Comedy

• Father Of The Bride / Father Of The Bride 2 | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £13.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (43.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Father Of The Bride: the feel-good smash-hit comedy about the outrageous trials and tribulations of a well-intentioned father going through the - mental and physical - preparations for his only daughter's wedding. The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement setting off on an outrageous chain of events including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm. Starring Steve Martin Diane Keaton and Martin Short this

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likeable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable Scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers like Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002.--David Stubbs

• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Deuce is tricked again into man-whoring in Amsterdam while other man-whores are being murdered in his midst.

• Simon And Laura | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £15.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Love marriage and show business provide the basis of this lively comedy that centers on a husband and wife who are chosen by television producers to embody the perfect married couple on an upcoming television series. The show is to be filmed and broadcast live from the home of Simon and Laura who on camera are indeed the perfect couple. Unfortunately the minute the camera is off the two are going at it hammer and tong. Still their show is very popular and many couples look up to them until the ill-fated shooting of a Christmas special in which the couple begin tippling alcoholic beverages during the filming and end up letting their true relationship come out.

• The Truth About Cats And Dogs | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £5.02   |  Saving you £7.97 (158.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Charming and bittersweet this modern-day romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman Janeane Garofalo and Ben Chaplin explores the beguiling perils of mistaken identity. Abby a gutsy and witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian a caller who is smitten with her radio persona asks her on a date. She talks her tall blonde neighbour Noelle into assuming

• So I Married An Axe Murderer | Blu Ray | (16/06/2008) from £17.77   |  Saving you £3.48 (21.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy poet living in San Francisco who frequents neighborhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed relationships Mackenzie's fear of commitment has intensified into outrageous extremes of paranoia. When he finds himself falling for the sweet-faced butcher (Nancy Travis) at his local meat shop he sees it as a final chance for love to overcome his painful cynicism. Feeling he has squelched his nagging fears Mackenzie marries the woman. But his anxiety quickly manifests itself in the conviction that his wife is actually an infamous axe murderer whose antics are described in juicy detail in each week's issue of the Weekly World News...

• Melinda And Melinda | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £2.60   |  Saving you £17.39 (668.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell and Jonny Lee Miller star in this latest romcom from Woody Allen.

• LAUREL & HARDY: THE SILENT YEARS (1927) 15 Silent Shorts with Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy (Masters of Cinema) Special Edition Two-disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £28.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fifteen silent shorts featuring the most influential and celebrated comedy duo of all time Eureka Entertainment to release LAUREL & HARDY: THE SILENT YEARS (1927), fifteen silent shorts featuring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy. Presented on Blu-ray from restorations sourced from the best available materials. Available from 19 August 2024 as part of The Masters of Cinema Series, the first print run of 2000 copies only will exclusively feature an O-card slipcase. Standing tall alongside Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin as pioneers of cinematic comedy, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two of the most beloved comedians in the history of moving pictures. Having acted alongside each other for the first time in 1921, they officially teamed up later in the decade in a series of shorts made for producer Hal Roach - launching a wildly successful partnership that would survive into the sound era and last for another quarter of a century. This collection captures the duo's earliest (mis)adventures on screen, chronicling their journey from their first films together - The Lucky Dog and the aptly titled 45 Minutes to Hollywood - to the dawn of their official partnership in thirteen shorts produced throughout 1927. From Duck Soup and Sailors Beware! to Do Detectives Think?, Putting Pants on Philip and The Battle of the Century (once available only in incomplete versions until its missing scenes were rediscovered in 2015), these films show the development of two independent comedians into the most influential and celebrated comedy duo of all time. The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present the early works of Laurel & Hardy - painstakingly restored from the best available materials held by collectors and archives around the globe - in a special two-disc Blu-ray edition for the first time in the UK. The set contains the following shorts: Lucky Dog, 45 Minutes from Hollywood, Duck Soup, Slipping Wives, Love 'em and Weep, Why Girls Love Sailors, With Love and Hisses, Sailors, Beware!, Do Detectives Think?, Flying Elephants, Sugar Daddies, The Second 100 Years, Call of the Cuckoo, Putting Pants on Philip, and The Battle of the Century. Limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Scott Saslow | 1080p HD presentations on Blu-ray from new 2K restorations | Scores by a variety of silent film composers including Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola, Eric le Guen and Donald Sosin | Alternate scores on select shorts | Audio commentary tracks on all films | New interviews with silent film experts | Image galleries | Archival recordings and interviews | PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring newly written notes on each film by writer and comedian Paul Merton, and a new essay by silent cinema expert Imogen Sara Smith * All extras subject to change

• MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE | Blu Ray | (12/09/2022) from £21.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning of Life. The gang offers the usual tasteful sketches involving favourite body parts and bodily functions, the wonders of war, the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven. You'll never look at life in quite the same way again! Hailed as an exhilarating experience (Time) and pronounced the best movie from England's satirical sextet. (Newsweek)The Meaning Of Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Reunion. Product Features Sing-along Version Prologue With Eric Idle The Meaning Of Making The Meaning Of Life Feature Commentary With Terry Jones And Terry Gilliam Soundtrack For The Lonely Snipped Bits Un Film De John Cleese Education Tips Song And Dance Songs Unsung And Much More!

• Arsenic and Old Lace (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (11/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Eagle Vs. Shark | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £7.55   |  Saving you £10.44 (138.28%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Two lonely misfits discover the right match isn't always perfect in this decidedly quirky comedy.

