Comedy

• Robin's Nest - Series 1 (Two Discs) (DVD) | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Now a qualified chef Robin from ""Man About the House"" (1973) sets up home with his girlfriend and a business with his girlfriend's father.

• Mad Monster Party | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (101.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Mad Monster Party

• Slap Shot | DVD | (03/10/2002) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-6.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along. Newman is very good, and while Hill goes for the gusto in terms of capturing the violence of this world, his instinct for comedy has never been sharper. Great support from Strother Martin, Paul Dooley, and the rest. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - The Very Best Of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £6.60   |  Saving you £6.39 (96.82%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads was actually a revival, in 1973, of the successful Dick Clements/Ian La Frenais 1960s comedy The Likely Lads, so notable for its fibrous but sympathetic treatment of life for two young men coming of age in North East England. This "Very Best of" collection brings together classic episodes from the 1973 series. Although tinged with nostalgia--the décor and styles of the early 1970s are almost pungently evocative--the quality of the writing defies the passage of time. Seven years on from their initial adventures, Rodney Bewes (upwardly mobile, self-improving Bob) and James Bolam (feckless, chippy Terry) meet by accident on the train. Bob is about to marry Thelma and move into modern semi-detached heaven, while Terry is just out of the army and drifting back home without a great deal of purpose. The relationship between the two men, basically sound but frequently compromised by their very different aspirations, is very cleverly drawn and played so that your sympathies never stay on one side for very long. Best of all, Brigit Forsyth's Thelma, a dragon in the making, adds an astringent dynamic. She is, says Terry, "so stuck up she thinks her backside's a perfume factory". The insecurity he generates in her is responsible for much of the comedy. On the DVD: The Very Best of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads comes to disc with no extras, simply standard 4:3 picture format video production and episode selection. But it's still fresh as a daisy all the same. --Piers Ford

• Grilled | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £4.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (320.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You can't beat their meat. Maurice (Ray Romano) and Dave (Kevin James) are meat salesmen roving the San Fernando Valley armpit of America on the lookout for clients to buy their line of prime-cut steaks. Once they get a hold of the hottest leads in town Maurice and Dave embark on a comedic adventure spiked with danger and sexual innuendo involving transvestites gangsters and the macho beef lover (Burt Reynolds) hosting his son's Bar Mitzvah...

• Disney's Moana 2 UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Walt Disney Animation Studios' Epic animated musical Moana 2 re-unites Moana and Maui three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost wtaers for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced. Blu-ray & 4k UHD discs include Sing-along version!

• The Starving Games | DVD | (11/11/2013) from £8.55   |  Saving you £6.44 (75.32%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'Good morning hungry citizens of District 12! Don't forget today is the Gathering Ceremony, so parents please do bring your beloved children to the square for a random death lottery.' When lithe and fearless Kantmiss Evershot volunteers to take part in the winner-takes-all STARVING GAMES, she takes on a whole lot more than she had bargained for.... including Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, The Avengers and ANGRY BIRDS!

• Porridge - The Christmas Specials | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £6.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (94.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Another great comdey series that charted in the top ten of Britain's Best Sitcom's. This DVD features both the Christmas specials transmitted on Christmas Eve in 1975 and 1976. No Way Out: In his innocence Godber is looking forward to Christmas but Fletch knows that if ""there's one big event around here it's not the coming of Our Lord it's the tunnelling of Tommy Slocombe"". And this Christmas he is determined to stay well clear of Tommy Slocombe his dodgy mates and the

• Bad Moms | Blu Ray | (26/12/2016) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Amy joins forces with two other over-stressed moms, leading them on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities, going on a wild un-mom like binge of freedom, fun and self-indulgence.

