Comedy

• The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £13.35   |  Saving you £-3.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Since becoming a vaudeville team in 1922 George Burns and Gracie Allen have made audiences laugh in movies radio and television. The real-life married couple established their personalities in radio with The Burns and Allen Show and brought their comedy to television in 1950. For nine years on CBS every show opened with Burns puffing his trademark cigar regaling the audience with stories of their vaudeville days... and the latest antics of his beloved wife Gracie.

• To Rome With Love | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (256.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  To Rome with Love is a story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into.

• KNOCKABOUT (Eureka Classics) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (25/04/2022) from £12.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release KNOCKABOUT, the fast and furious kung fu comedy classic directed by Sammo Hung, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from a brand-new 2K restoration as a part of the Eureka Classics range. Available from 25 April 2022, the first print-run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited-Edition O-card Slipcase & Collector's Booklet. Another fast and furious kung fu comedy classic directed by Sammo Hung (The Millionaires' Express), Knockabout features a cast of martial arts movie legends including Yuen Biao (The Prodigal Son), Bryan Beardy Leung Kar-yan (Warriors Two), and Lau Kar-wing (Odd Couple) alongside Hung himself. Brothers Yipao (Yuen Biao) and Taipao (Leung Kar-yan) are a couple of down on their luck conmen. After getting soundly defeated by the kung fu master, Silver Fox (Lau Kar-wing), the brothers realise it would be in their own self-interest if they learn how to fight, and they ask him to train them. Unfortunately, their new master is actually a ruthless killer, and when the brothers realise this, one of them is murdered. To get revenge, the surviving brother must learn a unique form of kung fu from an unlikely source, a beggar who just happens to be a master fighter! Featuring one of the greatest action finales in the history of Hong Kong cinema, Knockabout is yet another classic of martial arts filmmaking from the legendary Sammo Hung, and Eureka Classics is proud to present the film in its UK debut on Blu-ray from a brand new 2K restoration. Features Limited Edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling Reversible sleeve design featuring original poster artwork Original Cantonese mono audio Optional English dubbed audio Optional English Subtitles, newly translated for this release Brand new feature length audio commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) Brand new feature length audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder & Arne Venema Archival interview with Sammo Hung Archival interview with Bryan Beardy Leung Kar-yan Archival interview with Grandmaster Chan Sau Chang (aka The Monkey King), a master of Monkey Style kung fu Deleted Scene Trailers PLUS: A Limited Edition collector's booklet featuring new writing by James Oliver *All extras subject to change Directed by & stars Sammo Hung (The Millionaires' Express) Features a cast of martial arts movie legends including Yuen Biao (The Prodigal Son), Bryan Beardy Leung Kar-yan (Warriors Two), and Lau Kar-wing (Odd Couple) On Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from a brand-new 2K restoration The first print-run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited-Edition O-card Slipcase & Collector's Booklet Features one of the greatest action finales in the history of Hong Kong Cinema

• Groundhog Day | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. After a surprise blizzard traps him in small-town hell, things get even worse; Phil wakes the next morning to find it's GROUNDHOG DAY all over again and again and again. Blu-ray Disc Special Features: Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary with Director Harold Ramis Needle Nose Ned's Picture-In-Picture Track The Study of Groundhogs: A Real-Life Look At Marmots A Different Day: An Interview with Harold Ramis The Weight of Time Documentary

• Magic Cop | Blu Ray | (24/07/2023) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After seeing off hopping corpses in Mr. Vampire, the great Lam Ching-ying (Enter the Dragon, Eastern Condors) faces a new supernatural challenge: someone is using the living dead to smuggle drugs into modern day Hong Kong and only Lam's Officer Feng - policeman and Taoist master - can stop them, proving the power of traditional Chinese magic in the process! Mixing comedy, action and esoteric lore, Magic Cop sees the incomparable Lam at his brilliant best. 88 Films are proud to present this gorgeously restored treat from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema. Product Features High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio Lossless 2.0 Cantonese Mono English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Newly Translated English Subtitles Audio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Expert Frank Djeng Theatrical Trailer

• Carry On Abroad | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £9.36   |  Saving you £3.63 (38.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the last decent Carry On movies, Carry On Abroad is a 1972 venture into the world of package holidays. After this, the series descended into unfunny coarseness as opposed to camply laboured double entendre, culminating in the dreadful Carry On Emanuelle. Here, publican Sid James and dutiful mother's son turned sex maniac Charles Hawtrey are among a brace of Brits heading for the "paradise island" of Elsbels. Kenneth Williams is the out-of-his-depth tour operator, reverting to the sort of effete types he played in the 1950s, Peter Butterworth a pre-Manuel-style manager of a half-built hotel. A series of disasters ensue, with the entire gang landing up in jail following a fracas in a brothel at one point, but everyone finds romantic and sexual fulfilment in a quaint disco finale. This includes a gay character who is "dissuaded" from his homosexuality in a typical example of the thoroughly reactionary subtext that constitutes the really naughty bit of most Carry On films. Nonetheless, this throwback to an imaginary time when the lewdest innuendo of a dirty old man was greeted by young females with a flirty "Ooh, saucy!" is enjoyable on condition that you enter into its seaside-postcard spirit. June Whitfield is fine as a sexually uptight wife, Kenneth Connor a model of red-faced frustration as her wimpish husband. On the DVD: Sadly, no extra features except scene selection. The picture is a 4:3 ratio full-screen presentation. --David Stubbs

