Comedy

• Minder - Series 8 - Part 4 Of 4 | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes comprise: Series 8 Part 4: Episodes 10-12 Episode 10 - Too Many Crooks Episode 11 - The Odds Couple Episode 12 - The Coach That Came In From The Cold

• Comedy Greats | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A "two-plus-one" package from Siren, Comedy Greats features classics from the two greatest silent-screen comics, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, plus a rather dreary effort from Danny Kaye. Never the most scintillating of comedians, Kaye's personable talents are thinly spread in 1949's The Inspector General. Distantly(!) based on a short story by Russian satirist Nikolay Gogol, this tale of mistaken identity enables Kaye to indulge in obvious wisecracks and not-so-smart dialogue. Sylvia Fine's songs are mildly amusing, and Henry Koster draws capable support from Walter Slezak and Elsa Lanchester, but it's a long haul. When he made Tilli's Punctured Romance in 1914, Charles Chaplin had yet to perfect the "little man" routine which made him the most popular 1920s screen star. His loveable rogue is well displayed opposite Marie Dressler's formidable country maid, whose unexpected windfall becomes the real object of his desire. Mabel Normand contributes an attractively period chic, and if, in the hands of Mack Sennett, the humour tends to fall back on music-hall slapstick, the historical significance of the film is undoubted. Yet it's Buster Keaton's 1928 classic Steamboat Bill Jr which comes out on top here. Keaton is perfectly cast as the put upon student, whose bravery saves both his father and his steamboat-owning rival, and wins the hand of the latter's daughter. Solid support comes from Ernest Torrence and the winsome Marion Byron, with Charles Riesner getting maximum drama from the cyclone sequence, but it's Keaton's soulful expression and breathtaking stuntwork which are the most potent reminders of a talent only later to receive its due. On the DVD: Comedy Greats is acceptably remastered, with 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 12 chapter headings per film, and decently packaged, this is worth acquiring--even though Keaton's film is the only one you're likely return to often. --Richard Whitehouse

• Urusei Yatsura - Movie 5 - The Final Chapter | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lupa yet another one of Lum's fiancs arrives on the scene and Lum and Ataru have to repeat their game of tag in order to prevent the Earth from being destroyed. All Ataru has to do to win is say ""I Love You"" the three words he has steadfastly refused to say to Lum. Will he admit his true feelings and save the Earth or will his pride doom it to destruction?

• Don Knotts 5-Film Collection | Blu Ray | (05/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dan Aykroyd Live | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £6.33   |  Saving you £3.66 (36.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Saturday Night Live: Dan Aykroyd

• Selwyn: the Complete Series | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bill Maynard returns as Selwyn Froggitt known to us all as the council labourer hapless handyman and all-round public nuisance persistently haunting the bar of the Scarsdale Working Men's Club and Institute. This time however Selwyn's making an attempt to broaden his horizons: bubbling with his usual enthusiasm he's uprooted himself from Scarsdale to the Paradise Valley Holiday Camp where he has been appointed Entertainments Officer. It's a big step for Selwyn but he can surely take it all in his stride... Spinning off from Yorkshire Television's hugely successful Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt Selwyn was again produced and directed by sitcom legend Ronnie Baxter (Rising Damp); this release contains the complete series originally screened in 1978.

• Round Ireland with a Fridge | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  First it was a bet, then an internationally best-selling book and now Tony Hawks' eccentric, hilarious, and life-changing, Round Ireland with a Fridge, is a feature film. One of a trilogy of books that have collectively sold over a million copies, Round Ireland with a Fridge is the first to be adapted for the screen, with Playing the Moldovans At Tennis and A Piano in the Pyrenees coming soon. Round Ireland with a Fridge is directed by Ed Bye (Kevin & Perry Go Large, My Family, Red Dwarf) and stars Tony Hawks, Ed Byrne, Sean Hughes, Josie Lawrence, Sara Crowe and Valerie O'Connor.An inspiring, funny British comedy-drama in the spirit of Calendar Girls, The Full Monty and Local Hero, the film recreates Tony's actual 1997 hitchhike around Ireland. En route, he re-evaluates his life and career, finds romance, meets some bizarre characters and discovers that people are perfectly prepared to treat a small white domestic appliance as a fully fledged person with a personality in its own right.The fridge goes surfing, is christened, blessed by nuns, serenaded by a bagpiper, attends a bachelor festival and becomes a national celebrity, as Tony, and all those he encounters, become caught-up in the power and philosophy of the fridge!Round Ireland with a Fridge's BBC Television premiere, on the Saint Patrick's Day weekend this year, topped the channel's Sunday night ratings.

• Ebenezer | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Academy Award Winner Jack Palance (City Slickers) stars in this uplifting western update of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story ‘A Christmas Carol’. Palance stars as a card cheat who is visited by the three spirits who set out to teach him the meaning of Christmas.

• Chobits - Vol. 3 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hideki beside himself with joy as he prepares for his first date with Yumi fails to notice Chi's reactions. However he runs into Minoru who reveals an interesting aspect about the mythical Chobits- urban-myth persocoms that possess free will! Yet who has time for deep thought when rumours say someone was murdered in the apartment downstairs: Chi definitely hears something strange below them! Finally with some time for rest and relaxation Hideki borrows a game machine and enters

• Love Thy Neighbour - Series 3 - Episodes 5 And 6 | DVD | (19/03/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (60.44%)   |  RRP £7.99

  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 (Rudolph Walker) and Eddie Booth (Jack Smethurst). This release features episodes five and six of series three.

