Comedy

• The Smallest Show On Earth | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £19.37   |  Saving you £-6.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An amiable knock-off of the Ealing comedy style, The Smallest Show on Earth starts with aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his "nice gel" wife Virginia McKenna inheriting a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discovering that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, which specialises in those "smash 'em in the face, knock 'em over the waterfront" pictures, but the decrepit Bijou, known locally as "the fleapit". The initial plan, set up by lawyer Leslie Phillips, is to sell off the cinema to the owner of the Grand so he can knock it down to make a car park, but our heroes are put off by the arrogant bullying of the rival manager (Francis De Wolff) and succumb to the inept charms of the crazed, aged staff--drunken projectionist Peter Sellers, doddery commissionaire Bernard Miles and dotty ticket lady Margaret Rutherford (who joined the team as a piano accompanist). In the 1950s, there was a run of gentle British comedies in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions (steam trains, tugboats, vintage cars) were saved by collections of committed eccentrics who despised the new-fangled bus services or soulless council bureaucracies and were willing to resort to a little larceny (in this case, arson). The Smallest Show slots in perfectly with the cycle, getting laughs from the Bijou's already outmoded programme of scratchy Westerns and desert dramas (which increase ice cream sales) and sentiment over the staff's midnight screenings of silent movies that remind them of better days. It's likeable rather than hilarious, with Sellers and Miles buried under crepe hair and fake wrinkles competing to out-dodder each other and losing the picture to the inimitable Rutherford, who doesn't have to fake her eccentricity. Pin-up, June Cunningham, is the glamorous usherette and Sid James plays her annoyed Dad. On the DVD: The Smallest Show on Earth is presented in a decent print, but with no extras. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection. --Kim Newman

• Dear Green Place | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the creators of smash hit Still Game starring Ford Kiernan & Paul Riley. Winner of BAFTA Scotland Best Entertainment Award 2006. Episode 1 - Rocksalt: Woody and Wallace attend a lecture on rocksalt MacAllister and Riordan are on the graveyard shift while Henderson finds out there's more than one Argos in the city. Episode 2 - Sorry: MacAllister accidentally reveals his secret relationship with Michelle while Henderson suffers an allergic reaction. Episode 3 - Pish: Woody and Wallace are set to fail a mandatory drugs test until Wallace's granny provides the solution. MacAllister meanwhile invents a bogus girlfriend to make Michelle jealous. Episode 4 - There's Been A Murder: The Fairweather Players visit the Botanics with Mid-Summer Night's dream. Henderson and Toner are on the trail of a swan murderer and Riordan queues against his will for Robbie Williams tickets. Episode 5 - Gimme Shelter: Michelle Riordan and Gavin discover some air raid shelters in the park. Woody and Wallace do a nightshift in the museum and Henderson is exposed as a closet jazz musician. Episode 6 - Bandstand: An eco-warrior chains himself to a bandstand threatened with demolition as the group see off the annual taxi outing to Troon. MacAllister is temporarily blinded with deadly results.

• The Last Remake of Beau Geste | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Following his unforgettable performances in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and Silent Movie Marty Feldman wrote directed and starred in his own classic spoof. He plays Digby Geste the 'identitcal' twin brother to Beau (Michael York) but without his dashing sibling's do-or-die heroics. When a priceless family heirloom is stolen their fates are sealed the lunacy escalates and the laughs come thick and fast.

• Lost In Paris | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

• Mums' Night Out | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £7.06   |  Saving you £5.93 (83.99%)   |  RRP £12.99

  All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful grown-up evening of dinner and conversation...a long-needed mums' night out. But in order to enjoy high heels adult conversation and food not served in a paper bag they need their husbands to watch the kids for three hours - what could go wrong?

