The " Quiz Bowl " episode of the Internet mockumentary Dorm Life features a parody of a College Bowl match.

In 2003, the BBC broadcast a mockumentary entitled Life Beyond the Box: Margo Leadbetter, describing Margo's life since the series had finished, although the original actors appear only in archive footage.

Due to Beckinsale's premature death, Godber does not appear in the 2003 mockumentary Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher, although Ingrid receives a phone call from him, saying he's stuck on a motorway.

When last seen, in the mockumentary Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher, Fletch was landlord of a pub in Muswell Hill, alongside his second wife, Gloria ( an old flame briefly mentioned in Porridge ).

Ives is interviewed in the 2003 mockumentary Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher.

In the 2003 mockumentary Life Beyond The Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher, it is revealed that after being released from prison Grouty continued running his " business empire " ( although he insisted it was now straight, and no-one could prove otherwise ), and also became a " celebrity criminal ", in a similar manner to Frankie Fraser and The Krays.

Recently DeSena has been working on the online mockumentary web series Dorm Life which is a 2008 Webby Honoree for Best Writing and Comedy: Individual Short or Episode.

Bowman was one of many musical figures to appear in the 2005 Canadian country music mockumentary The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico.

He starred in a 2008 mockumentary film titled The Life Of Lucky Cucumber.

The mockumentary also contains clips from his first Three " AL-TV " s, and all of Yankovic's music videos up to 1985: " Ricky ", " I Love Rocky Road ", " Eat It ", " I Lost On Jeopardy ", " This Is The Life ", " Like a Surgeon " ," One More Minute ", and " Dare to Be Stupid ".

In 2010, Skarsgård portrayed Terje, a gay Norwegian trekking to the North Pole, in the British mockumentary Beyond the Pole.

As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on Home Box Office.

Early use of the mockumentary format in television comedy may be seen in several sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 1974 ), such as " Hell's Grannies ", " Piranha Brothers ", and " The Funniest Joke in the World ".

Other characters included the cheerful Leutonian clarinetist Yosh Shmenge, who was half of the Happy Wanderers and the subject of the mockumentary The Last Polka, folksy fishin ' musician Gil Fisher, handsome if accent-challenged TV actor Steve Roman, hapless children's entertainer Mr. Messenger, corrupt soap opera doctor William Wainwright, smut merchant Harry, " the Guy With the Snake on His Face ", and Giorgy, everyone's favourite Cossack.

Nothing So Strange is a 2002 American mockumentary, written, produced and directed by Brian Flemming in the style of an " independent documentary ", centering on the fictional assassination of former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on December 2, 1999.

Working with frequent collaborator Aziz Ansari, Woliner directed and co-wrote the mockumentary shorts series " RAAAAAAAANDY ", based on Ansari's character in Judd Apatow's Funny People.

* The popular Internet-distributed mockumentary series Pure Pwnage coined the term " über-micro ", a term describing unusually superior levels of micromanagement.

It was featured as a part of the mockumentary " Tropic Thunder-Rain of Madness ", only stating that the character of " Jeff Portnoy " played the role of Jack Austin.

The ballad was referenced in the song " Blood on the Coal ", a folk parody song from A Mighty Wind, the mockumentary film from Christopher Guest.

A dramatic mockumentary ( sometimes referred to as docufiction ) should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events.

* Yacht Rock — a mockumentary series from J. D. Ryznar, Hunter D. Stair and Lane Farnham, detailing fictional accounts of the lives of real " smooth music " musicians, particularly Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald.

Despite this, many people still believed the conspiracy was real, as the fact that it was a mockumentary was not revealed in the film itself.

In 1978, Fataar starred in All You Need Is Cash, a mockumentary film known more commonly as The Rutles, a spoof on the real life history of The Beatles, which had a follow up to a Saturday Night Live television sketch, which is a popular comedy show in the United States.

Although it is a mockumentary, it is roughly based on Yankovic's real life.

" Fandom " is also the name of a documentary / mockumentary about a fan obsessed with Natalie Portman.

David Agnew is the credited writer of The Invasion of Time, and the use of the Alan Smithee name for The Elusive David Agnew is a joke ; " David Agnew " is a pseudonym, and The Elusive David Agnew is a mockumentary.

Hard Core Logo is a 1996 Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner.

David Brent ( within the series, born 1962 or 1963 ) is a character in the BBC television mockumentary The Office, as well as a recurring character in the NBC series of the same name, portrayed by co-writer and co-director Ricky Gervais.

A mockumentary about Skull Island that appears on the DVD for the 2005 remake ( but originally seen on the Sci-Fi Channel at the time of its theatrical release ) gives Kong's scientific name as Megaprimatus kong, and states that his species may have evolved from Gigantopithecus.

He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational " mockumentary " films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

A false document should not be confused with a mockumentary, which is a fictional film presented in the manner of a documentary.

The film would start a genre of its own called mockumentary and become hugely influential on later similar films, such as This is Spinal Tap and Hard Core Logo.

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The 2000 comedy Best in Show, made by some of the same actors from This is Spinal Tap, was also done as a mockumentary, this time of various contestants at a fictional dog show.

The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.

This Is Spinal Tap and other mockumentary films of director Christopher Guest are created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations filmed during the production of their movie Smoke.

In the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spontaneous Human Combustion is included as the cause of death of one of the band's numerous former drummers.

The Ranger also made an appearance in A Duckumentary, a mockumentary about Donald Duck's infamous temper, where he is out of uniform, now working in an employment agency where Donald seeks a job.

A mockumentary ( a portmanteau of the words mock and documentary ), is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format.

The term " mockumentary " is thought to have been popularized in the mid-1980s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.

It is not known with certainty when the term " mock-documentary " was first used, but the Oxford English Dictionary notes appearances of " mockumentary " from 1965.

All You Need is Cash, a 1978 American-British mockumentary film written and directed by Eric Idle, featured the satirical history of the The Beatles | Beatles parody " The Rutles ".

Borat is a successful film from the 2000s which uses this style, and the 2007 film, Surf's Up, is an example of an animated mockumentary.

Thomas, Thomas is a German short mockumentary about the city archivist Wolfgang Weber, who proves, that a director of an Ayurvedic clinic is the reincarnation of an Irish mining pioneer.

* What is a mockumentary?

It is also seen in the Canadian mockumentary Trailer Park Boys.