Comedy

• Bo Selecta | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £5.34   |  Saving you £14.65 (274.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring Avid Merrion as the Scandinavian stalker/host and sketches in which he plays the parts of pop stars like Craig David and Britney Spears in lurid, latex masks, Bo' Selecta! is a brilliantly surreal take on celebrity culture. This first series (originally broadcast in 2002) features a number of cameos and guest appearances from minor celebs: Boyzone's Keith Duffy, Davina McCall, Vanessa Feltz and the hapless Christine Hamilton, one of numerous guests to be interviewed by a puppet bear played by Merrion whose feverish line of questioning invariably results in him sprouting a little erection. Another character is hauled up in a neckbrace (following an altercation with Lisa Tarbuck), but Merrion's innocent broken English can't conceal the fact that he's a psychotic sex maniac who explicitly lusts after celebs who "make me do a sex wee", keeps Craig from Big Brother locked in a cupboard and his dead mother in a wardrobe. Merrion's pop spoofs are also masterly: rather than mimic the stars, he reinvents them--Mel B and Britney Spears--as farting, hairy-chested Northerners, slobbing out on fry-up breakfasts washed down with lager and, most improbably, Michael Jackson as a cussing, jive-talking black dude à la Huggy Bear. Bo' Selecta! doesn't so much satirise celebrities as debase them, exposing their humiliating none-dimensionality by drawing them into a vortex of vulgar absurdity, not unlike Vic Reeves' Shooting Stars. Of course, they play along--they're on television. Although initially off-putting to some, once you get into Bo' Selecta! there is, as for Big Brother's Craig, no escape. On the DVD: Bo' Selecta! on disc features numerous extras, including a behind the scenes feature in which the production team discuss making the show ("like directing a squirrel on roller-skates"), deleted scenes including Gareth Gates as a Tourette's victim, which was deemed a little beyond the pale, some unfunny bloopers and a feature on the life story of "Craig David" with Kate Thornton, including an unmissable nativity scene in which the infant Craig plays Jesus. There's also a commentary, with Merrion as his stalker self watching himself with consternation (It's strange seeing yourself on TV"). It's a pity we don't get to hear from the "real" Merrion. --David Stubbs

• The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two young women from very different backgrounds meet and fall in love. Their families and friends reject them but they don't mind... they're in love!

• Don't Wait Up - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two doctors estranged from their spouses become roommates...they also happen to be father and son! Can they share an apartment without driving each other crazy? Watch as father and son learn to tolerate one another's idiosyncrasies in this sophisticated and popular comedy series..

• Swingers - Special Edition (2 disc boxset) | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £7.85   |  Saving you £12.14 (154.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of the Los Angeles "lounge" scene that was in vogue during the early and mid-1990s, Swingers is the movie that virtually defined that brief but colorful nightlife milieu. As an added bonus, it just happens to be a very funny, observant story about love, loss, and male bonding among a group of friends who struggle to find decent jobs by day, and lurk through Hollywood's hottest nightclubs by night. A sort of latter-day Rat Pack, they include Mike (writer-actor Jon Favreau) and his closest buddy, Trent (Vince Vaughn), who are waiting for the big show-biz break that seems to be eluding them. Mike's twisted up about the girlfriend he left back East to pursue his going-nowhere standup comedy career, and Trent uses the word "money" as an adjective ("Man, we look totally money tonight") with such frequency that you may find yourself slipping into lounge-lizard mode after watching the movie. One of the most noteworthy indie-film success stories of the '90s, this time-capsule comedy seized its moment in the spotlight, launched several promising careers, and continues to maintain its lasting appeal. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Playing For Keeps | Blu Ray | (20/05/2013) from £4.92   |  Saving you £17.07 (346.95%)   |  RRP £21.99

  George is trying to put his life back together again after numerous set-backs, as well as falling far from grace with his ex-wife, Stacie (Jessica Biel), and young son Lewis (Noah Lomax).

