New Releases
Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 8th April 2021
Warm, funny, life-affirming and true, The Best Things is the joyous debut novel from much-loved comedian, writer, actor and presenter Mel Giedroyc.
It's the story of a family who lose everything, only to find themselves, and each other, along the way.
Sally and Frank Parker have it all. Then one...
Tez Ilyas - The Secret Diary Of A British Muslim Aged 13¾ Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 8th April 2021
The hilarious and pubescent debut book from your favourite British Muslim comedian (that's Tez Ilyas, by the way) is coming to a shop near you. You may know and love Tez from his stand-up comedy, his role as Eight in Man Like Mobeen, his Radio 4 series TEZ Talks, or...
Catch Us If You Can Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 5th April 2021
Another great addition to the Vintage Classics range, John Boorman makes his directorial debut with this 1960s cult classic in which Dave Clark stars as a stuntman who gives up the rat-race to see the real world, along with his four friends (played by The Dave Clark Five).
On his...
Paintball Massacre DVD
Release date: Monday 5th April 2021
Old school friends go on a paintball trip, miles away from civilisation. Things go horribly wrong when they discover a cold-blooded masked killer is among them. Soon the paint is mixed with blood as they fight to survive their school reunion. Will anyone survive?
Paintball Massacre is a true British...
LADS Download
Release date: Friday 2nd April 2021
Created by and starring British comedians Kat Ronson and Katerina Robinson, this improvised mock-documentary comedy series sees a hilarious no-boundaries look at the lives of two lads from East London, Charlie and Dave. Dave, 17, has severe anger issues. Charlie, also 17, still can't tie his shoe laces.
Frank Skinner - A Comedian's Prayer Book Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
A Comedian's Prayer Book. The title is a worry, isn't it?...
God is a tough audience as far as audible response is concerned, but at least you don't have to explain the references. In this collection of prayers, much-loved comedian, broadcaster and radio host Frank Skinner has tried to retain...
Matt Lucas - My Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Silly Book Of Pranks Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
A hilarious new book of pranks from multi-award-winning actor and comedian Matt Lucas - star of The Great British Bake Off and creator of Thank You, Baked Potato, an official UK download chart-topper and Amazon bestseller!
With laugh-out-loud artwork from Sarah Horne, illustrator of the bestselling [i]Charlie Changes Into A...
Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
Warm, funny, life-affirming and true, The Best Things is the joyous debut novel from much-loved comedian, writer, actor and presenter Mel Giedroyc.
It's the story of a family who lose everything, only to find themselves, and each other, along the way.
Sally and Frank Parker have it all. Then one...
Romesh Ranganathan - As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons From A Reluctant Adult Paperback
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it.
Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waistline thicken and his finances dwindle to fund his family's middle class aspirations, Romesh reflects on the demands of daily life...
Skeletons In The Cupboard - Series 1 & 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
Alison Steadman, Morwenna Banks and Nigel Planer star in this tale of two sisters - and a mysterious stranger.
Not long after their mother's death, sisters Maureen and Lesley are packing up their family home. It's a painful duty, with Maureen trying to control the worst of Lesley's projectile lamenting....
Stilgoe's Around Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
Songs, sketches and stand-up, recorded in front of a live audience on location.
Songwriter, broadcaster and award-winning entertainer Sir Richard Stilgoe goes out, about and around Britain in this amusing musical revue, which finds him taking a wry look at the pastimes and professions of our wayward island. In the...
Tony Nicholson - The Squire Of Knotty Ash And His Lady: An Intimate Biography Of Sir Ken Dodd Hardback
Release date: Thursday 1st April 2021
Sir Ken Dodd was a national institution. He worked tirelessly as one Britain's most popular comedians for a staggering seven decades. His five hour stage shows were legendary, and he was still performing these hilarious theatrical marathons right up to the age of ninety.
Ken was the comedian's comedian. Fellow...
Grave New World Download
Release date: Wednesday 31st March 2021
Stuart Laws takes an in-depth look at life after a pandemic and how the familiar we knew has changed forever. This four-part mini series asks the questions we've been afraid to ask like "What's on at the cinema?", "How have relationships evolved?" and "What are risk biscuits anyway?" Join Stuart...
Tony Nicholson - The Squire Of Knotty Ash And His Lady: An Intimate Biography Of Sir Ken Dodd eBook
Release date: Tuesday 30th March 2021
Sir Ken Dodd was a national institution. He worked tirelessly as one Britain's most popular comedians for a staggering seven decades. His five hour stage shows were legendary, and he was still performing these hilarious theatrical marathons right up to the age of ninety.
Ken was the comedian's comedian. Fellow...
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong DVD
Release date: Monday 29th March 2021
Blacklisted by the BBC after ruining Peter Pan, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society do not take their ban lying down and force themselves back on the TV by hijacking the jewel of the Christmas schedule, a live production of A Christmas Carol, staged by a professional cast that includes the...
Peter Pan Goes Wrong DVD
Release date: Monday 29th March 2021
The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One.
As part of a commitment to community theatre, The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, an amateur dramatics group, has been commissioned to recreate the JM Barrie classic as part of the festive season programming. But can they pull...
