Comedy

• Billy Connolly Live Box Set (You Asked For It 2011 + Live in London 2010) | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A two-volume set from 'The Big Yin'. 'You Asked for It' features the best bits from Billy Connolly's TV and stand-up performances over the years along with his fans' favourite clips and his first TV special recorded in 1976. 'Live in London 2010' is a recording of his live stand-up show at London's Hammersmith Apollo.

• BASEketball (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (09/07/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For the first time in High Definition in the UK, from director David Zucker (Airplane!, The Naked Gun) comes hilarious sport-comedy BASEketball, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. When slacker friends Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) are challenged to a pickup basketball game against some jocks, they counter by proposing to play a game they learned called BASEketball, which combines basketball and baseball. In reality, they are improvising all of the rules, but somehow the sport becomes a hit. A promoter (Ernest Borgnine) forms a popular league, but after his death a rival owner (Robert Vaughn) wants to change the rules to increase profits.

• Cheech And Chong Collection - Organically Grown In USA | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A 5 disc box set of hazy cult comedies from Cheech and Chong. Includes: Born In East L.A: Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home. Sound: Dolby (1.0) Mono Languages: English Duration: 1 hour and 21 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescr

• Saturday Night Live - The Best Of Mike Myers | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £20.77   |  Saving you £-14.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Best of Mike Myers is a compilation of sketches from his six seasons on the American show Saturday Night Live, and features the star in his pre-Austin Powers days appearing in various garbs and characters, though not as Powers himself. There are, however, two Wayne's World segments, Myers' other great cinematic triumph (in collaboration with Dana Carvey), in which he plays the zonked-out heavy-metal dude who presents a cable show from his basement. One features Aerosmith guesting, waylaid by Wayne's mum and given the tour of the house, or "walk of shame"; the other has Madonna, in a parody of her In Bed With... era. Other characters include Sprockets, a stern and Teutonic techno-obsessed host, and Lothar of the Hill People, an ancient chieftain. Considering he is Liverpool-born, Myers is happy to peddle some curious American stereotypes of the British: that they have bad teeth, as in the "Hedley & Wyche" sketch ("one tube lasts a lifetime") or that they all behave like characters from a Terry-Thomas movie. Among the featured guests in these sketches are Steve Martin, Tom Hanks (as Aerosmith's roadie), Nicole Kidman as a six-year-old girl, Roseanne Barr and Danny DeVito. Sometimes, as is SNL's wont, the sketches go on several minutes too long and lack sharpness, while the star guests don't always put in Oscar-winning performances. However, amid the self-indulgence there are a number of very funny moments. On the DVD: The Best of Mike Myers DVD is a straightforward transfer of the TV original with no extra features. --David Stubbs

• Daddy Day Care | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When two men get laid off they're forced to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs. Until, that is, they decide to open their own day-care centre.

• Damo & Ivor: The Movie | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £4.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Damo & Ivor are well-known characters from the massively popular satirical comedy about the lives of two identical twin brothers separated not long after birth. One of the boys, Damo, is left to grow up on the mean streets of Dublin to be raised by his maternal Grandmother, Grano, while the other, Ivor, is given a life of wealth and luxury in Dublin s affluent Foxrock by parents who shower their son with money and little else. The film follows on from the last TV series and sees Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures across Ireland to find the last piece of their family puzzle, their long-lost brother John Joe.

• My New Gun | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The life of a young suburban housewife is transformed through a series of mishaps when her husband gives her a gun...

• Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A clan of British communists choose to leave 1960's Britain to seek out Utopian bliss in East Germany in this new comedy.

• Man Trouble | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £7.95   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  He plans to steal... more than her heart. In this wild romantic comedy with a decidedly off-beat sense of humour Jack Nicholson stars as Harry a wisecracking con-man who owns a guard dog agency. When Joan (Ellen Barkin) an opera singer seeks his aid after her house is broken into Harry inadvertently makes them the target of hit men - and puts them at the mercy of Harry's out-of-control canines. Harry Dean Stanton as a less-than-honourable businessman and Beverly D'Angelo as Joan's eccentric sister also star.

