a ghost-town tour of Manhattan, with stops at holidays past, present and future and a Kumbaya moment when Al Green and Annie Lennox sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart". The effects are otherworldly, but one wishes the writing were as sharp as Murray's edgy portrayal. --Marshall Fine

• Lord of War | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  An arms dealer on the run from an Interpol agent re-evaluates the morality of his work.

• Cheech And Chong | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Up In Smoke: There's nothing straight about this movie. But here's the dope anyway: Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock 'n' roll comedy bringing with them the same madness lifestyles and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s. Cheech and Chong's marijuana-laced humor keeps their spirits high and leads them to an outrageous finale at L.A.'s Roxy Theater where Cheech performs in a pink tutu and Chong dresses as a large red quaalude

• Yes Man | Blu Ray | (20/04/2009) from £8.18   |  Saving you £18.81 (229.95%)   |  RRP £26.99

  "Yes Man" stars Jim Carrey as Carl Allen, a man who signs up for a self-help programme based on one simple principle: say "yes" to everything...and anything!!

• Jack Dee - Live And Uncut | DVD | (13/12/1999) from £3.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (904.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed at London's Gielgud Theatre at the culmination of his 1998 tour, Jack Dee Live and Uncut offers the UK's favourite "whinger" in his element--on a stage performing stand-up comedy. Dee has presence in his orange shirt and tailored blue suit, but although he's derogatory about himself--he's a stay-at-home man, he's short, he's fat--he's also unapologetic. Dee isn't afraid to throw harsh words at his audience or swear like the proverbial navvy along with an onslaught of observational humour. He doesn't go in for surrealism, one-liners or complex structural payoffs. He prefers to tackle one subject at a time, explore it, then move on. His themes are universal rather than original but he usually brings a fresh perspective. Take builders… he puts himself at the centre of their Neanderthal attentions rather than women. With relationships, he brings his own experience into the equation and he's particularly hilarious about the division of wardrobe space and the structure of marital arguments in his own home. There isn't much here you could say was overtly political but he does have a dig at ridiculous censorship laws by imagining himself in a world that takes the likes of David Cronenberg's Crash literally. --Emma Perry

• Chances Are | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Chances Are the irresistible romantic comedy of two lifetimes Cybill Shepherd stars as Corinne Jeffries a beautiful young woman whose picture-perfect marriage comes to a shattering halt when her husband Louie dies unexpectedly. Fortunately Louie gets a second shot at life when he agrees to be ""recycled"" back to earth as the newborn Alex Finch. But fate crosses Alex's path twenty-three years later when he meets Corinne's daughter Miranda and is suddenly flooded wi

• You're Only Young Twice - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This highly popular Yorkshire Television sitcom stars much-loved TV battleaxe Peggy Mount on robust form as Flora Petty the scourge of Paradise Lodge - a superior residence for retired gentlefolk. Pat Coombs co-stars as Flora's dim-witted sidekick Cissie while veteran stage actress Lally Bowers (A Fine Romance) and sitcom legend Diana King are fellow residents Dolly and Mildred always ready to lend their weight to Flora's campaign of insubordination against proprietress Miss Milton and her staff. Woe betide anyone who tries to take on the fearless Flora: she's old enough to know better... but wise enough not to care! Mining a richly comic terrain that would be revisited a decade later in Waiting for God You're Only Young Twice ran for four series between 1977 and 1981; this set contains the fourth and final series originally screened in 1981 and the 1980 Christmas special.

• Free Jimmy | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Free Jimmy

• Fakers | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Faking it has never been so good! In this hilariously charming crime caper set in the eccentric London art world Nick Edwards owes 50 000 to the super-smooth yet brutal crime-lord Foster Wright and has four days to find the cash. Nick knows nothing about working a heist of that size but when he stumbles across a lost sketch by the legendary Italian artist Antonio Fraccini he believes he's in the clear. The problem is it's only worth 15 grand! With the help of the eter

• Two Ronnies - Series 2 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (168.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In its heyday The Two Ronnies was as much a British institution as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. In a glorious blend of visual and verbal humour each programme begins and ends with the pair seated behind a desk reading quick-fire 'news' reports. In between ""in a packed programme tonight"" there are sketches `drama serials musical routines and a rambling monologue from Ronnie Corbett before finally signing off with their famous catchphrase ""It's goodnight from me And it's goodnight from him.""

• Mark Watson: Flaws | DVD | (30/11/2015) from £6.59   |  Saving you £1.88 (22.20%)   |  RRP £8.47

  The darkest, funniest and most critically-acclaimed show of Watson's career, Flaws takes in a huge range of subjects from alcoholism to post office etiquette, includes a terrifying bit with balloons, and comes to a feel good conclusion which will convince you that for all our flaws, humans still have quite a lot to offer. Mark Watson is the star of Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You, to mention just three from a very long list. He is also known for his cult Radio 4 series Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better and Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life, as well as being the author of five novels. He has won several comedy awards, performed at every major international comedy festival, and famously pulled off a 27-hour-long show for Comic Relief in February 2015. This DVD is a little shorter.