Comedy

• Outside Edge : The Complete Third Series | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-1.24 (-6.50%)   |  RRP £18.99

  The complete third series of the multi-award winning cricketing based comedy drama.

• Dave Spikey - The Overnight Success Tour/Living The Dream Live | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Living The Dream: Dave Spikey star of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights (as co-writer and club compere Jerry 'The Saint' Clair) hits the road for the first time since his award-winning 'Overnight Success' tour. Away from Phoenix Nights Spikey is an established comedian in his own right. He won the prestigious 'Performance of the Year' at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards in 2003 for his 'Overnight Success' show and took the 'Best Comedy Performance' award at the Leicester Mercury Awards in 2004. The Overnight Success Tour: Live comedy from the star of 'Phoenix Nights'. The critics raved that you should sell your first born to get hold of a ticket to see 'The Brilliant Dave Spikey' live at the Leeds City Varieties Theatre. Here's your chance to see his comic genius again and again on this his first live stand up video. Find out why grannies can't suck eggs and meat pies have little holes on the top. Discover the joys of duck cabaret dobber clobber toilet brushes and pushing a terrier upstairs. Dave's comedy steamroller will have you laughing so much you'll cry!

• Teen Girl Triple: Freaky Friday / The Princess Diaries / Lizzie McGuire | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Freaky Friday (Dir. Jim Fall 2003): Mother and daughter Tess and Anna don't seem to be getting on at all well. Neither understands the other and they regularly come into conflict. In a strange coincidence they receive identical fortune cookies which seems to create a curious mystical situation. They wake up on Friday morning and find that they have swapped bodies. Clearly this causes some considerable disturbance as they must adapt to the change of events and gradually they learn more respect for each other. The Princess Diaries (Dir. Garry Marshall 2001): A modern-day Cinderella story about Mia Thermopolis a shy gawky teenager whose main aim in life is to survive each day at school with the minimum amount of attention and embarrassment. Her ideals of the quiet life are thwarted when her strict grandmother tells her she is the Princess and heir to the throne of Genovia. Having to take on this new responsibility she takes Princess lessons and become totally transformed only to find out that she's in the middle of a media storm jealous schoolmates and a plot to take over her newly founded country. The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Dir. Mark S. Waters 2003): Lizzie and friends Kate Gordo and Ethan take a trip to Rome in celebration of their graduation. The trip however does not turn out how they might expect when Lizzie is mistaken for Italy's biggest singing sensation. A whirlwind few days spent as a pop star leaves Lizzie with a major crush on a handsome Italian pop star and a serious decision to make about her future.

• Family Guy Series 1-6 - Complete Box Set | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £129.99

  The most hilarious animated sit-com since The Simpsons Family Guy revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures. The Griffin household includes two teenagers a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else and a megalomaniacal mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family but along the way he makes mistakes that are the stuff of legend.

• Ringmaster | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £9.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• The Comedy Hour With Dean Martin And Jerry Lewis Vol.2 | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their names in the 'Colgate Comedy Hour' shows of 1940s and 50s America. This second volume of original footage from the series brings to life the hilarious sketches jokes and slapstick for which the duo became renowned as well as musical numbers that showcase Dean Martin's remarkable voice.

• Meet the Feebles | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Look Who's Talking Now | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The last film in the Look Who's Talking minifranchise goes to the dogs, literally, to keep the series' major gimmick intact--letting the audience hear the thoughts of the little newcomers in the Ubriacco family. The kids who were once babies in the two prior films can now babble for themselves, so the script finds the adult characters taking in two mutts who do a "Lady and the Tramp" thing while we listen in. Travolta (rescued a year later in 1994's Pulp Fiction) and Alley mark time while Danny De Vito and Diane Keaton provide the most entertainment performing the dogs' voices. Not awful, but not necessary either, and a long way from the small but real qualities of the first film. --Tom Keogh

• Third Rock From The Sun - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The multi-award winning comedy series stars John Lithgow as the High Commander of an investigative team of aliens sent to Earth on a mission to learn everything about humans and their so-called advanced civilisation.

