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.

The Old Negro Space Program is a short mockumentary in the style of a Ken Burns film.

He was the travelling reporter for the highly acclaimed, but controversial, BBC mockumentary Ghostwatch, which tricked viewers into believing it was a live investigation into ghost sightings in a suburban home on Halloween night ( 1992 ).

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

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

He also garnered a good deal of acclaim for his TV " mockumentary " Tanner ' 88, based on a presidential campaign, for which he earned an Emmy Award and regained critical favor.

The sibling relationship with his elder brother, the Honourable Erik Nielsen, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, served as the premise of an HBO mockumentary entitled The Canadian Conspiracy in which Leslie Nielsen appeared, along with other prominent Canadian-born media personalities.

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.

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.

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.

Stella Street was a mockumentary which ran on the BBC from 1997 to 2001.

Bluto is referenced in BBC mockumentary The Office as a nickname for David Brent given to him by some of his colleagues, to which he takes offence.

* The biggest hit song by the band Boyzvoice in the Norwegian mockumentary Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced is We Are the Playmo-men, in which the band members sing about being Playmobil men.

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television " mockumentary " for the VH1 series Behind The Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live, which he hosted as himself.

The Calcium Kid is a British mockumentary comedy film which was released in 2004.

She received roles in four of Christopher Guest's mockumentary films, three of which earned her awards and nominations: Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration.

Martin wrote, produced and directed the 2003 comedy movie Bad Eggs ( in which he also made a cameo appearance as a game show host ), and wrote and directed the unreleased 2007 mockumentary BoyTown Confidential.

A Mighty Wind is a 2003 mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands must reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades.

Dark Side of the Moon is a French mockumentary by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune.

The film was parodied by the 2002 mockumentary Dot, which featured Simeon Schnapper as Si Phateuxx, the parodical counterpart of Kaleil Tuzman.

The film also draws from Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap which Robbins states is one of his favorite films, and directly references this during the scene in which Roberts gets lost in an auditorium attempting to find the stage before his performance.

In March 2007, she starred in a new British mockumentary called Killing Brigitte Nielsen, which aired on Sky Travel.

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.

This could be a reference to the mockumentary The Canadian Conspiracy, which details how the Canadian government is subverting the United States by taking over its media, and came out in 1985, one year before the setting of the game.

In Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced, a mockumentary about their lives, first released in 2000, they have to overcome a scandal involving lip-synching over recordings made by session musicians, which results in their being dropped by their record company — reminiscent of the real-life incident involving Milli Vanilli.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

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.

The 2010 film I'm Still Here was another mockumentary.

In 1978, the Rutles ' mockumentary film All You Need Is Cash, a collaboration between Python members and Saturday Night Live, was aired on NBC television, as written by Idle, with music by Innes.

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.

A Hard Day's Night ( 1964 ), written by Alun Owen, and purporting to describe a couple of days in the lives of The Beatles, was possibly the first feature film that could be characterized as a " mockumentary ".

Zelig was a 1983 American mockumentary film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Allen and Mia Farrow.

When it was revealed to be a mockumentary, director Peter Jackson received much abuse for tricking the nation.

In 2010, a mockumentary entitled Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison ?, featuring fabricated found footage audio tapes of a voice claiming to be Harrison explaining that the rumour was true, was released on video.

Much of the 1995 mockumentary " Dadetown " was filmed in and around Hammondsport.

The Office is a popular mockumentary / sitcom that was first made in the United Kingdom and has now been remade in many other countries, with overall viewership in the hundreds of millions worldwide.

A feature length version of the show was made in 1979 and in 2003 a follow-up mockumentary was aired.

The special was shot as a mockumentary, where the characters were aware of the presence of cameras and a crew.

The term was used by Bill Drake in the 1969 History of Rock & Roll radio broadcast, and by Rob Reiner in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.