Comedy

• Lovers-the Complete Series | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The master script-writer Jack Rosenthal created this magnificent comedy series for ITV back in 1970; starring Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox as a pair of bickering lovers. Beryl (Wilcox) constantly dreams of the ideal white wedding to her sneaky boyfriend Geoffrey (Beckinsale) who'd rather like to fool around in some 'extra-curricular' fun before the big day - as his life-sized cut-out of Brigitte Bardot will testify ! As the two row and make up again Beryl's ever-present m

• Saxondale - Series 1-2 - Complete | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tommy Saxondale has been through the rock and roll mill and lived to tell the tale. He plays fast and loose shoots from the hip and tells no lies - he's a true maverick. Tommy never took the corporate dollar. He doesn't work for 'the man'; he's his own man. These and other moth-eaten cliches are how Tommy would describe himself. But when Tommy removes his rose-tinted Aviator shades he can't deny a few basic facts; he was a middle-ranking roadie for 20 years but for the past ten years he has been at the cutting edge of the pest control industry... in Hertfordshire.

• Boy Meets Girl | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £7.73   |  Saving you £5.26 (68.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Boy Meets Girl Martin Freeman plays Danny Reed a scruffy DIY worker who wakes up after being struck by lightning to find himself in the body of Veronica Burton played by Tipping The Velvet's Rachael Stirling. Beyond his initial struggles with lingerie and the advances of Veronica's boyfriend Jay Danny is eventually faced with the choice of going back to his old life or finding his feet in the fashion world.

• Bottoms Up! | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £7.62   |  Saving you £2.37 (31.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the enormously popular television and radio sitcom Whack-O!, this 1960 comedy feature stars Jimmy Edwards in the classic role of devious, cane-brandishing headmaster. A later addition to the impressive series of comedies by Two Cities Films co-founder Mario Zampi, Bottoms Up! was co-scripted by Michael Pertwee and Whack-O! writers Frank Muir and Denis Norden; Edwards co-stars include Melvyn Hayes and, in an early film role, Richard Briers. The film is presented here in a brand-new tr...

• Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 11 | DVD | (03/03/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cherished and significant part of British film history, only selected films from both the Ealing and Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously been made available on home video format - with some remaining unseen since their original theatrical release. The Ealing Rarities Collection redresses this imbalance - featuring new transfe...

• Flight Of The Conchords - Complete HBO Second Season | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The comedy hit of 2008 returns for a second season of musical spoofs & comedy genius. Universally acclaimed Flight of the Conchords follows the trials and tribulations of a two man digi-folk band from New Zealand as they try to make a name for themselves in their adopted home of New York City. Season 2 kicks off with Bret & Jermaine deciding to sack their inept manager and to go it alone on their journey to stardom. Flight of the Conchords follows the trials and tribulations of a two man digi-folk band from New Zealand as they try to make a name for themselves in their adopted home of New York City. Bret and Jermaine have moved to New York in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose other job is at the New Zealand Consulate) one fan (a married obsessive) and one friend (who owns the local pawn shop) -- but not much else.

• Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £12.89   |  Saving you £6.09 (61.52%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Time travel in the movies is at an all time high in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Bill S Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) are in danger of flunking History class. They're rescued by Rufus (George Carlin), a resident of San Dimas 700 years in the future--a future in which their band Wyld Stallyns has brought about world peace and the best water slides in the universe. Entrusted with a phone booth time machine, they pick up various historical personages to give a colourful stage show for their final exam. The hip 80s rock sensibility paved the way for many comedies that followed Wayne's World, with air guitar and phrases like "bogus" and "dude" entrenching themselves way beyond the film's cult following. The film spawned a number of spin-offs including a bodacious cartoon and comic book series. On the DVD: a trailer and a gallery of 20 behind-the-scenes photos will disappoint fans, even though it's interesting to see director Stephen Herek at work before he moved onto more serious films such as Mr Holland's Opus. However, the film has never looked better than in this transfer, and the effects still look terrific (especially the channels of Time). A Dolby sound mix also does wonders for Beethoven's keyboard improvs. --Paul Tonks