• Roseanne - Series 3 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  America's favourite dysfunctional family - Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) husband Dan (John Goodman) her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) and kids Becky (Lecy Goranson) Darlene (Sara Gilbert) and D.J. (Michael Fishman) - is back! In this top-rated third series Roseanne Conner and family continue to push the sitcom envelope as they deliver one of the most acclaimed and daring shows in television history. Relive all the classic hilarity as Roseanne explains the facts of life to Dar

• Maggie and Her - The Complete First Series | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fresh Fields Julia McKenzie is Maggie a divorced schoolteacher who lives on her own in a flat in London. Comedy battleaxe Irene Handl is her Maggie s nosy next-door neighbour Mrs. P. whose continual presence means that Maggie is never really alone. While Maggie's hoping that Mr. Right will eventually come along it seems certain that Mrs. P.'s infuriating interventions will ensure the path of true love shall always run rough! This engaging highly popular LWT sitcom was an early success for the BAFTA-nominated Julia McKenzie and this first series set also includes the pilot play Poppy and Her first broadcast in 1976.

• Comrade X | DVD | (14/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My One and Only | Blu Ray | (24/01/2011) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  My One And Only follows actor George Hamilton's teenage years. It's an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s and starring Rene Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux. She's a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser. After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him and takes her two sons: George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages. In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband - the only way she can imagine to support them. Anne is 40-ish and attractive to men but no longer this year's model. Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh and St. Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George's dubious eyes. One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates. She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her and then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business.

• Sleepless in Seattle | Blu Ray | (23/11/2020) from £12.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron's wonderfully romantic comedy about two people drawn together by destiny. Hanks stars as Sam Baldwin, a widowed father who, thanks to the wiles of his worried son, becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He's an instant hit with thousands of female listeners who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile, inspired in equal parts by Sam's story and by classic Hollywood romance, writer Annie Reed (Ryan) becomes convinced that it's her destiny to meet Sam. There are just two problems: Annie's engaged to someone else and Sam doesn't know yet that they're made for each other. Co-starring Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Wilson and Rob Reiner. Special Features: Love in the Movies Featurette ˜'When I Fall in Love'' Music Video

• Shaun Of The Dead (2003) - Augmented Reality Edition | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's no disparagement to describe Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s zombie-rom-com Shaun of the Dead as playing like an extended episode of Spaced. Not only does the movie have the rather modest scope of a TV production, it also boasts the snappy editing, smart camera moves, and deliciously post-modern dialogue familiar from the sitcom, as well as using many of the same cast: Pegg’s Shaun and Nick Frost’s Ed are doppelgangers of their Spaced characters, while Jessica Stevenson and Peter Serafinowicz appear in smaller roles. Unlike the TV series, it’s less important for the audience to be in on the movie in-jokes, though it won’t hurt if you know George Romero’s famous Dawn of the Dead trilogy, which is liberally plundered for zombie behaviour and mythology. Shaun is a loser, stuck in a dead-end job and held back by his slacker pal Ed. Girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) is exasperated by his lack of ambition and unceremoniously dumps him. As a result, Shaun misses out on what is apparently the end of the world. In a series of beautifully choreographed and edited scenes, including hilarious tracking shots to and from the local shop, he spectacularly fails to notice the death toll and subsequent zombie plague. Only when one appears in their back garden do Shaun and Ed take notice, hurling sundry kitchen appliances at the undead before breaking out the cricket bat. The catastrophe proves to be the catalyst for Shaun to take charge of his life, sort out his relations with his dotty mum (Penelope Wilton) and distant stepdad (Bill Nighy), and fight to win back his ex-girlfriend. Lucy Davis from The Office and Dylan Moran of Black Books fame head the excellent supporting cast. --Mark Walker

• Funny People | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £3.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (178.27%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann star in this seriously funny film from Writer-Director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up)When famous comedian George Simmons (Sandler) is given a second chance at a new beginning, he and his assisntant, a struggling comedian, Lra (Rogen), return to the places and people that matter most... including the stand-up spots that gave him his start and the girl that got away(Mann).Co-starring Jonah Hill, Eric Bana and Jason Schwartzman, it's the film that critics have hailed as uproariously funny.

