Comedy

• Jack Whitehall Live | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £3.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Triple British Comedy Award Nominee. This highly anticipated debut stand-up DVD sees Jack Whitehall at his high energy, laugh-out-loud best. From dates at Nando's to lads' holidays in Magaluf, British customer service etiquette to having sex at his parents' house. Jack dances from one story to another, effortlessly extracting the humour from every situation. With sell-out national tours, nominations at the British Comedy Awards and the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for his stand-up, much-lauded appearances on The Royal Variety Performance and Live At The Apollo, and his recent acclaimed roles in Fresh Meat and the self-penned Bad Education, Jack Whitehall is one of the UK's brightest comedy stars. Special Features: Interview with Jack's Dad Untitled Vampire Project Audition

• Cheech And Chong's The Corsican Brothers | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £14.36   |  Saving you £-1.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Corsican Brothers were bound so closely together that when one was hurt the other felt the pain; however Cheech and Chong shed new light on Dumas' classic story of the Revolution! Follow our heroes in this anything-goes comic romp through 18th Century France - a France in which the word ""pervert"" is taken as a compliment by the aristocracy in a court where depravity rules ... and with them it's OK! Together the Brothers battle against misfortune - never wavering from their mott

• Spun | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jason Schwartzman stars as a speed junkie who embarks on an three-day adventure with his dealer in this darkly comic look at the grungy underworld of American life.

• King Of Queens - Series 5 | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's good to be King! Kevin James continues to deliver the laughs as parcel deliveryman Doug Heffernan in the fifth hysterical season of The King Of Queens. In these 24 uproarious episodes Doug his loving wife Carrie (Leah Remini) and his royal pain of a father-in-law Arthur (Jerry Stiller) hold court over such regal issues as paintball parties job strikes expanding waistlines cheating husbands and positive home-pregnancy tests. So join Doug and his noble entourage of family and friends in this crowning collection of sidesplitting comedy and laughter - uncut unedited and commercial-free!

• The Golden Girls - The Complete First Season | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £24.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (10.21%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Launched during the neon-lit 1980s, The Golden Girls shed light on a side of Miami ignored by Miami Vice. In other words, no drugs, no murder--just four women of "a certain age," spending their golden years in the sun. Like the theme, "Thank You for Being a Friend," the long-running sitcom was about friendship (not crime). As for the "girls," they were tart-tongued Dorothy, former farm girl Rose, Southern belle Blanche, and Dorothy's salty Sicilian mother Sophia. All were widows, with the exception of the divorced Dorothy. Created by Emmy-winning producer Susan Harris, The Golden Girls re-ignited the careers of 1970s TV veterans Arthur and White. At the same time, it made stars of McClanahan, by playing a comic version of A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche Dubois, and the scene-stealing Getty, made to look older than her actual age (she and Arthur were born the same year). The Golden Girls ran for seven seasons and spawned spin-off The Golden Palace (without Arthur) and a British version called The Brighton Belles. By the end of its run in 1992, it had garnered numerous awards, including two Emmys for best comedy series. In addition, each of the four actresses received a well-deserved Emmy for her efforts. --Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon.com

• License to Wed | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £15.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (11.41%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A reverend puts an engaged couple through a gruelling marriage preparation course to see if they are meant to be married in his church.

• All Creatures Great And Small - Christmas Specials | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.72

  Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet the long running TV series All Creatures Great and Small is back with The Christmas Specials!

• The Buster Keaton Collection | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A collection of 28 films featuring the 'Great Stone Face' himself Buster Keaton. Buster Keaton is one of the trio of great comedy geniuses that the silent era produced and along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd can still be considered one of the great comics of all time. Buster starred in both features and shorts and as proof of his enduring popularity his 1927 masterpiece The General was voted number 18 on the AFI-Top 100 Funniest films of all time in June 2000. B

• Snake Outta Compton | DVD | (28/01/2019) from £9.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A rap group on the verge of signing their first record deal is the city's only hope in a battle with a giant mutating snake monster. There s a giant motherfkin snake loose on the streets of Compton! The world's most dangerous city, with the most dangerous rap group, harassed by the most dangerous police force, will now battle with the world's most dangerous big-ass snake! Beware of terrible rhymes, unfriendly fire, and monstrous fangs in this unpredictable and outrageous satire of creature features, urban gangster films, and hip-hop culture.

