New Releases
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...
Roger Lewis - Growing Up With Comedians eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th March 2021
A collection of portraits of some of the finest comedians of our time. From the author of the acclaimed The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, as made into an award-winning film by HBO, and the dark and scabrous Seasonal Suicide Notes, which everybody loves, here at last comes the...
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...
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...
Pippa Evans - Improv Your Life Audiobook, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 18th February 2021
An improviser's guide to embracing whatever life throws at you!
Pippa Evans is an expert in saying Yes - and No. She's a master of thinking on her feet, but has also had to learn how to go with the flow. In this book she's passing on everything she's learnt...
The Gambler - Complete Series 1-2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 18th February 2021
The series follows Tim FitzHigham as he embarks on recreating bizarre and amusing bets from history.
The first episode opens with a bet wagered by the 4th Duke of Queensbury in 1753. The bet: that Tim can pass a missive over a distance of 50 miles in one hour, using...
The Timewaster Letters Compendium Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 18th February 2021
Written by Friday Night Dinner creator Popper in the mid 2000s, the Timewaster Letters books were massive bestsellers, and featured the hilarious letters of 'Robin Cooper', in which he shared his madcap ideas, inventions and musings with everyone from the British Halibut Association to the Peanut Council. The letters -...
It's In The Air Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 15th February 2021
One of the successful run of pre-war Ealing comedies that secured George Formby's enduring popularity with the British public, It's In The Air finds everyone's favourite gawp fulfilling his dream of joining the RAF - though, of course, he does it the hard way! Partly filmed at the famous London...
Pixie Download
Release date: Monday 15th February 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.
School's Out Forever Download
Release date: Monday 15th February 2021
Film based on the novel by Scott K. Andrews.
Staged - Series 1 And 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 15th February 2021
David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of Six Characters In Search Of An Author in the West End. The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans - also playing himself) is determined not to let the opportunity pass...
Two Weeks To Live - Series 1 DVD
Release date: Monday 15th February 2021
The complete first series of Sky's apocalyptic comedy series.
Chris Head - Creating Comedy Narratives For Stage And Screen Hardback, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 11th February 2021
This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online.
Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several...
David Baddiel Tries To Understand Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 11th February 2021
David Baddiel attempts to unravel an array of life's conundrums, as suggested by the public on Twitter. In each episode he speaks to experts and the general public to make sense of common, yet little understood, subjects and impart his new-found knowledge on each topic in under 15 minutes.
From...
Joe Dieffenbacher - Clown: The Physical Comedian Hardback, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 11th February 2021
Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for anyone interested in the art of clowning, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians, circus acts and commedia ensembles.
An extensive and diverse compilation of tried-and-tested exercises and games, the book aids ensemble-building, character development, devising theatre, physicalising text, vocalising...
Shush! - The Complete Series 1 And 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 11th February 2021
The complete first and second series of the award-winning sitcom written by and starring Morwenna Banks (Absolutely) and Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It) set in, yes, a library - but no ordinary library. This is the library overseen and run by the most unlikely pairing since Mills met Boon.
...
Johnny Frenchman Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 8th February 2021
Renowned farceur Tom Walls stars alongside French cinematic icon Francoise Rosay in this heart-warming comedy drama from Ealing Films. Made as World War Two was coming to an end but set during its opening months, Johnny Frenchman is featured here as a brand new high definition transfer from original film...
Running Naked Download
Release date: Monday 8th February 2021
When Ben and Mark meet in hospital while undergoing leukaemia treatment, they become inseparable. Their wild boyish pranks on the ward may drive the doctors to distraction but it helps take their minds off their precarious state of health.
Skip forward 20 years and their lives have taken different directions......
Sailors Three Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 8th February 2021
A broad naval comedy that kept cinemagoers highly entertained during the early years of World War Two, Sailors Three was Walter Forde's last film for Ealing and Tommy Trinder's first. Co-starring Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding, this memorable mix of music hall and propaganda is presented here as a brand...
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp DVD
Release date: Monday 8th February 2021
A beautiful blonde angel (Diane Cilento), arrives in The Angel, Islington on a goodwill mission to soften the heart of pawnbroker Joshua Webman (played by Felix Aylmer). Finding that she needs money to fulfil her mission on Earth, her solution is to pawn her harp. During her earthly visit, she...
Andi Osho - Asking For A Friend Audiobook, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th February 2021
Asking For A Friend is a funny multi-generational novel about three best friends who come up with a plan to solve their relationship woes once and for all.
Fed up with their love lives, Jemima, Meagan and Simi decide it's time to play the dating game by their own rules,...
David Baddiel - #JewsDontCount Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th February 2021
David Baddiel examines the -ism that woke culture and identity politics leave behind: antisemitism.
Jews don't count. Even among those on 'the right side of history', those who take a stand against all -isms - racism, sexism, ableism, Islamophobia, transphobia, etc., it is still somehow acceptable to make jokes about...
