Comedy

• Ally McBeal - Season 4 Part 1 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first half of Ally McBeal's fourth season starts with that all important question, the one Ally has been waiting for from day one: "Ally will you... move in with me?". As always Ally's romantic dreams never quite become a reality and the series continues within the Grimm Fairy Tale world of Ally's love (and quirky work) life. The most important twist this season occurs in the first episode "Sex, Lies and Second Thoughts"--the departure of Tracy Ullman and Ally's current beau, Brian, to be replaced by the series' new heart-throb Larry (Robert Downey Jr). Initially dating both father and son ("Two's a Crowd") Ally cannot help but become besotted by Larry's charisma; he being a fellow lawyer further seals their bond, that is until Larry's past comes back to haunt him. Other highlights include a quirky romance for John ("Reason to Belive"), a charity auction leading to an all male fan-club for John ("Love on Holiday") and a romantic connection for Mark--though the recipient of his affection may have hidden more than he bargained for. Unfortunately the series was outshone by the real-life drama of Calista Flockhart's and Downey's rocky relationship along with Downey's drugs convictions. Even though he won a Golden Globe for his performance, he ultimately had to be dropped from the series. On the DVD: Not much on offer here for Ally's début into the DVD market. The individual episode menu does offer a language selection of French and English and the subtitles for the Netherlands and French. You also have the option to select chapters from the specific episodes, along with a "previously on Ally McBeal..." for that little reminder of whom Ally is dating now. Although standard for a TV DVD release, the 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 2.0 Dolby sound is disappointing for a television series which offers ground-breaking use of special effects. --Nikki Disney

• Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 2 - Plus Two Bonus Episodes | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-13.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Complete second season of the cult 70's TV Comedy plus 2 bonus episodes! One of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s attracting 16 million viewers at the peak of its popularity Love Thy Neighbour explores the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth.

• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World/Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead Box Set | Blu Ray | (27/12/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (48.22%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Shaun Of The Dead: Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead begin roaming the earth (or London's Crouch End at least) and with the help of his slacker chum Ed (Nick Frost) he must save Liz and his dear mum from becoming zombies! Well that's if he can get out of the local pub... Hot Fuzz: Messrs Pegg and Frost return with this rollickingly hilarious take on the cop action movie. Top London cop Constable Nicholas Angel (Pegg) finds himself reassigned to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. The quaintness is soon to be interrupted though as a series of grisly accidents sweeps the village. Convinced of foul play Angel and his new partner Danny Butterman (Frost) swing into action! Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for totally average garage band Sex Bob-omb the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams... literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him.

• Jimmy Jones - The Guvnor's Last Stand | DVD | (08/12/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-16.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Legendary comedian Jimmy Jones returns to the Circus Tavern for a special performance of his very naughty brand of comedy in The Guvnor''s Last Stand. The true daddy of all ''naughty'' comedians is joined by friends family and a sell-out audience for this hilarious adults only show. This is the Guvnor at his very best - a guaranteed laugh a minute. The show also features appearances by Mickey Pugh and Frank Carson and ''warm'' tributes from Jim Bowen Roy ''Chubby'' Brown and Jim Davidson. A must for Jimmy Jones fans everywhere.

• Nugget | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £7.41   |  Saving you £1.57 (35.52%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lotto Wooky and Wally are three ordinary guys who share a dream of striking it rich. But nothing can prepare them for what lies ahead when they actually discover the world's largest nugget of gold

• Killing Dad | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alistair a hair tonic salesman is not very happy about welcoming back a father who twenty-three years earlier went out to fetch some cigarettes. He decides to spy on his father and discovers that he is still the drunken disgrace that he used to be. Alistair decides that drastic action must be taken to stop this awful man....the outcome is outrageous!

• Cinderella Story, A / The Prince And Me | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-10.99 (-110.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Cinderella Story: Meet high school student Sam (Hilary Duff) who scrubs floors at a diner copes with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters and all the while dreams of Princeton (the perfect spot for a would-be princess to find a prince). But maybe she has a Prince Charming already: her anonymous e-mail buddy (Chad Michael Murray) who arranges to meet her at the Halloween dance. Sam panics when Mr. Anonymous turns out to be the coolest guy on campus. Can he love a girl who

• The Freshman | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Andrew Bergman’s tongue-in-cheek comedy The Freshman keeps the spoofing low key, underplaying the outrageous situations even as he piles them higher. Young Clark Kellog (Matthew Broderick) had no idea film school would drop him into the hands of a real-life Godfather, but after a street punk robs him during his first day in New York City, that’s just where the road leads. Marlon Brando lets everyone know he’s in on the joke with his hammy, good-humoured performance as the bulldog-jowled Mafioso Carmine Sabatini, the man Clark’s prissy, self-important professor swears was the real-life inspiration for Don Corleone. Carmine has a modest proposal for the naive kid from Vermont involving Carmine’s gorgeous daughter Tina (Penelope Ann Miller) and the illegal importing of an endangered lizard. And if the sight of a six-foot-long lizard scattering shoppers as it runs wild through a New York City mall doesn’t do it for you, there’s always Bert Parks’ rousing rendition of Bob Dylan’s "Maggie’s Farm".--Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Benny Hill Show - 1974 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For nearly four decades Benny Hill reigned supreme as the king of bawdy humour and seaside postcard-style japery on British television. Undoubtedly out of his entire body of work it is the shows that he did for Thames television in the 1970s for which he is best remembered with their combination of high-speed farce risqu jokes and beautiful ladies. It is these shows that undoubtedly turned him into a global superstar - topping the ratings in America also. With his 'three stooge

• The Fruit is Ripe --1977--region free | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Patricia is a free-spirited girl who embarks on an erotic odyssey. Her parents give her a plane ticket to go to Munich but instead she gives the ticket away and remains in Greece. Whilst there she teases and reveals herself to men and women whom she meets along the way until she meets Tom.

