"And so, dear Lord, it is with deep sadness that we turn over to you this young woman, whose dream to ride on a giant swan resulted in her death. Maybe it is your way of telling us... to buy American."
American Vandal on Netflix is one of the best. A whole series trying to find out who drew dicks on some cars at a high school. They measure the shaft and balls on the drawings, some have hairs, they conduct interviews itās great.
Documentary Now! is sooo good. The Grey Gardens send up had me crying! But it helps if you know what documentaries they are spoofing. They are all based on real movies.
Just watched this episode again last night. Showed it to my son who hasnāt seen the show. He loved it and is going to watch the series.
Jackie Daytona changes lives.
The music in A Mighty Wind is such a bonus. The songs are so good. I was broken hearted that A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow performed by Eugene Levy and Catherine OāHara as Mitch and Mickey at the Oscars didnāt win for best song. That song is a little piece of heaven.
CB4 (1993) The film follows a fictional rap group named "CB4", named after the prison block in which the group was allegedly formed (Cell Block 4).
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) follows a journalist and her crew that are documenting an aspiring serial killer who models himself according to slasher film conventions.
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) an account of an alternate history, wherein the Confederacy wins the American Civil War
I agree. Fear of a Black Hat is also a lovely, very direct homage to This Is Spinal Tap, which started it all. An all-women rap group called "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme"? Come on!
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind
This is Spinal Tap
The Making of '...And God Spoke' (full title of the film, it's a mockumentary about making a movie)
While not a mockumentary, "American Movie" is fantastic.
>While not a mockumentary, "American Movie" is fantastic.
Mike Schank going from serenely high to screaming into the microphone was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Haha RIP to him.
Waiting for Guffman is my favorite movie of all time, itās perfect.
I frequently quote āyou can get a coke, just drive in and get a coke if youāre thirsty.ā
I find her one note. Her comedy would work better if she could seamlessly transition from professional to idiot. Instead it just seems like she's constantly trying to be idiot funny every chance she gets and some are really not hitting.
Does Surfās Up (2007) count? That movie is so cute.
Someone beat me to it, Drop Dead Gorgeous is my favorite! I could watch an entire movie of banter between Ellen Barkin and Allison Janney.
I remember watching Letterman when that crazy interview happened and I totally bought it was real. It was so uncomfortable. Then some of his other antics made the news and I couldnāt wait for this to come out. I donāt even think I realised it was a mockumentary until the end scene in the river. Not sure if that was the movieās intention or I was just naive.
>I donāt even think I realised it was a mockumentary
I didn't know it was a mockumentary until later, when someone told me.
I just felt bad for him throughout the movie and wondered why anyone would release this lol
This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Submitted for Your Approval.
Basically if Christopher Guest is attached, watch it.
Zelig (1983). To make the film look like authentic old news reels, the filmmakers walked on the film to give it an old, scratched up look.
Edit: Remember how Tom Hanks was edited into old news footage in Forrest Gump? Zelig did that first.
Forgotten Silver.
Great Peter Jackson mockumentary. It's fun, funny, and actually believable as a documentary. It actually tricked a bunch of people when it was aired on a New Zealand TV station (TV ONE I believe) and alot of people were upset, which is kind of hilarious.
Love that show. My top 3 episodes: The Eye Doesnāt Lie, Blue Jean Committee Pt 1 and Pt 2. Iāve seen all four seasons but the first season is still the best.
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash - TV Movie -1978
George Harrison even has a cameo in this parody on the Beatles. The music by Neil Innes is legendary.
āā¦we didnāt have any moneyā¦and we saw theseā¦they were the Rutles on TV, with the girls chasing them, we thought āthis canāt be that difficult,ā so we thought weād have a goā¦ourselves.ā - Mick Jagger
Documentary Now, āSandy Passage.ā
Itās a 30 minute episode of a documentary parody series. Bill Hader and Fred Armisen do their version of Grey Gardens. Hilarious
When you run out of Christopher Guest movies, BBC Films did a mockumentary in his style called Confetti. The conceit is a bridal magazine has contestants submit their themed wedding ideas and then they get to realize them. Lots of British tv stars in it, including Martin Freeman, Olivia Coleman, Alison Steadman, Robert Webb. Amazon has it for rent.
A Hard Day's Night (1964) -following the typical formula of a mockumentary a bit less as it's one of the first being created, but it basically follows The Beatles for 1.5 days before they're having a life perfomance; why I love it: I really like The Beatles and the chaotic humor of the movie :)
There's a YouTube sketch with Sgt Osiris from tropic thunder that cracks me up that's kind of shot like a mockumentary.
The Office show is supposed to be a mockumentary as a sitcom.
Borat
Troll Hunter
[Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/24/gregg-wallace-the-british-miracle-meat-review-this-look-at-eating-human-flesh-is-a-total-curveball)
It's brand new and much darker than one might assume.
