Comedy - DVD

<p>A playwright's attempt at serious drama nearly brings the curtain down on his marriage in this "deliciously wistful comedy" (The Warner Bros. Story) starring James Stewart and Rosalind Russell. When Minnesota newsman Gaylord Esterbrook (Stewart) is summoned to New York to rewrite his first...

<p>Steve Arlo. Daryl Zero. They've got private investigation covered from A to Z. Solving a murder is easy. Living - being a functioning person away from the job - that's hard. With sly humor and a sleuth's eye for detail, writer/director Jake Kasdan makes...

<p>A Wall Street corporate raider attempts to acquire an 81-year-old New England wire and cable company but finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life against the company CEO, his assistant and an attractive N.Y. attorney, Penelope Ann Miller ("Carlito's Way"), who takes...

<p>Best friends Harry and Moe are go-getters inside a Newark mob outfit. They go get the boss's drycleaning. They go get his car. Now they have a new task: go get each other. The boss has secretly hired each pal to whack the other....

<p>Follow the misadventures of America's original teenage sensation. Andy Hardy, from his bumbling beginnings in A Family Affair through his girl-crazed coming-of-age to his bittersweet return to his beloved hometown of Carvel as a grown man in this concluding volume of the complete series...

<p>A little girl named Alpha (Margaret O'Brien) looks like a typical six-year-old. But to the professors at Pickering Institute of Child Psychology, she's an experiment: an orphan raised in isolation to be a genius. After breezy New York newsman Mike Regan (James Craig) interviews...

<p>Extra! Extra! Laugh all about it! Bette Davis and George Brent star in this comic battle of the sexes filled with good-natured rivalry and romance. Reporters Ellen Garfield (Davis) and Curt Devlin (Brent) are very much in love, but working at competing newspapers. Curt's...

<p>What's she got? Kings over queens? Four aces? Straight flush? Whatever the beautiful blonde holds, watch out! Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards headline this sly, sassy Old West caper about a Texas town's humdinger of a poker game. A "reformed" gambler and...

<p>Fasten your seat belts and hang on tight ... The Fat Boys have just fumbled their way into Palm Beach high society, and not since The Three Stooges crashed Hollywood has the screen seen such a comedic culture clash. This zany action-comedy ignites when...

<p>Oscar winner Susan Sarandon stars as tobacco billionairess Doris Duke in this touching and entertaining HBO Film, inspired by Duke's relationship with her gay butler, Bernard Lafferty (Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes), to whom she bequeathed her entire fortune.</p>

<p>As the hit comedy series continues in its third season, family dynamics hold court. In a two-part episode, Jason's ability to look at the bright side turns a family vacation in Maui a vacation that would be called a disaster by anyone else's standards...

<p>Superstar comedian/writer Bill Maher, one of the most highly credited comic minds today, is back in an all-new solo HBO comedy special performed live. Maher, known for his sharp wit, offers his candid and hilarious opinions on a wide range of social and political...

<p>From Politically Incorrect to Real Time with Bill Maher, comedian and social commentator Bill Maher has been stirring the political pot for the past decade, creating some of the most interesting dialogue between conservatives and liberals alike. In Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home,...

<p>A comic force, multi-Emmy nominee Bill Maher (Real Time with Bill Politically Incorrect ) is in his true element stand-up comedy in this freewheeling, no-holds-barred performance before a packed house in Raleigh, North Carolina. In this live show, Bill fearlessly and hilariously lets loose...

<p>Collected from one of the most popular segments of the acclaimed HBO Original Series Real Time with Bill Maher, New Rules takes steady aim at well, just about everything in sight, bringing in the hosts incisive wit and hilarious asides. Bill Maher: New Rules...

<p>It's Brooklyn, 1965 and young Michael Dunn (Andrew McCarthy) finds himself forced to attend St. Basil's in pursuit of the priesthood. Once there, against his better judgment, he gets caught up with a wild crowd led by the raucous Rooney (Kevin Dillon), and together...

