Comedy

• Boys And Girls | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £6.05   |  Saving you £9.94 (164.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Behind the generic title of Boys and Girls lies a surprisingly enjoyable and nuanced romantic comedy. Teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr plays Ryan, a dorky, emotionally sincere young guy who keeps crossing paths with Jennifer (Claire Forlani), an independent and wilfully unattached young woman. Their chance meetings coincide with relationship traumas and they start to confide in each other, which leads to a more genuine friendship and, in the midst of their college years, a romance. It's a bit of a stock plot line to have their friendship threatened by sexual attraction, but Boys and Girls has just enough genuine feeling to make it compelling. Meanwhile, Jason Biggs (from American Pie) plays Ryan's roommate, a compulsive liar and would-be scam artist, who carries off some pretty funny scenes. Forlani and Prinze work together quite well. Their performances hearken back to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s, with the repressed male simultaneously attracted and horrified by a footloose dame. Some kooky moments are a little strained, but at other times the movie has a refreshing realism about human emotions. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Still Game - Series 5 | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £4.79   |  Saving you £15.20 (317.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A comedy based around the lives of pensioner pals Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade Still Game is set in and around a fictional part of Glasgow called Craiglang and Jack and Victor's home in Osprey Heights. Focusing on the ironies and comedy of old age with humour tenderness and pathos these OAPS prove they're still game for anything the world can throw at them! Drama: Bored of life in Craiglang Jack and Victor set their eyes on further fields. Namely free whisky in a local distillery. Meanwhile when Winston runs into an old enemy its horses for courses as Winston hits pay day all over again. Fresh Lick: Jack and Victor volunteer to redecorate Isa's living room but with disastrous consequences.Meanwhile Bobby's kitchen-makeover video is seen by all the men of Craiglang. Which is bad news for Boabby. Smoke On The Water: Victor is 75 and Jack wants a buy special present for his best pal. The residents of Craiglang are divided as to what get Victor until Tam suggests the trip of a lifetime : a voyage down the local river. Winston joins the two friends to make up 3 men in a boat with a Clydeside twist. Hard Nuts: When a television crew comes a calling at the Clansman Bobby pretends that Jack and Victor are much tougher than they seem. Navid too is dying to solve his identity crisis as middle age problems weigh heavily on his grey hair. All the Best: Craiglang has become too much to bear for Winston and to Jack and Victor's amazement he decides to up sticks and travel. Meanwhile Jack and Victor are driven by a need to help out Fergie on his wedding day. But does he make the altar? Saucy: Jack and Victor are missing Winston. His departure from Craiglang has left a hole that they need to fill. So it's a trip down to Finport for a day out with their old pal. Travelling the other way from Finport is Frances' sister. But Tam has more in common with Molly than he first realised. When she leaves will she take his heart too?

• 50/50 | Blu Ray | (24/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Inspired by a true story, 50/50 is a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

• The Gentle Sex | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The documentary-drama follows seven women from different backgrounds who meet at an Auxiliary Territorial Service training camp. 'Gentle' British girls, now doing their bit to help out in WWII: drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries. Narrated by Leslie Howard.

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2 - Vol. 3 : Episodes 7-9 | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £4.77   |  Saving you £8.22 (172.33%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers, such as Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002. --David Stubbs

• Chaplin Keystone Collection | DVD | (13/12/2010) from £24.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (20.68%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A comprehensive collection of shorts from the legend of comedy that is Charlie Chaplin.

• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues | DVD | (06/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From the director of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho comes a star-studded comedy based on the best-selling novel by Tom Robbins. Uma Thurman Lorraine Bracco and Keanu Reeves star in this magical road movie about a hitchhiker in search of the ultimate ride.

• Harry Hill's TV Burp's Golden Collection | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £48.58   |  Saving you £-18.59 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold: For the first time ever on DVD Harry Hill takes a sideways glance at the nation's favourite television presenting some of the best moments from the BAFTA winning hit series TV Burp. Harry has blended together a selection of the choicest clips silliest sketches and sharpest gags inspired by TV's biggest shows including; Coronation Street Emmerdale The Apprentice and The Bill all served up in his own unmistakable style. Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2: Harry Hill returns to DVD for a second volume of TV Burp Gold with a brand new selection of the funniest bits from the Multi BAFTA winning hit series TV Burp. Some of TV's biggest shows such as Coronation Street Eastenders Dancing On Ice and The X Factor get the full Harry treatment. It's crammed with hilarious jokes funny clips and silly sketches plus a host of 'extras' including 'unseen' TV Burp and side-splitting outtakes. And of course TV Burp wouldn't be complete without a good FIIIIIIIIIGHT.......!