• Hancock: The Best Of Hancock | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £5.80   |  Saving you £7.19 (123.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Very Best of Hancock isn't just a miscellaneous compilation of his television work, rather it is five of the six episodes from Hancock's last season with the BBC in 1961. Writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson followed Hancock to television after making him a star on radio, and it is to them as much as to Hancock's lugubrious persona that these few shows owe their classic status. In a conscious effort to throw the spotlight more firmly on himself, Hancock had parted company with his radio cohorts in the transition to TV, and here for the first time he also dispensed with stalwart comedy partner Sid James. Thanks to Galton and Simpson, however, the gamble paid off handsomely and these shows remain some of the best sitcoms ever created for British television. No longer a resident of Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, here we find Hancock in Earl's Court in the first episode, "The Bedsitter". Whether trying vainly to live the life of a carefree bachelor, playing an old country character in a thinly disguised version of "The Archers" ("The Bowmans"), wrestling with the complexities of valve radio ("The Radio Ham"), annoying everyone in an awkward situation ("The Lift") or giving that famous pint of blood ("The Blood Donor"), Galton and Simpson provide Hancock with every opportunity to exercise his wonderful pomposity and pretentiousness with scripts full of comic invention and eminently quotable lines. Hugh Lloyd and June Whitfield are among the supporting cast.On the DVD: The disc includes a good recent interview with Galton and Simpson, who talk about their sometimes difficult relationship with the star. After Hancock used cue cards while recording "The Blood Donor", they reveal, he decided never to bother learning any lines again, even though this had a detrimental effect on his ability to use comic facial expressions ever afterwards. The picture and sound quality are what might be expected from TV of this vintage. --Mark Walker

• Disney Pixar's Elemental (Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £44.31   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Disney and Pixar's Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire, water, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.

• Are You Being Served? - Season 2 | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There's hilarity at Grace Brothers the High Street department store with a difference. Join in the fun as limp-wristed Mr Humphries and that blue-rinsed battle axe Mrs Slocombe lead the outrageous department store staff through a second series of outrageously funny episodes! Episodes comprise: 1. The Clock 2. Cold Comfort 3. The Think Tank 4. Big Brother 5. Hoorah For The Holidays

• My Girl | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £4.36   |  Saving you £5.63 (129.13%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A charming coming of age comedy starring Dan Aykroyd Jamie Lee Curtis Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky 'My Girl' is an irresistible story of first love and loss. Chlumsky makes an extraordinary acting debut as Vada Sultenfuss a precocious 11 years old tomboy and Macaulay Culkin is Thomas J. the boy next door. Their summer adventure - from first kiss to last farewell - introduces Vada to the world of adolescence.

• Boogie Nights | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson

• Russell Brand - Scandalous - Live At The 02 | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £3.80   |  Saving you £16.19 (426.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed in front of 16 000 at London's O2 the most thrilling comedian of his generation delivers his first live DVD for two years. With 80 minutes of blistering boundry-pushing stand-up featuring Brand's first hand experience of hosting the MTV Video Music Awards his rise to Hollywood fame sexual notoriety and the media storm around 'Sachsgate'.

• Riding In Cars With Boys | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £5.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (235.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drew Barrymore stars in the true life tale of a teen mother who overcame all sorts of hardships and went on to become a succesful writer in later life.

• Paul | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy sci-fi Paul as two geeks whose pilgrimage to America's UFO heartland brings them face-to-face with the titular alien.

• Johnny English - Fully Loaded Edition | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £4.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (103.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He knows no fear. He knows no danger. He knows nothing!Bumbling British intelligence officer Johnny English has to step into the breach when all his fellow agents are suddenly bumped off. With the machinations of mysterious millionaire Pascal Sauvage becoming increasingly threatening, it's up to Johnny to save the crown jewels and the very fate of the Royal family!

• Back to Life - Series 2 | DVD | (25/10/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's three weeks after the friendship-shattering revelations of Series 1, and Miri Matteson has retained her determination to live her life after coming out of prison and returning to her childhood home in Hythe. She's got a trial shift at the supermarket; she and her neighbour Billy are going for a not-date-date and a flat of her own is in her sights. But not only must Miri cope with the fact that her mother, Caroline, and ex-boyfriend, DOM, were until recently having an affair, she has to try and avoid Mandy, her ex-best friend. Miri is finding it hard to forgive Mandy for hiding the truth behind the events that led to Lara's death, and put Miri behind bars for 18 years. And Miri's desire to put the past firmly in her rear-view mirror is about to be seriously challenged by the return of Lara's father, Mr Boback. Meanwhile, Caroline and Oscar realise that forgiveness is easier said than done, and that Miri could be the main thing they have in common. Series 2 sees Miri continue to be hounded by her past but maintain her optimism about her future in the face of awkward encounters, challenging life admin and a man intent on revenge. Staring Daisy Haggard, Adeel Akhtar, Geraldine James, Richard Durden & Jamie Michie

• What Happens In Vegas | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £2.81   |  Saving you £17.18 (611.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two strangers find themselves married in Vegas and hitting the jackpot! Through their constant bickering the two find themselves coming closer together.