Christmas Shopping Guide 2012: New DVDs
Here's a list, organised in no particular order, featuring all the main British comedy related DVDs that are out for Christmas 2012. There's something for everyone here...
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Michael McIntyre - Showtime Currently Britain's best-loved comic, Michael McIntyre is back with a brand new live tour: Showtime. Expect more trademark observations of every-day life drawn to its exasperating conclusion. DVD Details & Blu-ray Details |
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Channel 4's Comedy Gala 2012 - Live At The O2 Back in May, and for the third year running, some of Britain's biggest comedy names performed at this charity event at the world famous O2 Arena. This DVD release features the entire comedy extravaganza, including the all those bits they didn't show on TV. Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Jack Whitehall and Jon Richardson are amongst those appearing. Details |
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End Of Part One - The Complete Series Bringing the Pythonesque humour of cult Radio 4 series The Burkiss Way to television, this surreal, satirical soap opera/sketch show was the first TV series from Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, whose combined credits include Whoops Apocalypse, Jonathan Creek, One Foot In The Grave and Hot Metal, amongst many others. Details |
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Jack Whitehall - Live Can this really be only Jack Whitehall's first stand-up DVD? Apparently so. Having become one of the most popular comics in the country, with numerous panel and TV stand-up show appearances, not to mention his own hit BBC Three sitcom, Whitehall is now live on stage at the Hammersmith Apollo. Details Review |
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Gary: Tank Commander - Series 3 Gary (Greg McHugh) is back with a bang bang. Series 3 of Gary: Tank Commander provides fresh challenges as he tussles with a cocky fitness instructor who makes fun of his physique, a confidence trickster who seems to have mind control powers over him and, as ever, an increasingly angry Sergeant Thomson. Details |
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The Original Comedians Live 40th Anniversary Show The Comedians' 40th Anniversary Show was recorded at the Blackpool Grand Theatre in summer 2011 as a tribute to the original comedy heavyweights who paved the way for stand-up comedy as we know it today. It features some great performances, and a fascinating documentary. Details Review |
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Hunderby Fresh from picking up two British Comedy Awards, despite cries of "What?" and "Who?" from the audience at home, Sky Atlantic's macabre period sitcom is now available to own on DVD. Largely written by and co-starring Julia Davis, it should appeal to fans of her earlier BBC Three series, Nighty Night. Don't say we didn't warn you. Details |
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Harry & Paul - Series 1-4 This complete box set contains all 4 series of the BAFTA award-winning sketch show, starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. The recent 5-episode long fourth series is also available. Details |
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Lee Evans - Complete Live Comedy Collection 1994 - 2011 This brand new box set from topic stand-up Lee Evans includes live shows spanning nearly 2 whole decades: Live At Her Majesty's Theatre (1994), Live From The West End (1995), Different Planet Tour (1996), Live In Scotland (1998), Wired & Wonderful Live At Wembley (2002), XL Tour 2005 Live (2005), Big - Live At The O2 (2008) and Roadrunner - Live At The O2 (2011). Also available in a limited edition steel tin, with reproduced tour programme booklet. Details |
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Mr. Bean - Ultimate Bean DVD Collection This newly revamped box set contains every episode from the original Mr. Bean TV series, the cartoon based on his adventures, and feature films Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie and Mr Bean's Holiday. Presented in a special limited edition suitcase box, the set also includes a genuine Ty Teddy - now with Bean-style jacket - and set of Mr. Bean stickers. Details |
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Ross Noble - Nonsensory Overload Prepare your mind for a Nonsensory Overload with this brand new three-disc DVD from the uniquely talented Ross Noble. This set includes a mind-bending more than 5 hours of live shows, plus a host of bonus material. Details Review |
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Spy - Series 1 Starring top comedy actor Darren Boyd, Spy is a sitcom that's garnered near universal praise and multiple award wins - but has been buried away on Sky1 with only a small audience. Series 2 is now coming to a close on TV, and 2011's Series 1 is available now. Details |
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Alan Partridge: Mid Morning Matters Mid Morning Matters sees the return of the much loved Steve Coogan comedy creation, Alan Partridge in his latest role of radio disc jockey on fictional digital radio station North Norfolk Digital. Originally published online by lager brand Foster's, it's now available in a more TV-friendly format. Details Review |
