Comedy

• Who's Minding the Store | Blu Ray | (06/03/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Barbara is in love with Norman, the man who looks after her poodle. But she has a secret: She's the daughter of a wealthy society couple and worth more than Norman will ever make. When her mother, Phoebe, finds out about Barbara's relationship, she sends Norman to work a series of increasingly humiliating jobs at the family's department store. Norman tries to please his cruel boss, Mr. Quimby, and win Barbara's hand in marriage. Product Features High-Definition Transfer UK Blu-ray™ Premiere Optional English SDH Subtitles

• Bridget Jones Diary: Double Pack | Blu Ray | (30/09/2013) from £10.00   |  Saving you £19.99 (66.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Own both sensational Bridget Jones films with this newly packaged double pack. Endless hours of laughter await you! Bridget Jones's DiaryThe fictional diary of a 30-something professional woman as she copes with the travails of singledom dieting career shifts and the search for love. Special Features: Directors Commentary Behind the Scenes Featurette Music Videos: Shelby Lynne Killin' Kind Gabrielle Out Of Reach Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonAfter finding love Bridget Jones questions if she really has everything she's dreamed of having. Special Features: Feature Commentary The Mini Break to Austria Deleted Scenes A Smooth Guide to Exotic Thailand The Big Fight Mark and Bridget: Forever? Bridget Jones Interviews Colin Firth Lonely London Bridget Jones: A Cultural Icon Bridget's Big Night World Tour of the Premieres

• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2-disc Special Edition) | DVD | (27/05/2005) from £11.92   |  Saving you £13.07 (109.65%)   |  RRP £24.99

  If you spliced Charles Addams, Dr. Seuss, Charles Dickens, Edward Gorey, and Roald Dahl into a Tim Burtonesque landscape, you'd surely come up with something like Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Many critics (in mostly mixed reviews) wondered why Burton didn't direct this comically morbid adaptation of the first three books in the popular series by Daniel Handler (a.k.a. "Lemony Snicket," played here by Jude Law and seen only in silhouette) instead of TV and Casper veteran Brad Silberling, but there's still plenty to recommend the playfully bleak scenario, in which three resourceful orphans thwart their wicked, maliciously greedy relative Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), who subjects them to... well, a series of unfortunate events. Along the way they encounter a herpetologist uncle (Billy Connolly), an anxious aunt (Meryl Streep) who's afraid of everything, and a variety of fantastical hazards and mysterious clues, some of which remain unresolved. Given endless wonders of art direction, costume design, and cinematography, Silberling's direction is surprisingly uninspired (in other words, the books are better), but when you add a throwaway cameo by Dustin Hoffman, Law's amusing narration, and Carrey's over-the-top antics, the first Lemony movie suggests a promising franchise in the making. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Comedy Capers: Trouble with Eve & Double Bunk | DVD | (18/02/2019) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two classic British comedies from the 1960s. Trouble with Eve: Scandal rips through a quiet British village after a woman converts her cottage into a tearoom. Double Bunk: When newlyweds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra on a trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France. Starring Sid James and Liz Fraser.

• Songs from the Second Floor | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £8.24   |  Saving you £7.75 (94.05%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This absurd and original comedy is from the brilliantly offbeat worldview of acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson director of the acclaimed You the Living. Described by critic J. Hoberman as 'slapstick Ingmar Bergman' the film unfolds as a series of comic inter-connected vignettes which portray scenes from an urban world that has ground to a halt and whose citizens teeter on the brink of madness.

• Darwin Awards | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £3.34   |  Saving you £4.41 (279.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Darwin Awards are a real-life phenomenon presented to individuals who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it when they accidentally kill themselves in incredibly stupid ways. Michael Burrows (Joseph Fiennes) is a brilliant detective with a special talent for profiling criminals. Siri (Winona Ryder) is a hard-nosed insurance investigator whose steeliness and ""throw-caution-to-the-wind"" attitude is exactly the opposite of Burrows's thoughtful hesitation. When Siri's employer hires Burrows to create a profile for potential Darwin Award winners-who are costing the insurance company a fortune the two begin a search for the answer to what makes these people tick.

• Mood Indigo | DVD | (24/11/2014) from £6.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (157.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The surreal and poetic tale of Colin an idealistic and inventive young man and Chloé a young woman who seems like the physical embodiment of the eponymous Duke Ellington tune. Their idyllic marriage is turned on its head when Chloé falls sick with a water lily growing in her lung. To pay for her medical bills in this fantasy version of Paris Colin must go out to work in a series of increasingly absurd jobs while around them their apartment disintegrates and their friends including the talented Nicolas and Chick - a huge fan of the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre - go to pieces.

• Date Night | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Fosters Are Getting Even More Action Tonight!Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Mark Wahlberg co-star in this outrageously funny comedy! Claire and Phil Foster are a suburban husband and wife slogging through their daily lives and marriage. But a case of mistaken identity hurtles this very ordinary couple into an extraordinary adventure! Remembering what made them so special together, Phil and Claire take on corrupt cops, ruthless mobsters and a crazed cabbie, as their date night becomes the craziest night they've ever known.