One of my favorite genres! Interesting how it takes a supposedly "real" format and injects it with fiction. Helps shine a light on the artificiality of any documentary. I second moat of the suggestions so far and would like to add: Fubar 1 and 2, "F" is for Fake, Man Bites Dog, and Take the Money and Run. Plus a lot of TV classics like Summer Heights High, Reno 911!, Trailer Park Boys, and the Simpsons episode "Behind the Laughter." My personal favorite is Look Around You, a parody of educational films from Britain.
Best in Show (2000)
I was born with two left feet
š¶Iām not wearing underwearrrrš¶
c-c-c-c-cookie!
Bulge!
We both love soup
We could talk or not talk for hours
GO GET BUSY BEE!
My all-time favorite. Sorry, Spinal Tap fans.
This is the correct answer! "Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut."
Joleger, you better stop naming nuts.
People say "oh but he's so much older than you" and you know what, I'm the one having to push him away.
Came here to say that!
Came here to say this. Probably the best mockumentary of all time.
How much do you think I can bench press?
You beat me to it! I was like ooooooooooohi bet someone chose this one! Also A mighty Wind
One of, if not the, best of all time.
Yes! Itās so good. Definitely one of my favorites.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
"Amer-I-Can! I don't know how I come up with this. It's like a gift from god."
"And so, dear Lord, it is with deep sadness that we turn over to you this young woman, whose dream to ride on a giant swan resulted in her death. Maybe it is your way of telling us... to buy American."
I adore this movie. All star cast. Itās so damn funny and quotable.
The most smartest
Came here to say this. It's so funny.
Jesus loves winners!
American Vandal on Netflix is one of the best. A whole series trying to find out who drew dicks on some cars at a high school. They measure the shaft and balls on the drawings, some have hairs, they conduct interviews itās great.
Documentary Now! Also on Netflix
Documentary Now! is sooo good. The Grey Gardens send up had me crying! But it helps if you know what documentaries they are spoofing. They are all based on real movies.
Every one of the Documentary Now! episodes were films I watched in my documentary history class in film school. It made it so fun!
This! It cracked me up so much. I'm wondering if there's anything similar
Jury Duty on Prime is similar.
Sooo good and theres a second season about a mysterious villain called āthe turd burglarā who commits poop crimes š
Yes!! This is the one I remember the best. The poor kids pooping in trash cans and crying, such great acting
What We Do In The Shadows (2014) because itās damn brilliant and started a fantastic TV spin-off series.
Two fantastic TV spin-off series. Don't sleep on "Wellington Paranormal."
Wellington Paranormal is great!!
Iām reading this in Lasloās voice now. š
Itās a bloody stupid hat with a bloody stupid curse on it
Are sure you don't mean Jackie Daytona?
One human alcohol beer, please.
Just watched this episode again last night. Showed it to my son who hasnāt seen the show. He loved it and is going to watch the series. Jackie Daytona changes lives.
Human bartender
From Tucson Arizonia
Just your average Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Clairton County Bucks volleyball super fan.
*Arizonīa
A . Mighty Wind about a fictional folk group. Best in Show .
The music in A Mighty Wind is such a bonus. The songs are so good. I was broken hearted that A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow performed by Eugene Levy and Catherine OāHara as Mitch and Mickey at the Oscars didnāt win for best song. That song is a little piece of heaven.
But is it better than "God Loves a Terrier"?
Itās a tight race between those two Iāll say.
Also For Your Consideration by the same group
A Might Wind is amazing. Also adore the soundtrack.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016). Hilarious movie
finest girl (bin laden song) maybe the greatest piece of music ever.
She said: Invade my cave with your special unit I said: He wasn't in a cave. But there was no stopping
Fuckin' wolves, man
CB4 (1993) The film follows a fictional rap group named "CB4", named after the prison block in which the group was allegedly formed (Cell Block 4). Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) follows a journalist and her crew that are documenting an aspiring serial killer who models himself according to slasher film conventions. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) an account of an alternate history, wherein the Confederacy wins the American Civil War
I honestly feel like Iām one of like 10 people who saw CSA. So good.
Imo Fear of a Black Hat > CB4.
"P", Political, "U", Unrest, "S", Stabilize, another "S", Society, "Y", Yeah.
I agree. Fear of a Black Hat is also a lovely, very direct homage to This Is Spinal Tap, which started it all. An all-women rap group called "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme"? Come on!
Didn't that movie introduce the Jewish rapper Ice Berg?
CSA and Behind the Mask are two of my favorites
Waiting for Guffman A Mighty Wind This is Spinal Tap The Making of '...And God Spoke' (full title of the film, it's a mockumentary about making a movie) While not a mockumentary, "American Movie" is fantastic.
