As a bit of a follow on from yesterday’s post about comedy DVDs and supermarkets, during a brief visit today I spied two BBC DVDs, one of Tommy Cooper and another of Les Dawson.

Two giants of British comedy, going for a cool fiver each.

There’s a caveat, however; what are the BBC doing with just 48 minutes of Tommy Cooper? That’s hardly worth the bother of buying it. Sure, he was a bloody funny, talented man, but devoting just 48 minutes?

One suspects that the existing material might well have been sat in the BBC archives waiting to be burned. That the BBC has just 48 minutes to put on a DVD of The Best of Tommy Cooper is frankly a crime. Cooper might well have spent much of his television career on ITV, but still.

Of course, bearing in mind how much Les Dawson did on the BBC single volume of his work which totalled closer to 85 hours than 85 minutes, is a bit of a shortfall too.

Get your fingers out, BBC DVD!

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