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Plot Summary:
This British satire skewers mindless media culture as it follows the brazen schemes of Vivienne Vyle (Jennifer Saunders), a daytime talk show host who never met a guest she wouldn't exploit to further her own career. As Vivienne watches her shamelessly sensationalistic show climb up the ratings, she must contend with her gay but devoted husband (Conleth Hill) and her heartless producer (Miranda Richardson) who's even more calculating than she is.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, captivating, suspense, dark comedy, offbeat, biting
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In the time-honored tradition of Comedy Central's half-hour specials, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents features the best and brightest emerging comedians performing thirty minutes of material.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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The Chaser's War on Everything was an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television station ABC1. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts. The series is produced by the Australian satirical group, The Chaser, consisting of Chris Taylor, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen, and Chas Licciardello. Fellow Chaser members Dominic Knight and Charles Firth are not part of the regular on-screen cast. However, Knight is a writer, and Firth compiled roving reports for the show from the United States, until he left the group to start a satirical newspaper in mid-2007. The show premiered on 17 February 2006 and has since produced 58 episodes, broadcast over three seasons between 2006 to 2007 as well as during 2009. The first season was broadcast at an unstable late timeslot on Friday nights. The second and third seasons were broadcast in a more favourable timeslot of Wednesdays at 9 pm. The show did not return in 2008, but returned on 27 May 2009 for the third season featuring only ten episodes. Following the controversy of the "Make a Realistic Wish Foundation" sketch, the third season was reduced to 8 episodes, being suspended for 2 weeks.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, clever, cynical, not serious, parody, sketch comedy, mockumentary, offbeat, witty
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Star Stories is a British television comedy programme that takes a satirical look at celebrities and their lives. It was first shown on Channel 4 on September 15, 2006. Star Stories is made by Objective Productions commissioned for Channel 4 by Shane Allen and Andrew Newman with Lee Hupfield producing, Elliot Hegarty directing and Phil Clarke and Andew O'Connor as executive producers. The Sun reported that Channel 4 had axed Star Stories to free up cash to invest in other shows. The main theme of the show is the theme from the film Gone with the Wind.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, offbeat
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Harry Hill's TV Burp is a British television comedy programme that ran for 11 years from 2001 to 2012. It was produced by Avalon Television for ITV and hosted by comedian Harry Hill. The show presents a look at the week's television, including extracts from TV shows with added sketches, observational voice-overs, and guest appearances. The show is based on clips of the previous week of programming on television, frequently reinterpreting actions or lines of dialogue in a humorous way, or pointing out how views of props or sets amusingly resemble other objects, and often lightheartedly or sarcastically commenting on the actual intended content of the programme. To produce the show, Hill and his programme associate writing team, including Brenda Gilhooly, Paul Hawksbee, Dan Maier, Joe Burnside and David Quantick, watch significant amounts of television, much on preview tapes. Clips from a variety of shows across most channels are included in the show, with soaps, dramas and popular-factual series being the most commonly represented genres. The clips are shown outside of the context of their original programme and only limited information about the scene is given, as the focus of the show's treatment is on the often unintentional humour which can be derived from the scene. The show was filmed at Teddington Studios, Greater London, in Studio 1 for series 1 to 8. From series 9 to 11, the studio has been the BBC Television Centre in London.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, surreal, realistic, biting, offbeat, suspense
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A sketch-comedy series featuring a cast of up-and-coming comics performing live skits, musical numbers and political satire.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, sketch comedy, offbeat, spoof, live comedy, queer cinema
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, spoof, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fake documentary
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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Introducing "Barely Famous": a docu-style comedy series. This show explores the hypocrisy of reality TV by centering around two sisters who say they would never do a reality show, but are being filmed by a camera crew. Over the course of the season, we’ll follow Erin and Sara as they navigate the treacherous LA waters of building a career, dating, and simultaneously trying to prove that they’re “normal”. Each episode of Barely Famous will skewer Hollywood stereotypes and comment on the world of celebrity through the eyes of two D-Listers, desperately trying to insist they don’t care about “Lists” while also trying to get on the A-List. By breaking the 4th wall and occasionally telling both the crew and network to cut, no reality convention is too sacred, and our girls point out the absurdity of the medium itself.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
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After Lately is an American television comedy. The series depicts, in mockumentary style, the behind the scenes goings-on at the office of the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately. The cast is made up of the actual writers and performers of Chelsea Lately, who play themselves as they suffer the indignities and relish the perks of show business, bicker and argue over trivial and petty matters, compete for show air time and personal approval from Chelsea, and produce a nightly late-night cable comedy show. Celebrity guest stars regularly appear, playing parody versions of themselves, interacting with Chelsea and the cast. The series began airing on E! on March 6, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: UK
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, sketch comedy, offbeat, spoof, black comedy
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min
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Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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LateLine (1998)
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LateLine is an American TV sitcom that ran on NBC from March 17, 1998, through March 16, 1999. Due to an abrupt cancellation, there were seven unaired episodes. Created by John Markus and Al Franken, LateLine depicted the behind-the-scenes goings-on of a fictitious late-night television news broadcast, patterned in part after the long-running ABC program Nightline. Many plotlines in the series were satirical, dealing with topics like Deep Throat and the Watergate break-in, and the episodes often had cameos by famous politicians. On August 17, 2004, Paramount released a DVD set containing all nineteen episodes on three discs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Bob Patterson (2001)
Plot Summary:
Bob Patterson is a popular self-help motivational speaker. What his adoring public doesn't know is Bob is an insecure husband and dad who often fails at basic human interactions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic