Comedy

• Doris Day Collection - Series 2 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Doris Day one of the greatest box-office names in motion picture history made her television debut in The Doris Day Show. This heart-warming comedy series originally ran for five successful years on CBS-TV from 1968-1973. Episodes comprise: 1. Doris Gets a Job 2. A Frog Called Harold 3. Married for a Day 4. The Woman Hater 5. The Chocolate Bar War

• Rita, Sue And Bob Too! | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British films about sex are fairly rare, and mostly embarrassing: from the painfully anxious (Brief Encounter) to the hopelessly naff (the Carry On films). What a treat then is Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Alan Clarke's filming of a stage play by young Andrea Dunbar. It's an unsentimental, gleefully lewd comedy about shagging. Tagged for its cinema release in 1987 as "Thatcher's Britain with its knickers down", it even provoked a minor moral hullabaloo in the newspapers. Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two giggly Bradford lasses stuck on a ramshackle housing estate. They keep themselves in fags by occasional baby-sitting for nouveau riche couple Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). Bob fancies himself rotten, but Michelle has ruled that sex is off the menu. So one night, driving Rita and Sue home, Bob detours to the Yorkshire moors and offers the girls a little something extra in his front seat. Rita and Sue decide to grab it while they can. Alan Clarke's cult following is founded on his bleak, brilliant films about violent young men (Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain). But Rita, Sue is a tribute to Clarkey's ribald sense of humour. It even sports a cameo from novelty pop-act Black Lace, performing their non-hit "Gang-Bang". Teenage debutantes Holmes and Finneran are terrific--just watch them dancing lustily around Bob's red leather sofa to Bananarama. In support, Clarke wisely cast skilled northern comedians like Patti Nicholls and Willie Ross, as Sue's foul-mouthed mum and dad. Amid the laughs, Clarke as usual doesn't stint from showing us the harsh, unlovely side of life. He shot the film on location at Bradford's Buttershaw estate, where Andrea Dunbar grew up and where, tragically, she died of a brain haemorrhage only a few years after the film's release. --Richard Kelly

• Gwar - Phallus In Wonderland | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Gwar the world's most disturbingly repulsive rock 'n' roll band is in trouble. Representatives of the government the clergy and the health care communities have banded together to censor Gwar's activities in America. Their covert organization the self-appointed morality squad has captured Gwar member The Cuttlefish of Cthulu and put it on trial for obscenity. Witness the capture and initiation of a Gwar slave as he follows them from their home in Antarctica on a mission of death and destruction to save their compatriot. Watch as Gwar embraces the decadent lifestyle under the leadership of management Sleazy P. Martini and inadvertently unleash untold horrors on capitalist America in the name of freedom of sexpression. Tracklist: 1. Crack the Egg 2. Have You Seen Me? 3. The Road Behind 4. The Morality Squad 5. Gor-Gor 6. Ham on the Bone

• National Lampoon Presents Lost Reality 1 And 2 | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lost reality 1 and 2 features Ari Shaffir: The Amazing Racist... single handedly guarding our borders. Ari Shaffir (The Amazing Racist) and company were creating mischief and mayhem long before anyone else crossed the pond. This two-disc set gives new meaning to the words ""reality TV"" with a series of TV pilots the networks wouldn't dare air!

• The First Turn On | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The First Turn-On is the Traumatic hit comedy which shows what happens when young innocent teenagers become 'initiated' by a mature older very sexy woman at summer camp. In the tradition of Porky's this is a film for anyone who wants to laugh and get 'turned-on' watching what happens to a group of innocent kids at the wackiest summer camp you could ever imagine. See the movie that started the acting career of Academy Award Nominee Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket and Men In Black) and bared the breasts of Penthouse Pet of the year Shelia Kennedy. The Troma Team even auditioned a pre-'Material Girl' Madonna for a part in the movie but she was turned down! The First Turn-On It's Always the wildest!

• Cyrano de Bergerac | DVD | (02/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In Edmond Rostand's swashbuckling yet bittersweet comedy, the characters experience emotions on an heroic scale. The play's hero, Cyrano, is a magnificent wit whose pride marks a deep insecurity about his appearance - specifically, his abnormally large nose. His compelling love for the beautiful heroine, Roxanne, is the motivating force behind all the action in the play. With words from his own poet's heart, Cyrano wins Roxanne for another man, the tongue-tied but handsome, Christian.

• Chewin' The Fat Hogmanay 2000 | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Doris Day Collection - Series 3 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Doris and chums return to DVD for another serving of her eponymous and highly successful television show. Episodes Comprise: 1. Doris Finds an Apartment 2. The Feminist 3. How Can I Ignore the Man Next Door? 4. Dinner for One 5. Doris Leaves Today's World (1)

• Bug Buster | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (334.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Idyllic town of Mountainview is infested and terrorized by deadly mutant insects the likes of which have never been seen before. The townsfolks' only hope is the wacky trio of men led by General George; a gung-ho former soldier turned exterminator who is joined by the towns' mild-mannered Sheriff and a brilliant-though slighty eccentric-Dr Fujimoto.

