Comedy

• Carry On Doctor | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bedpan humour rules in Carry On Doctor, the vintage 1968 offering from gang, assisted by guest star Frankie Howerd as bogus faith healer Francis Bigger. Hospitals, of course, always provided the Carry On producers with plenty of material. Today, these comedies induce a twinge of serious nostalgia for the great days of the National Health Service when Matron (Hattie Jacques, naturally) ran the hospital as if it was a house of correction, medical professionals were idolised as if they were all Doctor Kildare and Accident and Emergency Departments were deserted oases of calm. But even if you aren't interested in a history lesson, Talbot Rothwell's script contains some immortal dialogue, particularly when Matron loosens her stays. "You may not realise it but I was once a weak man", says Kenneth Williams' terrified Doctor Tinkle to Hattie Jacques. "Once a week's enough for any man", she purrs back. Other highlights include Joan Sims, excellent as Frankie Howerd's deaf, bespectacled sidekick, Charles Hawtrey suffering from a phantom pregnancy, 1960s singer Anita Harris in a rare film role, and Barbara Windsor at her most irrepressible as nurse Sandra May. --Piers Ford

• Working Girl/9 To 5 | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Working Girl (Dir. Mike Nichols) (1988): Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a frustrated secretary struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford) to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss. Nine To Five (Dir. Colin Higgins) (1980): At 'Consolidated' the office manager (Tomlin) the vice president's secretary (Parton) and the newest employee (Fonda) become great friends as they share their resentment about their egotistical sexist boss (Dabney Coleman). When they inadvertently get a chance to take revenge they institute a host of popular office procedures in his absence - even as their scheme spins wildly out of control! Full of witty social commentary this delightful comedy marks Dolly Parton's first film debut and features the Oscar-nominated hit song she wrote and performed.

• Fat Friends - Series 2 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £19.87   |  Saving you £5.12 (25.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kay Mellor's comedy drama series following a collection of characters whose personal life struggles are relayed to each other during their weekly slimming class... Episodes comprise: 1. Full Belly 2. Peaches And Dreams 3. Forty And In-Fat-uated 4. Sweet And Sour 5. In Full Bloom 6. Hunger Pangs

• Yes Minister - Series 1-3 Complete | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £9.58   |  Saving you £20.41 (213.05%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the minds of Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay comes the complete box set of all three series of Yes Minister. First-class political satire and a worldwide favourite seen in over 80 countries Yes Minister is well-known for being closer to the truth than those in the political arena would like to admit. Re-live the exploits of the amiable and honourable Jim Hacker and his permanent Secretary the urbane but evasive Sir Humphrey Appleby as they balance the intricacies of government b

• Stewart Lee - Carpet Remnant World | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cult political satire starring Peter Cook as Michael Rimmer an opinion poll executive who climbs the ladder until he becomes President of Great Britain.

• Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin | Blu Ray | (18/02/2019) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1978, the madcap mayhem of SNAKE & CRANE ARTS OF SHAOLIN was a surefire sign to audiences that its young star Jackie Chan was soon to be even more famous than the man who paved the way for the modern martial arts genre - Mr. Bruce Lee! An international box office success, this all-time classic is one of Chan's most beloved masterworks and it is easy to see why. The fights come thick and fast in this relentless tale of a young kung-fu student with a very unique style - which attracts a series of curious competitors! Helmed by the great Chen Chi Hwa, who also oversaw the Chan classic SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN (1976), 88 Films is proud to present SNAKE & CRANE ARTS OF SHAOLIN in glorious HD thanks to a brand new 2K scan overseen by Golden Harvest itself! Special Features: Limited Edition O-Card slipcase [First Print Run Only] Limited Edition Collectors' Postcards Set (4) [First Print Run Only] 2018 2K Scan from the Original Camera Negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation DTS Original English Mono Audio DTS-HD MA English 5.1 Re-Mixed Audio DTS Original Mandarin Mono Audio DTS-HD MA Mandarin 5.1 Re-Mixed Audio DTS-HD MA Cantonese Stereo Audio Interview with Hong Kong Expert Rick Baker Gallery Reversible Sleeve with New Artwork by The Dude Designs and Original Hong Kong Poster Artwork

