Comedy

• Mystery Men | DVD | (12/06/2000) from £11.56   |  Saving you £4.42 (51.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the Dark Horse comic, Mystery Men casts Stiller, Azaria, Macy, Reubens, Studi, Garofalo and Mitchell as seven lame superhero wannabes

• Swiss Toni - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (01/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Played by Charlie Higson and developed from The Fast Show character who claimed ""Buying a car is like making love to a beautiful woman"" Swiss Toni will no doubt entertain enthral evoke laughter and most of all make you feel evolved. With his blonde quiff standing to attention and his grey shot-silk suit sparkling under the showroom lights Swiss Toni is the emperor of his car emporium. However Toni is being taught to drive by his long-suffering wife Ruth and is con

• And The Same To You | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £19.19   |  Saving you £-3.21 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A boxing promoter who shares a church hall with a prudish reverend is the knockout formula for this sparkling Brian Rix farce.

• School Of Life | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A new teacher squares off against his crusty competitor for a teacher of the year award.

• Three Can Play That Game | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £5.52   |  Saving you £14.47 (262.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Byron hits the big time no one is happier than his girlfriend Tiffany - that is until she catches him flirting with his sly new project manager Carla. Call in the doctor - the Love Doctor that is. Using her knowledge of the male psyche and her new Five Step Program Shant (Fox) puts their relationship to the test and proves that when it comes to winning at love you've got to learn to become a master at the game!

• For Love Or Money | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £13.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael J. Fox is a concierge at a top New York hotel who falls for the mistress of a rich businessman staying at the hotel, whom he wants to invest in his upstate inn.

• We Know Where You Live | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ever since the comedy greats stepped beyond the fringe for The Secret Policemen's Ball the annual Amnesty International concert has been one of the highlights of the comedy circuit. 2001's offering was called We Know Where You Live and let's face it, where else are you going to see the UK's top comedians and pop acts on one stage? Compeered by the "surreal stylings" of Eddie Izzard, this compilation of the night's highlights includes a new version of the classic "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch with Eddie, Harry Enfield, Vic Reeves and Alan Rickman. Rickman stubbornly sticks to the script while all around him improvise. There is also a great performance from Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse as the Self-Righteous Brothers and the Goodness Gracious Me team going out for "an English". As well as the comedy there are live performances from Tom Jones, Badly Drawn Boy and the Stereophonics, which seem rather abrupt and heavily edited. Some of the material is quite old, though--any fans of Izzard will already have seen him do the Star Trek phaser sketch where he talks about the other settings, other than stun and kill! On the DVD: What really makes this worth the price (apart from supporting a very worthwhile charity) is the extra footage. As well as some more performance stuff, including Phil impersonating Eddie Izzard which is frighteningly spot on, there is back stage material and a news report following the Amnesty bus round London. Buy it, because other wise you might get Eddie round your house! --Kristen Bowditch

• Love and Other Drugs - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (23/05/2011) from £12.13   |  Saving you £12.86 (51.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal) whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love. Based on Jamie Reidy's memoir Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman.

• The Blues Brothers (1980) - Augmented Reality Edition | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Put on your shades and get the Blues again with the long awaited Blu-ray Edition of The Blues Brothers.Comedy icons John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star in this funny musical comedy about Jake and Elwood Blues, two brothers searching for redemption with no money but a briefcase full of soul. When they discover that the orphanage where they were raised will be closed down unless the tax on the property can be paid in 11 days, they decide to raise money by putting their band back together and stage a big gig.

• Gladiatress | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An exciting British comedy featuring the three leads from 'Smack The Pony': Fiona Allen Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. The year is 55 B.C. The Romans are cutting a bloody swathe through the European continent. Any nation daring to defy them is swiftly and brutally crushed into servitude. Mighty Gaul has just fallen and Rome has set its sights upon a small cold and rather damp island across the narrow waters of the Channel. Now with the Romans invading it is up to three sist

• Jack Dee - Live At The Duke Of York's | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £5.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (145.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD shows Jack Dee doing what he does best entertaining a packed crowd with his biting sometimes barbed but always witty stand up comedy. Filmed at the Duke Of York's Theatre in London in 1992