Coming Alive Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
Convict Terry is challenged to revive a rundown community centre after being released early from prison.
He is supported by Sandra Gains, a social worker with a warm heart but a sad past. Will he be forced to go back to prison, or will he succeed in showing his case...
Neil Archer - Beyond A Joke: Parody In English Film And Television Comedy Paperback
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
Beyond A Joke explores the myriad ways English film culture has used forms of parody, from the 1960s to the present day. It provides a contextual and textual analysis of a range of works that, while popular, have only rarely been the subject of serious academic attention, from Morecambe &...
Patterson Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
An eight-part comedy serial set in a provincial university with a most unusual English department.
Against his better judgement, Andrew Patterson accepts a job as a lecturer in English literature at a remote Northern redbrick university. His departmental colleagues are an eccentric bunch: doddery Head of English Professor Misty, who...
Phil Ellis Is Trying Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
Phil's trying to keep his entertainments business afloat. He's trying to get over his divorce from Leanne. He's trying to be a better person. He's trying. Boy, is he trying. Will he manage it?
In Series 1 Phil is late with the rent he owes to his celebrity-memorabilia-shop-owning landlord Johnny,...
Russell Brand - Revelation: Connecting With The Sacred In Everyday Life Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 25th March 2021
Russell Brand takes a deep, earnest, yet witty dive into the meaning of life, death, and the sacred space in between in this compelling Audible Original.
An Aussie woman living alone in a forest, at one with nature and technology. A former addict celebrating an anniversary in recovery with friends...
The Lady Is A Square Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 22nd March 2021
Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan and Janette Scott star alongside Anthony Newley and Wilfrid Hyde White in this swinging musical from the late 1950s! "Mr Showbusiness" sings four top tunes in what was to be the swansong for both Neagle and her long-time creative partner and husband, director Herbert Wilcox. The...
Nish Kumar - It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves Part 1 Audio Download
Release date: Friday 19th March 2021
Recorded live at the Duchess Theatre, London on December 12th 2016, this is the show that Kumar did in Edinburgh, and then on tour that year, culminating in this performance captured on whatever the modern word is for tape.
The show is about gentrification, history and the rise of the...
Nish Kumar - It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves Part 2 Audio Download
Release date: Friday 19th March 2021
Recorded at the Hackney Empire over two nights - March 29th and April 1st 2019, this is the show that Kumar toured the UK with in 2018 & 2019 and then took to New York and Montreal.
It's about Brexit, Trump losing heroes and getting arrested.
It also covers his...
Babblewick Hall Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 18th March 2021
When Squire Fenton Babblewick inherits his uncle's Yorkshire estate, it's the perfect opportunity to realise his utopian dreams.
He attempts to become a member of parliament, reform beetroots, win the love of lovely Lucinda, be a musical composer genius and buy a workhouse to turn it into a school.
His...
Conversations From A Long Marriage - Series 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 18th March 2021
The complete second series of the BBC radio comedy drama about a couple who have been married 'for ever' but are keeping the passion alive.
Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return as the married couple who met in the Summer of Love and are still passionate about music, life -...
A Run For Your Money Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 15th March 2021
Alec Guinness, Donald Houston, Moira Lister and Hugh Griffith star in this classic piece of BAFTA-nominated Welsh whimsy from Ealing Studios. Made during their golden, post-war period, A Run For Your Money was directed by Charles Frend and is presented here as a brand new high definition transfer from original...
Lee Ridley - I'm Only In It For The Parking Paperback
Release date: Thursday 11th March 2021
What's the worst thing about being disabled? Is it the shameless staring? Is it that people assume you're a bit thick because you can't speak? Or is it the fact that your friends always take you to theme parks just so they can jump the queues? In fact, it's the...
The Complete Uncle Mort Adventures - North Country, South Country & Celtic Fringe Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 11th March 2021
For the first time ever all three much-loved series featuring the legendary creations Uncle Mort and Carter Brandon are brought together in one collection. As the pair tour Britain, Uncle Mort's recollections make for some hilarious moments.
Uncle Mort and his Yorkshire-based family first appeared in Peter Tinniswood's novel [i]A...
Sing As We Go! Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 8th March 2021
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. A morale-boosting feelgood movie made at a time of great economic depression, Sing As We Go! was written by legendary novelist,...
The Ladykillers 4K Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 8th March 2021
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...
Boothby Graffoe - #TFAYCD Audio Download
Release date: Friday 5th March 2021
Musical comedian Boothby Graffoe's single, #TFAYCD ("There's F*ck All You Can Do").
With its acerbic take on, well, the state of things, and a catchy sing-along refrain, #TFAYCD features the lyrics "We make the rules / we break the rules / there's f*ck all you can do". "We always act...
James Acaster - Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 Download
Release date: Friday 5th March 2021
After the huge success of James Acaster's live stream of the sell-out show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, the special comes to Vimeo On Demand, with BONUS unseen material.
Jen Brister - The Other Mother Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
"I'm Jen Brister, stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent and, more recently, a mum. But not that mum - I'm the other one. Confused? Let's back up a bit. Two years ago, my partner (a woman - we're not solicitors) gave birth to twins. Yes. Yes. Already there's a lot to take...