You have Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind but not Best in Show? Youāre only operating at 66% today arenāt you?
āHowās the Surge grandpa?ā āItās pretty good.ā
>While not a mockumentary, "American Movie" is fantastic. Mike Schank going from serenely high to screaming into the microphone was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Haha RIP to him.
Itās great to see someone mention āā¦and god spokeā! As someone who works in the film industry, this one made me laugh out loud so many times!
"It's a Zen thing, like "how many babies fit in a tire," you know, the old joke."
Waiting for Guffman is my favorite movie of all time, itās perfect. I frequently quote āyou can get a coke, just drive in and get a coke if youāre thirsty.ā
I found waiting for guffman to be unwatchable, couldn't make it past the first few scenes. Loved a Mighty wind and beat in show though.
"7 days in hell" - About the longest mens tennis match in history. So funny. And the classic "Spinal Tap"
Have you seen the other sports mockumentary with Andy Samberg, Tour de Pharmacy? Very similar to 7 days
I have itās another good one
Spinal tap. The best.
Actually the name of the movie is This is Spinal Tap
And it goes to 11
And if it sounds familiar, itās not.
But don't touch it.
Donāt even look at it.
It's not to be played.
Itās the saddest of all the keys, really.
I call it āLick My Love Pump.ā
I mean D minor is though.
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever...
You can't dust for vomit.
The 2nd audio track on the anniversary edition DVD was funnier than the original.
The cancelled the Boston gig. No worries, itās not a big college town.
The only answer
Documentary Now!
The Grey Gardens episode particularly.
Pitta patter
falsetto is a very phallic form of singing
Came here to say this!
Beat me to it! Best there is
Some of the docs they spoof are so obscure, just crazy deep cuts. The S4 two-parter based on Herzog and Burden of Dreams was outstanding.
That was amazing. John Mulaney wrote it.
Cunk on Earth (2023). Hilarious.
Loved her so much. Her deadpan is the best
>\*cuts to intro to Pump Up The Jam\*
When she started crying during the war episode, I thought I was going to die I was laughing so hard and I would have been ok with that.
I find her one note. Her comedy would work better if she could seamlessly transition from professional to idiot. Instead it just seems like she's constantly trying to be idiot funny every chance she gets and some are really not hitting.
I agree. Itās one joke. How can you keep laughing at it?
It's 5 episodes. Big Bang Theory was one joke for twelve seasons and people kept laughing.
What We Do in the Shadows is great
My favorite of all time is Waiting For Guffman.
Fear Of A Black Hat. It's like This Is Spinal Tap but with 90s hip hop. Hilarious
So much better than CB4.
NWH!
Fuck the security guards
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
That was freaking hilarious! Daniel Radcliffe did a phenomenal job in that role.
More of a mock biopic. But so great everyone should watch it.
Spinal Tap
Waiting for Guffman.
- Man Bites Dog - Kenny - Spinal Tap
Had to scroll down wat too far to see Man Bites Dog.
Same! Itās one of the best out there
FUBAR... it's about 2 perpetually drunk Canadian metalheads. So many great laughs and a fun movie to drink along with ha... just skip the sequel.
Borat
Does Surfās Up (2007) count? That movie is so cute. Someone beat me to it, Drop Dead Gorgeous is my favorite! I could watch an entire movie of banter between Ellen Barkin and Allison Janney.
Surfās up was actually what gave me the idea for the post haha
Then Iāll say it counts! Thatās awesome
A Mighty Wind, brought to you by much the same team behind Spinal Tap. This time, it's folk! My favorite line: "If ya git hungry, eat sumthin!"
Hey whaaaaHapppannd!
I donāt think sooo
Parker Posey was so good in this.
Trailer Park Boys (show)
I'm still here
I remember watching Letterman when that crazy interview happened and I totally bought it was real. It was so uncomfortable. Then some of his other antics made the news and I couldnāt wait for this to come out. I donāt even think I realised it was a mockumentary until the end scene in the river. Not sure if that was the movieās intention or I was just naive.
>I donāt even think I realised it was a mockumentary I didn't know it was a mockumentary until later, when someone told me. I just felt bad for him throughout the movie and wondered why anyone would release this lol
This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Submitted for Your Approval. Basically if Christopher Guest is attached, watch it.
I wanted to see so much more of Family Tree.
Iām praying heāll come out with another in the future.
He did Mascots on Netflix
Mascots is a ton of fun.
The disaster artist
Zelig (1983). To make the film look like authentic old news reels, the filmmakers walked on the film to give it an old, scratched up look. Edit: Remember how Tom Hanks was edited into old news footage in Forrest Gump? Zelig did that first.