• Eaten By Lions | DVD | (29/07/2019) from £4.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  EATEN BY LIONS tells the heart-warming story of half-brothers Omar (Antonio Aakeel) and Pete (Jack Carroll), who were raised by their Grandma after their parents were tragically killed by lions in a bizarre accident. When their beloved Gran passes away, they embark on a life-changing journey to find Omar's birth father. What follows is a funny and touching journey of self-discovery for both boys...in Blackpool. The Choudray family represent a truly contemporary example of modern multicultural Britain, but what will the brothers make of their eccentric newfound family?

• Carry On - Doctors And Nurses Collection - Digi Stack 2 | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Carry On Camping (1969): Sid (Sid James) and his reluctant mate Bernie (Bernard Bresslaw) hit on the idea of a nudist camping holiday to spice things up with their girlfriends! The arrival of Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams) headmaster of the Chayste Place Finishing School his matron Miss Haggard (Hattie Jacques) in charge of eleven nubile girls including star pupil Babs (Barbara Windsor) set the scene for one of the funniest frolics in the Carry On repertoire. Carry On Abroad (1972): The Carry On team take a package holiday that starts disastrously and rapidly goes downhill. The paradise island of Elsbels is not all it's cracked up to be.... The hotel isn't finished the staff are abit thin on the ground - in fact Pepe (Peter Butterworth) is the staff - and the locals are far from friendly! Carry On Follow That Camel (1967): Can fresh Foreign Legion recruits 'B.O.' West (Jim Dale) and his faithful manservant Simpson (Peter Butterworth) help defeat the ruthless Sheikh Abdul Abulbul (Bernard Bresslaw)? Find out in the hysterical historical spectacular featuring a host of harem beauties a bevy of blood thirsty Bedouins and a troupe of Legionnaires getting the hump! Carry On Girls (1973): You might think that a beauty contest would be the perfect place for the Carry On team to discover new heights of hilarity and new depths of depravity - well you'd be right! Sidney Fiddler brings a beauty contest to a quiet seaside resort. His problems start with two curvaceous Hells Angels Miss Easy Rider and Miss Dawn Brakes. There's Major Bumble Bernard Bresslaw as Britain's first drag beauty queen and last but not least Mrs Angel Prodworthy who is fighting on behalf of Women's Lib. Carry on Behind (1975): Archaelogists Professors Anna Vooshka (Elke Sommer) and Roland Crump (Kenneth Williams) are desparate to begin poking round the remains of a Roman encampment. Unfortunately the local caravan site has been built over the historic site. Holiday pals Ernie Bragg (Jack Douglas) and Fred Ramsden (Windsor Davies) have their sites set on the local beauty spots - campers Sandra (Carol Hawkins) and Carol (Sherrie Hewson)! Carry On At Your Convenience (1971): The Carry On team throw caution to the wind and present an hour and a half of good clean lavatorial humour. Kenneth Williams is WC Boggs the troubled owner of a small company trying to manufacture fine toiletware. Incompetent management and a bolshy union are just about the least of Bogg's problems as you'll soon discover in this hysterical comedy that tells you everything you always wanted to know about your home's most vital convenience.

• Wasabi | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £7.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (166.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This high-energy Dirty Harry in Japan stars Jean Reno (The Professional) as a maverick Paris cop with sledgehammer fists and a short temper. Promoted to sudden fatherhood when he "inherits" a spunky Japanese daughter (Ryoko Hirosue) he never knew, he becomes her droopy guardian angel, protecting her from an army of yakuza gangsters. Written and produced by Luc Besson, the former fashionista director of Euro-sleek shoot-'em-ups, this colorful B-movie blast is as gritty as an oil slick on a water slide but packed with explosive action. Director Gerard Krawczyk punctuates his gunfights with the Hong Kong school of recoil (bullets blast victims across the screen) and an undercurrent of humor. As long as you don't lean too hard on such niggling details as logic, legality, and the laws of physics, this silly, splashy, family bonding bulletfest is a spirited good time.

• Crocodile Dundee / Crocodile Dundee 2 | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Paul Hogan as the eccentric Australian crocodile poacher who becomes the subject of an article by an investigative journalist from New York the Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2 Boxset is a superb package of two of the funniest films of the 1980's. The original story of the outback crocodile wrangler who is taken back to America by the journalist doing an expos on him is a hilarious example of what can happen when two diverse cultures collide. Hogan's Mick Dundee is a fascinating

• Roy Chubby Brown - Stocking Filler | DVD | (11/11/2001) from £9.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (117.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Once again the man in the legendary patchwork suit and flying helmet is squeezed onto the small screen. Over an hour of outrageous fun filmed live at the Alexandra Theatre Birmingham.

• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | UMD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

• Carry On Teacher | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes armed with gin itching power and bombs! No one is safe from the classroom havoc in this Carry On starring all the regulars including the immortal Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Hattie Jacques Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims.

• Who's Harry Crumb? | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Harry Crumb (John Candy) is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

• Birds of a Feather: The Complete Second Series | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £16.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this second series of Birds of a Feather - one of the 1990s most successful longrunning and memorable sitcoms. This release also features the feature-length Christmas Specials from 1990. Created by legendary screenwriters Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (The New Statesman Shine on Harvey Moon) the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracy (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves both financially and emotionally when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. The girls have lived very different lives Tracey enjoying the neo-Georgian splendour of 'Dalentrace' - the luxury home paid for by husband Darryl's criminal activities - while her sister had remained in an Edmonton tower block. Now Sharon lives with Tracey enjoying a few home comforts and offering some much-needed moral support - even if some of her habits prove a tad annoying. And if life in Chigwell sometimes seems a little dull there are always the extra-marital adventures of their man-eating neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) to keep them entertained...