Comedy - DVD

<p>In this series from comedy kings David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, an overeager romantic hosts the ultimate surprise party for his fiancee: a reunion of their third-grade classmates to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the day they met. Although the party turns out to...

<p>Eight is no longer enough in the show's fifth and final season. First up, Susan's (Susan Richardson) and Merle's (Brian Patrick Clarke) baby girl raises the stakes in And Baby Makes Nine, then a young Ralph Macchio takes it all the way to ten,...

<p>Wealthy New York party girl Joan Prescott (Joan Crawford) has lassoed herself a cowboy! Not that she plans to when she heads west to her family's Montana ranch. But she steps off the train at a nowhere town to elude an on-board lothario, meets...

<p>James Cagney and Pat O'Brien hit the deck as well as each other in this rousing Oscar nominee for Best Picture (1934). When cocky naval yard worker Chesty O'Connor (Cagney) battles Chief Petty Officer Biff Martin (O'Brien) over a dame, he not only loses...

Bankrolled by a count with a taste for practical jokes, streetwise bargirl Anni (Joan Crawford) passes herself off as an aristocrat at a posh Alpine resort. There she plans to land a wealthy husband (Robert Young) pronto, even though she's drawn to the town...

<p>Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat has received many dramatic treatments since its birth over eighty years ago. But none is more satisfying than this 1936 production, widely accepted as the best and most...

<p>He penned the lines. Walter Donaldson, George Gershwin and others provided the music. Yet there was a more vital partner in lyricist Gus Kahn's life: Grace LeBoy Kahn, who put the love into his love songs. Doris Day and Danny Thomas are the Kahns...

<p>Samuel "Shemp Howard" Horowitz wrote his own rules for comedy from the very beginning. Heckling his way into brother Moe's "rough house" act with Ted Healy, Shemp was an original Stooge. After Larry Fine filled out the team, fame beckoned, but Shemp balked at...

<p>It's Buster's talkie debut with a special "as you've never heard it before" bonus! Keaton's first sound foray sees Buster skewering Hollywood itself with the tale of a wannabe starlet (Anita Page) that arrives in Tinseltown with some extra baggage -- an overprotective mother...

<p>It's her life -- she'll live it the way she wants! And since she's played by Joan Crawford at the peak of her MGM allure, she'll live that life in a captivating array of fashions by Adrian. Crawford plays New York socialite Kay Bentley,...

<p>Like a sailor with a girl in every port, Harry Mork has his own list of people, pulchritude and places. But that's changing for this roving salesman with a roving eye. He's found his match: a haughty, worldly-wise widow he plans to marry. But...

<p>The screwball follow-up to Brother Rat finds "Bing" Edwards (Eddie Albert) two years after graduating from Virginia Military Institute and up for a head coach position at his old alma mater against a fellow alum. On his way to New York to interview for...

<p>Meet three cadets with major troubles! They must keep a secret for 10 calamity-filled weeks or risk not graduating. Two-time Oscar nominee Eddie Albert teams up with Ronald Reagan and Wayne Morris for a spirited, behind-the-scenes look at love, laughter and life's hard-fought lessons...

<p>James Stewart made a rare sojourn into the world of Situation Comedy on NBC at the dawn of the Seventies. His gift for comedy, on grand cinema display since the dawn of his career, made him a congenial fit for the familial world of...

<p>The third and final season of the beloved TV classic brings with it some new faces (comedy greats Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller in a series of roles), new fears (Summer camp! Karate! Fetching Soviets!) and new foes (Eight is Enough's Willie Aames taking...

<p>One of the longest-running comedy series in radio history, Fibber McGee and Molly starred Jim and Marian Jordan as a blowhard husband and his patient, long-suffering wife. Airing from 1935 to 1959, the series introduced a host of memorable supporting characters (Gildersleeve, Beulah, Wallace...