• Psych - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Fake psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and his skeptical best friend Gus (Dule Hill) are on the case in the fresh and quirky runaway hit Psych! Relive every quick-witted remark and hilarious misadventure in all 15 Season One episodes! Thanks to a childhood spent with a family of cops Shawn possesses an incredible photographic memory and notices seemingly insignificant details. These traits allow him to spend his jobless days providing the police with mystery-solving tips - but his knowledge soon makes him a suspect. In order to clear his name the unlikely sleuth declares that he has clairvoyant abilities and launches his own investigative agency Psych. 1. Pilot 2. Spellingg Bee 3. Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Piece 4. Woman Seeking Dead Husband-Smokers Okay No Pets 5. Lives 6. Weekend Warriors 7. Who Ya Gonna Call? 8. Shawn vs. The Red Phantom 9. Forget Me Not 10. From the Earth to the Starbucks 11. He Loves Me He Loves Me Not He Loves Me Oops He's Dead! 12. Cloudy... Chance of Murder 13. Game Set... Muuurder? 14. Poker? I Barely Know Her 15. Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast

• Be Kind Rewind | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man (Jack Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's (Mos Def) video store. In order to satisfy the store's customers the two men set out to remake the lost films themselves.

• Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 1-4 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £45.55   |  Saving you £-0.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.

• Bless This House | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.69   |  Saving you £-0.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

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• Absolutely Anything | DVD | (07/12/2015) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Absolutely Anything follows a disillusioned school teacher, Neil Clarke (Pegg) who suddenly finds he has the ability to do anything he wishes, a challenge bestowed upon him by a group of power-crazed aliens (voiced by Cleese, Gilliam, Jones, Palin & Idle), watching him from space. As he struggles to deal with these new found powers and the events that subsequently arise, he calls upon his loyal canine companion Dennis (voiced by Robin Williams) to help him along the way. Mishap after mishap finally leads him to the ultimate conundrum that all men dread and at which many have failed .should he choose the girl .or the dog .?

• Scary Movie 5 | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Scary Movie 5 happily-married couple Dan and Jody begin to notice some bizarre activity once they bring their newborn baby Aiden home from the hospital. But when the chaos expands into Jody's job as a ballet dancer and Dan's career as an Ape researcher they realize their family is being stalked by a nefarious demon. Together with the advice of certified experts and the aid of numerous cameras they must figure out how to get rid of it before it's too late.

• Fierce Creatures | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £4.44   |  Saving you £8.55 (192.57%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle, John Cleese wrote Fierce Creatures with the purpose of reuniting the comedic cast of A Fish Called Wanda. Media mogul (Kevin Kline) owns a London zoo. He demands that the park raise more profit, so the new zoo director (Cleese) orders that only dangerous animals be displayed in order to maximize ticket sales. In a dual role, Kline also plays the mogul's son, who plans to run the zoo with the help of displaced employees (including Michael Palin) and zoo programmer Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis). The situation lends itself to comedic confusion and split-second timing, and for a few good laughs the film is a pretty safe bet. It's not as hilarious as A Fish Called Wanda (that's a pretty tall order), but Cleese knows comedy, and his efforts are worth a look. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Marx Brothers Boxset | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Animal Crackers Animal Crackers is a classic of screen history and as uproariously funny today as it was when it was released. This film Introduced Groucho's Africa lecture (one morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas, I don't know.) and the card game which Harpo and Chico play with the wealthy society woman Mrs Rittenhouse. Monkey Business Harpo, Chico, Groucho and Zeppo, head for high seas hilarity in this classic film comedy. While hiding from the authorities on a luxury liner the quartet of stowaways become bodyguards to rival gangsters, with the usual hilarious results. And naturally no woman can resist a shipboard romance with the wily, quick-witted Groucho. Horse feathers The quintessential Marx Brothers comedy. Groucho, Harpo, Chico and yes, Zeppo, are at their manic peak in this uproariously anarchic parody of college life. As the fun loving president of Huxley college, Groucho tries to keep the student body in line with hilarious results! Horse Feathers contains some of the greatest sequences in movie comedy history. Duck Soup A pointed political satire, Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film. The film contains many of the Brothers most famous sequences including a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone from Woody Allen to Mad Magazine.