• Love Actually - Special Christmas Edition | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An ensemble comedy from the makers of "Notting Hill" following a whole host of separate but intertwining stories of love in London.

• Odd Balls | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Welcome to Camp Bottomout where boys will be boys and girls will be chased in the craziest ways possible! Not even the prim Miss Kitten can curb the instincts of these teenagers on the rampage who are after anything they can get their hands on in or around! Take a chunk of 'Porkys' add a touch of 'Bachelor Party' and sprinkle liberally with 'Screwballs' and the result is this very funny and outrageous movie: 'Oddballs'!

• Mister ED Volume 1 | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Saddle up for the first release of Mister Ed on DVD! Join the world's most famous talking horse and his hapless owner Wilbur Post as the pair go from scrape to scrape!

• Broken News - Series 1 | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £11.27   |  Saving you £8.72 (77.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five continents. 25 channels. 227 reporters. Broken News is all the news you're ever going to need in 30 minutes! A satirical look at the onscreen world of rolling news. All 6 episodes of the series first seen on BBC 2.

• My Hero - Series 3 - Episodes 1-5 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Contains Episodes: Baby Talk: Keeping George's alter ego secret from Janet's parents is becoming almost impossible since the new addition to the family. With a visit expected any minute George is busy teaching the baby superhero antics. Will the truth finaly come out? Zero Tolerance: Life at the health centre takes an unexpected turn when a gun wielding lunatic rushes in demanding access to the drugs cabinet. However it is George rather than Thermoman who is left to save the day.

• Rat | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pete Postlethwaite is Hubert Flynn Dublin bread deliveryman who loves his pint of Guinness his bet on the horses and his wife Conchita in that order. So when he comes home from the pub one evening and changes into a rat Conchita is slow to forgive. Conchita (played to perfection by Imelda Staunton) at first resists her family's eccentric plans for Hubert but when an opportunistic ghost-writer knocks on the door and proposes to put their story in a book and then a film of the book and a book of the film and riches beyond her dreams... she is tempted. So setting the stage for a series of bizarre and comical adventures for Hubert the rat and his family. Rat is the tale of family values little furry folk and one man's struggle to regain his humanity... literally! Special effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

• Lost In Yonkers | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The screenplay of 'Lost In Yonkers' is adapted by Neil Simon from his own stage-play. In the summer of 1942 two brothers are sent to live with their strict grandmother in New York when their mother dies. Everything starts to look up though when Uncle Louie (Richard Dreyfuss) arrives...

• Pie In The Sky - Series 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After being shot on duty DI Crabbe decides to retires from the police force to set up his own restaurant 'Pie In The Sky'. While he would much rather be left to his own devices in the kitchen he is constantly called back on duty by his needy ex-boss Chief Constable Fisher (Malcolm Sinclair). Features the first five episodes from series one of the programme.

• The Beiderbecke Connection | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £13.70   |  Saving you £-3.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The ongoing saga of investigative schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne continues in this four part series....

• Early Bird, The / Press For Time | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning, all set to Ron Goodwin's tongue-in-cheek music score. --Mark Walker In Press for Time Norman Wisdom offered his version of the crusading reporter movie, though by 1966 time was running out for Norman's style of big-screen comedy. Perhaps a sign of his growing frustration with the formulaic nature of his pictures was that he stretched himself to play not just his usual underdog hero, but also his own mother and his grandfather, the Prime Minister. Wisdom also cowrote the movie in which, as a reporter in a small seaside town, he causes chaos for the council, organises a beauty parade and dresses as a suffragette. Though now nearing the end of his years as a movie star, Wisdom shows himself to still be as polished as ever at his own brand of good-natured slapstick. --Gary S Dalkin

• Ronnie Barker - The Best Of Ronnie Barker | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £6.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (97.12%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The sketches and scenes included on this DVD were selected by Ronnie himself as representations of some of his best work. From the Two Ronnies we are treated to gigglesome delights such as the `slang Vicar' `four candles' and `pismronounciation'. Mixed with chunks of Porridge Open All Hours Clarence and Magnificent Evans this programme is a must for any true Barker fan.