• Mallrats | Blu Ray | (13/10/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Friends With Money/The Break-Up/Along Came Polly | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Friends With Money: Frances McDormand stars as Jane a successful dress designer who has taken to wild public outbursts stops washing her hair and is married to a kind man who might be gay (Simon McBurney). Joan Cusack is Franny a multimillionaire who appears to have the perfect life with her husband (Greg Germann) and kids. Catherine Keener plays Christine who is building her dream house and writing a screenplay with her husband (Jason Isaacs) as their life together is crumbling. And the youngest of the foursome Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) is a pot-smoking ne'er-do-well who works as a maid stalks her ex-lover and has a thing about not paying for certain high-end cosmetics. As they prepare to attend a major fundraiser for ALS they all take stock of their lives reaching some very difficult conclusions... The Break-Up: After Brooke (Aniston) calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary (Vaughn) neither person is willing to move out of the condo they share. Taking the advice of their repsective friends and confidants (and a few total strangers) they both engage in mental warfare designed to force the other person to flee the premises - until they both realize they might be fighting to keep their relationship alive. Along Came Polly: When risk-averse Reuben Feffer's new bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor his plans for love and life are thrown wildly off track. A chance encounter with an adventure craving childhood friend named Polly shoots him into a whirlwind of extreme sports spicy foods ferrets and salsa dancing. Can Reuben the ultimate control freak really change and live in the moment.

• The Secret Policeman's Ball - The Early Years | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £6.36   |  Saving you £-0.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Includes: Pleasure At Her Majesty's (1976) and Mermaid Frolics (1977).

• 27 Dresses | Blu Ray | (28/07/2008) from £17.20   |  Saving you £7.80 (45.35%)   |  RRP £25.00

  After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman (Heigl) wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.

• In Sickness And In Health - Series 3 | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Series 3 of this classic comedy sees Mrs. Hollingberry left to look after Alf after Winston leaves the show. Eventually Alf and Mrs Hollingberry begin courting and travel to the Outback to get married but will it be a happy ever after ending for Alf? Series 3 of this classic comedy sees Mrs. Hollingberry left to look after Alf after Winston leaves the show.

• Love Birds | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £4.67   |  Saving you £7.08 (243.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Love Birds is a charming romantic comedy about a regular Kiwi bloke on a quest to find true love - with the help of a duck! Starring Rhys Darby (aka Murray in Flight of the Conchords) and Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky, Made in Dagenham), the soundtrack features numerous tracks by Queen (including ‘Don't Stop Me Now’, ‘Somebody to Love’, ‘I Want to Break Free’ and ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’).

• The Ghost Goes West | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £39.25   |  Saving you £-26.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick where it will be put it back together. The castle though is not the only part of the deal with it goes the several-hundred year old ghost who haunts it.

• Open Season 2 | Blu Ray | (09/02/2009) from £7.79   |  Saving you £17.20 (220.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The woodland gang return for some more misadventures in this riotous sequel to the animated hit, "Open Season"!

• The Revenant | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £6.52   |  Saving you £8.47 (129.91%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A soldier is killed in Iraq and then finds himself resurrected as a revenant, or one who has returned from the dead. He turns to his slacker best friend to help him manage his newfound thirst for blood, and the duo quickly realize that this zombie-fied state is a perfect opportunity to become vigilante crime fighters. However, their adventure quickly becomes more complicated and bloody than they expected as the movie escalates into a series of unexpected and horrifying twists.

