Comedy

• The Smallest Show on Earth | Blu Ray | (11/03/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers star in Basil Dearden's heartwarming comedy The Smallest Show on Earth. This gently whimsical elegy to the golden age of cinema co-stars Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips and Sid James and is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Overjoyed to learn that they've inherited a cinema in the north of England, Matt and Jean Spenser are subsequently shattered to find it's less of a grand picture palace and more of a fleapit (with three equally decrepit employees). Can the couple make a go of it or will they be forced to sell up and watch the Bijou Kinema be redeveloped into a car park? Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Knights Of Badassdom | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Live-action role players conjure up a demon from Hell by mistake and they must deal with the consequences.

• The In-Laws | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £6.36   |  Saving you £7.63 (119.97%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Just before his daughter is to be married, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers his in-laws are not what they seem...

• Phoenix Nights Box Set | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Series 1 and 2 of Peter Kay's acclaimed TV comedy Phoenix Nights. Legendary social club owner Brian Potter and his band of staff and regulars are determined to make the Phoenix Club successful no matter what. Nothing will get in their way...

• Dragnet | Blu Ray | (06/06/2016) from £8.05   |  Saving you £11.94 (148.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1987 moviegoers had yet to be crushed under the weight of the 1990s TV remake mania, and Dragnet comes off as fresh and funny. The line between parody and tribute can be hard to draw, but any marginally hip baby boomer who has ever watched Jack Webb's straight-laced Detective Joe Friday caught a glimmer of the comedic vein waiting to be mined beneath Dragnet's gritty Los Angeles streets. Dan Aykroyd plays Joe Friday, the straight-arrow nephew of Webb's iconic cop. This part was made for him (in fact, he's given top writing credit), and under his steely exterior you can tell he's having a ball delivering those rapid-fire recitations of regulations and deadpan expressions of moral outrage. Tom Hanks plays Pep Streebek, the laissez-faire narco agent who is Friday's new partner. Their assignment: bust the Pagans, a wild-and-woolly gang of dope fiends, deadbeats, and beatniks behind a bewildering array of bizarre robberies. Hilarity ensues. Friday and Streebek outfox a corrupt televangelist (Christopher Plummer), bicker over chili dogs and cigarettes, alternately revile and fawn over a porn millionaire (Dabney Coleman), wrestle a 30-foot-long anaconda, and rescue the virgin Connie Swail--the only girl capable of stealing Friday's heart. --Grant Balfour, Amazon.com

• Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Austin Powers' life force, the secret behind his libido, has been stolen by his arch nemesis, Dr. Evil. The Mission: Austin must time travel back to the Swinging Sixties, regain his mojo and save the world from destruction.

• Jason Manford: First World Problems | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £4.40   |  Saving you £15.59 (354.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Should old people be allowed in the supermarket on weekends? Why do people squeeze the toothpaste tube from the top? And why is it so hard to put sheets on a bed when you get home from work? These essential issues and many more are covered in the brilliant new audiobook from Northern funny man Jason Manford.Recorded live in Liverpool during Jason's mammoth UK tour and packed full of hilarious takes on those little difficulties we can all relate to First World Problems is observational comedy at it's very best and a comedian at the top of his game.

• Jethro: I Told It My Way - Live on Tour | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £9.35   |  Saving you £11.90 (147.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Cornish comedian Jethro returns for this brand new and hilarious touring stand-up show I Told It My Way filmed across 4 different venues on tour around the country.

• 10 Things I Hate About You | Blu Ray | (11/01/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Padua High in Seattle, Washington, has Smarties, Skids, Preppies, Granolas, Loners, and Lovers. The Beautiful People are the jocks and cheerleaders you don't talk to unless they talk to you first.

• Manhattan | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Manhattan, Woody Allen's follow-up to Oscar-winning Annie Hall, is a film of many distinctions: its glorious all-Gershwin score, its breathtakingly elegant black-and-white, widescreen cinematography by Gordon Willis (best-known for shooting the Godfather movies); its deeply shaded performances; its witty screenplay that marked a new level in Allen's artistic maturity; and its catalogue of Things that Make Life Worth Living. Allen's "Rhapsody in Gray" concerns, as his own character puts it, "people in Manhattan who are constantly creating these real, unnecessary, neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more insoluble, terrifying problems about the universe". It's a romantic comedy about infidelity and betrayal, the rules of love and friendship, young girls (a radiant and sweet Mariel Hemingway) and older men (Allen), innocence, and sophistication. (a favourite phrase is used to describe a piece of sculpture at the Guggenheim: "It has a marvellous kind of negative capability".) The film's themes can be summed up in two key lines: "I can't believe you met somebody you like better than me", and "It's very important to have some kind of personal integrity". OK, so they may not sound like such sparkling snatches of brilliant dialogue, but Manhattan puts those ideas across with such emotion that you feel an ache in your heart. --Jim Emerson

• Dogma | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century.

• What Women Want | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £3.29   |  Saving you £10.70 (325.23%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Mel Gibson is a chauvinistic advertising executive who suddenly develops the ability to understand what women are thinking.