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Dara O Briain - Craic Dealer - Live 2012 The host of Mock The Week returns this year with his funniest live show to date, proving why he is regarded as one of the modern comedy greats by audiences and fellow comedians alike. DVD Details & Blu-ray Details |
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Father Ted - The Complete Boxset This brand new 5-disc box set should delight Father Ted fans - or at least those who don't already own a previous release. It contains not only every single episode of the Channel 4 comedy favourite, but is packed with extras including the Comedy Connections episode and brand new writer and cast commentaries. Details |
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Him & Her - Series 1 & 2 Series 3 has been delighting fans on BBC Three over the past month, and now the first two series of grimy relationship sitcom Him & Her are available in this box set. There's also a new single release of Series 2. Details |
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John Bishop Live - Rollercoaster Tour 2012 Having performed to more than 400,000 fans on his previous tour, Liverpudlian comic John Bishop returned to the stage in 2012 with this brand new live show. With his own recent year-roundup series on BBC One, and a number of upcoming Christmas appearances - not least ITV's Panto! - Bishop is hot property for Christmas 2012. DVD Details & Blu-ray Details |
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Kevin Bridges - The Story Continues... Following the unprecedented success of 2010, Scotland's finest comedian and the UK's new comedy superstar, Kevin Bridges returns in 2012 with his biggest and best tour yet, The Story Continues.... This DVD was recorded at the SECC arena in Glasgow where Kevin's tour smashed box office records by selling out 5 shows, 45,000 tickets, in just one day. DVD Details & Blu-ray Details |
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Mrs. Brown's Boys Live - Good Mourning Mrs. Brown Now a major hit sitcom for the BBC, Mrs. Brown's Boys has been running as a series of touring, live stage shows across Scotland, Ireland and northern England for more than a decade. Now the team are back with the eighth live DVD from the popular productions. The first seven are also available to buy. DVD Details & Blu-ray Details |
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Roy Chubby Brown's Front Page Boobs You're unlikely to see this Royston Vasey on television any time soon, so don't hesitate before ordering Front Page Boobs if you're a fan of the hugely popular comic, who's this time "turning headlines into punchlines". Chubby doesn't hold back from sharing his outlandish views on news, women and sex, sailing so close to the mark, even the most seasoned of fans will be left gob-smacked. Details |
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Sarah Millican Live - Thoroughly Modern Millican The best-selling female comedian of all time, Sarah Millican, is back for Christmas 2012 with her second live DVD - Thoroughly Modern Millican. Expect more of Sarah's disarmingly crude, lewd and up-front humour delivered with a sweet grin and a giggle. Details Review |
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Stewart Lee - Carpet Remnant World What can a sexless middle aged married man, whose life now consists mainly of watching Scooby Doo cartoons with a four year old boy, possibly find to write comedy about? Formerly stand-up's youthful iconoclast, Lee now blinks weirdly at the vast wayside retail outlets during endless journeys to and from increasingly indistinct provincial theatres. Once he lived on the pleasure planet. Now he is trapped in Carpet Remnant World. Details |
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The Royal Bodyguard Starring Only Fools And Horses favourite Sir David Jason in the lead role, this slapstick-heavy sitcom picked up a dedicated but relatively small following when it launched last Christmas, running into February earlier this year. It's joyous, physical humour that'll be great for kids and grandparents alike. Details |
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The Vicar Of Dibley - The Ultimate Collection Possibly the single defining sitcom of the 1990s, The Vicar Of Dibley has just been re-released in a new slimline box set. Details |
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Marriage Lines Near forgotten since its fifth and final series came to an end in 1966, this early BBC sitcom stars Richard Briers and Prunella Scales as newlyweds George and Kate Starling. It's not officially out to next year, but you can order it online now. Details Review |
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Threesome Another wonderful sitcom tucked away on a subscription channel, Threesome comes from Comedy Central and revolves around couple Mitch and Alice, and their gay best friend Richie. After a particularly hedonistic night celebrating her 30th birthday, Alice discovers she's pregnant - and the three have to grow up very far, very fast. Details |
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Alan Carr's Big Funny Package This new box set from the bespectacled comic includes DVDs of the top-selling live shows Tooth Fairy and Spexy Beast, plus highlights from the first series of his Channel 4 gameshow, Now That's What I Call A Ding Dong. Details |