• Married To The Mob | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £12.06   |  Saving you £0.93 (7.71%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is fed up with her life Married to the Mob. As luck would have it, her hubby Frank (Alec Baldwin) is knocked off by head honcho Tony "the Tiger" Russo (an Oscar-nominated Dean Stockwell), which leaves her free to start a new life in the Big Apple. The only problem is that the FBI are desperate to nab Tony, and manage to send the one Agent (Matthew Modine) most likely to fall in love with her. Plot-wise, then, this is predictable fluff. The joys are in the details of Jonathan Demme's direction: New York's streets come alive under his hand-held camerawork; a lot of dialogue is comically delivered direct to camera (a device he used for dramatic effect later with The Silence of the Lambs); and background characters each leave their mark given memorable--often-hilarious--screen time. As a black comedy it isn't quite so memorable as Demme's explosive earlier work on Something Wild, but if there's one thing sure to stick with you here it's the sensationally colourful late-80s fashions and hairstyles. On the DVD: Married to the Mob is a bare-bones release that only adds a trailer. It is presented in its original widescreen ratio, however, and for the most part the transfer is pretty clean. --Paul Tonks

• Eulogy | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £5.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (132.38%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Last rites. Last words. Last laughs..... When three generations of a dysfunctional family gather in Rhode Island to bury the family patriarch all members of the clan are at each others throats in no time at all! Son Daniel is a secret porn actor. Daughter Lucy is a lesbian and brings her lover Judy to the family gathering much to the disgust of Lucy's aggressive neurotic sister Alice. Finishing off the crowd are dim brother Skip whose rude twin sons offer abrasive comment

• Easy Money III - Life Deluxe | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £3.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (552.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  JW now lives in exile and is more determined than ever to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm.

• Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This groundbreaking five-part fantasy action comedy epic stars Sean Maguire and the BAFTA award-winning Matt Lucas. "Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire" as seen on BBC2 is available on DVD from 23rd November, courtesy of 4DVD.

• Game On - The Complete First Series | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (122.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From the BAFTA award-winning producers of 'Father Ted' 'Have I Got News for You' and 'Dicing with Debt' comes the complete first series of the comedy series 'Game On'. See flat-sharing in an all new light... Join Matthew (the agoraphobic self obsessed macho man); Martin (the wimpish sex-starved underdog) and Mandy (the gorgeous blonde who always seems to end up dating the wrong men) in this outrageously funny flat-share comedy that is anything but politically correct! Epis

• Best Of The Buzzcocks | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £10.90   |  Saving you £9.09 (83.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Never Mind the Buzzcocks host Simon Amstell and team captain Phill Jupitus have a rare out of hours get together to look back at some exclusive never-before-aired deleted material from the last 3 series. This Exclusive DVD Featurette includes clips ranging from the too rude too drunk too nasty too sweary too awkward and in absolutely no instances too funny for TV. Also featured on this 'Best of' DVD are compilation special episodes from the last three series presented by Simon Amstell (2007-2009): Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Technically the Best Series Ever. A thrilling look back at what were technically some excellent moments from the last series. Featuring a galaxy of technically good celebrity bookings and many many technically funny sentences. Yes! Never Mind The Buzzcocks - A Moving Tribute. A touching retrospective on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Imagine a mildly amusing panel show. Alan Yentob takes a look back at the most talked about moments from the series including Amy Winehouse spitting Preston walking and Lilly Allen controversially wearing funny glasses.

• Gogs | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Gogs family are a pre-historic clan with their own unique style of off-beat humour - when they're not kicking hell out of each other they're letting rip with all kinds of obnoxious bad habits!! Gogs is award-winning claymation which was garlanded with the Bafta for Best Children's Programme and a Banff award for Best Animation. This DVD includes Gogs Gogs II and Gogwana.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 1 - A Chump At Oxford/Related Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £3.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (55.58%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy from Laurel and Hardy. Contains: A Chump At Oxford (b/w) A Chump At Oxford (colourised) From Soup to Nuts Another Fine Mess (b/w) Another Fine Mess (colourised) One of Laurel & Hardy's best-loved feature films 'A Chump At Oxford' sees them travelling to England to obtain an education only for Stan to be revealed as a long-lost British aristocrat! Also included is the classic silent comedy From 'Soup To Nuts' which the team remade as a section of 'A Chump At Oxford' - only with Stan switching his character to that of Agnes the maid! Also in this compilation is an earlier glimpse of Agnes in one of their greatest talkie shorts 'Another Fine Mess'.

