Comedy

• You Rang My Lord - Series 2 | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £19.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An outstanding comedy series written by acclaimed veterans Jimmy Perry and David Croft which reunited many of the cast from the award-winning sitcom Hi-De-Hi! Working class chancer Alf Stokes (Paul Shane) and James Twelvetrees (Jeffrey Holland) first meet as soldiers in the battle trenches of France during the First World War. They find the body of an officer and assuming that he's dead Alf robs him of his valuables. Then they find that the officer the Honourable Teddy Me

• The Good Life - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £17.96   |  Saving you £10.02 (66.93%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Good Life has proved an enduring jewel in the BBC's mainstream comedy archive. More than 25 years after it first appeared in our living rooms, nostalgia must be a major reason for its appeal. A whole generation of young men--and their fathers--found the weekly sight of Felicity Kendal as Barbara Good, pert in denim dungarees, irresistible. But it's the quality of the playing that has really stood the test of time and triumphs over a premise--self-sufficiency in Surbiton--that now seems naïve. Even in 1975, a Tom Good (a masterpiece of comic eccentricity from Richard Briers) quitting the rat race would probably have sold up his semi and chanced his luck as a small holder somewhere more remote than suburban Surrey. Comic tensions arise not just from the Goods' daily struggle to beat the system on their own terms, but also from the relationship with their incredulous, often horrified, but usually supportive neighbours. Penelope Keith's Margo Leadbetter remains one of the great comic creations in British sitcom history--a simmering volcano of conservatism waging her own battle against creeping mediocrity in all aspects of life, whose human frailty somehow keeps her loveable. Paul Eddington as Jerry, her long-suffering husband, spars splendidly. These are happy memories indeed. --Piers Ford

• Goodbye Pork Pie | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Three unlikely comrades embark on a cross-country mission in a stolen yellow Mini. Their objective is to get to Invercargill in one piece but they just can't help breaking the law along the way! Nicknamed the 'Blondini' gang by the police the trio are pursued every inch of the way and will have to improvise if they and their redoubtable Mini are going to make it to their destination in one piece!

• The Souler Opposite | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Barry is a single stand-up comedian looking for Ms. Right. When he meets Thea a political activist romance blooms. But the relationship runs into trouble during the political season when Thea must go on the campaign trail. Barry decides to follow the woman he loves no matter what happens. All Barry Singer wants is a woman to like him for who he pretends to be...

• Texasville | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Peter Bogdanovich revisits small-town Texas life in the long-awaited sequel to his 1971 masterpiece 'The Last Picture Show'. It's been over 30 years since Duane Jackson Sonny Crawford and Jacy Farrow graduated from high school. Life is still bittersweet as the town prepares to host the county's centennial celebration. Duane struck it rich with oil but is saddled with $12 million in debt and a shopaholic wife Karla. To make matters worse his dysfunctional children are out

• Adam And Eve | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £6.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (49.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She's got it all... and he's not getting any! Adam (Cameron Douglas) is a typical college-aged guy which is to say he wants sex 24 hours a day. But when he meets and falls for Eve (Emmanuelle Chriqui) a scorchingly hot co-ed who's still very attached to her virginity the waiting game is on! While his college buddies score right and left and campus hotties make tempting passes Adam ponders an explosive question: Will Eve say ""it's the right time "" before he goes completel