• Charley Borman - From Sydney To Tokyo By Any Means | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Charley Boorman: From Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means

• John Dies At The End (BLU RAY) | Blu Ray | (17/02/2014) from £12.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (7.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No they can't. Special Features: Feature Length Commentary with Cast and Crew Deleted Scenes Getting Sauced: The Making of John Dies at the End Creature Corps: The Effects of Soy Sauce Casting Sessions Fangoria Interview with Paul Giamatti Trailer

• Keith Lemon: Back T'future Tribute | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £6.13   |  Saving you £13.86 (226.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Never did I fink 30 years ago I'd be doing a 'docu-com' about 30 years of Back t' Future. It's well documented that I'm a massive BTTF fan but I'm not well documented for mecking documentaries. I'm very excited. I feel like a geeky 40 year old virgin, accept I'm not 40 and I've had loads of sex. Let's get that flux capacitor fluxing! Keith Lemon 30 years after Marty McFly stepped into the DeLorean, Back to the Future's biggest fan, Keith Lemon, creates his very own celebratory homage, with the help of some of his celebrity friends. Keith heads off on a transatlantic pilgrimage to visit the film's iconic locations and meet some of the original cast and crew including co-creator, Bob Gale. Keith hangs out with the film's biggest fans, real time travel boffins and shows off his skateboarding skills! Packed with 1.21 gigawatts (appox. 54mins actually) of unseen bonus including outtkes, extended interviews, Keith's video diary, Hoverboards and other stuff, plus all the sketches woven back to back.

• It Could Happen to You/My Best Friend's Wedding/Sleepless... | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £8.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (75.53%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It Could Happen to You: (1994) Warm-hearted cop Charlie Lang (Nicholas Cage) lives in Queens with socially ambitious wife Muriel (Rosie Perez) faithfully completing his lottery ticket every week. Charlie's life changes forever when he walks into the caf where bankrupt waitress Yvonne Biasi (Bridget Fonda) brings him a cup of coffee. Realising he has no money for a tip Charlie promises Yvonne that if he wins the lottery he'll give her half the prize. Amazingly they win - to the tune of $4 million! Muriel is furious when Charlie insists on keeping his promise but when she reluctantly agrees the whole of New York celebrates. But they soon find that money brings out both the best and worse in people and that instant fortune and fame has changes their lives forever... My Best Friend's Wedding: (1997) Roberts' dazzles as commitment-shy Julianne Potter who suddenly realises she is in love with her best friend Michael (Dermot Mulroney). There's just one catch - he's about to marry someone else. Now she has to win him back and with just four days the help of her resourceful boss (Rupert Everett) and the benefits of an extremely devious mind Jules will do anything to steal him back - except tell him the honest truth! Sleepless In Seattle: (1993) Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) is a widowed father who thanks to the wiles of his worried son becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He's an instant hit with thousands of female listeners who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile inspired in equal parts by Sam's story and by classic Hollywood romance writer Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) becomes convinced that it's her destiny to meet Sam. There are just two problems: Annie's engaged to someone else and Sam doesn't know that they're made for each other.

• Austin Powers - Goldmember | Blu Ray | (08/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Mike Myers returns as International Man of Mystery Austin Powers for a third time. When his arch nemesis Dr. Evil teams up with new villain Goldmember its up to Austin to save the day!

• Ed Byrne - Different Class | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £7.29   |  Saving you £12.70 (174.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ed Byrne - Different Class

• Will Hay - Oh Mr Porter / Convict 99 | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £12.65   |  Saving you £0.34 (2.69%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though he gets solo above-the-title billing, Will Hay was no more a solo comedian than Groucho Marx. Teamed with sidekicks Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt the trio formed one of British cinema's greatest comedy gangs. Oh, Mr Porter!, one of their finest vehicles, finds Hay as congenial William Porter, an inept railway worker who is shunted off to the dead-end job of stationmaster in Buggleskelly, Northern Ireland. The delight of the film is in the interplay between Hay and Marriott, the single-toothed dotty old-timer, and Moffatt, the chubby smart kid, as they fail the most basic requirements of their jobs but come up trumps when investigating the ghost of One-Eyed Joe and his haunted mill. --Kim Newman One of Will Hay's brisker comic efforts, 1936's Convict 99 sees Dr Benjamin Twist, Hay's clueless schoolmaster, caught in a case of mistaken identity and invited to head up a prison for especially hard-boiled criminals. It's a typical outtake from Hay's bizarrely lawless universe in which, for all his harrumphing and bluster, he's unable to exercise any sort of discipline whatsoever over the men in his charge. Hay plays exactly the same character from film to film, one so ill-equipped for any situation he's equally suited for all. Whereas Twist is an incompetent who somehow muddles through, Hay the comic actor is a master of timing and double-takes who knows precisely how to create the air of a shambles. --David Stubbs