• Caroline In The City | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Get your pyjamas on your tub of 'Haagen-Dazs' and settle down for a night in with Caroline In The City. Caroline Duffy (Lea Thompson) has her professional life just the way she wants it. ""Caroline in the City "" the comic strip she created turned into merchandising gold with an array of greeting cards books and calendars. Caroline's personal life is not quite as golden but it serves as an endless source of material for her strip. In the first series of this smash US TV sit

• The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever - Part 1 | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The success of The Fast Show has always relied on the number of sketches devoted to your favourite characters. While this, the last ever series, suffers a little for the loss of Caroline Aherne (presumably busy with The Royle Family?), and from the fact that those sketches based on a single catch-phrase or joke--Jessie's Diets, "Which was nice", and even the cough-prone Bob Fleming--seem to be running out of steam, the show's more rounded creations are all back and still going strong. Swiss Tony has emerged from therapy a new man, Colin Hunt gets the sack from his beloved office job and Ralph struggles on with his unrequited love for handyman Ted. There are new characters: a ragged, Charlton Heston-like astronaut who runs into different situations screaming, "What year is this? Who is the President?!", and a cynical, middle-aged woman who meets every note of human kindness she encounters with a sarcastic "Hah!", are particular standouts. However, as always, the series works best when the regular characters collide with contemporary phenomena, so here we have Indecisive Dave being phoned by a friend who's appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; the "Suits You!" tailors harassing an incognito Johnny Depp; the cheeky criminal stealing a child's Pokémon cards; John Actor playing hard-nosed interior designer Laurence Lewellyn Monkfish in Changing Monkfish; the send-up of recent gangster Brit flicks A Right Royal Barrel of Cockney Monkeys (populated entirely by pseudo-cockney public schoolboys); and a sketch in which Channel 9's gardening presenter is assisted by a topless woman. Nice Dimmocks! --Paul Philpott

• The Rewrite | Blu Ray | (09/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Once upon a time screenwriter Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) was on top of the world - a Golden Globe Award and a hit movie to his name a beautiful wife and son and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of sexy British wit and charm. But that was fifteen years ago: now he's divorced approaching fifty hasn't written a hit film in years and is going broke. Luckily his agent has a gig for him - albeit far away from Hollywood. A university in upstate New York is looking for a writer-in-residence to teach a course on screenwriting and with an empty wallet as his motivation Keith can't say no. In bucolic Binghamton he quickly discovers that his celebrity status hasn't faded and he finds himself in a compromising position with a star-struck pupil Karen (Bella Heathcote) who is enrolled in his class and his other students seem naïve and simple. Hoping to give minimal attention to his duties and focus on writing a new script Keith inadvertently gets off on the wrong foot with a ranking faculty member (Allison Janney) a humourless Jane Austen scholar; though he does quickly befriend two eccentric faculty colleagues who promise to show him the ropes (Chris Elliott J.K. Simmons). Keith's attitude begins to turn when he meets Holly (Marisa Tomei) a single mom working two jobs to earn her bachelor's degree. Though Holly has a new boyfriend - and Keith isn't very savvy about covering up his romance with Karen - the two find themselves connected by their mutual need for a second chance. When one of his pupils comes up with a screenplay that Keith knows will sell he sees an opportunity to get out of teaching and go back to living the good life. But he's also discovered that teaching has given him that second chance at becoming a better man - and finds himself equally tempted to stay and see where his new talents take him.

• The Truth About Love | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £5.26   |  Saving you £0.73 (13.88%)   |  RRP £5.99

  How far would you go to test your man? And how far would you go to keep him? As part of a drunken bet with her sister a happily married woman sends an anonymous Valentine's card to her husband to see if he hides it. When he does what was a prank leads to a series of events and revelations that puts her marriage at risk and leaves her looking for revenge.

• Lady Godiva Rides Again | DVD | (01/06/2020) from £10.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.