• Pete V. Life | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £10.65   |  Saving you £9.34 (87.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the makers of the award-winning Peep Show and written by George Jeffries and Bert Tyler-Moore (Star Stories) this narrative comedy stars Rafe Spall (He Kills Coppers) as twenty-something Pete a struggling sports writer. In an unusual twist his life is commented upon by two sports commentators who act like the chorus of a Greek play. Pete's encounters and intentions are laid bare with this fantastically inventive device allowing for added layers of insights and jokes.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 18 - Married Life/Anita Garvin | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.66   |  Saving you £1.33 (28.54%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Blotto (b/w) Blotto (colourised) Blotto (Spanish version titled as 'La Vida Nocturna') Be Big (b/w) Be Big (colourised) Be Big / Laughing Gravy (Spanish version) In 'Blotto' Stan needs to contrive an excuse to spend a night out with Ollie. Mrs. Laurel overhears their plans but decides to go along with them but not before replacing their bottle of genuine booze - this being the Prohibition era - with an entirely different mixture! 'Be Big' starts with Stan and Ollie ready to go away for the weekend with their wives only to learn that their hunting lodge is holding a testimonial dinner for them that evening. Ollie feigns illness and the wives go away without them but there remains the problem of getting into the hunting regalia and riding boots. 'Los Calaveras' is a feature-length Spanish edition combining a version of 'Be Big' (incorporating some comedy material unseen in English) with another short of this period 'Laughing Gravy'.

• Moody And Pegg - Series 1 | DVD | (15/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Moody And Pegg: Series 1 (2 Discs)

• Head Over Heels | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £6.86   |  Saving you £3.13 (45.63%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Take Hollywood romantic comedy at its fluffiest, stir in a few Farrelly Brothers-style bodily-function jokes, season with pratfalls, add a soupcon of Hitchcock and you've got Head Over Heels, the perfect way to while away 85 minutes without putting the least strain on your brain cells. Our heroine, Amanda, is a shy retiring young lady with a dusty museum job and a non-existent love-life. (She's played by the dishy blonde Monica Potter, which gives you a fair idea of this movie's grip on reality). Having moved into a palatial Manhattan apartment (yeah, right) shared with four wannabe supermodels she meets--via a randy Great Dane--the handsome guy from across the courtyard. But it seems he has a deep, dark secret in his life. Mark Waters' film gets a lot of mileage out of poking fun at the bubble-headed attitudes of the model girls, which might well provoke mutterings about pots and kettles in more censorious quarters. But the whole confection's so innocuous and eager to please that it's hard to stay as irritated with it as it deserves. Potter (or occasionally her body double) executes her pratfalls gamely, her flatmates pose elegantly, and Mr Maybe-Right Freddie Prinze Jr grins boyishly--even if his subsequent metamorphosis into an action hero takes a bit of swallowing. Waters' direction keeps things moving briskly enough to prevent us musing on the idiocy of the whole enterprise. The insert inside the box suggests that "if you enjoyed this title" you should try Taxi Driver or Being John Malkovich. Could someone at Columbia TriStar be having a little joke? On the DVD: not much to mention. There's a trailer, brief cast and director biogs, production notes and a 12-minute shooting-of featurette in which, as usual, everybody was just wonderful and they all adored each other from the get-go. Anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound ensure a suitably glossy presentation. --Philip Kemp

• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Blu Ray | (09/05/2018) from £7.12   |  Saving you £17.87 (250.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Matthew McConaughey plays the ultimate bachelor about town, a serial heartbreaker until one day the ghosts of his former girlfriends visit him and take him on a journey through his failed relationships

• The Steamie | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £16.56   |  Saving you £-1.57 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Written by Tony Roper The Steamie is set around Hogmany 1957 when a feisty bunch of Glasgow women (Mrs Culfeathers Dolly Doreen and the irrepresible Magrit) all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social histroy where the washing was always easier to do when the women shared their laughter and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip.

• Susan Calman - Lady Like | DVD | (26/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Surf Nazis Must Die (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (27/08/2018) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Troma Entertainment, the company behind such classics as THE TOXIC AVENGER, really outdid themselves with the 1987 cult classic SURF NAZIS MUST DIE. Set in a futuristic California hell-hole, in which an apocalypic natural disaster has left the iconic Baywatch-perfect beaches of Malibu and Venice as gang-lands, various parties battle one another in an attempt to control the sand and sea of this former West Coast paradise. This is sex, surf and splatter in a sordid sci-fi setting and thirty years after it first gained the attention of video shop loyalists and marginal movie followers, SURF NAZIS MUST DIE is back to brutalise a new generation of fright-fans!