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary (And Other Writing): 25th Anniversary Edition Hardback
Release date: Thursday 4th February 2021
Bridget Jones's Diary turns 25 this year. Winner of the 1997 British Book of the Year, and named by the Guardian as one of the ten books that best define the 20th Century, the book has gone on to become a multi-million copy selling international phenomenon, spawning three blockbuster movies,...
Jack Rooke - Cheer The F**K Up: How To Save Your Best Friend Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th February 2021
This book will definitely make you laugh and might just make you cry, but it could also help save a life.
Cheer The F**K Up is a bold, brilliant and very personal account of a young comedian's experiences with mental health. An ode to the importance of friendship, Jack Rooke...
Andrew T. Smith & Bob Fischer - Summer Winos: Volume 1: 1973-1978 Paperback
Release date: Monday 1st February 2021
Two Men, 295 Episodes, One Obsession
When two friends decided to watch all 295 episodes of legendary sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine in order, they got more than they bargained for. Not just plenty of laughs, but also a fascinating look at 20th Century British history through the eyes...
Bridget Jones 3-Movie Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 1st February 2021
Bridget Jones's Diary
A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
After finding love, Bridget Jones questions if she really has everything she's dreamed of having.
Bridget Jones's Baby
After breaking up...
Little Voice DVD
Release date: Monday 1st February 2021
World-class stars Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn and Ewan McGregor deliver acclaimed performances in an inspirational story about a painfully shy young woman and how the power of music leads her to an amazing transformation.
A hopeless introvert, "Little Voice" (Jane Horrocks) can only manage to express herself by singing in...
The Importance Of Being Earnest DVD
Release date: Monday 1st February 2021
Third film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy of errors (the first being the classic 1952 version with Michael Redgrave and the second an American version made in 1992).
Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) has discovered that he has a secret in common with his friend Jack Worthing (Colin Firth) - they...
The Show Goes On Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 1st February 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. The Show Goes On sees Gracie starring opposite Owen Nares and John Stuart in this emotional, semi-autobiographical musical romance. It is...
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul Vinyl
Release date: Friday 29th January 2021
Presented in triple gatefold vinyl for the very first time, Dirk Gently - The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul sees Harry Enfield return as the singular detective in this full-cast BBC radio dramatisation of the novel by Douglas Adams.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2008, these fantastically entertaining...
28 Acts In 28 Minutes Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 28th January 2021
John Humphrys hosts the quick-fire comedy show featuring 28 acts performing for one minute each.
28 Acts In 28 Minutes is a traditional variety show with a difference: the performers have just 60 seconds in which to entertain a live audience. Making the most of their minutes are a plethora...
Life: An Idiot's Guide - The Complete Series 1-3 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 28th January 2021
Stephen K. Amos and the comedy circuit's best stand-ups attempt to unravel the knotty problems of life.
Award-winning jokesmith and self-confessed idiot Stephen K. Amos teams up with some of the world's sharpest comic minds to compile a dummies' guide to being a modern human. From raising children and having...
Paradise Lost In Cyber Space Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 28th January 2021
Stephen Moore stars in this dystopian comedy set in a future where living beyond 70 is prohibited.
Thirtieth Century Britain and the calamitous collapse of the pension system means compulsory euthanasia for all 70-year-olds. But a clerical error spells disaster for 69-year-old George Smith, who suddenly finds himself facing his...
Paradise Lost In Space Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 28th January 2021
Tony Robinson and David Haig star in this black-hole comedy about two space-age humans stranded on a friendly alien planet.
Norman is an idealistic, Beethoven-loving revolutionary. Max is a boring but cheerful timeshare salesman who won't stop talking. Fellow passengers on a flight to the Moon, they're thrown together to...
Space Hacks - The Complete Series 1 And 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 28th January 2021
The BBC Radio 7 sci-fi comedy, starring Dan Mersh, Tim Key, Prunella Scales and Dan Tetsell.
Reporters Charlie Palmer and Moog Johnson are supposed to be exploring the galaxy in search of unimaginable news. But the beauty of an infinite universe is that if everything possible happens somewhere, there's no...
Tomorrow, Today! - The Complete Series 1 And 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 28th January 2021
1961. Radio producer Hugo is proud of his new science fiction show. Admittedly, the dialogue is somewhat creaky, the two lead actors despise each other and the sound effects were knocked up in the engineer's kitchen - but it has rocket-ships, hover-cars, robots and Martians. It's the world of the...
23 Walks DVD
Release date: Monday 25th January 2021
Dave (Dave Johns) and Fern (Alison Steadman) meet while walking their dogs in a North London park and over the course of 23 walks romance blossoms. But Dave and Fern haven't been completely honest with one another, and their future happiness is threatened by the secrets they have withheld.