• Chasing Amy | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £5.54   |  Saving you £10.45 (188.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Writer-director Kevin Smith (Clerks) makes a huge leap in sophistication with this strong story about a comic-book artist (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian (Joey Lauren Adams) and actually gets his wish that she love him, too. Their relationship is attacked, however, by his business partner (Jason Lee), who pulls a very unsubtle Iago act to cast doubt over the whole affair. The film has the same sense of insiderness as Clerks--this time, Smith takes us within the arcane, funny world of comic-book cultism--but the themes of jealousy, deceit and the high price of growing up enough to truly care for someone make this a very satisfying movie. --Tom Keogh

• Last Christmas (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (16/03/2020) from £8.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Kate (Emilia Clarke) harumphs around London, a bundle of bad decisions accompanied by the jangle of bells on her shoes, another irritating consequence from her job as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. Tom (Henry Golding) seems too good to be true when he walks into her life and starts to see through so many of Kate's barriers. As London transforms into the most wonderful time of the year, nothing should work for these two. But sometimes, you gotta let the snow fall where it may, you gotta listen to your heart and you gotta have faith.

• Peter Kay's Special Kay | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £3.59   |  Saving you £18.40 (83.70%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Help yourself to an extra tasty serving of Special Kay - a golden cluster of the finest and funniest comedy moments that have made Peter Kay one of the UK's favourite comedians. A multitude of hilarious TV moments - many never seen before on national television - show why audiences keep coming back for repeat sprinklings of comedy magic from Britain's funniest man. From early appearances on Granada's The Last Laugh Show to cameos in Coronation Street; uproarious banter with Parkinson and Jonathan Ross; scintillating stand-up on Children In Need and Comic Relief the hugely popular and award-winning John Smiths ads and so much more!

• Dark Star -- 30th Anniversary Special Edition | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dark Star is absurd, surreal and very funny. John Carpenter once described it as "Waiting for Godot in space." (It's also, surely, one of the primary inspirations for Red Dwarf.) Made at a cost of practically nothing, the film's effects are nevertheless impressive and, along with the number of ideas crammed into its 83 minutes, ought to shame makers of science fiction films costing hundreds of times more. The story concerns the Dark Star's crew who are on a 20-year mission to destroy unstable planets and make way for future colonisation. The smart bombs they use to effect this zoom off cheerfully to do their duty. But unlike Star Trek, in which order prevails, the nerves of this crew are becoming increasingly frayed to the point of psychosis. Their captain has been killed by a radiation leak that also destroyed their toilet paper. "Don't give me any of that 'Intelligent Life' stuff," says Commander Doolittle when presented with the possibility of alien life. "Find me something I can blow up." When an asteroid storm causes a malfunction, Bomb Number 20 (the most cheerful character in the film) has to be repeatedly talked out of exploding prematurely, each time becoming more and more peevish, until they have to teach him phenomenology to make him doubt his existence. And the film's apocalyptic ending, lifted almost wholly from Ray Bradbury's story "Kaleidoscope", has the remaining crew drifting away from each other in space, each to a suitably absurd end. --Jim Gay

