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41) Up the Women
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The welcome return of the hilarious suffragette sitcom, written by and starring Jessica Hynes. Under Margaret's passionate leadership, the hapless women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women Suffrage are back in the Church Hall cooking up more schemes to attract attention to the worthy cause. The series is full of special guest stars, laugh out loud jokes, japes and plenty of physical comedy. It's a heart-warming celebration...
43) Hold the Sunset
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Gentle comedy starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman as widow and her old flame, whose rekindled romance is disrupted when her 50-year-old son moves back in. He announces that he's left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith's dismay and Phil's fury, all dreams are on hold.
44) Humpday
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual...
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Description
Explores the relationships between four long-time friends, and how their marital and financial status affects them each in different ways, as well as their friendships with each other. The opening film for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
"Smart, witty and alert..."--Rolling Stone.
"Greatly appealing..."--New York Times.
"An exquisitely calibrated hypermodern comedy of manners."--Los Angeles Times.
46) Dodgeball
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Under the painful tutelage of legendary ADAA champ patches O'Houlihan, Peter LaFleur and his average Joes take on the purple Cobras, led by egomaniacal fitness guru White Goodman. It's an over-the-top underdog tale filled with hilarious gags and balls-out fun.
47) Staged
Description
David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.
48) The Odd Couple
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Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
49) Ideal
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (224 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Award-winning comedian Johnny Vegas stars in a comedy about the finer things in life. For over twenty years Moz has been dealing drugs from his small bedsit in Manchester which he shares with girlfriend, Nicki. Despite his chosen profession, Moz is a man of principle - he deals only in the best quality marijuana and nothing else.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (173 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
With an extraordinary ear for mimicry and a sure sense of character and comic timing, Catherine Tate presents a variety of unique and quirky characters in the first series of her widely-acclaimed sketch show. Meet teenage nightmare Lauren who is never 'bovvered', foul-mouthed Nan, Aga Saga mum Helen, frightened Margaret, enigmatic cop DI Amanda Hogg, randy Nurse Bernie and a host of other oddball creations.
51) Famalam
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Famalam shines a comedic light on everything - from alien encounters in the outer reaches of the galaxy to what happens when a man is left on his own in a house for 10 minutes holding only a phone and a remote. With a dazzling array of accents, cultural observations and colourful costumes, Famalam gives us a glimpse of the latest Nollywood blockbuster, reveals who might be responsible for internet spam and introduces us to the real rulers of the world...
52) Mongrels
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (229 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Join Nelson the metrosexual fox and his friends as they negotiate life and love in the back alleys of the urban jungle. The cast of puppet characters features Destiny, a pretentious pedigree 'it-bitch'; Kali, a deeply cynical pigeon; Marion, an abandoned tom cat; and Vince, a streetwise geezer fox. But scratch their hairy surfaces and these guys are just five mixed-up kidults struggling with everyday emotional truths about life, love, sex, aspirations,...
Description
Impressionist duo Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona chart the über-couple's transfer from Beckingham Palace to Madrid. After waving Adios to sunny Manchester, the King and Queen of the premiership set their sights abroad. But all is not well in the Beckham camp - will the designer boutiques of Madrid be posh enough for an ex-Spice Girl with a wallet the size of the Costa Del Sol?
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Series
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Psmith (the p is silent) is a man of contrasts. He is overly confident, but smart, and prone to mischief, but resourceful enough to get himself out of trouble. Down on his luck and out of a job, Psmith meets Eve Halliday in the middle of a downpour. Immediately drawn to her beauty, Psmith decides to help Eve get out of the rain. After he borrows an umbrella from a nearby club without asking, Psmith offers it to Eve, so that she is able to finish her...
55) Shopgirl
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Description
Mirabelle oversees the seldom-visited glove counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. She's also a struggling artist who can barely pay her student loans. In steps Ray Porter, a handsome, rich, 50-something bachelor who sweeps her off her feet.
"'Shopgirl,' written by Steve Martin, based on his slender novel of the same name, is an elegant and exquisitely tailored romantic comedy."--New York Times.
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After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn (Sam Richardson) and postal worker Cecily (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.
58) Almost Royal
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This faux- reality series follows two clueless British aristocrats on a trip to the USA. George and Poppy Carlton enjoy privileged lives as distant descendants of the British royal family. The siblings - 50th and 51st in line to the throne - have agreed to a camera crew following them on their unconventional royal tour. But while the siblings are actually played by comedians, the unsuspecting public have no clue these two aren't for real. Cue bemusement...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Description
This time, Federal Agent Gracie Hart goes undercover in Las Vegas to rescue her best friend, the Miss United States Pageant winner. She also has to deal with a new partner with anger-management issues and a dim view of Gracie.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (41 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
TV's phenomenally talented funny girls return for a brand new special of their hugely popular show. With a host of the hilarious send-ups and sketches that we all know and love - and woe betide any guest stars who have been foolish enough to accept their invitation. Dawn and Jennifer also get their teeth into a mercilessly funny spoof of recent blockbuster film Lord of the Rings.
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