Katy Brand - I Carried A Watermelon: Dirty Dancing And Me Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
I Carried A Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand's life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and responsibilities.
It explores the legacy of the film, from pushing women's stories to...
Pam Ayres - With These Hands Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
Delighting her fans for decades with her mischievous wit and wry observations, this is a classic collection of poems and monologues from Pam Ayres, which takes us back to where it all began.
From the nostalgia of her 1950s childhood, conjuring up images of hand-knitted swimming costumes and suet puddings,...
Paul Tonkinson - 26.2 Miles To Happiness: A Comedian's Tale Of Running, Red Wine And Redemption Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
The hilarious trials and tribulations of stand-up comedian Paul Tonkinson as he attempts to beat the much lauded 3-hour mark at the London Marathon. With a supporting cast of fellow comedians, this is a warmly written and wonderfully honest adventure-through-sport that will both entertain and inspire.
Along the way, we...
The Missing Hancocks - The Complete BBC Radio Series Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
Kevin McNally and Andy Secombe star in new recordings of original Hancock's Half Hour scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Between 1954 and 1959, BBC Radio recorded 102 episodes of the hugely popular comedy classic, Hancock's Half Hour. The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony...
Women Unlocked Audio Download
Release date: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Women Unlocked brings some of our country's biggest female comedy stars together, as they invite you into their own homes for some uplifting chat, revealing the survival tips they've learnt over lockdown, and what they're looking forward to in 2021. From their experience of lockdown as a female, to making...
John-Luke Roberts - It Is Better Vinyl
Release date: Monday 1st March 2021
It Is Better is the fourth release from Monkey Barrel Records, and the first to be conceived, written, recorded and scored specifically for vinyl.
A brand new show by John-Luke Roberts with music by John Chambers, it has been created specifically to be listened to - ideally in the evening,...
Pixie DVD
Release date: Monday 1st March 2021
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
Restless Natives Blu-ray, DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 1st March 2021
Starring Vincent Friell (Will) and Joe Mullaney (Ronnie) and directed by Michael Hoffman (The Last Station, One Fine Day) from a script by Ninian Dunnett this much-loved film from 1985 comes with additional features including a new documentary with cast and crew.
Ronnie and Will are two under-employed Scots living...
Julian Lee's Jokebox Paperback
Release date: Friday 26th February 2021
Fantastic stand-up comic Julian Lee, the master of the one-liner and pun-King has a brand-new joke book Julian Lee's Jokebox will have you roaring with laughter with some of his best gags.
Jokes such as:
I forgot what I had for my pudding last night.
It was Amnesia Creamed Rice.
I...
Julian Lee's Jokebox eBook
Release date: Thursday 25th February 2021
Fantastic stand-up comic Julian Lee, the master of the one-liner and pun-King has a brand-new joke book Julian Lee's Jokebox will have you roaring with laughter with some of his best gags.
Jokes such as:
I forgot what I had for my pudding last night.
It was Amnesia Creamed Rice.
I...
North By Northamptonshire - The Complete BBC Radio Comedy Series Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th February 2021
All three series of the BBC radio bittersweet comedy narrated by Sheila Hancock following the adventures of the residents of a small town in Northamptonshire - plus special episode Full Stop.
Relationships have come and gone but life continues in Wadenbrook, where Sheila Hancock takes us behind closed doors to...
Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones! - Complete Series 4 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th February 2021
The man they call 'Britain's Funniest Milton' and the genius in the mad shirts on Mock The Week stars in the fourth series of Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones! co-starring Tom Goodman-Hill (Ideal), Josie Lawrence (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), Ben Willbond (Ghosts, Yonderland), Dan Tetsell (Upstart Crow) and Colin...
Tony's - Complete Series 1-2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 25th February 2021
Victor Spinetti stars in this BBC radio sitcom about the hilarious misadventures of a corner-shop barber.
North London barber's shop Tony's might not be the trendiest salon in town, but it's definitely the cheapest and the cheeriest. Run by exuberant Italian Tony Fucetti, it's the place to go if you...
Sean McLoughlin - Hail Mary Audio Download
Release date: Friday 19th February 2021
Sean McLoughlin's stand-up show, which he performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and then toured around the world.
The human race is at a crossroads: on one path lies the future, with its twitchy technology and mega-corporations who know us better than we know ourselves; on the other lies the past...
Dead Ringers - Series 20 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 18th February 2021
Dead Ringers' sharp satire on figures from popular culture returns for a 20th series.
This release includes six new episodes, plus three Christmas specials of the award-winning show bringing back topical comedy, political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging from Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis Macleod, Debra Stephenson and Duncan...
Jenny Eclair - Older And Wider: A Survivor's Guide To The Menopause Paperback
Release date: Thursday 18th February 2021
"If you're after an in-depth medical or psychological insight into the menopause, I'm afraid you've opened the wrong book - I'm not a doctor . . . However, I am a woman and I do know how it feels to be menopausal, so this book is written from experience and...