Comedy

• Al Murray the Pub Landlord - Crown Jewels Collection | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Al Murray The Pub landlord Live at the Palladium & Al Murray The Pub landlord Live at the 02.

• Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Time does odd things to some films. In 1966, Morgan--A Suitable Case for Treatment was hailed as a touching black comedy about the destruction of a free spirit by an uncaring bourgeois world. Playwright David Mercer's screenplay is full of his standard obsessions of the time--Trotskyism and RD Laing's perception of the mad as truly sane--and Karel Reisz's direction effectively balances Morgan's failing real-world life with a fantasy life of gorillas, King Kong and sinister partisans emerging from a crisply photographed Battersea Power Station. David Warner's Morgan is far more like his student rebel Hamlet of the same year than the B-Movie villains for which he has been more famous for ever since; it is a sentimentalised performance, but only because of the deep sentimentality of the film. A cast that includes Robert Stephens, Irene Handl and Bernard Bresslaw give us some effective social satire and low comedy. The trouble is that Morgan's pursuit and near-rape of his ex-wife, and his trashing of her society wedding, now look more like the behaviour of a stalker than an act of bohemian rebellion; it is significant that the film treats Vanessa Redgrave as a treacherous bimbo with nothing much to do except smile wistfully. Morgan may have been one of the trendiest films of its Swinging London epoch but it has not aged well. On the DVD: the DVD is presented with Dolby Digital sound that makes the most of John Danworth's jazz score in a 2:1 full frame visual aspect. The clean print makes the most of the mono photography. --Roz Kaveney

• The Cuckoo Waltz | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £13.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fliss and Chris are a young happily-married couple whose whizz-kid friend Gavin moves in after splitting with his wife.

• The Two Ronnies - The Best Of The Two Ronnies | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Having first worked together on The Frost Report back in 1966, writers Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett teamed up for their first BBC series in 1971, and The Two Ronnies commenced a 16-year run that yielded 12 series, plus Christmas specials--a total of 98 shows. In the process, they came to represent a distinctly old-fashioned style of British humour, more traditional, familiar and reassuring than the surrealism of Monty Python, or the inspired anarchy of The Goodies. Even the format was designed for minimum disruption, with virtually every episode following the same pattern: opening and closing with the pair seated behind a desk, reading spoof news items, heavy on "blue" puns and spoonerisms (Barker's particular forte). In between, came various sketches (man-in-pub, man-at-party), mock-adventure serials with titles like "Death Can Be Fatal", a typically rambling monologue from Ronnie Corbett, and a climactic musical extravaganza--heavily indebted to Gilbert & Sullivan, and usually performed in drag. A haven for writers, both amateur and professional, the show attracted hundreds of submissions each week, with many of the news items selected only minutes before the start of recording. Though archaic by today's standards, it remains one of the best-loved and most quintessentially "English" of comedy series. --Andrew McGuire

• 3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 1 - Father's Little Dividend / Nothing Sacred | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Father's Little Dividend: Reprising his role from the 1950 release 'Father Of The Bride' Spencer Tracy rejoins Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor in a charming sequel. Tracy portrays Elizabeth Taylor's father Stanley Banks who is still recovering from the effects of giving up his ""little girl"" Kay to Buckley Dunstan played by Don Taylor. Upon hearing the news that the newlyweds are expecting Tracy opposes the new arrival feeling the stresses of middle ag

• It's A Lot | DVD | (17/02/2014) from £5.19   |  Saving you £13.79 (626.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shaun s a lucky boy growing up he s had the right education, parents that loved him and he s never been short of cash. But as he gets older, he finds he doesn t fit into this world, especially with the self-righteous kids at his posh private school. Deliberately deceiving his family, he enrols at his cousin s college where he discovers an untouched world of girls, parties and excitement. Desperate to make a name for himself, he tries to impress the top girl, Chrissy, by holding a party for ...