<p>The reformer is Andrew Rockton Hale (Dick Powell), running for mayor on a good-government platform. The redhead is Kathleen Maguire (June Allyson), a zoo superintendent's daughter who keeps a full-grown lion as a house cat. When a corrupt party boss unjustly bounces Maguire's father...

<p>Who will be the next Mrs. Corbett? Will it be the chic designer? The Miss Montana Pageant hopeful? The headstrong lady across the hall? It's a big decision for any boy to make for his recently widowed dad! Like father, like son. You'll like'em...

<p>Eight is Enough's third season started off with a change -- a brand new theme song, sung by star Grant Goodeve! The title theme's promise of "a portrait of the happiness that we feel and always will" was more than matched by the show's...

<p>From the novels that thrilled millions came a popular 12-film series that swept viewers into the heroic exploits of Bomba, the boy growing up in the wilds. Johnny Sheffield ("Boy" in Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzans) stars, rescuing lost travelers, fighting fierce beasts and vanquishing deadly...

<p>Somewhere between the pre-hysterical Stone Age of The Flintstones and the fantastic future of The Jetsons lie The Roman Holidays. This time around Hanna-Barbera tackles family life circa 63 AD. Augustus "Gus" Holiday (Dave Willock) is the man of the clan, lovely and level-headed...

<p>Experience the passion and fire of tomorrows hottest poets! This acclaimed series showcases practitioners of one of the countrys fastest-rising performing-art forms def poetry in an intimate, uncensored format. Taped as always before a live audience at The Supper Club in NYC, each installment...

<p>Steve Brooks (Perry King) is a notorious lady's man. He's got a good friend in Walter (Jimmy Smits), but a lot of enemies among the women he's two-timed-which is why three of them gang up together to murder him. But God isn't sure Steve's...

<p>New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo (Ben Gazzara) trails Angela Niotes (Audrey Hepburn), the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge (John Ritter) and Arthur...

<p>Who's that dodging his murderous mama, an equally murderous sheik, and the temptations of a harem full of beauties? It's Brooklyn's own Eddie Wilson, who comes to Egypt to claim an inheritance and finds that lots of other folks want a slice of his...

<p>Comedian/author/playwright/pundit Lewis Black stars in his second HBO solo special, an all-new hour of frenetic, take-no-prisoners stand-up comedy, taped before a live audience at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC. Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed features Black's opinions and insights into such issues...

<p>Picturehouse and HBO Films present a story about Hal Hefner, an ordinary, shy 15 year-old boy who's struggling to make it through High School. On top of his parents' recent divorce and an obsessive- compulsive, kleptomaniac older brother, Hal has a stuttering problem. In...

<p>The 80's... It was a time when everybody was doing the big bucks, but f. Ross Johnson, CEO of R.J. R. Nabisco has every intention of making a fortune. When Johnson (James Garner) decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his...

<p>Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) and the rest of the gang return for a second-helping of laughter and thrills as The Bowery Boys tackle mad scientists, mobsters, monsters and more in 12 of their funniest adventures. Beginning their careers as Dead End Kids,...

<p>TV's sickest medical series returns for its fourth twisted season, winner of the 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment. A satirical jab at network medical dramas, Childrens Hospital explores the lives of a group of self-absorbed doctors who put their libidos first...

<p>Michael Winterbottom's TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY is a rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Crammed with literary jokes and dark humor, and aided by stellar...

<p>Experience the passion and fire of the hottest musicians, comedians and contemporary poets in each installment of Russell Simmons' Presents Def Poetry Season 5. Taped in front of a live audience at The Super Club in New York City, Season 5 of the improvisational,...

<p>From the director of ' 'Made In America' ' and ' 'The Money Pit' ' comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the B.F.V....

<p>David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper star in an outrageous comedy based on a true story that takes you behind the scenes of one of the scientific world's most impactful discoveries. From the hip 60's to the happening 70's and into the excessive 80's, two...

