New Releases
Count Arthur Strong - Is There Anybody Out There? DVD
Release date: Tuesday 1st December 2020
As well as being the all round entertainer we all know and love from the telly, Count Arthur Strong is also a lifelong fan of astronomy, since having been given a microscope, or whatever it is they use, for Christmas when he was a small precocious baby. In fact it's...
Dominic Frisby - Anthems For The Excommunicated CD & Download
Release date: Tuesday 1st December 2020
The album contains classics such as next year's Eurovision entry, I'm Gonna Marry Gary, Arise Sir Nigel and I Am A White Man And I'm Sorry, not too mention, of course, the 2020 remix of 17 Million Fuck-Offs - A Song About Brexit.
If you buy the CD you get...
Here's David Nixon - The Complete Series DVD
Release date: Monday 30th November 2020
Here's David Nixon... with nothing up his sleeve - but magic in his fingers!
Over a thirty year career in television, David Nixon's subtle brand of magic and comedy was loved by millions. In the autumn of 1963 he created a series of shorts that showcased his skills as an...
The Strange World Of Gurney Slade... Again Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 30th November 2020
On 22nd October 1960 renowned singer and actor Anthony Newley crashed through the fourth wall in his weird and wonderful ATV television series The Strange World Of Gurney Slade. To celebrate its 60th birthday all six episodes have been restored in HD from the original 35mm film elements and are...
School's Out Comedy Club Children's Joke Book Paperback & eBook
Release date: Friday 27th November 2020
Philip Simon's the name of a comic.
His homeschooling boredom was chronic.
He's one of these blokes,
Who loves telling jokes.
School's Out Comedy was the tonic!
Before the Coronavirus lockdown started in March 2020, I was a professional stand-up comedian and actor. Almost overnight my diary cleared and I became a supply...
Isy Suttie's Love Letters And Other Matters Of The Heart - The Complete Series 1 & 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 26th November 2020
The Sony Award-winning comedian and Peep Show star talks life and love.
Isy Suttie is our guide to all things love-related in these five fantastic series. Come with her as she shares her relationship stories, talks about the couples she's tried to bring together, evokes bittersweet memories of her childhood...
Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful - The Complete Series 1-3 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 26th November 2020
Frustrated copy man Ken Handley cannot help but conceive of the world in advert form.
Over three series witness Ken coping with a drunken boss, straight-laced colleagues and an overactive mind, as we follow his exploits and moral dilemmas in this advertising satire.
Martin Jarvis stars as Ken, alongside a...
Matt Lucas - Merry Christmas, Baked Potato Download
Release date: Thursday 26th November 2020
Matt Lucas's festive song. All proceeds from downloads go to food charity FareShare.
On The Rocks - The Complete Series 1 And 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 26th November 2020
It's the late 1930s, and even on the remote island of St Martin's in the Isles of Scilly war seems inevitable. But the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung 27 miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour...
Semi Circles - The Complete Series 1 And 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 26th November 2020
An improving story of life and improving times in an improving neighbourhood.
Helen and Ben are an upwardly mobile couple climbing the social ladder in suburbia. They have just moved into a semi-detached house, but discover that their taste for restoring their home to its original character is not shared...
Harriet Dyer - Bipolar Comedian Paperback & eBook
Release date: Wednesday 25th November 2020
From dying twice to wanting to be a boy, her Dad leaving her Mum for a man and once doing so many drugs she thought she was Kat Slater from EastEnders... It's been eventful. Of course there was the abuse too.
A funnier-than-it-should-be, honest tale of a bipolar, working class...
Cinderella: After Ever After DVD
Release date: Monday 23rd November 2020
What happens after 'ever after'? Cinderella (Sian Gibson) discovers that marriage to Prince Charming (David Walliams) isn't quite the fairy tale ending she'd hoped for as she and Buttons fight to save Fairyland and to get the happy ending they all deserve.
