BBC Store contains thousands of programmes across all genres and from all decades of the corporation's television output, available to buy to download or stream immediately. Until the end of the month, they're offering fantastic discounts upon a wide range of comedy box sets, from classics like Hi-De-Hi! and Yes Minister to contemporary successes like Inside No. 9 and Uncle. Browse
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The Complete QI A To D Hotly demanded and long-awaited by fans, 1st May will see the DVD release of these two brand new QI box sets, collecting the complete first 7 series of the show - covering letters A to G - together over 19 discs. Details |
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The Complete QI E To G The two highlighy anticipated titles look set to be packed with extra features including unseen material, interviews, a documentary, and behind-the-scenes footage. Covering the series from 2003 to 2010, the huge range of guests reads like a who's who of 2000s British comedy. Details |
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Jonathan Pie: LIVE! Download The popular YouTube comic fronts his first live release, from the Shepherd's Bush Empire. It's a big night for Jonathan Pie's career and his first ever attempt at "light entertainment". It does not go to plan. The night quickly descends into chaos as Pie's professional and personal lives collide. Details |
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Shaun The Sheep - Spoilsport A new collection of episodes from the hit kids' comedy series, due for release just in time for the Easter holidays. Amongst the episodes, Shaun persuades Bitzer to take part in his game of cricket but Bitzer is more worried about the condition of the pitch than the game. Details |
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Adult Life Skils This critically acclaimed 2016 comedy film is now available to order on Blu-ray. Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors. But when he mum demands she grow up and move out, a lot of changes begin to unfold in Anna's life. Details |
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The Collected Arthur Haynes Show One of TV's earliest comedy superstars, Arthur Haynes made well over 100 episodes of this, his own starring sketch show series - with scripts from the celebrated Johnny Speight - from the mid 1950s until his early death in 1966. An often overlooked landmark in the development of TV comedy, all surviving episodes are collected together in this single box of comedy history. Details |
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Benidorm - The Complete Series Nine Currently broadcasting on ITV and now available to pre-order. Benidorm's much loved Solana Hotel opens its doors for another season. Will Sam the new holiday rep be more of a hindrance than a help; and will Kenneth manage to hide his sideline 'Blow & Go Cabs' from salon boss Troy? Celebrity guest stars include Nigel Havers, Uri Geller, Amanda Barrie, Jason Manford and Madness. Details |
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There Was A Crooked Man Unseen for over fifty years, this exceptionally rare feature sees comedy legend Norman Wisdom playing a naïve explosives expert who finds himself involved with a criminal gang after uncovering nefarious dealings by a prominent industrialist. Hailed as one of Wisdom's finest films, it was one of two features he made independently and is available to pre-order now. Details |
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The Goose Steps Out - 75th Anniversary Edition Newly restored and available on DVD and for the first time, Blu-ray, comes this classic Ealing wartime comedy starring screen legend Will Hay as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. He's sent behind enemy lines on a deadly mission is to find information on a secret Nazi weapon. Details |
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Now Look Here The complete surviving collection of early Ronnie Corbett sitcom No - That's Me Over Here! - was released back in 2015. Now its two successors, prequel Now Look Here and sequel The Prince Of Denmark are to be released on DVD. Details |
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The Prince Of Denmark All three series star Corbett and Rosemary Leach, charting different stages in the couple's relationship and marriage. Written by Monty Python's Graham Chapman and gag supremo Barry Cryer, the shows lay the groundwork for Sorry! and are a fascinating - and funny! - insight into Corbett's career. Details |
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The Time Of Their Lives The new British comedy film starring Joan Collins and Pauline Collins is now available to pre-order on DVD and Blu-ray. Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Ile-de-Re, former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her retirement home and goes on a road trip with Priscilla, a repressed English housewife stuck in a bad marriage. Details |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Hidden Treasures Carlton Books presents Monty Python's Flying Circus: Hidden Treasures, the complete history of Monty Python, with rare and unseen photographs and hundreds of examples of removable and on-the-page facsimile memorabilia. The book recounts the story of all six members, from early days in the Cambridge Footlights, and farther afield, through global stardom and the O2 in 2014. Details |
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Decline And Fall A tie-in edition of Evelyn Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Expelled from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's prisons. A brilliant satire of the roaring twenties. Details |
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The Real McCoy - Series 1 Download The first series of landmark 1990s sketch show The Real McCoy is now available for the very first time, after much public demand. Written by and starring top black and Asian British comedy talent, the show ran for 5 series from 1991, predating the better known Goodness Gracious Me. Details |
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A Very Open Prison Download From Guy Jenkin, co-writer of Outnumbered and Drop The Dead Donkey comes the first of a number of popular one-off satirical 1990s comedy dramas. The home secretary is pleased that his plan to privatise prisons is going ahead. But when three inmates escape a privatised jail, a political nightmare unfolds. Details |
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Miranda's Daily Dose Of Such Fun! A special new book from Miranda Hart in aid of Comic Relief, this contains 365 joy-filled tasks to make your life more engaging, fun, caring and jolly. "There are tiny gestures that can make a huge difference to you and others around you. So, I say; every day try to do something jolly that you can look back on with a smile, knowing it has brought kindness to others at the same time." Details |
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Carry On Cabby Honk your horn for Sid James and the rest of the Carry On gang in this classic film, an early entry in the beloved comedy series. Hattie Jacques plays Peggy, the long suffering wife of the workaholic owner of Speedee Cabs, Charlie (James). Peggy decides to get one up on her hubby and starts up a rival firm, Glam Cabs, and soon starts beating Charlie at his own game. Details |
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Gap Year - Series 1 Download E4's current comedy drama charting the travels through Asia of best mates Sean and Dylan, and the group of misfits they become entangled with when they arrive in the continent, is now available to buy to download. Details |
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Dick Emery At Thames Television A star of 1970s sketch comedy, Dick Emery made three hugely popular specials for Thames in the early 1980s, shortly before his death. This rereleased DVD collection compiles the programmes together for more than 2 and a half hours of top quality entertainment featuring beloved and outrageous comedy characters. Details |
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Rentaghost - Series 2 Download The goofy spooks are back with a new office and plans to become private detectives, furniture removers and even try to organise a concert starring the world's greatest artists, including Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci and William Shakespeare. What can possibly go wrong? Details |
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Uncle - The Complete Collection All three series of the comedy about an out-of-work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his nephew, starring Nick Helm, Elliot Speller-Gillott, Daisy Haggard, and Daniel Lawrence Taylor. A hit for BBC Three, the sitcom recently concluded its third and final series, with this complete DVD collection now available to buy. Download purchase is also available. Details |
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Shaun The Sheep - Pizza Party Another collection of episodes from the popular children's animated series that follows Shaun, a mischievous and unique sheep who leads his flock into all manner of trouble. Details |
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