• Robin Williams - Live on Broadway | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sharper and deeper than Robin Williams's previous road material, Live on Broadway is a mature comedian's view of all things to do with power, prejudice and paranoia in the 21st century. On the anthrax scare of 2001: "The Senate cleared out of their building but told the rest of us 'Get on with your normal lives'!" On his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem: "Time share!" On the pitfalls of America's deepening alliance with Britain: "The House of Commons is like Congress with a two-drink minimum". A viewer may have to slog through Williams's tedious breast fetishism, but patience is quickly rewarded with bitchy takes on Martha Stewart facing prison, solid satire about French existentialist judges at the Olympics and subversive op-eds about the Bush administration's inability to clarify terrorist threats to the public ("Has the CIA become the Central Intuitive Agency?"). --Tom Keogh

• The Best of 8 out of 10 Cats | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £4.25   |  Saving you £15.74 (370.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jim Carr hosts the best of the irreverent Channel 4 comedy show.

• Biloxi Blues | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £5.44   |  Saving you £0.55 (10.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this semi-autobiographical screenplay Neil Simon's private memoirs in the US Army are made public. Set in 1943 at an army base in Biloxi Mississippi a lowly recruit (Broderick) comes under the command of a very weird drill sergeant (Walken)...

• One Foot In The Grave - Series 1 - Complete Collection | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £6.15   |  Saving you £9.84 (160.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Who would have thought retirement could be so chaotic? Certainly not querulous Victor Meldrew one of tree-lined suburbia's perennial complainers or his long suffering wife Margaret. When he's forced to take early retirement Victor suddenly has plenty of time on his hands to rage against the petty annoyances of life. But there's one thing to remember in the Meldrew household - whatever can go wrong always does and it usually spells disaster for Victor... Alive and Buried:

• Malena | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A coming of age story set in a small Italian village during World War Two, about a teenage boy and Malena, a beautiful young widow who makes her fellow townsfolk suspicious.

• A Fine Romance - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the vaults of British television comes a comedy gem starring two consummate actors who were also a couple in real life: Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams. They play a pair of middle-aged dating-game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Laura a brainy translator and Mike a shy landscape gardener are introduced by Laura's glamorous younger sister who is intent on finding a mate for her spinsterish sibling. Awkward and rumpled Mike

• Carry On Spying | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and James Bind aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

• Father's Little Dividend | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• American Dad | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  American Dad! (from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane) is the animated story of Stan Smith who works for the CIA and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity. Stan will go to extremes to protect his beloved America from harm - as evidenced by the terror-alert color code on his fridge and his frequent knee-jerk reaction of shooting holes in the toaster whenever the toast pops up. In addition to Stan's wife and teenage children the Smith household has two rather unconventional members; there's Roger the sarcastic space alien who Stan rescued from Area 51 (resenting the fact he's not allowed to leave the house) and Klaus a lascivious German-speaking goldfish the result of a CIA experiment gone seriously wrong! Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Threat Levels 3. Stan Knows Best 4. Francine's Flashback 5. Roger Codger 6. Homeland Insecurity 7. Deacon Stan Jesus Man 8. Bullocks To Stan 9. A Smith In The Hand 10. All About Steve 11. Con Heir 12. Stan Of Arabia (Part 1) 13. Stan Of Arabia (Part 2)

• The Jerk | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £8.97   |  Saving you £1.02 (11.37%)   |  RRP £9.99

  That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the ""opti-grab"" handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today.

• Moonstruck (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (17/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tim Vine - Jokeamotive | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £5.12   |  Saving you £1.87 (36.52%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Come on! It's the brand new DVD from the king of the one-liners Tim Vine!Tonnes of jokes and silly songs and crazy homemade props and still no sign of any satire. Yes the Joke-amotive is pulling into your living room now. He's wearing platform shoes and he's got the carriage of a lion. What a goody choo choos. Here he comes! It's the gag rush hour. His disembark is worse than his disembite. Be on your guard. Take a deep breath and hold on tight. This train Timinates here.

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £18.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (32.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The boys are off to Cuba to drink rum smoke cigars dance the rumba and live 'la vida dulce'! After a job in Russia goes badly wrong and with the help of serendipity and exaggeration the boys are in Havana Cuba rebuilding parts of the British Embassy following hurricane damage. A requisite in the law states that only British Nationals may work on the repair and construction of British diplomatic buildings: enter the 'Magnificent Seven'!

• A Mighty Wind | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £13.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (15.31%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A new mockumentary from the makers of "Best in Show" captures the reunion of a collection of 1960s folk heroes as they prepare for a tribute show to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.