• Dad's Army: The Movie | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  In the 1970s the British film industry went through a craze for turning hit TV comedies into big screen features. From On the Buses (1971) to Porridge (1979), Dad's Army was one of the few which made the transition with style. Set in the small south coast town of Walmington-on-Sea in 1940, the film does have the structure of three TV episodes remade and sequenced together. Beginning with the formation of the local Home Guard, the company has a self-contained adventure on military manoeuvres, before a finale which allows for some heroism as three German officers take over the church hall. Dad's Army has all the gentle character comedy of the classic BBC TV series, benefiting enormously by retaining the entire television cast, headed by the incomparable Arthur Lowe as the blustering Captain Mainwaring and supported by the equally wonderful John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. The cinema budget allows far superior production values to the original series, with a loving re-creation of 1940's England and some surprisingly beautiful cinematography. Above all, the film is both funny and a nostalgic reminder of a time when ordinary middle-aged and old men could be both real and movie heroes. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £13.16   |  Saving you £5.82 (57.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Creating 'one of the jauntiest of all war-of-the-sexes comedies' (Pauline Kael), Pedro Almodovar, Spain's premiere writer-director, creates an off-kilter universe of madness, mayhem and pure fun. Nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and co-starring Antonio Banderas, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown is 'a wild, wanton, wickedly witty farce' (People)!; ; High atop one of Spain's poshest penthouses, three women have come to the end of their mental ropes. ...

• No, Honestly - The Complete Series | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £9.08   |  Saving you £10.91 (120.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  No Honestly: The Complete Series (2 Discs)

• Soap - Series 1 | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The controversial sitcom that defined the late '70s and became an instant classic Soap took viewers into the homes of not one but two of the most dysfunctional families ever-and we couldn't help but embrace every eccentric one of them! This first season introduces us to teh quirky lives of the Tates and the Campbells. The unparalleled cast features Billy Crystal Richard Mulligan Robert Guillaume Emmy nominees Katherine Helmond and Cathryn Damon Robert Mandan Diana Canova Jimmy Baio and Arthur Peterson. The series' first season was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards and won for Outstanding Art Direction in a Comedy Series.

• Mask complete collection | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £10.59   |  Saving you £4.96 (46.84%)   |  RRP £15.55

  The classic 80's series is back! While investigating the mysterious death of his brother Matt Trakker uncovers an international organization known as Venom dedicated to nefarious criminal activities in every corner of the world. Driven by his quest to know the truth about his brother's demise Matt gathers together a number of friends who like himself are ordinary people who possess extraordinary talents and creates Mask. Their objective: to destroy Venom and its mastermind the abominable Miles Mayhem. Joined by his young son Scott and his faithful robot T-Bob Matt's conspirators in Mask include: Bruce Sato an inventor of outlandish children's toys who serves as Mask's engineer and mechanic; Hondo MacLean an ordinary history teacher whose courage and fearlessness make him an integral part of Mask; Buddy Hawks garage mechanic; Brad Turner an outrageous rock musician; Alex Sector a computer expert who by day runs a nondescript pet shop; Dusty Hayes a pizza vendor whose speciality is auto and marine stunt driving and the beautiful Gloria Baker a driving school instructor whose superior mastery of the martial arts makes her a lethal weapon. To keep their identities secret each member of Mask wears a mask which also provides them with extraordinary powers including holographic projection remote control lasers and the Mask agents even have the ability to transform their vehicles into watercrafts and planes. Armed with their super-powered masks and their desire to make the world a safer place Mask is relentless in its quest against Venom and will never rest until Miles Mayhem is brought to justice for his crimes.

• Lee Evans 2007 Collection | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £41.83   |  Saving you £-1.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This set features: Live At Her Majesty's Live From The West End Different Planet Tour Live In Scotland Live At Wembley XL Tour 2005 Live The Ultimate Experience Live

• Top Secret | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In between the disaster movie satire Airplane! in 1980 and the hardboiled cop show parody The Naked Gun in 1988, the comedy crew of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker put together a picture that's almost as funny as their better-known hits. Top Secret! sends up spy movies and cheesy teen rock 'n' roll musicals. Val Kilmer stars as swivel-hipped American rocker Nick Rivers, a sort of blonde Elvis whose secret weapon is Little Richard's tune "Tutti Fruitti." On tour behind the Iron Curtain, Nick strikes blows for democracy overtly and covertly, with his music as well as his espionage skills. In short, this is a very, very silly motion picture. Some great gags, including a subtitled scene in a Swedish book shop, and an inspired bit with a Ford Pinto that not everybody may get anymore. (The Pinto, you may or may not recall, was notoriously prone to gas tank explosions when rear-ended.) --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• Ups And Downs Of A Handyman | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £8.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (48.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The sexually frustrated women of Sodding Chipbury lead a humdrum existence until Bob the handsome new handyman arrives in their picturesque village. The local ladies love his handiwork and luckily for them randy Bob certainly has the right tool for the job! However when Bob takes over the running of the local pub his stamina for odd jobs and horny housewives is stretched to the absolute limit. This classic 1970s colour British sex comedy stars Barry Stokes (Norman J. Warren's Spaced Out) and Gay Soper (voice of The Flumps) supported by a roll-call of familiar faces including Bob Todd (The Benny Hill Show) Valerie Leon (Carry On Up the Jungle) and Sue Lloyd (Crossroads).