Comedy

• Marx Brothers Collection - Monkey Business/Horse Feathers/Duck Soup | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Monkey Business (Dir. Norman Z. McLeod 1931): The madcap Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury cruise ship in this fast-paced laugh-filled farce. While they manage to elude capture by the ship's captain and crew by staging impromptu puppet shows and hiding in herring barrels getting off the boat is another matter. Before long they're all impersonating Maurice Chevalier in order to disembark and begin their new careers as mob bodyguards. Horse Feathers (Dir. Norman Z. McLeod 1932): Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) is the new President of Huxley College. In order to stay in charge he must somehow get the college football team to win their annual Thanksgiving game against arch-rivals Darwin - a bit of a tall order since Huxley haven't won a match since 1888! Needless to say playing it by the rules is the last thing on Wagstaff's mind... Duck Soup (Dir. Leo McCarey 1933): A pointed political satire Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film! Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commisioned as spies by Groucho's political rival the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand the Paul Revere parody the ""We're Going To War"" number (a beautiful spoof of 30's musicals) the hilarious mirror scene and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone including Woody Allen!

• Are We Done Yet? | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £7.86   |  Saving you £5.12 (105.13%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ice Cube returns in this sequel to the popular 2005 family comedy - only this time he has to contend with a contractor from hell.

• The Wood | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lots of guys have second thoughts about marriage. Three hours before his wedding Roland (Taye Diggs) is having third fourth and fifth thoughts. Good thing he's got best buddies Slim (Richard T. Jones) and Mike (Omar Epps) around to help sort those feeling out - and to remember their coming-of-age days in 'The Wood' (Inglewood California). From the big dance to first love the rites of passage that are part of everyone's growing up are winningly chronicled in this unforgettable t

• Brakes | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £6.56   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brakes is a raw, dark and unconventional comedy directed by Mercedes Grower and featuring an all-star cast of British talent. Split into two halves it follows the tumultuous stories of nine couples, plunging straight into the brutal and absurd endings of their relationships first, before travelling back to the moments when the spark of love between them first emerged. Using London as their match-maker, each of their stories is unique yet familiar to us all.

• Carlton-Browne Of The F.O. | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A perennial afternoon telly treat, Carlton-Browne of the F.O. is a little less tart and smart in its assault on British diplomacy than the earlier John and Roy Boulting satires. The much-loved Terry Thomas, is the idiot son of a great ambassador, given a sinecure in the Foreign Office that becomes a hot seat when crises rock the almost-forgotten former colony of Gaillardia. Clod-hopping "dance troupes" of every world power dig for cobalt, a line of partition is painted across the entire island, and the young King (Ian Bannen) is undermined by his wicked uncle (John le Mesurier) and unscrupulous Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers). There's a touch of Royal romance as the King gets together with a rival princess (the winning Luciana Paoluzzi), but it's mostly mild laughs at the expense of British ineptitude, with Thorley Walters as the dim army officer who sends his men to put down a rebellion with orders that lead them to turn in a circle and capture his own command post, Miles Malleson as the gouty consul who should have come home in 1916, and a snarling Raymond Huntley as the minister appalled that the new monarch of a British ally was a member of the Labour Party at Oxford. The film finds Sellers' non-specific foreign accent unusually upstaged, with Terry Thomas walking off with most of the comedy scenes, blithely inspecting a line of shabby crack troops who keep passing out at his feet. It fumbles a bit with obvious targets, especially in comparison with similar films like Passport to Pimlico and The Mouse That Roared, but you can't argue with a cast like this. Down in the ranks are: John Van Eyssen, Irene Handl, Nicholas Parsons, Kenneth Griffith, Sam Kydd and Kynaston Reeves. On the DVD: Carlton-Browne of the F.O. comes to disc in fullscreen, with a decent-ish quality print. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection.--Kim Newman

• Couples Retreat | Blu Ray | (08/02/2009) from £7.32   |  Saving you £17.67 (241.39%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on an original comic idea of Vince Vaughn's, "Couples Retreat" sees a quartet of troubled couples embark on a journey to a tropical island resort in order to mend their ailing relationships.

• Will Hay - Ask A Policeman / Boys Will Be Boys | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (23.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ask A Policeman: The police force of crime-free Turnbotham Round consists of Sergeant Dudfoot (Will Hay) and officers Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and Albert (Graham Moffatt). When the commissioner suggests that they are no longer necessary they set about engineering a crime wave in the village so that they can be seen to be solving it. Their attempts fail until they stumble upon a genuine case of smuggling... Boys Will Be Boys: Prison teacher Dr. Smart-Alec steps up

• Monkey Magic | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £11.70   |  Saving you £4.29 (36.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. The moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon worked upon a certain rock and it became magically fertile. From it came the stone of Monkey!

