Comedy

• The Vicar Of Dibley - The Best Of The Vicar Of Dibley | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £7.05   |  Saving you £11.93 (293.84%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If you're expecting a selection of your favourite episodes from The Vicar of Dibley, then you'll be in for a bit of a surprise. For what we have here instead is Dawn French in conversation with John Plowman, the show's producer. Together, they introduce and analyse the characters and relive key moments from the series, neatly categorised under such headings as "Chocolate", "The Nearly Wedding" and "Celebrity Appearances" (don't forget they enticed both Kylie and Darcey Bussell onto the show, as well as a host of other celebs). So, it's very much a selection for diehard fans who want to be reminded of the highlights (and there are plenty), ranging from Alice's Teletubby bridesmaids to the arrival of Geraldine's mega-freezer, packed to bursting with Haagen-Dazs. To watch this 90-minute film is to be reminded of just how brilliant--and topical--the concept was. The writing is as fresh as ever, as are the priceless group of characters who bring the scripts to life. From the very opening moments, when Geraldine turns up and jokes that they were expecting a man "beard, bible, bad breath; instead you got a babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom", you know you're in the presence of an enduring comic creation. On the DVD: The Best of the Vicar of Dibley offers pretty minimal extras--an entertaining feature on real-life women vicars, laconically but pertinently narrated by Jo Brand. --Harriet Smith

• Mapp And Lucia Collection - The Complete 1st & 2nd Series | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Miss Emmeline Lucas (Geraldine McEwan) known universally to her friends as Lucia is a dreadful snob but in Miss Elizabeth Mapp (Prunella Scales) of Mallards Lucia meets her match. On the surface they are the most genteel of society ladies but beneath the veneer of politeness and etiquette lies a bitter and seething malice. There is no plan too devious no plot too cunning no depths to which they would not sink in order to win the battle for social supremacy. Using their deadly weapons of garden parties bridge evenings and charming teas the two combatants strive to outcharm each other as they vie for the position of toast of the town... This release features all ten episodes from both series of Mapp & Lucia adapted from the celebrated books by E.F. Benson. Episode titles: The Village Fete Battle Stations The Italian Connection Lobster Pots The Owl And The Pussycat Winner Takes All Change and Change About Lady Bountiful Worship Au Reservoir.

• In Good Company | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.32   |  Saving you £14.67 (275.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace star in this modern day tale about corporate takeovers and falling for your colleague's daughter.

• Bottom - The Very Best Of Bottom | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £7.12   |  Saving you £8.87 (124.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Richard Richard and Edward Elizabeth Hitler (Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson) present The Very Best of Bottom, a selection of episodes from the flat-share sitcom that plays like an ultra-violent comic-book Withnail and I going ten rounds with Men Behaving Badly. Between 1991-5 Edmondson and Mayall made three series and 18 episodes of the non-adventures of the sex-crazed virgin Richie and the alcoholic Eddie, delivering as many belly laughs as their seminal Young Ones, though shorn of that show's brilliantly inventive surrealism. Outrageous slapstick and spectacularly crude innuendo are to the fore, and there are guest appearances by Young One Christopher Ryan as the literal-minded Dave Hedgehog. Packed with sharp one-liners and imaginative routines, there wasn't a weak episode in the entire run, so selecting five best shows is a matter of personal taste (or lack thereof). "Smells" features pheromone spray, cheese-and-onion condoms and a lesson in how to remove nose hair with pliers. In "Accident", Richie breaks a leg, before almost getting one over with Helen Lederer's uninhibited "Digger". "Holy" is a Christmas special involving an immaculate misconception and five minutes of added footage, while "Hole" finds our heroes trapped on a condemned Ferris wheel. On the DVD: The Very Best of Bottom on disc has a 4:3 picture which is excellent for a shot-on-video sitcom, while the mono sound is clear and perfectly functional. Other than the five minutes of extra material in "Holy", originally cut to keep the show down to half-an-hour rather than for censorship reasons, the only extra is a routine photo gallery. --Gary S Dalkin

• George Carlin Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Growing up in New York City George Carlin was always the class clown. He went on to become one of the greatest comedians of all time with appeal that spans generations. His brand of provocative sociopolitical commentary and scathing comic style brought him four Grammy awards most recently in 2002. Carlin was the first-ever host of NBC's Saturday Night Live and has starred in fourteen HBO specials. Titles Comprise: George Carlin in Concert: Playin' With Your Head George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? George Carlin: Doin' It Again George Carlin: Live at the Paramount (aka Jammin' In New York)

• The Return of the Living Dead | Blu Ray | (06/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters--earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews--burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme. There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up. The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. --Kim Newman

• Stella Street 3 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The cult hit show's complete third series demonstrates celebrity send-up at its best.