• Liar Liar | Blu Ray | (24/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  this uproarious hit from the Director and Producers of The Nutty Professor comic genius Jim Carrey stars as a fast talking attorney and habitual liar who forced by his son's birthday wish must tell the truth for 24 hours. With co-stars Maura Tierney Jennifer Tilly Swoosie Kurtz and Amanda Donahoe this great film is a laugh-a-minute!

• Father Ted - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £4.73   |  Saving you £15.26 (322.62%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Among the five episodes collected here are two of Father Ted's finest half-hours. "Rock-A-Hula Ted" was one of the few episodes in which the writers of the show abandoned any concern for their largely British audience and stacked the script with explicitly Irish references: Craggy Island's "Lovely Girls" festival is a burlesque of the all-too-genuine "Rose Of Tralee" pageant, and fire-breathing pop singer Niamh Connolly--played with aplomb by Clare Grogan--an obvious enough Sinead O'Connor manqué. "New Jack City", meanwhile is the classic episode in which the choleric Father Jack is finally despatched to an old folks' loony bin only to be replaced by the mesmerisingly appalling ragga-fixated chain-smoker Father Fintan Stack. As one of the high points of the Father Ted series this episode is also one of the high points of television comedy. There isn't much wrong with the other three episodes here, either. On the DVD: an interactive menu allows the selection of individual episodes, and segments within those episodes. The only extra feature is the option of watching the episodes with the dialogue replaced with a commentary by co-writer Graham Linehan and actor Ardal O'Hanlon, who plays Father Dougal Maguire. Occasionally interesting and revealing though this is, it gets rapidly wearing in this form, and would have worked much better if transcribed in an accompanying booklet. The disc is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with English subtitles available.--Andrew Mueller

• Up the Academy | DVD | (25/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Replacements | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The opening scenes of The Replacements see American football team, the Washington Sentinels, in dire straits. The players have walked out in a protest over pay at a vital point in the season, forcing the Sentinels' owner to bring veteran coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) out of retirement to put together a replacement team. He assembles a group of oddballs and misfits including failed quarterback Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a boozing Welsh brawler (Rhys Ifans), a convicted former football pro, a deaf mute, a psychopathic ex-cop, a sumo wrestler and a kleptomaniac (Orlando Jones) who has trouble catching the ball. It is Falco's job to pull the team together and overcome his own problems to take the Sentinels to the playoffs. Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink, Grumpier Old Men) directs this variation on a losers-make-good storyline that runs like Police Academy on the playing field. Keanu plays the Steve Guttenberg role. Sandra Bullock clone Brooke Langton provides the all-too-predictable cheerleading love interest, while Rhys Ifans delivers light relief as the team's chain-smoking kicker. On the DVD: The main feature is presented in letterboxed widescreen format with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound in three languages (English, Spanish and Italian). There are optional subtitles in 20 different languages. Interactive menus are slickly designed like the yard markings on an American football field and provide access to a range of special features. As well as a theatrical trailer and commentary by director Howard Deutch, there is a 15-minute HBO special "The Making of the Replacements" hosted by Orlando Jones and a 10-minute "Actors Guide to Football" which provides a detailed look at the way the entirely authentic football sequences were planned and filmed. --Chris Campion

• The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £27.92   |  Saving you £2.07 (7.41%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A ten volume DVD collection of some of the Little Tramp's finest films. Almost 15 hours of classic comedy entertainment. Titles include: the documentary Chaplin - His Life and Work plus Mabel's Married Life Laffing Gas Face On The Barroom Floor Recreation The Masquerader The Good-For-Nothing The Rounders Cruel Cruel Love The Landlady's Pet Twenty Minutes Of Love Caught In A Cabaret A Busy Day The Fatal Mallet The Knockout The New Janitor The Rival Mashers M