<p>Charlotte Bain (Christine Lahti, The Doctor, Swing Shift) is the perfect high school principal for small-town Texas: quiet, strict, strait-laced. Single, but secretly dating the coach (William Russ, Pastime), she is as shocked as anyone when she agrees to go on a date with...

<p>After conquering the Borscht Belt and Broadway, David Daniel Kaminksi (Danny Kaye) got the nod from maverick impresario Samuel Goldwyn and under his tutelage soon mastered the movies as well. Kaye makes his feature film debut alongside Dinah Shore in Up in Arms (1944)...

<p>Dinner at Eight, a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multistarred, multistoried...

<p>Polly Holliday gives an Emmy-nominated performance as TV's sassiest barkeep in this laugh-out-loud funny spinoff of Alice. On the way to a new job in Houston, Flo Castleberry (Holliday) stops in her hometown of Cowtown, Texas, and buys an old roadhouse instead. Renaming it...

<p>Following the success of Classic Musical Shorts from the Dream Factory, comes this rollicking volume of mostly musical shorts produced by MGM. Two-reel Technicolor extravaganzas, one-reel earthy "tabloid musicals," showstopping MGM revues and more are waiting in the wings in this 3-Disc Collection of...

<p>A veteran actor who's seen it all and a young, up-and-comer join for a season of reperatory theatre.</p>

<p>Gena Rowlands, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Julian Sands star in a story about the passion that comes with a love beyond reason. A story about life, about laughter, about being Crazy in Love. Georgie (Holly Hunter) is confused about life. She loves her...

<p>While the show remained firmly ensconced at the top of the rating charts, Alice's fourth season saw some big changes coming to the staff of Mel's. Polly Holiday's Flo proved an irresistible spin-off lure, and she departed for Flo's Yellow Rose partway through the...

<p>Flim-flamming carny barker Jimmy Bates (Lee Tracy) vows to turn a hooch dancer into a Broadway sensation. Since the hooch dancer is played by incendiary Lupe Velez, the screen's Mexican Spitfire, it's a good bet she's going to see her name in lights! To...

<p>Joe Gimlet, a Depression-era tobacconist, knows what he would do if he could start life over -- go for the dough and all the power and prestige it brings. Surprisingly, Joe gets his chance to Turn Back the Clock. As Joe, Lee Tracy (Blessed...

<p>Where others see a streetcar accident, Joe Stevens sees a payday. Where others want to help out, Joe's ready to cash in. He's an ambulance chaser, a bamboozling lawyer who pulls off financial fast ones, sometimes with the help of a tipsy MD who...

<p>Executive produced by three of the celebrated masterminds behind the groundbreaking Funny or Die website -- Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy -- this half-hour sketch-comedy series provides a creative forum for dozens of America's most talented comedians, actors and writers all contributing...

<p>This third volume of the complete Bowery Boys film collection carries within it some milestone moments for the series - along with more mirth and malaprops than you can swing a crumpled fedora at! First off, the Boys look back to their roots as...

<p>Coming together in a time of uncertainty and challenge, a new generation of American poets have something to say about their world. In 44 communities across the U.S., teenagers are competing for a spot on their regional poetry teams. This series will follow the...

<p>New York Globe Columnist Jimmy Russell (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) prowls his Broadway beat, digging up the racy gossip his readers devour with their morning toast and cup of joe. It's a glamorous life - until Jimmy's attempt to help his actress girlfriend (Francis Dee)...

<p>Manhattanites Bill and Connie Fuller are trying to make a go of life in their dilapidated, recently purchased country home. The place has a lot of history. George Washington slept there. Or was it Benedict Arnold? Before Tom Hanks and Shelley Long fell into...

<p>Forever one of comedy's reigning kings, the immortal Jack Benny trades in his royal scepter for a heavenly trumpet in this brilliant in this 1945 comedic fantasy about an innocent angel faced with the dubious task of destroying an all-to-indulgent Earth. Since persecution and...

<p>Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-spirited hour of offbeat observations and understated humor from the actor/comedian/writer/director. The show includes Gervais unique takes...