• City Lights | Blu Ray | (15/11/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1931 shortly after the introduction of the talkies, Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is nonetheless near-silent. Chaplin was afraid that, should his universally known and beloved Tramp speak onscreen, he would be severely limited and compromised as a character. And so, City Lights is billed as "pantomime", a piece of cinema harking back to the manners and methods of an already defunct era. Chaplin fell out of fashion towards the end of the 20th century as a new wave of comedians (Rowan Atkinson for one) castigated him for what they saw as his excessive, maudlin sentimentality. Certainly, City Lights--which sees Chaplin's Tramp befriended by a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich benefactor--is hokum indeed. Accepting this, however, what makes the film so marvellous is the deceptive skill and artistry of Chaplin the filmmaker, the immaculate timing and acrobatic grace of his seemingly slapstick comedy, in particular a justly famous boxing sequence. Chaplin's sparing use of sound is inventive also: the wordless waffle of public speakers in the opening scene and another in which the tramp swallows a whistle. Moreover, the conclusion, in which the dishevelled Tramp encounters again the flower girl, her eyesight restored is--sentimentality notwithstanding--one of the most moving and superbly executed scenes in cinema history, not least for its economy and restraint. On the DVD: City Lights contains a generous package of extras on this two-disc set, including an introduction by David Robinson, in which he relates how poorly Chaplin and his leading lady Virginia Cherrill got on, an extended documentary/interview with Peter Lord (partner in animation to Nick Parks), who sings the praises of Chaplin's screen art, and a deleted scene, an immaculate piece of business involving a grate and a stick. There's a bonus in the form of an excerpt from 1915's The Champion, in which Chaplin prefigures the boxing scene from City Lights. Meanwhile, the "documents" section includes a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage, including a test screening for alternative actress Georgia Hale, rehearsal shots, chaotic scenes of Chaplin being mobbed in Vienna, a meeting with Winston Churchill and 1918 footage of Chaplin horsing around with famous boxers of the day including Benny Leonard. It also contains trailers, photo gallery and subtitles. On the first disc, the film's transfer to DVD is splendid. --David Stubbs

• There's Something About Mary/Me, Myself And Irene | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £29.93   |  Saving you £-20.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  There's Something About Mary (Dir. Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly 1998): Filled with endless laughs and unbelievable sight gags this delightfully outlandish romantic comedy is a hysterical smash hit. Still suffering from a High School crush on Mary (Cameron Diaz) the nerdy angst-driven Ted (Ben Stiller) tracks her down thirteen years later with the help of a sleazy private investigator (Matt Dillon) who also falls for her. Unfortunately both men discover that virtually every man who sets his eyes on the dazzling Mary finds himself head over heels in love and determined to win her hand. The wacky Farrelly Brothers have pushed the envelope again creating another outrageous movie experience guaranteed to make you laugh and keep you coming back for more. Me Myself And Irene (Dir. Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly 2000): Charlie Baileygates (Jim Carrey) is a 17-year veteran of the Rhode Island police force. He is mild-mannered hard-working always helpful and a devoted and loving father of three sons. Unfortunately Charlie has split personality disorder and when he runs out of medication Charlie's hyper-aggressive alter ego Hank appears. Hank's got a filthy mouth drinks like a fish and enjoys a good fight. Charlie and Hank have nothing in common with the exception of Irene Waters (Renee Zellweger) a beautiful woman on the run with whom they have both fallen in love. Now Hank and Charlie must wage war with each other for Irene's affections.

• Cheats | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £3.12   |  Saving you £18.13 (974.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book Handsome Davis (Trevor Fehrman) sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years. The gang have entered their final year of high school and the stakes are upped by the schoo

• Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law - Season 1 (Region 2) (Pal) | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (-1.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The superhero formerly known as Birdman is now making a mockery of the legal system representing Hannah-Barbara toons gone bad. High-profile cases in Season 1 include Shaggy and Scooby busted for possession Fred Flintstone's Mafioso antics and the hunt for Yogi Bear's sidekick-cum-terrorist 'The Unabooboo'. Episodes Comprise: 1. Bannon Custody Case 2. Very Personal Injury 3. Shaggy Busted 4. Death By Chocolate 5. Shoyu Weenie 6. The Dabba Don 7. Deadomutt: Part 1 8. Deadomutt: Part 2 9. X The Exterminator