Russell Brand - Live 2007
Comedian Russell Brand displays his distinctive sense of humour live at Hackney Empire.
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Al Murray : The Pub Landlord - Live At The Palladium [2007]
The multi-award winning Al Murray The Pub Landlord raises the roof at the majestic London Palladium with a crowning performance of his sell-out tour show …And Another Thing.
The nation’s favourite Pub Landlord holds court with his distinctive common sense reasoning on subjects such as The War on Terror, Hell, Life Itself, and his personal crusade to Bring Back Shame.
Expect "unstoppable comedy from the joke-telling machine gun" (The Sunday Times) that features his trademark rapid-fire interaction with the regulars. Having joined the realms of comedy royalty with the success of his prime-time entertainment show Happy Hour (ITV1) and an unprecedented second An Audience with Al Murray The Pub Landlord (ITV1), the Guv’nor returns to DVD with a magnificent brand new show performed Live at the Palladium.DVD Rental Available. Read more...
Blackadder: Complete Collection - BBC Series 1-4 & The Specials
One of the best comedy series ever to emerge from England, Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of World War I. In his pre-Mr Bean triumph, British comic actor Rowan Atkinson played all five versions of Edmund, beginning with the villainous and cowardly Duke of Edinburgh, whose scheming mind and awful haircut seem to stand him in good stead to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury -- a deadly occupation if ever there was one. Among tales of royal dethronings, Black Death, witch-smellers (who root out spell-makers with their noses), and ghosts, Edmund is a perennial survivor who never quite gets ahead in multiple episodes. Jump to the Elizabethan era and Atkinson picks up the saga as Lord Edmund, who is perpetually courting favour from mad Queen Bess (Miranda Richardson) and is always walking a tightrope from which he can either gain the world or lose his head. Subjected to bizarre services for her majesty (at one point, Edmund is asked to do for potatoes what Sir Walter Raleigh did for tobacco), Edmund -- like his ancestor -- can never quite fulfill his larger ambitions. The next incarnation we encounter is in late-18th-century Regency England. This time, Blackadder is a mere butler to the idiotic Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie in a brilliantly buffoonish performance) and is caught in various misadventures with Samuel Johnson, Shakespearean actors, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and William Pitt the younger. With a brief stop in Victorian London for a Christmas special, the series concludes with several episodes set during the Great War. The new Edmund is a career army officer, but a scoundrel all the same. Shirking his duties whenever possible and taking advantage of any opportunity for undeserved reward, this final, deeply sour, and very funny Blackadder negotiates survival among a cadre of fools and dimwits. No small mention can be made of Atkinson's supporting cast, easily among the finest comic performers of their generation: besides Laurie and Richardson, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson, and Tim McInnerny. --Tom Keogh
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Jimmy Carr - Comedian (Live)
Jimmy Carr is one of the biggest faces in comedy – literally – he has one of the biggest faces. Following the huge success of Jimmy Carr Live and Jimmy Carr Stand-up, the multi-award-winning Jimmy Carr returns with his third live stand up DVD simply entitled Comedian.
Recorded live at London’s Bloomsbury theatre, the posh-suited gagster unleashes his rapid-fire wit upon his audience, with jokes that are just too rude for TV.
This DVD is Jimmy’s best yet. The main show is over an hour and a half long and it also contains almost an hour of exclusive bonus material.
Jimmy plays to over 200,000 fans every year around Britain. Watch this DVD and see what all the fuss is about.
As Jimmy explains: "This isn’t a show for the easily offended, it’s not even a show for people who are quite difficult to offend. Essentially, this is a show for people without a moral compass."DVD Rental Available. Read more...
Billy Connolly Live - Was It Something I Said?
Hilarious comedian Billy Connolly performs live during the Australian leg of his 2006 World Tour.
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Family Guy Season 6 [2007]
The adventures of the Griffin family continues with the story of bumbling, well-intentioned father Peter; his sweet but oblivious wife Lois; and their teenagers, dim-witted Chris and awkward Meg. The most recognisable characters, however, remain the family's masterminds: evil genius baby Stewie, determined to achieve complete world domination at the age of one, and Brian, an erudite martini-swilling dog, the family's lone voice of reason. Includes all the episodes from the sixth series.
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The Catherine Tate Comic Relief Special (BBC) - Limited Edition (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) [2007]
Catherine Tate's special sketches for Comic Relief are excellent, the standouts being: Lauren meeting Tony Blair (who gives a good performance!); Nan's chaotic appearance on Deal or No Deal; and Lauren locking horns with new teacher David Tennant. While the novelty appeal of Lauren is wearing off, the character shines in the two sketches she appears in, as there is a great twist on the 'Am I bovvered?' catchphrase. The Daniel Craig sketch could have been better, but Lenny Henry meeting the charitable office worker is hilarious. This is a great buy, and Catherine Tate has created sketches which reflect the two key aims of Comic Relief: raising money for charity while having a laugh!
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Hairspray (2007)
After finding success on Broadway, the hilarious John Waters 1988 classic comes to the big screen once again with this Adam Shankman remake featuring an star-studded cast led by newcomer Nicole Bronsky in the part originally played by Ricki Lake.
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Between the Lines: Complete BBC Series 1-3 Box Set
This Amazon Exclusive complete collecton box set includes all of series 1 – 3 of Between the Lines, the powerful and controversial cop TV drama that ran from 1992-1994, set in the Metropolitan Complaints Investigation Bureau.
CIB: the police for the police. Loathed by fellow officers and treated with suspicion by the public, their's is a grey world of corruption and one that leaves rising star Superintendent Tony Clark (Neil Pearson) cold. Reluctantly involved in the beginning, he finds that now there is no going back. As the taste of his promotion turns sour, he finds himself well and truly caught between the lines...
The series presented a realistic cut-throat, no holds barred depiction of UK police corruption.
With great supporting roles from Tom Georgeson, Siobhan Redmond and the late Tony Doyle of Ballykissangel fame.
United 93 [2006]
UNITED 93, director Paul Greengrass's meticulous reconstruction of the events surrounding the crash--the result of a heroic struggle between the passengers and hijackers--of the fourth plane to be hijacked on September 11, 2001, is a momentous piece of filmmaking. Greengrass has chosen the most politically and emotionally charged source material available to an artist in the early 21st century, and shaped it into a psychologically draining, terrifyingly real, and technically brilliant film. Like his first feature-length work BLOODY SUNDAY, UNITED 93 doesn't follow a traditional cinematic narrative structure; via hand-held cameras, grainy DV stock, and frenetic editing, it instead presents a visceral (at times sickening) in-the-moment documentary-style experience that maximizes the film's unavoidable air of tension and dread without being crassly manipulative. Yet for all of its precision and craft, UNITED 93 still depicts one of the most terrifying ordeals the United States has ever had to face--and that it was released less than five years after those events took place plays an undeniably enormous role in how the film is received. It is impossible to watch UNITED 93 and not be profoundly moved, whether that emotion is fear, sadness, anxiety, or pure rage. It is an emotional catharsis far removed from what is the filmmaker's delicate hand and deft touch. Greengrass, though, is quite fearless in his depiction of the chaos of the day--the President is frustratingly missing; the FAC, NORAD, and local air-traffic control centres are shown in a disoriented panic; and the terrorists are brutal and remorseless--and, to his credit, he avoids soft-pedalling any political agenda and doesn't blindly canonize the flight's passengers. Rather, their heroism is treated as the product of a logical decision made by ordinary men and women who found themselves in the most extraordinary and illogical of situations and that, ultimately, is where the power of UNITED 93 lies.
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