A short documentary, The Making of The Illustrated Man, details the process the filmmakers used to cover Steiger's body in mock tattoos and shows actors and filmmakers preparing for the movie.

That led to a suggestion by SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels to extend the skit into a one-hour mock documentary.

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.

Shot in black-and-white and presented as a mock documentary, it was a loosely structured musical fantasia interspersing comedic and dialogue sequences with musical ones.

A 1972 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a mock documentary which investigated whether the residents of Hounslow, another London area suburb, had long ago been descendants of the people of Surbiton " who had made the great trek north.

This Is Spinal Tap is an American 1984 rock and roll musical mock documentary directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap.

He narrated the very first episode of the popular 1964 sitcom Bewitched, in mock documentary style.

In his early appearances, Alan was married to Carol ; although never-seen on screen, she can be heard in the mock documentary ' Knowing Knowing Me, Knowing You ' that accompanies the BBC Radio 4 series of ' Knowing Me, Knowing You ' first broadcast in 1993.

The film began shooting on May 1, 1995 but there was a week of pre-shooting at the end of April to film scenes that would be used as part of a mock documentary about Nixon's career.

The series itself is not a mock documentary but is shot in a somewhat similar cinéma vérité-like style.

In 2003 he appeared in the BBC Three mock documentary " Dale's Wedding " in which he supposedly married the UK celebrity Nell McAndrew.

It does not have a traditional dramatic narrative ; it takes the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts.

* Alek Hidell, name of a character in the mock documentary Nothing So Strange.

He also directed the mock documentary Lust for Glorious about comedian Eddie Izzard with Mark Caven and Phil Kay.

However, Stephen Holden, in his review for The New York Times felt that " unlike Spinal Tap, which cast a comically jaundiced eye on every nuance of the heavy-metal life style, this clever mock documentary … blends satire and sentiment in a way that keeps you emotionally off balance ".

He also had several television and movie guest appearances from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, including an uncredited role on Bye Bye Birdie ( as the reporter announcing the title character's induction into the Army ) and narrating the premiere episode of Green Acres in a mock documentary style.

The series utilised the concept of a mock documentary capturing the truths of a workplace four years before the notion reached fame in The Office.

In order to make the mock documentary more believable, mock commercials for historical goods and services were used such as Darkie Toothpaste and Coon Chicken Inn.

Robert Popper is a British comedy producer, writer and actor, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary Look Around You, in which he also plays the part of Jack Morgan.

The Gunston character made enough of an impression for him to be revived in a subsequent comedy mini-series made by the Aunty Jack team, Wollongong the Brave ( 1974 ), in which he starred in a satirical mock documentary Norman Gunston: The Golden Weeks.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called it: " An amusing mock documentary that spends considerable energy artfully trying to make you believe it's real as real can be.

Back of the Y is centred around a mock live TV show, featuring segments such as Randy Campbell's Extreme Stunts and " Cunstables ".

In the segments the presenter Jeremy Clarkson takes part in a mock battle on the beach at Instow with around 30 marines from Chivenor and elsewhere.

The Mystery Science Theater, in which the SOL captives watch and mock movies, is apparently located directly behind the bridge, on the opposite end of a long hallway with several oddly shaped doors ( as suggested by the transition between host and movie segments ), although the characters are rarely shown using it.

The show took the loose guise of a fictional variety show that featured mock interviews, host monologues, audience participation segments and competitions, bookending character-based sketches.

As Valentine and Silvia engage in a game of flirtation, hinting at their love for one another, Speed provides constant asides which serve to directly mock the couple.

For example, Mr. Hall and Reginald, who are also intended to serve as a mock chorus for the main action occurring in the hospital.

Members of the Youth in Government Club have been successful in passing mock legislation in this annual statewide conference and in having students serve in the Cabinet.

Near to the station is the mock Georgian, country house style Colwall Park Hotel, purpose built in 1905 to serve the now defunct Colwall Horse Racecourse.