• Will & Grace Season 2 | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £3.29   |  Saving you £21.70 (86.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After a first season made controversial by the mere presence of openly gay characters, Will & Grace returned triumphantly with renewed confidence and vigour. In their second season, sidekicks Jack and Karen (the very, very funny Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally) are more snide and gleefully obnoxious than ever; Will (Eric McCormack) has perfected his prickly panache; and in particular Grace (Debra Messing) has entered a whole new plane of sexy goofiness, diving even more headlong into physical comedy--such as the episode when, in order to woo a high school crush, she gets a water-padded bra that springs a leak. The writing has also become tighter, grown more deft in its gay and pop culture references (which were often self-conscious in the first season) and at juggling sustained storylines, such as the Immigration department investigating Jack's marriage to Karen's Salvadorian maid Rosario (Shelley Morrison), Grace and Will struggling to become less emotionally incestuous, and Jack seeking his biological father. The show excels at tackling emotional subjects (like Will discovering that his father, who has accepted and even embraced his homosexuality at home, has told his co-workers that Will is married to Grace) with a sharp comic eye. Guest stars start to accumulate: Molly Shannon returns, Sydney Pollack and Debbie Reynolds play Will's dad and Grace's mom, Joan Collins appears as a rival designer, Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, MD) plays the leader of a going-straight support group, and Gregory Hines takes on a recurring role as Will's new boss, a high-powered lawyer who seduces Grace. Will & Grace mixes superb sitcom farce with sly sociopolitical commentary; the fusion is smart and consistently entertaining. --Bret Fetzer

• Wedding Weekend | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of guys who sang together in a popular university a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding in the upmarket Long Island Hamptons. Soon they begin to reminisce about their heyday and about where they are now (or aren't) how much they've progressed - and in some cases regressed - and how life just hasn't turned out as expected. One bar-room brawl nostalgic skinny dip near-death experience surprising sex fantasy and miraculously salvaged wedding later these lifelong friends manage to readjust their perspective.

• Strayed | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in 1940 at the beginning of Germany's occupation of France the recently widowed Odile (Emmanuelle Beart) is a young beautiful mother fleeing Paris with her two children 13-year-old Philippe (Leprince-Ringuet) and 7-year-old Cathy (Clemence Meyer). When German planes bomb the road filled with refugees Odile's car is destroyed and she flees into the woods with her children. They encounter Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel) a 17 year-old illiterate delinquent whose survival skills and charm

• It Happened at the Worlds Fair | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Swinging higher than the space needle with the gals and the songs at the famous Worlds Fair! Fun music and Elvis all happen in this romp boasting one of the best backdrops of any Elvis Presley movie: the 1962 Seattle World's Fair with its showpiece Space Needle monorail and more. The King plays pilot-for-hire Mike whose hope of starting his own flying business is grounded by the gambling of his co-pilot Danny (Gary Lockwood). The pair hitch to Seattle where Mike finds romance Danny finds easy marks and both find problems prior to a Happy Ending. Kurt Russell star of 1979's Elvis biopic plays the child who wallops Mike in the shins. And among the 10 songs are I'm Falling in Love Tonight Relax and the gold record One Broken Heart for Sale. If he's selling we're buying!

• Superbad | Blu Ray | (21/01/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two best friends endure the sort of awful, humiliating night you cherish for the rest of your life in this coming-of-age comedy.

• The Happiness Of The Katakuris | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Japanese musical/horror film from Miike Takashi centering on the Katakuri family who are an average family with a dream to own a successful country inn. Unfortunately things soon go wrong as all their guests drop dead in the most bizarre of circumstances. In order to ensure the success of the business they bury the bodies in the forest behind the house; but this leads to an influx of zombies. Meanwhile the Katakuris daughter falls in love with a mysterious British naval officer who stumbles on a clue that could lead to the family's gruesome stash.

• Leon the Pig Farmer | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hailed as "genre-breaking stuff" on its release in 1992, this is the tale of a London estate agent who find he's the son of a Yorkshire pig farmer.

• Peep Show Series 4 | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Peep Show returns to DVD for the fourth series.

• Bradley Walsh - Live | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bradley Walsh performs a brand new live stand up at the Orchard Theatre Dartford September 2004....

• The Internship (Blu-ray + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (11/11/2013) from £8.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (194.35%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

• Killing Hasselhoff | Blu Ray | (02/10/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ken Jeong, Jim Jefferies and Rhys Darby star in this US comedy directed by Darren Grant. After losing his nightclub and running into debt with a notorious local gangster, Chris Kim (Jeong) is given a deadline of 72 hours to repay the money he owes or face the consequences. With little hope of finding the cash in time, Chris decides to rig the annual celebrity death pool contest he runs with his friends in order to win the $500,000 prize money. However, in order to get his hands on the cash, Chris must first hunt down and kill his entry in the death pool, David Hasselhoff.

• Juwanna Mann | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  When brash bad boy of basketball Jamal Jefferies (Miguel A Nunez Jr) is kicked off the squad for his inappropriate behaviour he is left homeless and penniless. Just like that Jamal's pro-basketball career is finished. Juwanna Bet? With sass hardcourt skills and the right shade of lipstick Jamal transforms himself into a superstar of the women's league instead as Juwanna Mann becoming a better man along the way! And he pulls it off. Well almost! Juwanna Mann is a cool fast paced comedy that will have you.

• Filth | Blu Ray | (10/02/2014) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  James McAvoy stars as a corrupt, sociopathic Edinburgh cop in director Jon S. Baird's fast-paced black comedy, adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh. Bored with his duties as a Detective Sergeant in the Edinburgh police force, Bruce Robertson (McAvoy) gorges himself on a mixture of cocaine, alcohol, sexually abusive relationships and endless junk food, whilst plotting to get one over on his colleagues in his quest for a promotion. But although he nurses hopes of getting back together with his ex-wife Carole (Shauna MacDonald), Bruce soon finds his life spiralling out of control, when his drug addiction and unchecked psychological issues combine to test his grip on reality and push him over the edge.Based on: The novel by Irvine Welsh Technical Specs: Languages(s): EnglishInteractive Menu