John Bishop tops DVD chart

The week's bestselling stand-up titles

John Bishop has topped the stand-up DVD chart on the first big pre-Christmas sales week.

His show Elvis Has Left The Building is No 6 in the overall chart, behind a raft of big family movies after selling almost 50,000 copies in its first week of release.

The second best-selling stand-up DVD is Frankie Boyle’s If I Could Reach Out Through Your TV and Strangle You I Would, which is No 11 in the overall chart.

The top stand-up DVDs last week are:

  1. John Bishop: Elvis Has Left The Building
  2. Frankie Boyle: If I Could Reach Out Through Your TV and Strangle You I Would
  3. Billy Connolly: Live In London 2010
  4. Michael McIntyre: Stand-Up Collection (compilation re-release of previous shows)
  5. Rhod Gilbert And The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst


The competition will heat up next week with releases from Al Murray, Andrew Maxwell, Bill Bailey, Jethro, Kevin Bridge, Lee Mack, Ricky Gervais, Roy Chubby Brown, Simon Amstell, Sean Lock, Stewart Francis and Tim Vine all due out on Monday.

At least another half-dozen stand-up DVDs are out the following week.

Michael McIntyre's book Life And Laughing has returned to the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list, after slipping to No 2 last week.

He has sold more than 113,000 copies of the hardback memoirs, which has a recommended price of £20.

Here is a trailer for Bishop's DVD

Published: 21 Nov 2010

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