Comedy

• LAUREL & HARDY: THE SILENT YEARS (1927) 15 Silent Shorts with Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy (Masters of Cinema) Standard Edition Two-disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £21.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Huggetts Collection - Here Comes The Huggetts/Huggets Abroad/Huggetts Holiday Camp/Vote For The Huggetts | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £9.09   |  Saving you £15.90 (174.92%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Holiday Camp (1947): The Huggett family go to a holiday camp and get involved in crooked card players a murderer on the run and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home. Here Come the Huggetts (1948): The return of the Huggett family. After first meeting the family at the Holiday Camp this is on the home front. The Huggetts are about to have their first telephone installed. The Huggetts Abroad (1949): Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. Vote for Huggett (1949): Father Huggett gets involved in local politics in order to build a pool for local children but gets accused of corruption.

• The Player (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (24/05/2016) from £28.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Garbage Pail Kids DVD & Blu-Ray Limited Edition Mediabook (+ Bonus Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (06/05/2024) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet the Garbage Pail Kids: Nat Nerd, Messy Tessie, Greaser Greg, Windy Winston, Foul Phil, Valerie Vomit and Ali Gator! They look as strange as their names and have come all the way from outer space to land their garbage can rocket straight into Captain Manzini's antique shop. There they befriend the orphan boy Dodger, who helps out in the store and could really use the support of the seven trash can children. But his new friends show him that true beauty comes from within and that the journey of growing up can sometimes be pretty disgusting.3-Disc Limited Collector's Edition Mediabook with the film on Blu-ray and DVD, a bonus Blu-ray and a 24-page booklet with a text by Marc Spark. Bonus: The Kids Aren't Alright - Interviews with Garbage Pail Kids actors Kevin Thompson and Arturo Gil, The Artful Dodger - Interview with Mackenzie Astin, The Effects of the Garbage Pail Kids - Interviews with Effects Design supervisor John Carl Buechler and Special Effects Creator Gino Crognale, On Set Interview with Assistant Director Thomas A. Irvine, Original Theatrical Trailer. Bonus Blu-ray: Documentary 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

• Relative Values | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £6.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (92.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Noel Coward play about a Hollywood star and the english aristocracy. With Julie Andrews, Stephen Fry, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Colin Firth.

• Kangaroo Jack - G'day USA | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £9.92   |  Saving you £7.06 (101.88%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The animated sequel to the original Marsupial-inspired comedy adventure! When poachers kidnap Jackie Legs from the Australian Outback Louis Charlie and Jessie leap into action! Their attempts to save their marsupial mate route them back to the U.S. into the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas baby! They also land right in the pouch of a cross-continental jewel heist--and the FBI thinks they're the crooks! To prove their innocence all they have to do is find the jewels. And to find the

• Frasier Christmas | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.98

  A collection of the festive episodes featuring Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer as Frasier - the hilarious psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the star of this smash-hit comedy series.

• Little Murders - Limited Edition Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (30/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adapted from the controversial stage play by Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge), this savage, nihilistic black comedy was the startling directorial debut of actor Alan Arkin. When a severely depressed fashion photographer (Elliott Gould M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye, California Split) meets an optimistic young woman (Marcia Rodd Citizens Band, Last Embrace), she is determined to save him amidst the series of random muggings, sniper shootings, garbage strikes and total blackouts that are ravaging the city of New York. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with actor Elliott Gould and writer Jules Feiffer Audio commentary with journalist Samm Deighan Introductions to the film by Alan Arkin and Jules Feiffer (2018) A Certain Amount of Black (2018, 18 mins): new interview with acclaimed actor-producer Elliott Gould Beginner's Luck (2018, 19 mins): new interview with celebrated actor-director Alan Arkin Acts of Random Violence (2018, 32 mins): new interview with award-winning writer and satirist Jules Feiffer, author of the original stage play and screenplay adaptation of Little Murders Speaking of Films: 'Little Murders' (1972, 30 mins): original promotional recording of Jules Feiffer in discussion with academics and critics Susan Rice, Robert Geller, Leonard Maltin and Sean Driscoll Radio interviews (1971, 32 mins): promotional recordings of Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland and Alan Arkin, specially prepared for radio station syndication Original theatrical trailer Trailer commentary with Larry Karaszewski (2013, 4 mins): a short critical appreciation Original TV spots Original radio spots Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with an essay by Jim O'Rourke, cast and crew profiles, original promotional discussion guide, contemporary critical responses, and film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited Edition of 3,000 copies