• Home for the Holidays | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Jodie Foster dishes up a heaping helping of holiday hilarity (NBC-TV) with this laugh-out-loud comedy from screenwriter W.D. Richter about family food and finding acceptance with the people you love. Home for the Holidays is a wickedly funny film that's so true it hurts (Entertainment Today)! In a span of 36 hours Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) has managed to lose her job make out with her boss and learn that her daughter (Claire Danes) is planning to go all the way. But Claudia's fortunes actually take a turn for the worse when she flies home to endure an even more grueling trial: the family Thanksgiving! Beset by a neurotic mother (Anne Bancroft) kooky father (Charles Durning) eccentric brother (Robert Downey Jr.) and compulsively normal sister (Cynthia Stevenson) Claudia struggles to maintain her calm. But as sparks fly tempers flare and turkeys go airborne Claudia manages to recapture the zaniness of her childhood and discover that the most important things in life are the memories she shares with family and for that she can only be thankful!

• Ever Decreasing Circles - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £9.65   |  Saving you £10.34 (107.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by the successful team of John Esmonde and Bob Larbey 'Ever Decreasing Circles' was first broadcast by the BBC in February 1984. Richard Briers Penelope Wilton and Peter Egan star in this popular suburban-set comedy. Episodes comprise: Relaxation Goodbye Paul? Stuck In A Loft Neighbourhood Watch The Footpath Jumping To Conclusions Half An Office.

• Safe Men | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £12.47   |  Saving you £-2.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Welcome To The World Of Disorganized Crime. For the first time on DVD from comic filmmaker John Hamburg (Meet the Parents Zoolander Along Came Polly Meet the Fockers) comes this offbeat tale of inept lounge singers Sam (Sam Rockwell Lawn Dogs) and Eddie (Steve Zahn Out of Sight) who find themselves breaking into the burglary biz when they're mistaken by a low-level mobster (Paul Giamatti Sideways) for the best safecrackers in town. Now two guys who can't carry a tune are carrying off a series of hysterical heists in this comic gem

• As Time Goes By - Series 9 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £9.91   |  Saving you £6.08 (61.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Long ago Lionel a dashing young British Army officer met Jean a lovely student nurse and fell deeply in love. When Lionel was shipped off to fight in the Korean war the two lost touch. Now they meet again and slowly begin to rekindle their romance. Episodes Comprise: 1. Time To Settle Down 2. Another Proposal 3. The World Will Always Welcome Lovers (aka: The Wedding) 4. What Now? 5. You Must Remember This (Parts 1 & 2)

• Coffee And Cigarettes | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £11.24   |  Saving you £8.75 (77.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Short stories from Jim Jarmusch that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.

• Diff'rent Strokes - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £27.02   |  Saving you £-2.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis? When pint-sized Gary Coleman uttered that phrase to his TV brother played by Todd Bridges audiences were hooked and a star was born. But the show's popularity was based on more than the rise of the diminutive wisecracking Coleman. Diff'rent Strokes was a pop culture phenomenon that broke through cultural barriers as well. The story of two African-American kids from Harlem who move to Park Avenue to live with a wealthy white widower (Conrad Bain) and his precocious teenage daughter (Dana Plato) not only gave audiences lots to laugh about but gave them something to talk about. Along with their no-nonsense housekeeper (Charlotte Rae) this group was anything but average - but they reflected the changing face of the American family and brought issues of race and class into households across the nation.

• The Lavender Hill Mob (60th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Charles Crichton, who would much later direct John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda (1988), 1951's The Lavender Hill Mob is the most ruefully thrilling of the Ealing Comedies. Alec Guinness plays a bowler-hatted escort of bullion to the refineries. His seeming timidity, weak 'r's and punctiliousness mask a typically Guinness-like patient cunning. "I was aware I was widiculed but that was pwecisely the effect I was stwiving to achieve". He's actually plotting a heist. With more conventionally cockney villains Sid James and Alfie Bass in tow, as well as the respectable but ruined Stanley Holloway, Guinness' perfect criminal plan works in exquisite detail, then unravels just as exquisitely, culminating in a nail-biting police car chase in which you can't help rooting for the villains. The Lavender Hill Mob depicts a London still up to its knees in rubble from World War II, a world of new hope but continued austerity, a budding new order in which everything seems up for grabs; as such it could be regarded as a lighter hearted cinematic cousin to Carol Reed's 1949 masterpiece The Third Man. The Lavender Hill Mob also sees the first, fleeting on-screen appearance of Audrey Hepburn in the opening sequence. --David Stubbs