• Carry On Matron | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £8.22   |  Saving you £4.77 (58.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hattie Jacques finally got to the play the title role in 1972 when Carry On Matron immortalised the character she had developed during several previous outings, most notably in Carry On Doctor. And she seized it with gusto. This is no one-dimensional performance, but a very human portrait of a woman doing her best to retain her authority in the face of mounting chaos--a raid planned by Sid James to steal the hospital's supply of contraceptive pills. Certainly, she's obsessed with regular bowel movements--this wouldn't be a Carry On film otherwise--but she remains a majestic figure of dignity with a touch of human warmth. Occasionally, too, a real hint of irony peeks through the slapstick and the innuendo. Surely scriptwriter Talbot Rothwell had his tongue lodged firmly in his cheek when he gave Barbara Windsor--then married to Ronnie Knight--the line, "I don't fancy being a gangster's moll!" Terry Scott makes a guest appearance and Sid James is at his most conniving and lecherous. Theatre impresario Bill Kenwright has a cameo role and there's an early appearance from Wendy Richard as a prototype Pauline Fowler. But it's the female stalwarts who shine. Joan Sims and Hattie Jacques were truly comic actresses of the highest order. --Piers Ford

• The League Of Gentlemen - Live At Drury Lane | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £3.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (320.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What do you think this is... Dick Whittington?" shouts Reece Shearsmith in The League of Gentlemen--Live at Drury Lane--the West End version of the BBC2 series--"You'll be wanting to see men dressed as women next!" Reece is, needless to say, dragged-up to the nines at this point. The first half of the production--which Shearsmith, alongside Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton took to Drury Lane in March 2001--sees the trio revisit their Perrier Award winning show of 1997. Clad in tuxedos, the League explore a public schoolboy's love of theatre and smut with sketches that border on post-modern: football fans chant "Ooh-ahh, Ophelia" during Hamlet; a Restoration comedy turns into a Faustian pact; Artic explorers battle repressed homosexuality. The second, and funnier half sees the action move to Royston Vasey, as Tubs looks over the audience and coos "we can't kill them all". The favourite characters transfer to the stage brilliantly, thanks to swift direction and filming that captures every macabre expression. Herr Lipp--looking like Richard Whitely in twin set and pearls--is a scream, and the closing mystery of "Who Shot Pauline?" is heaven for any League fanatic. --Ian WatsonOn the DVD: Not a great many extras here, but a couple of additional scenes are welcome. We get Benjamin and the Dentons at breakfast, familiar from Series 1 of the TV series, plus demented newsagent owner "Pop" and his dynastic ambitions for his two sons. There's also the "Big Woman" phone message which first appeared in the League's radio series, multi-angle versions of two sketches ("Scott of the Antarctic" and "Go Johnny Go Go Go Go"), Web site links and a screensaver. --Mark Walker

• The Comedians - The Best Of The Comedians | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £8.85   |  Saving you £-0.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The quintessential quickfire stand-up comedy show The Comedians is one of the great successes of ITV1 - lasting from 1971 until 1993 and making household names of many of its stars. With routines that were honed to perfection in the hard-knock territory of Northern working men's clubs Frank Carson Charlie Williams Bernard Manning Colin Crompton and Ken Goodwin all became masters of the one-liner and the knowing wink. The Comedians was immediately popular with the

• Frankie Boyle Live - The Last Days of Sodom | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Frankie Boyle: Live - The Last Days Of SodomA brand new live DVD from the brilliant comedian - coming in 2012. Recorded at his last ever tour.Frankie Boyle has been pilloried, misrepresented and demonised. And for what? For Telling It Like It Is. Now he will attempt a final tour, to heal Britain's fools. To support its rioters. To offer the inchoate laughter of despair to a culture in freefall. These are The Last Days Of Sodom.

• Ordinary World | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £3.77   |  Saving you £9.22 (244.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Comedy drama written and directed by Lee Kirk. The film follows middle-aged former punk rocker Perry (Billie Joe Armstrong) as he struggles to come to terms with life in the real world. When his wife Karen (Selma Blair) forgets his 40th birthday, his brother takes pity on him and gives him the money to have an extravagant party at an expensive New York hotel. However, when his former bandmates arrive to celebrate, Perry begins to crave the rock star lifestyle once more.