• Frasier - Season 9 | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £22.00 (169.36%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer is Frasier - the hilarious psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the star of this smash-hit comedy series. Frasier: Season 9 features 24 hilarious episodes - reuniting you with Frasier and the gang!

• The Ultimate Goodness Gracious Me | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £94.92   |  Saving you £-74.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Goodness Gracious Me' is a wonderfully irreverent comedy sketch show that takes a light-hearted look at the Anglo-Asian community. Sending up British culture Asian culture and everything in between Sanjeev Bhaskar Meera Syal Nina Wadia and Kulvinder Ghir bring together unforgettable skits in the fastest sketch show this side of Bombay! Containing all three series made plus the previously unavailable 50 minute India special 'Back Where They Came From' you'll be quoting Mr Check

• Night At The Museum/Night At The Museum 2 | Blu Ray | (22/04/2013) from £3.94   |  Saving you £31.05 (788.07%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Titles Comprise: Night At The MuseumBen Stiller leads an all-star cast including Robin Williams and Dick Van Dyke in this hilarious comedy hit. When good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley (Stiller) is hired as night watchman at the Museum of Natural History, he soon discovers that an ancient curse brings all the exhibits to life after the sun sets. Suddenly, Larry finds himself face-to-face with a frisky T. Rex skeleton, tiny armies of Romans and cowboys and a m...

• Up In The Air | Blu Ray | (24/05/2010) from £11.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (170.17%)   |  RRP £26.99

  George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.

• Four Christmases | Blu Ray | (16/11/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.

• The Legends Of Comedy | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  These three compelling dramas reveal the extraordinary and often turbulent off-camera lives of some of Britain's favourite comedians. Based on the testimonies of friends colleagues and family members these fascinating portrayals uncover the turmoil and heartache found behind the laughter. Frankie Howerd Rather You Than Me: Frankie Howerd is to this day an enduring and celebrated icon of British comedy well known for his camp persona and classic catchphrases. However behind the scenes Howerd was racked with depression and self loathing. In this compelling one-off drama David Walliams (Little Britain) gets to play one of his own comedy favourites telling the moving humorous and poignant story of Howerd's fight with his inner demons. The Curse Of Steptoe: Steptoe and Son was one of the most successful comedy series ever giving birth to the modern sitcom and transforming its actors into national treasures. It told the story of two rag-and-bone men Harry H Corbett (played by Jason Isaacs) and Wilfrid Brambell (Phil Davis) trapped together for eternity. But off-screen a stranger story would mirror fiction as the two men find themselves unable to escape their inner complexities or each other. Hughie Green Most Sincerely: Starring Trevor Eve (Waking the Dead) this fascinating drama tells the inside story of Hughie Green the avuncular front man of Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money. Hughie's professional rivalry with Stars On Sunday presenter Jess Yates (Mark Benton) and serial womanising ultimately produced an explosive celebrity secret. This drama tells of the destructive power of success and celebrity and explores what family and fatherhood meant to this iconic character. These three compelling dramas reveal the extraordinary and often turbulent off-camera lives of some of Britain's favourite comedians. Based on the testimonies of friends colleagues and family members these fascinating portrayals uncover the turmoil and heartache found behind the laughter.

• Billy Elliot/ Steel Magnolias/Erin Brockovich | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £17.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (11.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Billy Elliot: Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it. Starring Julie Walters and newcomer Jamie Bell the film (based on a real-life story) follows the progress of little Billy Elliot a motherless 11 year-old from a poor Durham pit village. When young Billy chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father a coal miner but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams... Billy Elliot received plenty of recognition at the Academy Awards picking up nominations for Best Supporting Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay. (Dir. Stephen Daldry 2000) Steel Magnolia's: A beautiful bittersweet comedy set in deep south Louisiana 'Steel Magnolias' unites talents of America's finest actresses as six very special friends bonded together by mutual triumphs and tragedies. Despite their differences beautiful Shelby (Julia Roberts) her strong-willed mother M'Lynn (Sally Field) beauty parlour owner Truvy (Dolly Parton) elegant wealthy widow Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) sharp tongued Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine) and mousey newcomer Anelle (Daryl Hannah) enjoy a friendship that spans the boundaries of age and status. Sharing each other's strength and loyalty they face their greatest fears and highest hopes with dry wit and a self-deprecating style... (Dir. Herbert Ross 1989) Erin Brockovich: She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community. (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2000)

• Alan Davies - Urban Trauma | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £6.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (162.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed live at the Duchess Theatre in London.