"Sex Kitten, American Version" Mamie Van Doren joins forces with "Sex Kitten, Junior Grade" Tuesday Weld and "Sex Kitten, French Version" Mijanou Bardot (Brigitte's sister) for this screwball campus comedy that prefigures both grindhouse flicks and family-friendly college capers. When Collins College's digital super-computer,...

<p>Six-time Oscar-nominated romantic classic about a staid schoolmaster whose heart is thawed by a beautiful young woman. Robert Donat ("The 39 Steps") received an Oscar for his moving performance. Oscar-winner Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver," "Madame Curie") received an Oscar-nomination as the woman who steals...

From Harmony Korine, screenwriter of the critically acclaimed Kids, comes a haunting portrait of life in small-town America. Through a collection of dreamlike and devastating images, Korine offers a glimpse of Xenia, Ohio, a world existing in the aftermath of a tornado. Survivors of...

<p>The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed,...

<p>The Bradfords bid adieu to the seventies by ushering in even more changes to the clan dynamic in Season Four. First up, minor league ball player Merle "the Pearl" Stockwell (Brian Patrick Clarke) sweeps Susan (Susan Richardson) off her feet. An engagement soon follows,...

<p>Executive-produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney (Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12), UNSCRIPTED is an innovative half-hour comedy series that fuses reality and fiction to chronicle the lives of three struggling young actors as they navigate the rough waters of show business. Starring Krista Allen,...

<p>You might think you know Bob Saget, but do you really? His decidedly adult brand of comedy, which deals with life as a single dad, his parents' sex life, dating, divorce, and any question you had about Full House will leave you looking at...

<p>Ginger Rogers requested and received the perfect man for the job when she was paired with James Stewart for this riotous romance between a sizzling nightclub singer and a buttoned-down botany professor. Sent into town to retrieve an errant sib (James Ellison), Prof. Peter...

<p>As originally announced by Gary Owens' stupendous stentorian tones: "Set free by the Teen Angels from his prehistoric block of glacier ice, comes the world's first superhero, Captain Caveman! Now the constant companion to the Teen Angels, Brenda, Dee Dee, and Taffy, in their...

<p>Legendary movie stars Marion Davies and Bing Crosby create true movie magic in this magnificent musical treat. Bored schoolteacher Sylvia Bruce (Davies) is disenchanted with life until she hears the incredible crooning of egomaniacal radio personality Bill Williams (Crosby). Hopelessly lovestruck, Sylvia has no...

<p>Stuart Palmer's immortal crime-solving school teacher Hildegarde Withers came to the screen courtesy of a series of mysteries from RKO Pictures. Memorably played by character great Edna May Oliver in three features, Hildegarde was ably paired with her flirty foil of Inspector Piper in...

<p>Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York, after seven years on TV and the big screen, Ellen DeGeneres is back on stage, live, outspoken, outrageous and out. Year: 2000 Starring: Ellen DeGeneres</p>

<p>American Splendor is the story of a little-known working-class everyman, and first-class curmudgeon, harvey Pekar. pekar finds love, fmaily and a creative voice through the underground comic books he creates, but still can't manage to find the quicker supermarket checkout line. ordinary life is...

<p>Following the landmark success of the acclaimed HBO series Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices, this all-new, one-hour HBO special presentation from executive producers Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan celebrates youthful excitement, creative expression, and inspired stage presentations. Brave New Voices 2010 captures the...

<p>Former child superstars Jackie Cooper and Jackie Coogan make the grade in this rollicking campus comedy from director Phil Karlson (The Silencers). Fresh out of the service, Johnny Kilroy (Cooper) plans to attend Benson College but is denied admission when it's discovered he's half...

<p>Her name is Vurrla, but she prefers Dandy. Or Jennifer. Or Susan. Or any of the identities she takes on during her spree of stealing cars, arranging new documentation for them, selling them - and then sometimes stealing the same car again. Her intent...