• Dorothy Paul-See That's Her | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Abbott And Costello - Laugh-A-Thon | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abbott & Costello Classic Comedies three-disc collector's set consists of oddments from the latter days of their career that have fallen into public domain; which means you don't get their best routines or classiest productions, and indeed find the double act doing fairly tired schtick as Costello is chubbily chicken-hearted and Abbott grumpily money-grubbing. Africa Screams is a 1949 safari parody, with Costello running away yelping from sundry alligators, gorillas (including a Kong-sized giant), cannibals ("Chief have sweet tooth for little fat man") and lions amid backlot jungles as Abbott competes with stock villains for a fortune in diamonds. Jack and the Beanstalk, from 1952, finds the duo attempting to sell themselves as children's entertainers in a Wizard of Oz-influenced fairytale book-ended by sepia modern-day segments. The magical story unfolds in wonderfully gruesome cheap colour with some of the worst musical numbers ever committed to film ("he's perpendicular-la-la") as Jack the Clod (Costello) and Mr Dinkelpuss the Butcher (Abbott) climb the beanstalk and plod around the Giant's lair until the story runs out. Possibly the most interesting item is the third disc, which offers an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour (aka The Abbott and Costello Show) from the 1950s. It shows the pair doing live routines closer to their original vaudeville act than their film roles (including an amazingly cruel bit in which Abbott slaps Costello every time he says the word "tin"). A loose plot about Latin American intrigue, with Lou hired to stand in for an assassination target "El Presidente", makes room for speciality guest stars ranging from child xylophonist Baby Mistin to four starlets (including Jane Russell and Rhonda Fleming) harmonising on a "Happy Easter" medley. Best of all, and now funnier than the comedy, are original hard-sell ads for household products like "Ajax, the foaming action cleanser" and "Halo, the shampoo that glorifies your hair". --Kim Newman

• A Good Idea At The Time | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Good Idea At The Time

• Hacks | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £4.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (226.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  So you think you're funny do you? Well unfortunately so do these guys... For some unknown reason the Diamond and Hutz Talent Agency is sending deluded stand-up comics to venues all over New Jersey: bar-mitzvahs baby showers corporate team building days and well farms. Fortunately for us journalists from one of the nation's leading papers were assigned to document the Diamond and Hutz world of stand-up comedy in its natural habitat... Whether or not you're a fan of stand-up you'll love this brainchild of Glenn Rockowitz. Much like 'This Is Spinal Tap' and 'Best In Show' 'Hacks' is an hysterical mockumentary with killer performances that leave you wondering just how far from the truth this may actually be!

• The Story Of F*** | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Lewis (Finlay Robertson) is a frustrated A & R looking for the next big act. Aided by his assistant Daisy (Tamsin Egerton) they decide to create and unleash a band called F*** on UK music lovers - the problem is that F*** can't sing or play instruments...

• Caught In The Act | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

• The Foursome | DVD | (09/09/2009) from £3.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (173.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• Disaster | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £4.03   |  Saving you £8.96 (69.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stopping obstructions from here to Uranus! When a killer planetoid threatens the Earth Harry Bottoms and his crack team of ASSA specialists must belch and fart their way to victory in order to save the world from ultimate Disaster! Featuring Mtley Cre this hilariously demented spoof of big-budget action films is more thrilling than Armageddon and raunchier than Team America.

• Will and Grace: Series 5 (Vol. 3) | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £28.00   |  Saving you £-13.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Further series 5 episodes of Will And Grace. Featuring episodes 9-12: 9. Marry Me A Little More (2) 10. The Honeymoon's Over 11. All About Christmas Eve 12. Field Of Queens

• Jeff Garlin - Young and Handsome | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Instantly recognizable Jeff Garlin plays Larry David's put upon manager Jeff in worldwide sit-com success Curb Your Enthusiasm. What most people don't know is that he has been major stand up comedian in the USA for years. This is his first full stand up DVD. Jeff Garlin is a wonderful storyteller (maybe the most wonderful who has ever lived) and Jeff Garlin enjoys the kind of comedy where if anyone looks stupid it's Jeff Garlin. Jeff Garlin is very intelligent (maybe the most intelligent comedian who has ever lived) but he does many stupid things (ask Jeff's wife she'll tell you) but they make great stories for you to enjoy.

• The Best Of Marilyn Collection - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Seven Year Itch/How To Marry A Millionaire | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  How To Marry A Millionaire: Three screen goddesses - Betty Grable Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe - star as golddigging models blessed with fabulous looks but limited brain power. The three blondes pool their resources and conspire to nab millionaire husbands renting an expensive penthouse to lure in their likely prey. But with Rory Calhoun Cameron Mitchell David Wayne Fred Clark Alex D'Arcy and William Powell playing the desired millionaires the ladies are pushed to the end of their wits as they try to decide whom to wed.... 'How To Marry A Millionaire' was the first movie to be filmed in CinemaScope but 'The Robe' (1953 directed by Henry Koster) beat it to the cinemas. The Seven Year Itch: Marilyn Monroe proves that no man can resist her - especially a married man - in this sexy romp directed by Billy Wilder and heralded as one of the quintessential comedies of all time! When a seductive starlet (Monroe) moves in upstairs a married man (Tom Ewell) has his fidelity put to the test. Keeping his marriage vows in the face of her flirtations proves hilariously tough when challenged by the notorious ""Seven Year Itch."" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her friend Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls Dorothy the sassy one looking for true love Lorelei the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire with her sights set on Gus Esmond a wealthy nerd stuck under his father's thumb. When Lorelei and Dorothy take a transatlantic cruise to Paris an undercover detective follows to find out if Lorelei is really a gold-digging schemer. Unfortunately the irrepressible Lorelei is a born flirt and soon finds herself in a compromising position with Sir Francis Beekman (Charles Coburn) owner of a diamond mine. The girls have to use all their wits to get out of trouble and still find love and marriage. Thanks to the talents of the luminous stars and director Howard Hawks plus stunning technicolor cinematography 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' emerges as one of the most charming entertaining musicals of the 1950s. Marilyn Monroe never more luminous sings her legendary musical number ""Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"" (which later inspired Madonna's 'Material Girl' video). 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' is based on the hit Broadway musical which was adapted from the book by Anita Loos.