• Bowfinger/the Nutty Professor/Life | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Bowfinger: How does Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) Hollywood's least successful director get Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) Hollywood's biggest star in his ultra low-budget film? Any way he can. With an ingenious scheme and the help of the eager nerd Jiff an ambitious and sexy wannabe (Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva (Christine Baranski) Bowfinger sets out to trick Kit Ramsey into the performance of a lifetime.... (Dir. Frank Oz 1999) The Nutty Professor: Eddie Murphy stars as Dr Sherman Klump a kind ""calorically challenged"" genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum Sherman becomes ""Buddy Love"" a fast-talking pumped-up plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late or will Buddy have the last laugh? (Dir. Tom Shadyac 1996) Life: Eddie Murphy is the fast talking con-artist Rayford Gibson and Martin Lawrence is the conservative bank teller Claude Banks. The two are accidentally teamed up to become the funniest ""odd couple"" east of the Mississippi. In an effort to pay off Ray's debt and restore Claude's reputation they travel south on a bootlegging run for some quick cash. There is no limit to their comical misfortune as they are placed at the scene of a crime and their mistaken identity lands them right in front of the judge. This hysterical comedy gives a whole new meaning to friends for life. (Dir. Ted Demme 1999)

• Two and a Half Men: The Complete Fourth Season | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Spaced: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second series of Spaced finds the gang at 23 Meteor Street a little older, but definitely none the wiser. Tim's career is hampered by severe hang-ups over The Phantom Menace. Daisy's career is just plain non-existent. There is still a spark of sexual tension between them, but it's overshadowed by Brian and Twist getting it on. Propelling the seven-episode series arc is the threat of Marsha discovering that none of the relationships are what they seem, Mike's increasing jealousy and a new love interest for Tim. That's the basis for a never-ending stream of in-jokes and references that easily match the quality of the first series. Tim has a Return of the Jedi flashback, then déjà vu in reliving the end of The Empire Strikes Back. There are spoofs of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Robocop, The Sixth Sense and comedy rival The Royle Family. There are guest spots from Bill Bailey, Peter (voice of Darth Maul) Serafinowicz and The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith. Every episode is packed with highlights, but this series' guaranteed geek pant-wetting moments have to be the mock gun battles, slagging off Babylon 5 and learning that "The second rule of Robot Club is: no smoking." Jessica Stevenson won a British Comedy Award for this year. It deserved a whole lot more.--Paul Tonks On the DVD: There's a chaotic but highly enthusiastic commentary from the director and cast, including of course Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, who also talk about some deleted scenes and why they were removed. There's an outtakes blooper reel, as well as a selection of raw location footage and a self-explanatory clip, "Daisy Does Elvis". The most useful feature, though, is the subtitle "Homage-o-Meter" facility, which displays all the movie references throughout the series. --Mark Walker

• Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side (plus Bonus Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (26/12/2009) from £7.03   |  Saving you £17.96 (255.48%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Griffins reprise their roles as the saga continues in this hilarious Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back spoof that is a DVD and Blu-ray exclusive never before seen on TV!

• Game On: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £8.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (67.11%)   |  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 second 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! Ep

• Knight's Tale, A / The Princess Bride / The Mask Of Zorro | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Knight's Tale: Heath Ledger is William Thatcher a peasant squire who breaks all the rules when he passes himself off as a nobleman and takes the jousting world by storm. The only thing that stands between William and his dream of becoming the world champion of this most extreme of competitions is the bad boy of the sport Count Adhemar. And when the two rivals go lance to head at the world finals to determine who will be named the ultimate champion you'd better arm yourself and hang on tight for the thrill ride of your life! Princess Bride: A young boy confined to bed with the flu is less than thrilled when his grandfather (Peter Falk) arrives to read him the story of The Princess Bride. It tells the adventures of Buttercup the most beautiful woman in the world and Westley the man she loves in the fairy-tale kingdom of Florin. When Buttercup is kidnapped Westley has to overcome some pretty tough obstacles if he is to rescue her from the clutches of three kidnappers - scaling the cliffs of insanity battling rodents of unusual size facing tortue in the Pit of Despair... True Love has never been a snap. Mask Of Zorro: With The slash of a steel blade and the mark of a 'Z' he defends the weak and exploits and avenges the wrongs committed against them... It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero Zorro. He transforms troubled bandit Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) into his successor in order to stop the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) who robbed him of his freedom his wife and his precious daughter Elena (Catherine Zeta Jones) all those years ago.

• Unidentified Flying Oddball | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An astronaut and his robot companion inadvertantly enter a time-space warp and are hurled into the past where they find themselves in the court of King Arthur!