• Psychoville | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen this bizarre gothic comedy sees a chain of events triggered when a mysterious letter writer contacts five seemingly disparate characters with the chilling message: 'I know what you did'. An embittered hook-handed clown a desperately misguided midwife a lovestruck telekinetic dwarf a blind avaricious collector and a murder-obssessed manchild: all are affected in different ways by the letters and their already bizarre lives are hilariously turned on their heads. As the series progresses the characters are forced to confront what happened to them in the past and the secret that binds them together.

• The Guilt Trip | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride.

• Something New | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £13.66   |  Saving you £-0.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A romantic comedy about finding love when and where it's least expected.

• Bill Bailey - Bewilderness - Live | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £6.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (129.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bill Bailey has always been a desirable addition to any comedy club-night. His considerable keyboard and guitar skills inevitably provide a memorable highlight to any line-up of comedians on the circuit. In short, the man has charisma; in a one-man show, however, Bailey's a little unfocused. Filmed at the Grand Theatre, Swansea, Bill Bailey--Bewilderness Live takes too long to get going. It's a form of self-deprecation designed to encourage endearment in his audience, but he spends so much time deconstructing his presence on stage that we begin to question the validity of him being there at all. Soon though, Bailey is comfortably installed behind his keyboard; it's then that the entertainment starts. He doesn't stick exclusively to songs, but makes the keyboard work for him as a box of sound effects. Bailey also throws in a few location-specific gags to make his audience feel special and gets an easy laugh with the idea of their national dish being cheese on toast.Jumping around from musing about the disappointment of Kinder Surprise eggs to medieval porn to men's tendency not to admit ignorance to a brilliant take-off of Chris de Burgh, which comes out of nowhere. Yes, Bailey lacks an inherent structure--unlike Harry Hill or Al Murray--so you could walk in half way through and not miss any underlying subtleties. Even without clever connections between individual set pieces, there are enough stand-alone moments of pure comic bliss that'll have you weeping with mirth.This is a man blessed with a good face for comedy and a likeable demeanour and softness (however accidental), which inclines you towards cutting him more slack. --Emma Perry

• Birds of a Feather - The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £16.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this fifth series of Birds Of A Feather - one of the 1990s most successful long-running and memorable sitcoms. This release comprises all thirteen episodes of Series Five along with the 1993 Christmas Special featuring guest appearances by George Hamilton George Wendt and Richard Branson. Created by the legendary comedy partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (The New Statesman) the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracy (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves 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 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 antics of their man-eating Jewish neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) to keep them entertained...

• The Fast Show - Series 3 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  These eight episodes from the Fast Show's third series brought us sparking new characters like the 13th Duke of Wybourne No Offence Taff Lad and the Hearty Hikers and treats in the shape of Swiss Toni Dave Angel Eco-Warrior and the Posh Cockneys to join old favourites like Suits You Chanel 9 Colin Hunt Ted and Ralph and the ever-increasing parade of catchphrase heroes.

• Rev - Series 1 & 2 Box Set | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £19.54   |  Saving you £10.45 (53.48%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Meet The Rev. Adam Smallbone. He's a Chruch of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner city world of St. Saviour's in Hackney, East London. It's a world he has no experience of. And it shows. It really shows. He's derided and ignored by all except the intimidating Archdeacon and the demanding and irritating few who attend his church... Lay Reader Nigel, who thinks he should be a vicar, hard-drinking Colin on an eternal quest for enlightenment, cassock-chasing Adoha and local crackhead Mick who isn't quite the sophisticated grifter he thinks he is. Added to the mix is Alex - Adam's long suffering wife - who does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no-one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife. Special Features: Series 1 The Making of Rev Character Sketches Rev. Outtakes A Real Rev Commentaries Series 2 Glastonbury for Christians? Commentaries