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Andy Parsons Does The Double Probably more famous for his starring role on panel show Mock The Week than his live shows, this double-disc box set includes the 2009 and 2011 live stand-up shows from comedian Andy Parsons: Britain's Got Idiots and Gruntled Live. Details |
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Burnistoun - The Complete Series 1-3 Welcome to Burnistoun Box Set Heaven! All three series in one handy package. It's all here! This sketch show has received acclaim, but been buried away on BBC Scotland with a miniscule audience. If you're not familiar with the series, pick up this box set - fans can also get the recent and final third series on its own. Details |
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Celebrity Juice - Too Juicy For TV 2! Keith, Holly and Fearne return for a second volume of Celebrity Juice hilarity that was just far too rude to broadcast on television. Includes unseen clips, highlights from Series 4, 5 and 6, and exclusive, specially filmed material. There's also a 'Bang Tidy' DVD box set including the first collection of out-takes, from Series 1 to 3. DVD Details & Blu-ray Details |
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Daniel Sloss - Live Scotland's half-man-half-Xbox, hormone-ridden comic prodigy is currently one of the fastest rising stars of UK comedy. He started doing stand-up aged 16 and has made a string of high profile TV appearances including 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Mock The Week. Now catch stand-up comedian Daniel Sloss live on his first DVD. Details Review |
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Frankie Boyle: Live - The Last Days Of Sodom Frankie Boyle has been pilloried, misrepresented and demonised. And for what? For telling it like it is. Now he attempts a final tour, to heal Britain's fools. To support its rioters. To offer the inchoate laughter of despair to a culture in freefall. These are The Last Days Of Sodom... Details |
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Jack Dee Live - Stand-Up Collection This new stand-up collection includes the four shows Live At The London Palladium, Live And Uncut, Live At The Apollo and Live Again. Also, for the first time on DVD, the box contains The Best Of Jack Dee's Happy Hour, first released on VHS in 2004. Details |
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Jon Richardson - Funny Magnet Jon Richardson, host of Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week, team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, best-selling author, raconteur, and modern day heart-throb, is also now available on DVD for the first time. Details |
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Lee Nelson Live The 'legend' behind BBC Three's hit comedy series Lee Nelson's Well Good Show, and soon star of Lee Nelson's Well Funny People, Lee Nelson (aka Simon Brodkin) is another comic bringing his humour to DVD for the first time this Christmas, filmed at the Shepherd's Bush Empire during a 65-date national tour. Details |
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Omid Djalili - Live Stand-Up Collection Star of screens both small and silver, Omid Djalili returns to his stand-up roots this year with a third live DVD, Tour Of Duty, and this brand new box set. Alongside the new show, it also includes 2007's No Agenda and 2009's Live In London. Details |
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Paul Chowdhry - What's Happening White People? Having been seen on Channel 4's weekly satire series Stand Up For The Week earlier in the year, British Asian comic Paul Chowdhry makes his DVD debut this Christmas with his tagline greeting, "What's happening, white people?" Details |
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Peter Kay - Live & Back On Nights In all honesty, we're only including this DVD for the sake of completeness. This is not a new stand-up show, but a behind-the-scenes documentary from last year's Tour That Didn't Tour. There is not enough unseen comedy material in this to make it worth recommending. DVD Details & Blu-ray Details |
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Red Dwarf X Legendary sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf returns for its 10th series re-uniting the much loved original cast of Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Danny John-Jules (Cat) and Robert Llewellyn (Kryten). DVD Details & Blu-ray Details Review |
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Rev. - Series Two Tom Hollander is back as the Rev. Adam Smallbone, struggling to remain relevant in his inner-city parish where he's largely derided or ignored except by the intimidating Archdeacon and the demanding and irritating few who attend his church... There's also a Series 1 & 2 box set. Details Review |
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Rhod Gilbert - The Man With The Flaming Battenberg Tattoo It's not without good reason that ranting Welsh comic Rhod Gilbert's third live DVD has been attracting plenty of positive reviews. He's mellowed slightly this year, but don't expect anything less funny. There's also a DVD box set available, including his previous two releases as well. Details |