• Leslie Phillips Box Set | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Triple bill of British comedies starring Leslie Phillips. In 'The Man Who Liked Funerals' (1959) Simon Hurd (Phillips) takes it upon himself to raise the necessary finances to keep the local youth club open. But he uses a peculiar technique to do so - he attends funerals and blackmails mourners into giving him money by threatening to reveal unfortunate stories about them to the press. However, he may regret his pitches after potentially meeting his match... In 'Don't Just Lie There, Say Something' (1974) Phillips stars as Sir William Mainwaring-Brown, a Government minister with a roving eye who has just introduced a bill to combat libertarian behaviour in Britain. Sir William, however, is having affairs with both his secretary Miss Parkyn (Joanna Lumley) and Wendy (Anita Graham), the wife of an eminent reporter. A group of hippies who oppose the bill seek to derail his campaign by discrediting co-founders Sir William and his best friend Barry Ovis (Brian Rix). In 'In the Doghouse' (1962) Phillips and James Booth star as rival vets. After ten long years of training, Jimmy Fox-Upton (Phillips) finally qualifies as a vet and opens his own practice. Settled in London, Jimmy opposes the money-grabbing ways of his fellow graduate Bob Skeffington (Booth) and sets about exposing his lucrative equine export scam.

• Two Ronnies - Series 4 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (223.03%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's Goodnight From Me... And It's Goodnight From Him! Barker and Corbett return for a fourth series of classic sketch show comedy; The Two Ronnies.

• Bob Monkhouse - An Audience With Bob Monkhouse | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £29.98   |  Saving you £-19.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Join a star-studded audience in an evening of laughter with one of Britain's best-loved quick-fire comedians the late Bob Monkhouse.

• Morecambe and Wise - Night Train to Murder | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £19.97   |  Saving you £-13.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise star in this hilarious spoof comedy thriller. The two entertainers become embroiled in a 1940's murder mystery when they take Eric's niece under their wing, after she arrives at the stage door at the end of one of their shows. Lysette Anthony plays the leading lady as Eric Morecambe's niece, in this funny and affectionate send-up of some of the great thriller writers, from Edgar Wallace and Raymond Chandler to Agatha Christie.

• Porridge & The Two Ronnies Christmas Specials | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two classic comedy Christmas specials in one set. Contains over 5 hours of classic festive comedy on 3 discs.

• Comedy Collection (Stan Helsing/Big Fat Important Movie/Slammin' Salmon) | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £3.76   |  Saving you £10.49 (419.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: Stan Helsing: In this insane spoof every horror movie ever made comes hilariously to life as slacker Stan and his stoner pals try to deliver videos to a deserted California town on Halloween night. After being stalked by realistic replicas of horror characters Freddy Kruger Pinhead and The Creeper our gang arrives in the small burg which formerly contained a horror movie studio - hence the throngs of freaky familiar characters literally crawling the streets. Our crew of two mischievous guys and two sexy girls outwit and outslash every cinematic horror character - or in the case of Michael Jackson merely horrific - to uncover the town's shocking secret: the studio's still at it making movies of a very ahem different kind. When the creatures won't let our heroes leave Stan decides to live up to his monster-slaying namesake's destiny. But first he must endure a Survivor-style competition: gobbling down body parts! Risqu'' righteous revolting and ridiculous Stan Helsing is more than a slayer - it's totally killer. My Big Fat Important Movie: My Big Fat Independent Movie is a spoof along the lines of Scary Movie and Not Another Teen Movie. It includes parodies of some of the indie film world's most renowned movies such as Memento Pulp Fiction Magnolia My Big Fat Greek Wedding Amelie Run Lola Run El Mariachi The Good Girl Pi Swingers and many others. The Slammin' Salmon: Slammin' Cleon Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan) the former Heavyweight Champion of the World and current owner of a high-scale Miami restaurant has racked up a sizable gambling debt to a band of Japanese thugs. To help pay off the debt Cleon challenges his oddball waiter staff (the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe as well as Cobie Smulders and April Bowlby) to a contest where the top-selling server will win 000 while the waiter in last place gets a broken-rib sandwich - courtesy of the Champ himself. Spurred on by greed and panic the staff resort to backstabbing bribery and indecent proposals in an attempt to up sell their patrons while simultaneously sabotaging their co-workers. Will Forte Olivia Munn and Vivica A. Fox co-star in one of the Top 10 Comedies of the Year! (Ryan McKee AOL Moviefone).