Dentist On The Job Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 23rd November 2020
Original Carry On stars Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton and Eric Barker star in this hilarious sequel to 1960's Dentist In The Chair! Also featuring Charles Hawtrey and Richard Wattis, Dentist On The Job is presented here as a brand new high definition transfer from original film elements in...
Dominic Holland - Takes On Life Vol. 1 Hardback
Release date: Monday 23rd November 2020
During his career as an award winning comedian, Dominic Holland has fearlessly confronted thorny and controversial subjects. Posing hard questions such as:
- When is an onion actually peeled?
- When is the right time to wash a towel?
- And how many of us can genuinely claim to have more than...
Paul Merton - The Series 1 & 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 23rd November 2020
Fresh from his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Paul Merton starred in his own comedy series on Channel 4. First shown in 1991, the show featured an intriguing mix of surreal sketches and stand-up routines.
Upright DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 23rd November 2020
Tim Minchin leads this irreverent series as the ironically named Laclan "Lucky" Flynn, a down-on-his-luck middle-aged man road-tripping across Australia to deliver an old upright piano to his dying mother.
In a dramatic twist of fate, his path collides with teenage runaway Meg (Milly Alcock), who has some secrets of...
Friz Frizzle - Do Not Sneeze Onto Your Nan Download
Release date: Friday 20th November 2020
A music album by Friz Frizzle. He says: "The majority of this album is material I've written during lockdown for my weekly Songs From the Spare Room shows."
Tracks include WHAMdemic, The ABCs of Take That and Crowded Vegans.
Brothers In Law - The Complete Series 1-3 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 19th November 2020
All three 1970s' BBC radio series of the classic legal comedy starring Richard Briers.
Inspired by Henry Cecil's 1955 comic novel of the same name, Brothers In Law first appeared on BBC One in 1962, providing Richard Briers with his first starring role on television as idealistic young barrister Roger...
Kate & Koji - Series One DVD
Release date: Monday 16th November 2020
From the creators of Outnumbered and What We Did On Our Holiday comes this entertaining sitcom series Kate & Koji, starring Golden Globe winner Brenda Blethyn (Outside Edge, Secrets & Lies) and Jimmy Akingbola (In The Long Run).
Kate (Blethyn) runs a small café in a neglected seaside town. Once...
Criminal Audition Download
Release date: Friday 13th November 2020
An ex-lawyer and his team run an underworld service, seeking the most desperate and greedy to become fake criminals, to take the fall for crimes committed by the rich and powerful. They audition three individuals, putting them through hell to find the perfect candidate, but their world is turned upside...
Frankie Boyle - The Future Of British Politics Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
In The Future Of British Politics, comedian Frankie Boyle takes a characteristically acerbic look at some of the forces that will be key in coming years, from Scottish independence and post-colonial entitlement to big tech surveillance and the looming climate catastrophe.
Despite his fears that 'soon the only red tape...
Grace Campbell - The Future Of Men Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
Twenty-five-year-old comedian, writer and activist Grace Campbell was born into a political environment that suggested only aggressive, dominant men - like her father Alastair Campbell - were allowed power. Seeing this, she decided that if she wanted to be powerful she had to be like him, a decision that baffled...
Jonathan Silvertown - The Comedy Of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh Hardback
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error?
Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes - the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does explaining a...
Lisa McGee - Erin's Diary: An Official Derry Girls Book Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
Set in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland in the 1990s, Derry Girls is a candid, one-of-a-kind comedy about what it's like to be a teenage girl living amongst conflict.
It's a time of armed police in armoured Land Rovers and British Army check points. But it's also the time of [i]Murder She...
Sandi Toksvig - Toksvig's Almanac 2021: An Eclectic Meander Through The Historical Year Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
"Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story. The names mentioned are merely temptations. Amuse-bouches for the mind, if you like. How I would have loved to have written...
Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith - Inside No. 9 - The Scripts: Series 1-3 Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
Take a further peek behind the door marked 'number 9' as the scripts from Series 1-3 are collected here for the first time. An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, read how each 30-minute self-contained story with new characters and new settings, sprang to...
Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith - Inside No. 9 - The Scripts: Series 1-3 Collector's Edition Hardback
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
Re-enter the darkly comic world behind the door marked 'number 9' in this limited, collector's edition of Inside No. 9 - The Scripts: Series 1-3.
Containing three beautifully designed cloth-effect hardback books, this edition is an essential purchase for diehard fans of the show, designed in close collaboration with series...
Tom Allen - No Shame Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 12th November 2020
"When I was 16 I dressed in Victorian clothing in a bid to distract people from the fact that I was gay. It was a flawed plan."
No Shame is a very funny, candid and emotional ride of a memoir by one of our most beloved comedians. The working-class son...
Friday Night Dinner - The Complete Collection: Series 1 - 6 DVD
Release date: Monday 9th November 2020
Includes all 37 episodes from Series 1 to 6 of the award-winning, smash hit comedy Friday Night Dinner.
Tuck into six glorious helpings of award-winning madness with the Goodmans as they get together for a Friday night dinner of food, family and major-league bickering. Of course every family has its...
Light Entertainment Rarities DVD
Release date: Monday 9th November 2020
A staple genre on ITV from its early days and much loved by the viewing public, light entertainment shows transcended class, religion and age - their joyous mix of comedy, variety and music firmly establishing them as undeniable highlights of the weekly TV schedule. A producer of key shows across...
Mrs. Brown's Boys - D'Ultimate Christmas Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 9th November 2020
Mrs. Brown and the family are ready to bring the Christmas cheer in D'Ultimate Christmas Collection, featuring all 17 festive episodes broadcast to January 2020, full of chaos, mayhem, madness and of course, the love of family at Christmas!
Mrs. Brown's Boys - Merry Mishaps! DVD
Release date: Monday 9th November 2020
Mrs. Brown and the family are up to their usual festive hi-jinks and are ready to jingle your baubles in two brand new hilarious seasonal specials, broadcast at Christmas 2019-20.
Episode 1 - A Wonderful Mammy: Agnes's world is turned upside down when an angel arrives in Finglas and grants...
The Bruce Forsyth Show DVD
Release date: Monday 9th November 2020
Undeniably the King of Light Entertainment, Bruce Forsyth's career on television spanned a remarkable seven decades - from the London Palladium shows of the 1950s to more than ten years of Strictly Come Dancing from the mid-noughties. An all-round entertainer and light comedian, Brucie was never better than on the...
The Ladykillers 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 9th November 2020
To celebrate the 65th anniversary of Ealing Studios' flawless The Ladykillers, STUDIOCANAL will be releasing the first ever 4K restoration of the 1955 black comedy from the original 3-strip Technicolor negative, showcasing director Alexander Mackendrick's vision in its full glory.
The Ladykillers follows the hilarious capers of a group of...
Dave Skinner & Henry Paker - Why Steve Was Late: 101 Exceptional Excuses For Terrible Timekeeping Hardback
Release date: Thursday 5th November 2020
A laugh-out-loud funny book of excuses for terrible timekeeping.
Why Steve Was Late is a book of hilarious (and even - occasionally - plausible!) reasons for tardiness, handily dreamed up by someone else. Here are 101 real corkers for you to enjoy And maybe even borrow...
- Overcome by the...
Richard Herring - The Problem With Men: When Is International Men's Day? (And Why It Matters) Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th November 2020
For almost a decade, Richard Herring has been answering sexist trolls on International Women's Day when they ask 'when is International Men's Day?' in the mistaken belief there isn't one.
If only the trolls had learned to use Google they'd realise that there is an International Men's Day - it's...
Stewart Lee - March Of The Lemmings Paperback
Release date: Thursday 5th November 2020
As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the Brexit referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience. He would treat all his subsequent writing, until we left the EU, as interrelated episodes of a complete work. The cast of characters include Lemming-obsessed Michael...
Susie Donkin - Zeus Is A Dick Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th November 2020
In the beginning, everything was fine.* And then along came Zeus.