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The Thick Of It - Series 1 - 4 Government embarrassment, ministerial cock-up, coalition rows, backroom deals, policy U-turns, spin-doctoring, political back-stabbing, wild media speculation, and more time spent with ones family. It can only be the cult Westminster political comedy. This 8-disc box set includes all four series of Armando Iannucci's hit sitcom The Thick Of It, in a glorious ministerial red box packaging. The recent fourth series is also available alone. Details Series 4 DVD Review |
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Al Murray: The Pub Landlord - The Only Way Is Epic Tour This year the Guv is all about legacy - he wants a tour to show that yes, we can all make a difference, go the distance. Tackling issues from the Euro to Why Kids Don't Know The Meaning Of Hard Work, the Guv's new tour will reboot you as parents, sort you out as kids, set you free as citizens. You can also buy a Double Measures box set, including 2010's Barrel Of Fun. Details |
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And Mother Makes... Three & Five - The Complete Series One from deep in the archives of prolific comedy powerhouse Thames Television, this 8-disc box set includes the complete collection of both ...And Mother Makes Three and its sequel, Five. The shows star (and many episodes were written by) Wendy Craig as struggling mother Sally Harrison, a widow who eventually finds love in bookseller David Redway. Details |
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Danny Bhoy - Live At The Festival Theatre Scottish comedian Danny Bhoy has made a name for himself all over the world, and is highly in demand in territories such as Australia and Canada - yet is almost unknown here in the UK. A mix of material from his tours By Royal Disappointment and Messenger (Please Do Not Shoot), this is Danny's first British stand-up DVD, recorded live in Edinburgh. Details |
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Getting On - Series Three BAFTA-award winning comedy Getting On is back with a third critically acclaimed series of dark humour among the bedpans. Set in the backwaters of the National Health Service, this series sees King Edward's closed and Den, Kim and Dr Moore transferred 12 miles to a newer ward. Cuts, restructuring and life events once again dominate the daily grind. A complete Series 1 - 3 box set is also now available. Details |
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Harry Hill's Cream Of TV Burp Practically ITV1's sole comedy programme, Harry Hill's TV Burp may have bitten the dust earlier this year, but there are still oodles of out-takes and highlights that the producers are yearning to share. For a price, of course. Details Review |
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Hebburn This heart-warming, wonderfully funny sitcom set in the northern town of Hebburn (definitely not Newcastle) delighted audiences on BBC Two a little earlier this Autumn, and is now available to buy on DVD. No Blu-ray yet though, unfortunately. Written by stand-up comic Jason Cook, it stars Chris Ramsey, Kimberley Nixon and Vic Reeves. Details |
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Me And Mrs Jones Meanwhile, BBC One's romantic comedy series Me And Mrs Jones attracted a loyal audience, but sadly too small a one to ensure a recommission. Starring Sarah Alexander and Robert Sheehan, it tells the story of a woman unwittingly falling in love with her 24-year old son's charming new best friend. Details |
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Stewart Francis Live - Outstanding In His Field This specially-filmed performance of the 2012 stand-up show from killer-gag purveyor Stewart Francis features a brand new crop of brilliant one-liners and wisecracks. Fans of Milton Jones and Tim Vine's brand of quickfire humour should be delighted by this brand new show. Details |
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Switch From the team behind BBC Three's Being Human, this teen comedy drama was aimed at a distinctly female audience on ITV2 a few months back. Sadly for fans, it won't be returning for a second series, but this initial collection of episodes about a group of witches living together in north London is available to buy now. Details |
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Limmy's Show! - Series 2 A unique blend of comic characters, sketches, observation, animation, music and dancing, Limmy's Show! stars Brian Limond, AKA Limmy, who writes, directs, performs and guides the viewer throughout the series. Buried away on BBC Scotland, this is likely to appeal to fans of more surreal, acerbic and unsettling sketch comedy. Details |
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Adam Hills - Inflatable Having received five star reviews from Melbourne to Edinburgh, this is Inflatable from Adam Hills, recorded live in Australia. Previously available exclusively from HMV, this DVD from the one-legged comic is re-released in 2012 to wider availability, including a selection of extras. Details |
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Glenn Wool - No Lands Man Glenn Wool has become a man of no fixed address, conquering the world one country at a time. He's cracked jokes, got into scrapes with Indonesian customs officers, watched beavers, got too drunk to see an Iron Maiden concert in Belgium, and everything in-between. Details |
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