• Cold Comfort Farm | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £11.66   |  Saving you £5.33 (45.71%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Flora Poste who has had an expensive athletic and lengthy education is then orphaned and left with only 100 a year descends on her relatives in Cold Comfort Farm in 'Howling' Sussex. There she finds plenty of relatives namely the Starkadders ruled by the ferocious Aunt Judith. Each of the four cousins has a peculiar character trait there is no bathroom or telephone and the Starkadder women believe that pregnancy is the 'hand of nature and we women can't escape it'. Flora feels

• Absolutely Fabulous - Series 5 - Complete | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £6.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (190.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley return as the outrageous Bolly-swilling duo for 8 episodes in the fifth series of the award-winning BBC1 comedy. Eddy is now a Celebrity PR guru and Patsy her 'style consultant'. Between them they have a plethora of new showbiz pals including an ex-Spice Girl and a Hollywood starlet. No celebrity is safe! Meanwhile the long-suffering Saffy returns from her travels abroad with some big news for her mother: the question on Eddy's lips is 'does La

• Les Patterson Saves The World | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Dr. Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KBE is sent to an oil-rich Gulf state to try to make peace after a United Nations blunder. While there he escapes from a firing squad and discovers a diabolical plan to hold the world to biological ransom. Meanwhile undercover CIA agent Dame Edna Everage arrives on a 'Possums For Peace' tour. On a visit to a local factory she also discovers the real truth.

• Fletch | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fletch is a fairly sarcastic and occasionally very funny Chevy Chase vehicle scripted by Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles, The Freshman, Honeymoon in Vegas) from Gregory McDonald's lightweight mystery novel about an undercover newspaper reporter cracking a police drug ring. Enjoyment of the film pivots on whether you find Chase's flippant, smart-ass brand of verbal humour funny, or merely egocentric. If you don't like Chase, there's really no one else worth watching (Geena Davis is sadly underused). Chase seems born to play IM "Fletch" Fletcher, a disillusioned investigative reporter whose cynicism and detached view on life mirrors the actor's understated approach to comedy. Fletcher offers Chase the opportunity to adopt numerous personas, as his job requires numerous (bad) physical disguises, and much of film's humour centres on the ridiculous idea that any of these phoney accents or bad hairpieces could fool anyone. These not-so-clever disguises are put to use when Fletch becomes involved in the film's smart but continually self-mocking two-part mystery. As well as trying to gather drug-smuggling evidence against the LAPD for a long-overdue newspaper story, a rich and apparently terminally ill stranger also offers Fletch a large payoff to kill him. While the film does a fairly good job juggling both of these plots, not to mention tossing in a love interest as well, they're subservient, for better or worse, to Chase's memorable one-liners and disguises. Followed by two forgettable sequels that lack both the original's wit and Chase's attention span.--Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• Three Up, Two Down | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £64.99   |  Saving you £-40.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A pair of widowed grandparents are forced to cohabit in their children's basement. Daphne (Angela Thorne) is a snobby Cheltenham-bred lady while Sam (Michael Elphick) is the cockney wide boy who has designs on Daphne. First broadcast in 1985 this release includes all the episodes from Series One and Two of Three Up Two Down. Episode titles: Your Place Or Mine? Widower's Mite Ill Wind From Cheltenham Epping's Not Far Just Desserts Two Down One To Go Major Inconvenience Sweet

• Till Death Us Do Part | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The world according to Alf Garnett - the most opinionated loud-mouthed and prejudiced bigot in all comedy creation! Londoner Alf chronicles the hilarious history of the put-upon Garnett family from the war with Hitler to another battle with the Germans - the 1966 World Cup Final!

• Two Way Stretch | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A great British crime comedy always worth another watch, Two Way Stretch is the one about the cosily imprisoned crooks who hatch a scheme to pull off a heist with a perfect alibi by breaking out of their nick, doing the job and then breaking back into the jug again to serve out their sentences. Peter Sellers, usually an eccentric support in these things, takes a rare lead as cocky mastermind Dodger Lane, confident enough to share the screen with performers who would be doing serious time if scene-stealing were an actual offence. The chief delight of the film, obvious inspiration for Blakey from On the Buses, is Lionel Jeffries' bristling, infuriated, hilariously humiliated warder Sidney Crout, forever fuming as Dodger gets away with some new scheme. Also in on the scam: Wilfrid Hyde White as a bogus clergyman of extreme unctuousness, David Lodge as the dim-witted muscle bloke, and Bernard Cribbins in the nice young man part. The wayward plot finds room for cameos from such national institutions as Beryl Reid, Irene Handl and Liz Fraser. Director Robert Day, probably best known for the Hammer version of She, is nobody's idea of an auteur, but he puts this pacey little gem together perfectly. The British cinema has been turning out an unheralded series of wonderful caper comedies for decades, from The Lavender Hill Mob through A Fish Called Wanda to The Parole Officer; this effort--along with the follow-up The Wrong Arm of the Law--ranks among the best. On the DVD: Two Way Stretch comes to disc in a nice print. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection.--Kim Newman

• The Office - Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base that the programme acquired watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional Slough paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television programme. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth, a paradigm of Andy McNab's readership; the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch; and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim, whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Alan Partridge or Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character than either. Partridge and Fawlty are exaggerations of reality, and therefore safely comic figures. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller On the DVD: Series 1 is tastefully packaged as a two-disc set appropriately adorned with John Betjeman's poem "Slough". The special features occupy the second disc and consist of a laid-back 39-minute documentary entitled "How I Made The Office by Ricky Gervais", with cowriter Stephen Merchant and the cast contributing. Here we discover that Gervais spends his time on set "mucking around and annoying people", and that actress Lucy Davis (Dawn) is the daughter of Jasper Carrott; as well as seeing parts of the original short film and the original BBC pilot episode; plus we get to enjoy many examples of the cast corpsing throughout endless retakes. There are also a handful of deleted scenes, none of which were deleted because they weren't funny. Series 2 is a single-disc release, but the extra features are enjoyable nonetheless. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant feature in a gleefully shambolic video diary--highlights of which include Gervais flicking elastic bands at his cowriter and taping their editor to his swivel chair. The ubiquitous Gervais also mockingly introduces some outtakes (mostly of him corpsing throughout dozens of takes) and a series of deleted scenes, notably of Gareth arriving in his horrendous cycle shorts. --Mark Walker

• Scary Movie 3 | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £6.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (190.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the director of "Airplane" comes the third instalment in the scary spoof franchise.

• Kick Ass 2 | HD DVD | (11/09/2023) from £199.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Self-made superhero Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and sweet-faced, foul-mouthed assassin Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) try to return to life as normal teenagers, but soon they are faced with their deadliest challenge yet. To seek revenge for his father's death, Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) has re-invented himself as the leader of an evil league of super-villains. To defeat their new nemesis, Kick-Ass and Hit Girl must team up with a new wave of masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), in this battle of real-life villains and heroes. Product Features Alternate Opening Big Daddy Returns: The Unshot Scene An Ass-Kicking Cast Street Rules: Showdown at the Evil Lair Hit Girl Attacks: Creating the Van Sequence Extended Scenes The Making of Kick-Ass 2 The B**** is Back: Chloë Grace Moretz is Hit Girl Mother Russia Mayhem Making the Cut: Adventures in Post-Production The Saga Continues...Kick-Ass in the Comics And More

• Wanderlust | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £3.90   |  Saving you £9.09 (233.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple whose lives are turned upside down when they stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things.

• That Sinking Feeling (Remastered) (BFI Flipside) (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/04/2014) from £18.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  BFI Flipside presents acclaimed director Bill Forsyth's (Gregory's Girl, Local Hero) hilarious directorial debut. Unemployed teenager Ronnie (Robert Buchanan, Gregory's Girl) and his hapless pals spend their time hanging around the rainy parks and dingy cafes of Glasgow, but their world is about to change when Ronnie hatches a plan to make them all rich by stealing a job-lot of stainless steel sinks. Hilarious and inventive, this zero budget debut from celebrated director Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, Comfort and Joy) provides an authentic depiction of 1970s Glasgow youth culture, and is presented here for the first time in a new HD transfer complete with the original Glaswegian dialogue track