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• That Peter Kay Thing | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £4.57   |  Saving you £15.42 (337.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The award winning 'That Peter Kay Thing' not only launched the career of one of the UK's most popular comedians but was also the forerunner to the phenomenally successful 'Phoenix Nights'. Six beautifully crafted stories set in and around Bolton with Peter Kay himself playing 15 unique character creations including Mr Softee the ice cream man; Leonard the oldest paper boy in Britain; Marc Park the egocentric pop star; Phoenix Club owner Brian Potter and Max the hapless doorman. The second disc contains exclusive previously unseen footage and the original award winning pilot episode 'The Services'.

• The World of Lee Evans | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The unique talents of one of Britain's brightest comedy stars are on display in this hilarious video. Lee Evans burst onto the stand-up comedy circuit as the winner of the prestigious Perrier Award and here he delivers his unique brand of physical humour in a series of short comedy dramas shot on film. Ordinary situations are turned into scenes of hysterical and mind bending comedy whether it's meeting his girlfriend's parents for the fist time in 'Meet the Folks' (co-starring Prunella Scales Tony Selby and Caroline Aherne) sharing a sleeping carriage with his girlfriend on a train in 'Off the Rails' (co-starring Jo Unwin) or working in an all-night petrol station in 'Late Shift' (co-starring John Thomson). This DVD also contains 'Mr. Confidence' (with Samantha Beckinsale) and 'Special Delivery' (with Amanda Dickinson and Andy Lindon). Evans' performances are always at a frantic pace and he has been likened to all four Marx Brothers rolled into one.

• The Day Today (2 Disc Set) | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fact me till I fart, it's The Day Today, the most outrageously satirical show ever to feature a man called Chris Morris--until Brass Eye, that is. Both savage and surreal, The Day Today heaps great steaming mounds of abuse and scorn upon our self-appointed moral guardians, upon pompous pundits, puerile newspaper headline-writers and vacuous, self-important TV presenters. And they all richly deserve it. First broadcast in 1994, the show's format is Newsnight-meets-Crimewatch in Hell. A ridiculously protracted title sequence and melodramatic headline announcements introduce Morris' demented, Jeremy Paxman-a-like anchorman, who simpers to the viewers while castigating on-air his useless reporter Peter O'Hanraha'hanrahan. The vacant Collatallie Sisters turns financial news into a Dadaist nightmare of meaningless statistics, graphically illustrated by the currency cat or the finance arse; while American journo Barbara Wintergreen's reports from Death Row are just scary and absurd enough to be completely believable. Also making his TV debut here is Steve Coogan's legendary sports caster Alan Partridge, with his appalling sports reporting, his cringe-inducing misunderstandings and his sheer blunt-headed stupidity (many of the same team, sans Morris, would reunite the following year for Knowing Me, Knowing You). Sketches such as the spoof soap "The Bureau" and the spoof docu-soap "The Pool" also betray the writing skills of Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, creators of Father Ted. On the DVD: The Day Today arrives as a two-disc set with all six episodes on the first disc. The second disc has a handful of fairly brief but still enjoyable extras: here you will find "Mini News" features in full and the complete versions of "The Pool" and "The Office" documentaries--the latter now looking like a brilliant premonition of the more famous Ricky Gervais vehicle. There's a rather dull Open University programme about the craft of TV journalism which uses extracts from The Day Today and is truthfully entitled "Po-Faced Analysis". Best of all is the complete original Pilot episode, plus a marvellous post-programme update in which Morris telephones a befuddled American McDonald's employee as if he was a crewmember of a sunken US submarine. Picture and sound quality are standard for a BBC show from the early 1990s. In summary: dispassionate. --Mark Walker

• Billy Connolly - Erect For Thirty Years | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £4.92   |  Saving you £15.07 (306.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The very best of Billy Connolly's stand up comedy from 30 years of performances around the world!

• That Peter Kay Thing | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £7.90   |  Saving you £12.09 (153.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The award winning That Peter Kay Thing not only launched the career of one of the UK's most popular comedians but was also the forerunner to the phenomenally successful Phoenix Nights. Six beautifully crafted stories set in and around Bolton with Peter Kay himself playing 15 unique character creations including Mr Softee the ice cream man; Leonard the oldest paper boy in Britain; Marc Park the egocentric pop star; Phoenix Club owner Brian Potter; and Max the haple