• The 6th Man | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £12.94   |  Saving you £2.05 (15.84%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Kenny and Antoine share the same dream of leading their college basketball team to the championship game. After Antoine's death Kenny has to go on alone but this proves tough as Antoine's ghost keeps popping up on court making shots only Kenny can see! His team shoots up to first position in the league and Kenny has a real problem asking his brother to step aside and let the team win fair and square.

• Weeds - Series 2 | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £5.30   |  Saving you £20.95 (518.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second series of Weeds is funnier darker and more daring! Mary-Louise Parker returns as Nancy Botwin who after her husband's unexpected death and struggling to survive financially has become the neighbourhood pot dealer! Her new business is a hit as everyone seems to want what she's selling!

• Frasier - Season 5 | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £22.00 (169.36%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Frasier's fifth season is marked by two central themes. First is Roz's (Peri Gilpin) unexpected pregnancy, which naturally opens the door for countless promiscuity jokes for the radio show's beleaguered producer. The second is the continuing drama of Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and his frosty wife, Maris, which seemed to finally come to a head. Not that even a good marriage has ever kept Niles from pining for Daphne (Jane Leeves), of course. Frasier's (Kelsey Grammer) show is sailing along, and for the occasion of his 1000th show, is honoured by the mayor for "Frasier Crane Day," which allows the cast to do some rare location shooting in Seattle. But he has some problems with KACL management, and the prospect of tough contract negotiations tempts him to return to the Dark Side, in the form of agent Bebe (Harriet Sansom Harris). His personal life continues to sputter, even when he meets a perfect woman (Sela Ward as a fashion model studying zoology, Lindsay Frost as a high-powered defense attorney). The annual guest appearance by ex-wife Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) comes with a bizarre twist, and his father (John Mahoney) comes to a critical point with his girlfriend (Marsha Mason). Frasier won its fifth consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, Grammer and Pierce won their third and second statuettes, respectively, and Patti Lupone was nominated for her guest appearance as Frasier's vengeful Greek aunt. --David Horiuchi

• Shine On Harvey Moon - Series 1 | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Its 1945 and Corporal Harvey Moon is demobbed and returns home to London's East End. Everyone believed that the former Clapton Orient footballer had been killed in action so so plenty has been going on in his absence.

• Still Game - Series 4 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £4.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (204.67%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Still Game is a comedy based around the lives of pensioner pals Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade. It's 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. Episodes Comprise: 1. Kill Wullie 2. Wireless 3. Dial-a-Bus 4. Ring 5. Hatch 6. Who's The Daddy

• Bulworth | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-2.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jay Bulworth is your typical senator going through a nervous breakdown. The empty speeches, lies, money and pressure have led him to plan his own assassination on a weekend trip home to California just before the election. However, a cord snaps in him and like Jim Carrey's rambling lawyer in Liar, Liar, Bulworth can only tell the truth. This new freedom turns Bulworth on and he spews the ugly truth about politics: he tells mass media they are as corrupt as insurance companies; lambastes a black church for not having leaders; and riles the Jewish power elite of Hollywood. He enters South Central running away from advisors (including a bemused Oliver Platt) and mixing it up with a potential new girlfriend (Halle Berry) and a local boss (Don Cheadle). He offends across the board, even developing an inherent knack to rap his speeches. And the public loves it. The weekend becomes a clarifying point for Bulworth: he finds a reason to live.Beatty's rude and relevant comedy is a one-joke movie but the joke is pretty good. It's a courageous film that is always sharp even though it loses narrative focus. Beatty's hilarious raps are so inspired they deserve repeated viewings. As usual, Beatty surrounds himself with a great crew, Ennio Morricone's music and Vittorio Storaro's cinematography being especially noteworthy. Beatty and Storaro even have the audacity to imitate two very famous photographs in the film's final seconds. The script by Beatty and Jeremy Pikser won the LA Film Critics award and was nominated for an Oscar. --Doug Thomas