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Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold DVD

This was a slightly different  entry in the 2008 Christmas comedy DVD stakes.  Most of the releases aimed at the Christmas market are recordings of stand-up performances (Dara O’Briain, Russell Howard, Frankie Boyle, Michael McIntyre and loads of others not connected with “Mock The Week”), while this, not surprisingly, is a compilation of the best of “TV Burp”.

If you like Harry Hill and “TV Burp”, you’ll like this DVD.  If you don’t like Harry Hill or the show, then this won’t change your mind – that was nice and easy.

The main content of the DVD is structured like a normal weekly show featuring all of the regular Harry Hill send-ups and routines in the form of highlights from the series.  The extension of the idea of the viewer shouting at the TV (don’t we all do that?) works well, particularly when it continues logically into Harry actually taking part in the clips he satirises.  So far, so good.
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Grumpy Old Women Live

You have probably seen the television series countless times, but now it is your chance to catch the comedy as three ‘grumpy old women’ take to the stage. ‘Grumpy Old Women Live’ is a recording of a full performance at the Richmond Theatre in London, featuring the talents of Jenny Éclair, Dillie Keane and Linda Robson.

As expected, much of the show is comical as the trio moan about various issues. At the opening, they ‘invade’ the stage dressed in mackintoshes and laden with Lakeland Plastics carrier-bags. Having an introduction, delivered as though it was an air safety warning was a particularly nice touch, with the fire exits and other useful information.

To start with Jenny, Dillie and Linda, attempted to define what a grumpy old woman actually is, leading to some audience interaction. It appeared that most of the audience was made up of women and was probably a ‘menopausal hen-party’.
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Home Alone is tops for Christmas

A new survey has revealed that kids comedy film Home Alone is the nation’s favourite family festive film, with the average British family having watched the Oscar nominated movie starring Macaulay Culkin no less than ten times.

More than 3,000 parents took part in the survey which asked participants to select their favourite festive movies, to celebrate the launch of the new premium family movie channel Disney Cinemagic HD.

Home Alone won out thanks to its ‘feel good’ storyline and association with the festive season, pipping other family favourites including The Snowman and The Wizard of Oz into top spot.

Winning out in the less desirable list of festive flops, Santa with Muscles, starring former WWF wrestler Hulk Hogan topped the list with 13% of the votes. Love Actually also made it into the top five films considered festive turkeys.
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Win Hancock DVD

Wanna copy of Will Smith’s Superhero movie “Hancock”?  If so then get over to MovieRiot.co.uk where we have two copies of the DVD available for lucky people like you.

Good luck!

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