• Shallow Hal | Blu Ray | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After a succession of hugely successfully movies of a lower brow nature, Shallow Hal finds the Farrelly Brothers attempting a slightly more thoughtful film, albeit still tied up in their trademark toilet humour. It's an approach that is not unproblematic but not unsuccessful either, resulting in a film that engages the emotions in a manner that the likes of Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There's Something About Mary never suggested possible. Jack Black is the Hal of the title, a man whose less than commendable attitude to women is suddenly altered by the rather credibility-stretching plot device of a chance meeting with a hypnotist. Henceforth Hal is only capable of seeing the beauty within, a development that allows for much humour at the expense of the less fortunate in the name of some sort of social comment. From it all, however, emerges a quite touching love story with Paltrow's character Rosemary and proof that the Farrellys do have something of a sensitive side--no matter how deep it may be buried. The ending may be woefully predictable, but such is the deftness of touch with which the story is told, that it is still the one we are all rooting for. This is a sickly sweet film in the truest terms. On the DVD: Shallow Hal comes with a plethora of extras on disc, including a series of mini-documentaries and TV specials, all of which plug the film but offer very little insight. That does come, however, from the handily subtitled directors' commentary, which demonstrates clearly the clash of cultures occurring in the movie. As well as commenting on the physical appearance of every female cast member who passes before the camera, the brothers also pay touching tribute to a colleague who passed away during the shoot and seem to know the name of every single extra and crew member who worked on the project, surely a rarity in these days of big budgets and faceless studios. There is also a large selection of deleted scenes, also with added commentary, a perfunctory music video from Shelby Lynne and a documentary on some of the technical aspects of the film. --Phil Udell

• Romantic Comedy Box Set 2011 | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Bridget Jones's Diary: Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty and neurotic thirtysomething singleton (in her vernacular) who vows to take control of her life after being humiliated by handsome standoffish barrister Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at her parents' New Year's party. Determined to lose weight and cut back on vices like wine cigarettes and workaholic-alcoholic-misogynistic men Bridget begins a diary to chart her progress. Unfortunately the P.R. executive hits a snag when her boss gorgeous cad Daniel (Hugh Grant) instigates a sexy e-mail flirtation. Despite her tendency to bungle book launch parties and any situation involving the ever-disapproving Mark Darcy Bridget's winning combination of charm vulnerability and wit intrigues not only the seductively dangerous Daniel but also the arrogant barrister. Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason: Having finally found the perfect man in gorgeous lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) 30-something ex-singleton Bridget Jones (Rene Zellweger) is now faced with the even bigger challenge of... keeping him! When her self-doubts return and her womanising ex-lover Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) reappears uninvited Bridget gets entangled in a comic mix of bad advice miscommunications and total disasters that could only happen to her. From embarrassing situations to romantic misunderstanding Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason will have you crying with laughter. A feel good movie to watch again and again. Love Actually: The story of a group of people who find themselves surrounded by love... There's the new Prime Minister who falls for his personal assistant the Prime Minister's sister Karan who realises that her husband is attracted to his secretary. Author Jamie who flees England to escape his unfaithful girlfriend and then falls for his housekeeper. Movie stand-ins John and Judy who become attracted to each other on the film set. Recently widowed Daniel who helps his stepson who is smitten with one of his class-mates and Billy Mack an ageing rock star who discovers that love can be found in the most unlikely of places... Notting Hill: William Thacker (Hugh Grant) is the owner of a bookshop in the heart of Notting Hill in London. One day by a one-in-a-million chance the worlds most famous actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) comes into his shop. He watches in amazement as she leaves and he thinks he'll never see her again. But fate intervenes - and minutes later William collides with Anna on Portobello Road. So begins a tale of romance and adventure in London W11. With a little help from his chaotic flatmate Spike (Rhys Ifans) and his friends Max and Bella (Tim McInnerny and Gina McKee) William seeks the face he can't forget...

• Man About The House - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Thames TV's most successful sitcoms about the ups and downs of mixed flat-sharing. Three's A Crowd: Chrissy and Jo throw a farewell party for their flatmate who's getting engaged and moving out. Next morining they find Robin asleep in their bath. They're looking for a new flatmate and Robin is looking for somewhere to live so the girls ask Robin to stay. All they have to do then is to talk the Ropers into agreeing to the new arrangement... And Mother Makes Four:

• Monty Python Movies Box Set | DVD | (10/04/2017) from £34.49   |  Saving you £-17.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Monty Python goes to the movies in this DVD boxset packed with three of their classic cinematic adventures. Enjoy ˜And Now For Something Completely Different', ˜Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and ˜Life of Brian'. And Now For Something Completely Different Monty Python's Flying Circus is regarded as a milestone In British Comedy, This, their first feature film, is an anthology of the funniest sketches from the legendary BBC television series. Pick one of your favourites from among many, including the famous Say No More, Nudge, Nudge sequence, the Hell's Grannies and The Dead Parrot. Monty Python and the Holy Grail After a chance meeting with a rather irate God, King Arthur and his Knights of The Round Table are set the sacred task of retrieving the all powerful Holy Grail. On their long quest they encounter a number of terrifying hazards the taunts of the abusive French Knight, disgruntled peasants, the Knights who say ˜Ni' and the deadly rabbit with the big pointy teeth. (Double Disc Set) Life of Brian The Pythons deliver a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their third film. The setting is Judea 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some order. (Double Disc Set)