![]() ![]() Pennebaker film about the recording of the cast album of Stephen Sondheim's Company. Its jumping-off point is Original Cast Album: Company, a 1970 D.A. Wednesday's episode is called Original Cast Album: Co-op. Pop Culture Happy Hour Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Documentary Now!' And Life Onscreen ![]() ![]() But the longer it runs, the more specific and strange it can (blessedly) become, and on Wednesday night, it uncorks one of its best episodes yet. In its first season, it covered some famous films like Grey Gardens, Nanook Of The North and The Thin Blue Line. (And if there were a documentary about the making of the movie Less Than Zero, there would be a Documentary Now! episode about it.) It is for lovers of parody who are also lovers of documentary who are also lovers of whatever the particular parodied documentary is about, be it bowling or Broadway or '70s bands.ĭocumentary Now! airs on IFC and was created by Saturday Night Live veterans Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Rhys Thomas. If we still lived in a world in which everything had to justify time on one of only three broadcast networks, the odds that we would ever have seen the birth of an entire series that parodies documentaries is zero. When it comes to niche programming, there is everything else, and then there is Documentary Now! Juniper, James Urbaniak as Howard Pine and John Mulaney as Simon Sawyer. ![]()
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