• That 70s Show - Season 4 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £20.96   |  Saving you £9.03 (30.10%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The fourth season of the '70's-inspired cult comedy series That '70s Show. Hang up the disco ball and get ready to boogie on back to the ""Me Decade"" of the 1970s! Unfortunately nothing lasts forever and it seems like the wild and wacky good old days of hanging out at Eric's ""Bat Cave"" may just be over after Eric and Donna break up and Kitty decides to redecorate the basement. Meanwhile as Kelso continues his crazy on-again-off-again relationship with Jackie Hyde's new bond

• Ultimate Bill Hicks | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £50.00   |  Saving you £-25.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A superb 3DVD Collector's Set including Sane Man, Revelations, Relentless, It’s Just A Ride, One Night Stand. SANE MAN was Bill’s first comedy special which became the foundation of his signature material of attacking corporate America with venom. RELENTLESS: In this classic special from 1992, comedian Bill Hicks tells how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war, peace, drugs and music. REVELATIONS: The last special Bill Hicks from 1992 that highlights his genius at the Dominion Theatre in London.

• Back To The Future | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (16.89%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "future boy," who is president in the United States in 1985? Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan. Dr. Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?! Who's vice president? Jerry Lewis? Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis topped his breakaway hit Romancing the Stone with this joyous comedy with a dazzling hook: what would it be like to meet your parents in their youth? Billed as a special-effects comedy, the imaginative film (the top box-office smash of 1985) has staying power because of the heart behind Zemeckis and Bob Gale's script. High-school student Marty McFly (Michael J Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the 1950s where he sees his parents in their teens, and accidentally changes the history of how Mom and Dad met. Filled with the humorous ideology of the 50s, filtered through the knowledge of the 80s (actor Ronald Reagan is president, ha!), the film comes off as a Twilight Zone episode written by Preston Sturges. Filled with memorable effects and two wonderfully off-key, perfectly cast performances: Christopher Lloyd as the crazy scientist who builds the time machine (a DeLorean luxury car) and Crispin Glover as Marty's geeky dad. Followed by two sequels. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• Eskimo Nell 40th Anniversary Special Edition | Blu Ray | (16/02/2015) from £29.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alongside Come Play with Me and Confessions of a Window Cleaner Eskimo Nell takes its place as one of the most celebrated British sex comedies of the 1970s. Featuring a witty script from Michael Armstrong (who also stars) and directed by a young Martin Campbell - years before he helmed the James Bond movies GoldenEye and Casino Royale - Eskimo Nell is a hilarious satire on the low-budget British movie industry. Three inexperienced filmmakers (Armstrong Christopher Timothy and Terence Edmond) attempt to make a movie version of the notoriously rude poem 'The Ballad of Eskimo Nell' with disastrous results. This classic British comedy features a cast of famous faces including Roy Kinnear (The Three Musketeers) Katy Manning (Doctor Who) Christopher Biggins (Porridge) Diane Langton (Carry On England) Anna Quayle (Grange Hill) and an eye-popping cameo from 1970s' sex-bomb Mary Millington in her début movie. Re-mastered from the original film elements and boasting a host of special features Eskimo Nell celebrates its 40th anniversary on Blu-ray for the very first time. Special Features: Region Free Brand-new audio commentary with writer Michael Armstrong and historian Simon Sheridan 'When Dead-Eye Dick Met Mexican Pete' - The Making of Eskimo Nell (documentary) Reversible sleeve with alternate poster art Booklet notes by Simon Sheridan Theatrical Trailer Bonus short Mary Millington film

• Are You Being Served? - The Movie | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £12.97   |  Saving you £1.02 (7.86%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft managed something quite clever with this, the film version of the 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served?. The idea of this cheery collection of comedy stereotypes--the pompous one, the vulgar one, the camp one, the shifty one and so on--being confined within a department store was a master stroke, as it allowed any kind of situation to arise without the plot having to exceed the restrictions imposed by the set. How, then, to keep the same theme for the big screen without just offering the television series writ large? Simple: send the whole cast on holiday together but make sure they can't leave their hotel, a state of affairs contrived easily enough by throwing a guerilla uprising into the plot. So it is, then, that the staff of Grace Bros. descend on the Costa Plonka while the store is closed for refurbishment. There are all the usual jokes involving knickers, boobs, toilets and gay sex (sometimes all at once), adding up to a good slice of nostalgic fun for anyone who was there when lapels really were that wide. Incidentally, this item is worth having just for the wonderful Frank Langford caricatures on the cover. On the DVD: Are You Being Served? comes to the digital format with just one extra item, a trailer.--Roger Thomas