As Kemps play it for laughs, we say: IT’S A TOTAL
The ultimate rock mockumentary, Rob Reiner’s 1984 classic charted the career of a fictional English heavy metal band.
In fact, it was so true to life, Black Sabbath hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne thought it was real.
The 1964 comedy is said to be the first mockumentary and follows a fictionalised 36 hours in the lives of The Beatles.
The Fab Four – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – all send themselves up in it.
MARTIN and Gary Kemp star in a spoof documentary tonight about an album recording.
The brothers, who made their name with Spandau Ballet, will be interviewed by comedian Rhys Thomas for The Kemps: All True.
Martin, 58, was Steve Owen on EastEnders and teamed up with Gary, 60, to play infamous London gangsters The
What began as a niche show on BBC Three, following the lives of fictional DJs running London pirate radio station Kurupt FM, ran for five series. A movie version is on its way next year.
Krays in a film of the same name.
Now, their hilarious new show will follow in a proud tradition of TV and movie mockumentaries, as recalls…
Comedian Ricky Gervais was cringe-worthy boss David Brent in this show following the lives of employees at a Slough paper company. It was such a success that it spawned a massive US version, too.
Starring Peter Capaldi as the potty-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, this sweary show spoofed the workings of government and led to a movie, In The Loop. It spawned similar shows such as Twenty Twelve, about the London Olympics.
The cult comedy has run for three series on BBC Three. It follows the fortunes of jobless twenty-something cousins Kurtan and Kerry Mucklowe, played by Charlie and Daisy May Cooper, coping with life in a sleepy Cotswold village.
Sacha Baron Cohen plays a fictitious journalist from Kazakhstan who is supposedly making a documentary of his travels through the US and filming his bizarre interactions with real-life Americans.
He followed it up with the movie Bruno, about a gay Austrian fashion journalist.