<p>From the producers of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, comes a rollicking bittersweet comedy about British university life in the '80s. James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland) stars as Brian, a working class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University...

<p>Lewis Black stars in his first-ever HBO solo special, an hour of frenetic, take-no-prisoners stand-up comedy, taped before a live audience at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York City. Featuring new material included in the comic's current "Rules of Enragement" tour and CD...

<p>From the producers of "Notting Hill" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" an all-star cast including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis Leslie Caron and Dame Cleo Laine return to the stage for one more night of music and glory in this...

<p>Emmy award winner Kenneth Branagh, the man who redefined Shakespeare for a whole new generation with Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, brings the Bard's most delightful comedy to sensational life! Rosalind is a young woman living in the court of her...

<p>Combining Nelson Eddy's fine baritone voice with its message of religious and ethnic tolerance, Let Freedom Ring distinguishes itself as a most unusual western. While boasting its share of bad guys and two-fisted action, this ambitious film delivers a powerful and heartfelt message. The...

<p>From Cool World creator Ralph Bakshi, Hey Good Lookin' is an outrageous, nostalgic and adult take on a more innocent time. Well, not that much more innocent: not every street corner was a Happy Days setting. Our hero, Vinnie, leader of the ragtag gang...

<p>Ivan Tors' amazing animal drama, Daktari, proved an instant family classic and followed up its successful mid-season run with a full sophomore season of 30 action-and-appeal-packed adventures. Known to the locals as "Daktari" (Swahili for Doctor), Dr. Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson) runs the Wameru...

<p>The third season saw Alice gets its sitcom service down to a science, delivering regular orders of laughter and workplace wisdom weekly while enjoying a regular slot in the top twenty. Series regulars Vic Tayback (Mel), Vera (Beth Howland), Polly Holliday (Flo), and Philip...

<p>Meet Hair Bear, Square Bear and Bubi Bear, three of the heppest, savviest and silliest ursines to ever crash a cave. And what a cave! From its seemingly stone and straw decor the whole hole transforms at the touch of a button into one...

<p>John Lovitz, Jeffrey Jones, Teri Garr, Eric Idle and Kathy Ireland star in the uproarious sci-fi comedy that sets the world spinning: MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD. Jon Lovitz is alien emperor Tod, ruler of Spengo, the tiniest planet on the universe. Tod...

<p>Elliott Gould and Diane Keaton take out a lease on love with an option to buy in this glossy romantic comedy costarring Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal and Candy Clark. Unhappily divorced after 10 years of marriage, Les Bingham (Gould) finally convinces his ex-wife Katie...

<p>Only the laughter's contagious in this uproarious chemical warfare comedy starring Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Harry Guardino and Godfrey Cambridge. A gullible private, Dudley Frapper (Gould), has served his country for 15 years as a human guinea pig in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps....

<p>After Love Me Tonight, Jeanette MacDonald left for Europe and returned with an M-G-M contract. I Married an Angel was the studio's choice for the soprano's first Metro film. Choose again, said the censors. They would not approve a script about an angel losing...

<p>Never mind energy shortages, potential nuclear meltdowns and economic breakdowns. In the freewheeling, funny world of First Family, the White House puts first things first: reelecting a President trailing in the polls! Bob Newhart stars as President Manfred Link in this zany, wonderfully cast...

<p>It isn't a great day for San Francisco cab driver and aspiring rock musician Daniel Pinsky. His first fare of the day just got casually bumped off at a red light. Another hit man took a nosedive while trying to break in Pinsky's upper-story...

<p>Barbara Harris (Nashville) cons Robert Blake (Baretta) into a marriage of inconvenience in this offbeat romantic comedy from Oscar -winning* director Hal Ashby (Coming Home). A honkytonk waitress in Texas, Dinette Dusty (Harris) desperately misses her children. Forced to board them with her late...