*more or less
Ahh Greek myths. Those glorious tales of heroism, honour and... petty squabbles, soap-opera drama and more weird sex than Fifty Shades of Grey could shake a stick at!
It's about time we stopped respecting myths and...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - The Complete Third Series Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Series 3 sees long-term friends and comedic royalty, Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse, return to the riverbanks.
Across six episodes, this new series takes Bob & Paul to Scotland, Lea, Norfolk, Test, Somerford Lakes and Wye.
Don't Ever Leave Me DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
Made in 1949 this Rank classic comedy stars Jimmy Hanley as a car salesman who accidentally becomes a kidnapper!
When veteran small-time crook Harry Denton (Edward Rigby) is released from prison he moves in with his Grandson Jack (Jimmy Hanley). Harry can't resist returning to his old ways and decides...
Ghosts - Series 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
The return of the hugely successful supernatural sitcom written and created by the stars of Horrible Histories and creators, writers and stars of fantasy comedy Yonderland and feature film Bill.
As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living...
How To Build A Girl DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous family, Johanna yearns to get out and make a name for herself - which she does, reinventing herself as revered and feared music critic,...
Jumping For Joy DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
It's a dog's life in this hilarious British comedy! When Willie Joy (Frankie Howerd) is fired from his job at the greyhound stadium, he takes pity on a fellow victim and adopts an injured greyhound called Lindy Lou, who would otherwise be destroyed.
Teaming up with amiable conman 'Captain' Montague...
Sally In Our Alley Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
Beloved by the British public for her string of hit pre-war films, Gracie Fields's Lancastrian earthiness, impish humour and memorable songs have endeared her to many generations of fans. Her screen debit, Sally In Our Alley sees Gracie as a good-natured coffee shop worker in this bittersweet wartime romance. It...
Brian Beacom - The Real Stanley Baxter Hardback & eBook
Release date: Sunday 1st November 2020
Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description. Baxter was a most brilliant cowboy Coward, a smouldering Dietrich. He found immense laughs as Formby and Liberace. And his sex-starved...
Louise Stevenson - The New Comedians Handbook eBook
Release date: Sunday 1st November 2020
Louise Stevenson is a stand-up comedian, writer and comedy coach with over 20 years comedy industry experience. As CEO of Brighton Comedy Course, Louise has a solid background in helping aspiring comedians realise their dreams and has acquired a reputation for delivering quality stand-up comedy courses with consistent 5-star reviews...
Nathan Cassidy - RESUяяECTION: Post-Covid Diaries By Boris Johnson Paperback & eBook
Release date: Sunday 1st November 2020
RESUяяECTION is a diary from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson starting in July 2020, 3 months after the nurses (whose name he forgets) saved his life.
With a daily entry over these months of rehabilitation for himself and the country, the diary is an explosive, page-turning, imagined exposé of what...
Al Murray - The Last 100 Years (Give Or Take) And All That Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
Brilliant and hilarious new gallop through British history by everyone's favourite pub landlord and comedian, Al Murray.
1066 And All That, the famous tongue-in-cheek parody on British history has been a family favourite ever since it was first published in 1930. But so much has happened since then . ....
Arthur Mathews - The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL - Thoughts, Ideas, Actions By Dominic Cummings Hardback
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
Dominic Cummings is constantly THINKING; PLANNING; and coming up with BIG ideas.
During a time of momentous events - BREXIT! A GENERAL ELECTION, A GLOBAL PANDEMIC! - the Government's chief adviser has been writing down his thoughts - in diaries, blog posts, on post-it notes and any scrap of paper...
David Jason - A Del Of A Life: Lessons I've Learned Audiobook, CD, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
In celebration of Sir David Jason's 80th year, A Del Of A Life: Lessons I've Learned relives Jason's extraordinary life and career from over 50 years in entertainment.
From a trainee electrician to one of Britain's most revered and loved actors, Jason shares heartfelt and hilarious wisdom with readers on...