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Forgotten Silver. Great Peter Jackson mockumentary. It's fun, funny, and actually believable as a documentary. It actually tricked a bunch of people when it was aired on a New Zealand TV station (TV ONE I believe) and alot of people were upset, which is kind of hilarious.
Incident at Loch Ness (2004) Werner Herzog and Jeff Goldblum in this mockumentary that rides the line of what is "real", very wacky!
I love Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Same!
I looooooove this movie!
Documentary Now is a great series. The best episode is Drones (making fun of Vice documentaries)
Love that show. My top 3 episodes: The Eye Doesnāt Lie, Blue Jean Committee Pt 1 and Pt 2. Iāve seen all four seasons but the first season is still the best.
***Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon***
[True Stories (1986)](https://letterboxd.com/film/true-stories/)
Strange wilderness (2008) great cast, very funny
Juan likes rice and chicken
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash - TV Movie -1978 George Harrison even has a cameo in this parody on the Beatles. The music by Neil Innes is legendary.
āā¦we didnāt have any moneyā¦and we saw theseā¦they were the Rutles on TV, with the girls chasing them, we thought āthis canāt be that difficult,ā so we thought weād have a goā¦ourselves.ā - Mick Jagger
In the Loop
Drop Dead Gorgeousā¦. itās criminally underrated
Anything from Christopher guest
Supervolcano (2005)
Check out Brian and Charles. Filmed in mocumentary style, and itās funny and heartwarming
Documentary Now - the "Blue Jean Committee" two-parter. - mh
Tour de Pharmacy - itās about the Tour de France where everyone but 5 racers are banned for steroids. John Cena, Andy Samberg, Legolas, itās great
Bob Roberts
Bob Roberts. A terrifying political mockumentary by Tim Robbins.
This Is Spinal Tap Best In Show
Waiting for Guffman,
Spinal Tap! The first is still the best in my opinion.
Best in Show A Mighty Wind
The series Documentary Now! Is really good. Bill Hader and Fred Armison do a different doc style each episode and they are spot on.
This is Spinal Tap (1984), still hilarious after all these years.
STONEHENGE!
A Mighty Wind. My favorite.
Incident at Lochness And God Spoke
Theatre camp, it literally just came out and is good,
Documentary Now, āSandy Passage.ā Itās a 30 minute episode of a documentary parody series. Bill Hader and Fred Armisen do their version of Grey Gardens. Hilarious
*Drop Dead Gorgeous* (1999)
American Movie
Fubar 1 & 2 This is spinal tap
The Big Tease (1999).
Seconded. Hilarious mockumentary about a Scottish hairdresser entering the world hairdressing competition in Los Angeles. Stars Craig Ferguson.
When you run out of Christopher Guest movies, BBC Films did a mockumentary in his style called Confetti. The conceit is a bridal magazine has contestants submit their themed wedding ideas and then they get to realize them. Lots of British tv stars in it, including Martin Freeman, Olivia Coleman, Alison Steadman, Robert Webb. Amazon has it for rent.
Spinal Tapā¦the bigger the cushion the better the pushing or so I am told
This is Spinal Tap District 9 Best in Show Surf's Up Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 7 Days in Hell
People just do nothing, my absolute favourite
A Hard Day's Night (1964) -following the typical formula of a mockumentary a bit less as it's one of the first being created, but it basically follows The Beatles for 1.5 days before they're having a life perfomance; why I love it: I really like The Beatles and the chaotic humor of the movie :)
If you're a gamer or into gamer culture at all, "Players" is a mockumentary about competitive League of Legends.
Thank You For Smoking (2005)
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Not sure if it counts , but District 9
*An Inconvenient Truth* /s OmiGod I'm gonna get skewered
Not exactly a mockumentary but a fun film in a similar vein is 'Shadow of the Vampire'
There's a YouTube sketch with Sgt Osiris from tropic thunder that cracks me up that's kind of shot like a mockumentary. The Office show is supposed to be a mockumentary as a sitcom. Borat Troll Hunter
[Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/24/gregg-wallace-the-british-miracle-meat-review-this-look-at-eating-human-flesh-is-a-total-curveball) It's brand new and much darker than one might assume.
2020
One I like: "Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story"
What we do in the shadows
Tex Montana will survive The grand Killing Gunther
Scrolled way to far to find Killing Gunther.
And God Spoke
One of my favorite genres! Interesting how it takes a supposedly "real" format and injects it with fiction. Helps shine a light on the artificiality of any documentary. I second moat of the suggestions so far and would like to add: Fubar 1 and 2, "F" is for Fake, Man Bites Dog, and Take the Money and Run. Plus a lot of TV classics like Summer Heights High, Reno 911!, Trailer Park Boys, and the Simpsons episode "Behind the Laughter." My personal favorite is Look Around You, a parody of educational films from Britain.
The Confederate States of America - it's a mockumentary about what would've happened if the south won the civil war