• Shaadi Ke Side Effects | DVD | (16/06/2014) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (-9.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Side effects are funny sometimes they are a wonderful surprise and sometimes they are a mixed bag. One can only imagine that marriage would come with side effects... Pleasure being replaced by companionship... Lovers becoming friends... But not Sid (Farhan Akhtar) and Trisha (Vidya Balan). Theirs is a shaadi where they are living out each other's fantasies turning them into reality peppered with love lust and longing. Shaadi Ke Side Effects is a witty sexy comedy that re-defines happily ever after - if there really is one!

• Cedric The Entertainer | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the platinum comedy series Cedric brings his streetwise sharpcrack humour to the stage as well as showcasing the most talked about newcomers in the American comedy scene. This is a unique title from the king of new wave black American comedians that have snatched the market away from legends like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

• The Bob Hope Collection | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-5.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  One of the few Hollywood actors to celebrate his hundredth birthday Bob Hope may have never won an Oscar for his acting (he said that the annual awards ceremony was referred to as The Passover in his household) but left behind an interesting and highly entertaining body of work. The three titles in this collection feature The Road To Bali one of the hugely successful Road To films he made with Bing Crosby the detective spoof My Favourite Brunette and the television show The Road To Lebanon which features a cameo appearance from Bob.

• The Golden Age Of Comedy | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Featuring The Keystone Comedies Laurel & Hardy WC Fields The Three Stooges Fatty Arbuckle Charlie Chaplin Buster Keaton and Abbott & Costello this 8 DVD set contains some of the greatest names in comedy of the 20th century. Many of the films both full length and short are among the funniest moments in cinematic history - this was truly a golden age for comedy. Disc 1 Keystone Comedies Disc 2 Laurel & Hardy - Flying Dueces Disc 3 WC Fields Disc 4 Three Stooges Disc 5 Fatty Arbuckle Disc 6 Charlie Chaplin - The Kid Disc 7 Buster Keaton Disc 8 Abbot & Costello

• About Last Night | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rob Lowe doesn't want to get serious. Demi Moore doesn't want to get used. Together they're an unforgettable couple in the sexy contemporary comedy. After drinks at a favourite Chicago hangout Danny Martin (Lowe) and Debbie Sullivan (Moore) head to Danny's place to indulge in the predictable single's quest - the one-night stand. Their affair is casual sensual and supposedly over until something surprising happens. They want to see each other again. It's the start of an intense relationship that irritates Danny's rowdy best friend (James Belushi) and astounds Debbie's cynical buddy/roomie (Elizabeth Perkins) who do everything possible to break them up. But Danny and Debbie wind up living together and midst the daily drudge of domestic life they begin to realise that making love is easy saying I love you more difficult and being in love the hardest of all.

• The Pink Jungle | Blu Ray | (11/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Charlie Chaplin - Vol. 1 | DVD | (28/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Six classic shorts:- 'Kid Auto Races In Venice (1914)' 'The Rival Mashers (1914)' 'A Night Out (1915)' 'Cruel Cruel Love (1914)' 'A Film Johnny (1914)' and 'Triple Trouble (1918).

• The Trip To Spain | DVD | (12/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Best Of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Vol.1 | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £12.94   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis burst onto the show business scene in the late 1940's. In 1950 they entertained audiences on TV's Colgate Comedy Hour with hilarious comedy routines in their uniquely manic way. With Martin as the singing straight man and Lewis as the zany comic the duo were to become one of Hollywood's truly great teams. Show 1 Original broadcast date 17th September 1950. Guest Stars Marilyn Maxwell Barr & Estes The Honey Dreamers. Songs Include Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter Talk Of The Town La Vie En Rose Frankie & Johnny. Show 2 Original broadcast date 21st September 1952. Guest Stars Rosemary Clooney Danny Arnold. Songs Include You Belong To Me Hominy Girls Sketches Include The Wedding Detective Cranky Little Boy

• Love Hurts | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £5.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (13.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the producer of the classic Don Juan De Marco comes a comedy that asks: if love is the answer could you rephrase the question?! Ben Bingham (Richard E. Grant) has slipped into the complacency of a daily routine unlike his vibrant wife Amanda (Carrie-Anne Moss). When she finally leaves him Ben is at a loss. He refuses to get out of his pyjamas until his popular 17 year-old son Justin (Johnny Pacar) takes over. He updates Ben's 'look' and pushes him out into the social scene. Before Ben knows what is happening he is the most popular single man in town pursued by his nurse his trainer and karaoke singing twins. Things change when Justin falls in love for the first time and Ben is forced to refocus recapture his humanity his heart and most importantly his wife ... who is now with another man. Starring Richard E. Grant (Withnail & I Jack & Sarah Bright Young Things) Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) and Janeane Garofalo (24 The Truth About Cats & Dogs Reality Bites) Love Hurts is a painfully romantic comedy