• Trollied: Series 1-7 | DVD | (22/07/2024) from £36.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £10.44   |  Saving you £2.55 (24.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "I put the grrr in swinger, baby!" a deliciously randy Austin Powers coos near the beginning of The Spy Who Shagged Me and if the imagination of Austin creator Mike Myers seems to have sagged a bit, his energy surely hasn't. This friendly, go-for-broke sequel to 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery finds our man Austin heading back to the 1960s to keep perennial nemesis Dr. Evil (Myers again) from blowing up the world--and, more importantly, to get back his mojo, that man-juice that turns Austin into irresistible catnip for women, especially American spygirl Felicity Shagwell (a pretty but vacant Heather Graham). The plot may be irreverent and illogical, the jokes may be bad (with characters named Ivana Humpalot and Robin Swallows, née Spitz), and the scenes may run on too long, but it's all delivered sunnily and with tongue firmly in cheek. Myers's true triumph, though, is his turn as the neurotic Dr Evil, who tends to spout the right cultural reference at exactly the wrong time (referring to his moon base as a "Death Star" with Moon Units Alpha and Zappa--in 1969). Myers teams Dr Evil with a diminutive clone, Mini-Me (Verne J Troyer), who soon replaces slacker son Scott Evil (Seth Green) as the apple of the doctor's eye; Myers and Troyer work magic in what could plausibly be one of the year's most affecting (and hysterically funny) love stories. Despite a stellar supporting cast--including a sly Rob Lowe as Robert Wagner's younger self and Mindy Sterling as the forbidding Frau Farbissina--it's basically Myers's show, and he pulls a hat trick by playing a third character, the obese and disgusting Scottish assassin Fat Bastard. Many viewers will reel in disgust at Mr Bastard's repulsive antics and the scatological jokes Myers indulges in, including one showstopper involving coffee and--shudder--a stool sample. Still, Myers's good humour and dead-on cultural references win the day; Austin is one spy who proves he can still shag like a minx. --Mark Englehart

• Marvel Studio's Thor: Love and Thunder 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (03/10/2022) from £23.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Marvel Studios' & Thor: Love and Thunder, the God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) teams up with King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend-turned-Mighty-Thor Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) to take on galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale).

• Look Who's Talking Too | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  If nothing else, the powers that be behind this terrible sequel to the 1989 hit Look Who's Talking will be divinely punished for abusing John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" on the soundtrack. Until then, it's better to push memories of this movie to the back of one's memory. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley reprise their roles from the earlier film, but this time their married relationship is in trouble for sundry reasons. Adding to that complication is the arrival of a new baby (whined by Roseanne Barr) to join the previous one (quipped by Bruce Willis). Mel Brooks and Damon Wayans add their voices to those of some other kids, but this hastily patched-together follow-up wouldn't be funny no matter how may comic minds you threw in the mix. Between the shoddy script and miscasting of Barr, there's enough doom to go around in this thing, but an opening-credits sequence that manages, through crummy special effects, to turn a sperm's path toward an egg into a nauseating experience doesn't help. Stick with the original. --Tom Keogh

• Dad's Army | Blu Ray | (13/06/2016) from £6.10   |  Saving you £18.89 (309.67%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army . The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

• A Room For Romeo Brass | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £8.06   |  Saving you £4.93 (61.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Growing up ...fighting family ...talking out of your arse...

• My Father The Hero | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £13.04   |  Saving you £3.21 (27.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gerard Depardieu stars as an overprotective father who lands in hot water when his overactive teenage daughter gets in over her head at a tropical vacation resort! Soon the mischievous teen is getting dad in big big trouble -- hurling him into one madcap misadventure after another. Combining uproarious comedy and a beautiful island setting MY FATHER THE HERO simply overflows with nonstop fun in the sun.

• Seven Psychopaths | DVD | (15/04/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Seven Psychopaths follows a group of oddball friends who inadvertently find themselves entangled in Los Angeles' criminal underworld after stealing the beloved Schi-Tzu of one dangerous gangster.

• Joyce Grenfell - The BBC Collection | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £7.54   |  Saving you £12.45 (165.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Queen of the comic monologue in her prime performing her most cherished sketches and songs Joyce Grenfell was an institution Queen of the comic monologue and an acclaimed performer on stage radio and television. These TV shows broadcast in 1964 and 1972 bear witness to her unique talent with a selection of hilarious songs monologues and sketches from her one woman show. Joined as ever by her friend William Blezard on piano Joyce performs all her well loved and memorable favourites including the inimitable Lumpy Latimer in the Old Girl's School Reunion Mrs Fanshawe who glides stately as a galleon across the dancefloor three lady choristers making a joyful noise in the Royal Albert Hall and of course Young George whose unspeakable and mysterious activities in The Nursury School produced the now famous catchphrase 'George don't do that!'