* In the manga / anime Death Note, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, Light Yagami and Misa Amane undergo a mock execution carried out by Light's father.

: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

According to a number of sources their activities included mock religious ceremonies and partaking in meals containing dishes like Holy Ghost Pie, Breast of Venus, and Devil's Loin, while drinking Hell-fire punch.

The exact form that the jaca tsariy takes differs from town to town ; in some localities, a sirvinti ( servant ) is appointed to go from door to door, collecting donations of guinea pigs, while in others, guinea pigs may be brought to a communal area to be released in a mock bullfight.

During his floor show, he loses a cuff that bears the lyrics of his song, but he rescues his act by improvising the story using an amalgam of word play, words in ( or made up of word parts from ) multiple languages and mock sentence structure while pantomiming.

The Dolls also toured Europe, and, while appearing on UK television, host Bob Harris of the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test derided the group as " mock rock ," comparing them unfavorably to the Rolling Stones.

After " An Attempt to Tip the Scales ", there is a mock radio interview that features Todd Fink of The Faint doing an impression of Oberst while reading a script that Oberst wrote.

Many times during the song " Holiday ", Maurice would mock Robin while he was singing or pretend he was bored ( Maurice did not sing on the original record )

' Brute force was supplemented with the bastinado ; sleep deprivation ; extensive solitary confinement ; glaring searchlights ; standing in one place for hours on end ; nail extractions ; snakes ( favored for use with women ); electrical shocks with cattle prods, often into the rectum ; cigarette burns ; sitting on hot grills ; acid dripped into nostrils ; near-drownings ; mock executions ; and an electric chair with a large metal mask to muffle screams while amplifying them for the victim.

Letterman would gradually show increased mock irritation with the clip in discussions with bandleader Paul Shaffer, while at the same time calling it " exciting, moving, inspirational " and " stirring, haunting, beautiful ".

Less than an hour later, while the Libyans were conducting a search and rescue operation of their downed pilots, two fully armed MiG-25s entered the airspace over the Gulf and headed towards the US carriers at Mach 1. 5 and conducted a mock attack in the direction of USS Nimitz.

The emperor Caligula is said to have ridden a horse across a pontoon bridge stretching two miles between Baiae and Puteoli while wearing the armour of Alexander the Great to mock a soothsayer who had claimed he had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

In response to the petition, church leaders acknowledged that while they disagree " on many fundamentals " they join the HRC in condemning any " acts of cruelty or attempts to belittle or mock any group or individual that is different – whether those differences arise from race, religion, mental challenges, social status, sexual orientation.

FA-18 HUD while engaged in a mock dogfight

In 1996, while working as a translator for the Council of the European Union, he invented Europanto, a mock international auxiliary language.

After heavy US pressure, the PA tried four " suspects " in a Palestinian military court, but intelligence agencies dismissed the tribunal as a " mock trial " and said while the suspects were PRC activists, they were not those responsible for the attack.

All the while, the people he meets mock him without his knowing.

Nearly all Swedish Chef sketches begin with him in a kitchen, waving some utensils while singing his signature song in his typical mock Swedish – a semi-comprehensible gibberish mimicking Swedish phonology and prosody.

It is similar to a moot court, but mock trials simulate lower-court trials, while moot court simulates appellate court hearings.

In a mock match Michaels laid down while Triple H ran around the ring and eventually pinned him for the championship.

One example is in the convoy after Katerina gives Sergei her stockings: in the opera, all the women mock Katerina, whereas in the story, Sergei and Sonya mock her while Fiona and Gordyushka shame them in response to their cruelty toward her.

" In Matthew 27: 43, while Jesus hangs on the cross, the Jewish leaders mock him to ask God help, " for he said, I am the Son of God ", referring to the claim of Jesus to be the Son of God.

* 4-thread: Decorative edging and finishing, seaming high-stress areas, mock safety stitches which create extra strength while retaining flexibility.