• Clash of the Santas | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Richard Pryor - Live in concert | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £9.12   |  Saving you £6.87 (75.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though Richard Pryor: Live in Concert was recorded (and released) in 1979, it took 25 years for the DVD to finally get a UK release. And, while it's tempting to look for a conspiracy involving Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy, who could have used their influence to delay this release for fear of the world realising where they got their schtick, the reality is this DVD was worth the wait. Not only has the entire concert been restored and remastered, they've also included a whole heap of extras. There's some footage of some of Pryor's early stand-up (hard to believe that the potty-mouthed comic started out as tame as Bill Cosby), footage from Pryor's doomed-from-the-start television show (an ill-thought-out prospect, really, considering the conservative nature of American TV) and a biographical booklet. So, it's definitely a value-for-money DVD (especially when you consider the relatively short running-time of the main feature). Of course, the star of this show is the original feature: Richard Pryor's full stand-up routine, recorded live in the 1970s. With his star firmly in the ascendant, Pryor was on fire, and his performance soon became a comedic legend. His style is casual and conversational--fundamentally, he's an excellent storyteller, and he has a knack for finding comedy inside of tragedy. At the time, his raunchy subject matter and use (some said "overuse") of, ahem, naughty words came as quite a shock to audiences, but Pryor went on to influence dozens of comedians to follow (in the process, becoming the highest ever paid comedian by the end of the 1970s). Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a legendary performance by a legendary comedian, and an essential touchstone for modern comedy. --Robert Burrow

• The Prince And The Showgirl | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £5.81   |  Saving you £8.18 (140.79%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) was Marilyn Monroe's only British-made film and scores highly for curiosity value. There's something rather outrageous about this iconic American star playing a second-rate hoofer living in a theatrical boarding house in Brixton. Monroe herself is predictably good and touching as Elsie Marina, plucked from the chorus to entertain the Regent of Carpathia for the evening and ultimately smoothing his rough edges. There is, however, a rather uphill feeling all the way. The making of the movie was by all accounts a troubled experience for everybody concerned. Monroe, increasingly unreliable and exasperating, had an unsympathetic director in Laurence Olivier, also playing the Regent Charles, who hardly had the patience for a star of her mercurial talents with her own ideas of professional behaviour. His own performance as the Balkan royal is hammy and mannered and there isn't even a damp squib of sexual chemistry between them. Terence Rattigan's script, based on his successful play, is far too wordy and stage-bound. But somehow Monroe effervesces through all this adversity, aided considerably by British character actor Richard Wattis and the great Sybil Thorndyke, who became her ally during the difficult filming. Not vintage Marilyn but fascinating all the same, and she looks fantastic. On the DVD: The Prince and the Showgirl is presented in 4:3 with an occasionally muffled, apparently mono, soundtrack, giving this DVD a rather dusty quality which is in keeping with the vintage British 1950s production values. Extras include a cast list, original trailer and newsreel footage of the announcement that Marilyn was to make the film with Olivier, referred to at that stage as The Sleeping Prince. --Piers Ford

• Carry On Loving | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £14.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Setting a Carry On film in a marriage bureau has a certain self-serving obviousness, so it's hardly surprising that Carry On Loving milks the idea for all it's worth. The Wedded Bliss Agency is of course a pretty dubious outfit, being run by Sid (James) and Sophie Bliss (Hattie Jacques), who together are the worst possible example for both marriage and their own profession: they constantly snipe at each other, they aren't actually married and their sophisticated computer matching system is in fact a complete fake. The remainder of the team are mostly cast as hapless clients, with predictable but often very funny situations arising from the various mismatches engineered by the agency, such as the inevitable misunderstanding over one client's interest in modelling. Yes, the humour is about as subtle as a flatulent elephant, but you can't help entering into the spirit of the thing. If there's an outstanding performance it has to be that of Imogen Hassall, who handles her transformation from round-shouldered frump to well-bred love goddess with considerable expertise and a genuine sense of fun. --Roger Thomas