• Spaced - Definitive Collectors' Edition | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £17.92   |  Saving you £7.07 (39.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Spaced is a sitcom like no other. The premise is simple enough: Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) and Tim (Simon Pegg) are out of luck and love, so pretend to be a couple in order to rent a flat together. Downstairs neighbour and eccentric painter Brian suspects someone's fibbing, and almost blows their cover with their lecherous lush of a landlady, Marsha. Fortunately he soon falls for Daisy's health-freak friend Twist, while Daisy herself goes ga-ga for pet dog Colin. Tim remains happily platonic with lifemate Mike; a sweet-at-heart guns 'n' ammo obsessive. The series is chock-full of pop culture references. In fact, each episode is themed after at least one movie, with nods to The Shining and Close Encounters of the Third Kind proving especially hilarious. Hardly five minutes goes by without a Star Wars reference, and every second of screen time from Bill Bailey as owner of the comic shop where Tim works is comedic gold. The look of the series is its other outstanding element, with slam-zooms, dizzying montages, and inspired lighting effects (often paying homage to the Evil Dead movies). It's an affectionate fantasy on the life of the twenty-something that's uncomfortably close to the truth. The second series finds the gang at 23 Meteor Street a little older, but definitely none the wiser. Tim's career is hampered by severe hang-ups over The Phantom Menace. Daisy's career is just plain non-existent. There is still a spark of sexual tension between them, but it's overshadowed by Brian and Twist getting it on. Propelling the seven-episode series arc is the threat of Marsha discovering that none of the relationships are what they seem, Mike's increasing jealousy and a new love interest for Tim. That's the basis for a never-ending stream of in-jokes and references that easily match the quality of the first series. Tim has a Return of the Jedi flashback, then déjà vu in reliving the end of The Empire Strikes Back. There are spoofs of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Robocop, The Sixth Sense and comedy rival The Royle Family. There are guest spots from Bill Bailey, Peter (voice of Darth Maul) Serafinowicz and The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith. Every episode is packed with highlights, but this series' guaranteed geek pant-wetting moments have to be the mock gun battles, slagging off Babylon 5 and learning that "The second rule of Robot Club is: no smoking." Jessica Stevenson won a British Comedy Award for this year. It deserved a whole lot more. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: Series 1 includes trailers, out-takes, deleted scenes with commentary, cast, crew, and character biographies and a full audio commentary by the director and cast. Series 2 features a chaotic but highly enthusiastic commentary from the director and cast, including of course Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, who also talk about some deleted scenes and why they were removed. There's an outtakes blooper reel, as well as a selection of raw location footage and a self-explanatory clip, "Daisy Does Elvis". The most useful feature, though, is the subtitle "Homage-o-Meter" facility, which displays all the movie references throughout the series. --Paul Tonks/Mark Walker

• South Park Season 9 | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £22.93   |  Saving you £2.06 (8.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The 9th season of goings-on in the tiny town of South Park with Cartman Stan Kyle and Kenny.

• The Simpsons - Kiss And Tell | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Animated adventures with Springfield's first family the Simpsons. Featuring 4 loved-up blissed-out episodes some of which have never been released on DVD! Episodes Comprise: 1. Natural Born Kissers (Season 9) 2. Large Marge (Season 14) 3. Three Gays of the Condo (Season 14) 4. The Way We Weren't (Season 15)

• On The Line | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £6.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (115.68%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Pop stars and movies don't normally make the best combinations; despite featuring three musicians trying their hands at the acting game On the Line is a delightful movie. The biggest draw will undoubtedly be Lance Bass and Joey Fatone of US boy band N*SYNC and while many critics may be ready with their pot shots the pair not only bring a surprisingly deft acting ability to the screen but a chemistry clearly borne of years together in a band. The film bravely refuses to play the predictable teen comedy card, opting instead for a more mature tale of romance. On the Line succeeds not only thanks to the performances but because its theme of lost opportunities is a universal one. Certainly not a film without its faults (Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora's cameo is simply dreadful), On the Line has the courage of its convictions and at least tries to do something other than the expected. The result is an enjoyable effort and one that suggests Bass and Fatone may well have a prosperous future ahead of them when that Justin Timberlake fellow inevitably dumps them to go solo. On the DVD: On the Line is certainly a diverting if not startling DVD package. The commentary from director Eric Bross and the excellent Emmanuelle Chriqui is lively and informative. There is a selection of deleted and alternative scenes as well as outtakes. The HBO special is fine, if essentially one long advert for the movie. Unsurprisingly, the film enjoys a high-profile soundtrack (unwisely including the odd N*SYNC tune, rather blurring the edges of credibility) and the audio quality is suitably superb. --Phil Udell