• Bhaji On The Beach | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.70   |  Saving you £-0.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bhaji on the Beach is the directorial debut of Gurinda Chadha, which--like her next film, What's Cooking--features women as the central characters and seems to involve food at every turn. It's an ensemble piece, which takes a while to establish the characters' relationships with each other. But eventually the focus of the film--based on a story by Meera Syal--gets distilled to a group of women taken on a day trip to Blackpool by a progressive thinking "sister". The skies are suitably grey as they arrive in the English resort town, with the amusement arcades, takeaways and shop fronts looking tacky and run down. There's Ginder (Kim Vithana), who has run away from her violent husband, Hashida (Sarita Khajuria), who has a major decision to make and conservative aunties Asha (Lalita Ahmed) and Pushpa (Zohra Sehgal), not to mention youngsters Ladhu (Nisha K Nayar) and Madhu (Renu Kochar) who are just along for the excitement. As the day wears on, tension mounts between the different generations as secrets come out into the open. It matters little that the plot feels a touch contrived--particularly the convergence of significant characters towards the end--as there's a lot of energy in the performances. The result is a bit rough around the edges, but there's a lot to amuse here, not least in the colourful nod to Bollywood contained in Asha's many dream sequences. --Emma Perry

• Naked Video - Series 2 | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The complete second series of perhaps the funniest sketch show to air during the 1980s on British TV!

• Buck Privates Come Home/One Night in the Tropics | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £5.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (81.97%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Buck Privates: Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail and soon find themselves in boot camp. To their dismay the company's drill instructor is none other than the cop who was all set to run them off to the hoosegow in the first place! The boys end up having a whale of a time getting under the skin of their humourless nemesis. One Night In The Tropics: Bud and Lou get mixed up in a ""Love Insurance"" scheme.

• World of Pub | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brothers Barry and Garry are landlords of the least-successful pub in the East End but help is on hand with their ever-scheming mate Dodgy Phil. One quick call to Renovation Reg Memorabilia Mick or Big Screen Dean and the punters will soon be flocking in. Originally tagged as 'Eastenders meets The Simpsons' World of Pub is one of the most inventive comedy series of recent years following a path from Radio 4 to TV (as with The League of Gentleman and Little Britain) and featuring an all-star line-up of British comedy talent. Welcome to the World of Pub!

• Night At The Museum / Night At The Museum 2 - Escape From The Smithsonian | Blu Ray | (09/11/2009) from £11.69   |  Saving you £23.30 (66.60%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Titles Comprise: Ben Stiller leads an all-star cast including Robin Williams and Dick Van Dyke in this hilarious comedy hit. When good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley (Stiller) is hired as night watchman at the Museum of Natural History he soon discovers that an ancient curse brings all the exhibits to life after the sun sets. Suddenly Larry finds himself face-to-face with a frisky T. Rex skeleton tiny armies of Romans and cowboys and a mischievous monkey who taunts him to the breaking point. But with the help of President Teddy Roosevelt (Williams) Larry may just figure out a way to control the chaos and become a hero in his son's eyes. Boasting jaw-dropping special effects and laugh-out-loud moments Night At The Museum is your ticket to non-stop fun! Night At The Museum 2: Escape From The Smithsmonian: Ben Stiller is back as Larry the security guard who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night In The Museum 2: Escape From The Smithsonian!

• Never The Twain - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Remarkably, the Johnny Mortimer-scripted series Never the Twain ran to over 50 episodes between 1981 and 1984 on ITV. It starred Donald Sinden as Simon Peel, a stuffy, upper-middle class antiques dealer who lives next door to Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies of It Aint Half Hot, Mum fame), a working-class lad made good, also in the antiques trade. As the first series establishes, theirs is a prickly relationship, not just because theyre rivals in trade but also rivals for the affections of the middle-aged, comely Veronica. They are aghast when they discover their respective son and daughter plan to marry, coming on like the Capulets and Montagues of Middle England. Never the Twain is a pleasantly predictable antique of the sitcom variety, redeemed by Sinden and Davies gruff, blustery and persistent antagonism. It depicts a cosy, never-never world of "dirty weekends", huge suburban houses, borderline homophobic mirth and reliable puns on "genes" and "jeans"--the sort of series in which characters greet surprising news by spraying a mouthful of tea halfway across the room. Some will find it barely endurable, others a welcome reminder of a bygone televisual era before alternative comedy became the ubiquitous norm. This DVD contains an episode guide and picture gallery. --David Stubbs

• Life of Riley The Complete First Series | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (19.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brand new smash hit comedy series centring around newly-weds Rosie and Jim and their extended dysfunctional family. Starring Caroline Quentin (Jonathan Creek) and Neil Dudgeon (Silent Witness) and written by Georgia Pritchett (Smack The Pony).

• Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £10.38   |  Saving you £2.60 (35.18%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Join in this feztival of fun which contains the best loved sketches and classic routines from one of Britain's favourite clowns who returns for yet more side-splitting sketches. Watch as all his conjuring tricks misfire and let his maniacal laugh take you over in his unique and inimitable style. A true comic genius with his unmistakable fez he will make you laugh out loud... just like that!

• Big Trouble | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (64.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this new comedy the lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with dangerous results.

• The Dilemma | Blu Ray | (30/05/2011) from £9.02   |  Saving you £15.97 (177.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Vince Vaughn and Kevin James headline an all-star comedy from director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer about a man who finds out that what you don't say to a friend is just as important as what you do.

• Midgets vs Mascots | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  5 Midgets and 5 Mascots fight it out in 30 ridiculous Jackass like challenges for a $10 Million prize left by an eccentric midgets-mascot-loving millionaire. Wrestling live alligators risking their lives and generally humiliating themselves this motley cast will do anything to win resulting in hilarious consequences! Watch as mascots are mauled by bulls midgets are challenged to drinking games and Gary Coleman fights NBA star Scottie Pippen in his last ever role in the most outrageous film of the year! We dare you not to laugh!

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall/Knocked Up/You, Me And Dupree | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £3.00   |  Saving you £5.01 (62.50%)   |  RRP £8.01

  Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008): Struggling musician Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) has spent six years idolizing his girlfriend television star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). He's the guy left holding her purse in paparazzi photos and accidentally omitted from acceptance award speeches. But his world is rocked when she dumps him and Peter finds himself alone. After an unsuccessful bout of womanizing and an on-the-job nervous breakdown he sees that not having Sarah may just ruin his life. To clear his head Peter takes an impulsive trip to Hawaii where he is confronted by his worst nightmare: his ex and her tragically hip new British-rocker boyfriend Aldous (Russell Brand) are sharing his hotel. But as he torments himself with the reality of Sarah's new life he finds relief in a flirtation with Rachel (Mila Kunis) a beautiful resort employee whose laid-back approach tempts him to rejoin the world. He also finds relief in several hundred embarrassing fruity cocktails. Knocked Up (2008): Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby's father Allison decides to give the lovable doof a chance. An overgrown kid who has no desire to settle down Ben learns that he has a big decision to make with his kid's mom-to-be: will he hit the road or stay in the picture? Courting a woman you've just Knocked Up however proves to be a little difficult when the two try their hands at dating. As they discover more about one another it becomes painfully obvious that they're not the soul mates they'd hoped they might be! You Me & Dupree (2006): Two's company. Dupree's a crowd. For newlyweds Carl (Matt Dillon) and Molly Peterson (Kate Hudson) life can't get any sweeter as they begin anew to settle down into married life. With a nice house and established careers in tow nothing seems to get in their way. However Carl is about find out just how much friendship means when Randy Dupree (Owen Wilson) his best friend has been displaced from his home and fired from his job because of attending their wedding. Taking his friend in what Carl and Molly are about to experience is that the fine line between a few days and whatever else after can be a lot more than they bargained for!

• Diary Of A Wimpy Kid 3 - Dog Days | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £5.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days, the third instalment in the Wimpy Kid films, is sublimely funny for all ages. That's a tall order, but it's really true. The script, the jokes, the acting, the dialogue are all appropriate for pretty much all ages of children, but manage to be super-appealing to adults too. Zachary Gordon is back as Greg, the wimpy kid who just can't quite square his true desires--to play video games all summer, indoors--with his well-meaning dad's intention that he do something worthwhile, and preferably outside. When Greg starts hanging out at the swanky country club pool to be nearer his crush, Holly (Peyton List), he lets his dad (Steve Zahn) believe he's gotten a job there. The jokes and gags are not highbrow, and yet director David Bowers and the talented cast and well-written script keep things moving along, if you will, swimmingly. What's great about the Wimpy Kid films is that the kids are believable and on-trend, and yet wear age-appropriate clothes and don't drop swear words. It's endearing to see middle-schoolers treated as the almost-teens they are--emphasis on "almost." Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days is truly a comedy that the whole family can enjoy together. --A.T. Hurley

• Moving Wallpaper - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Moving Wallpaper depicts the behind-the-scenes backbiting at the making of ITV1 brand new soap entitled 'Echo Beach'. Mastermninded by producer Jonathan Pope(Ben Miller)who is determined to make it the most talked-about show in Britain.