• Bewitched - Series 7 - Complete | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Samantha a powerful member of the society of witches that has lived apart from (and disdained) humanity for many centuries falls in love with a mortal Darrin Stephens. Much to the disgust of most of her family she vows to give up witchcraft and become an ordinary suburban housewife raising a family (bearing Tabitha and Adam). Never able to give up her heritage completely the friction between the matriarchal moneyless society of her birth and the patriarchal capitalist society of modern advertising drives the comedy over eight seasons and 256 episodes from 1964 to 1971.

• John Bishop Live - Sunshine Tour | Blu Ray | (14/11/2011) from £8.59   |  Saving you £16.40 (65.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  John Bishop performing standup live on the Sunshine Tour.

• The Heartbreak Kid | Blu Ray | (06/04/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A newlywed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.

• The Beverly Hillbillies - 4 Classic Episodes - Vol. 3 | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £8.23   |  Saving you £-3.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Beverly Hillbillies was the most popular sitcom in television history. Jed Clampett is an Ozarks mountaineer who falls into unfathomablewealth with the discovery of oil beneath his worthless Arcadian scrub oak whereupon town sophisticate Cousin Pearl convinces him fabled Beverly Hills is the place to be.... This DVD includes four classic episodes of the hilarious television series: Jed's Dilemma Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage Elly's Animals Jed Plays Solomon.

• Frankenhooker | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Frankenstein legend gets stitched up by the makers of Basket Case and Brian Damage in this outrageous horror comedy. When his pretty fiance goes to pieces under the blades of a runaway lawnmower aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken hatches an unorthodox scheme to bring his beloved back to life. With the help of an explosive super drug Jeffrey reassembles his girlfriend from the body parts of New York prostitutes. But his dream-girl runs amok on 42nd Street turning tricks

• George Carlin - Complaints And Grievances | DVD | (14/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George Carlin is the grand daddy of modern American stand up comedy. As well as starring in movies such as 'Jersey Girl' 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' and 'Bill And Ted's Bogus Adventure' Carlin maintains a day job poking fun at targets such as White Guys Who Shave Their Heads and People Who Ought To Be Killed. This hilarious show recorded at the Beacon Theatre in New York shows Carlin at his abrasive best. Not for the squeamish!

• Love Hurts - Series 3 | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £19.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (53.87%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Adam Faith(Budgie) and Zoe Wannamaker(My Family Harry Potter) return for the third and final series of the bitter sweet love story which matches them as star crossed lovers struggling to find a way to maintain a relationship... Episodes comprise: 1. Blue Heaven 2. Happy Families 3. The Parent Trap 4. Promises 5. Win Some Lose Some 6. The Morning After 7. Time To Go Home 8. Drawing The Line 9. Tracks Of My Tears 10. Cards On The Table

• The Boy Who Stole A Million | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This joyous British made comedy shot on location in Valencia Spain follows Paco a 12-year-old boy working in a Valencia bank as a runner he decides to 'borrow' money from the bank in order to pay the repair bill on his father's taxicab so that he can make some money during the annual festival. Soon a bank clerk realizes that they are missing about a million pesetas. Before Paco can reach his father he is chased all over town by not only is the bank eager to get it back but a group of local mobsters who are after Paco's new fortune... This is the first ever DVD release of this classic 1960 comedy film.

• The Benny Hill Show - Vol. 3 | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £5.02 (50.35%)   |  RRP £14.99

  More madcap comedy from Benny Hill in 1972.

• Ripping Yarns | DVD | (21/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-74), and well before going Around the World in 80 Days (1989), Pole to Pole (1992) or even Full Circle (1997), Michael Palin starred in Ripping Yarns, co-written with Terry Jones. As the title suggests, these were spoofs, affectionate pastiche-come-homage Boy's Own-type adventures. Each was an individual short film, less bizarre than the Flying Circus, not so consistently hilarious as fellow ex-Python John Cleese's Fawlty Towers, but inventively surreal with a daffy, gloriously English eccentricity. "Tomkinson's Schooldays" was the 45-minute pilot (originally shown as a one-off programme in 1976) and the funniest of the three tales here. A parody of Tom Brown's Schooldays, the humour comes from the violence, cruelty and insane rules of Graybridge public school in which the unfortunate Tomkinson is incarcerated. Ian Ogilvy is a fine School Bully, terrifying even Terry Jones' useless headmaster. "Escape from Stalag Luft 112B" is a P.O.W. movie send-up (from the first series), and "Golden Gordon" (from Series 2) celebrates the man who won't give-up on an underdog northern football team. In 1983 Palin made The Missionary, essentially a feature-film Ripping Yarn. --Gary S. Dalkin