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* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' has both Lewis Prothero's and Gordon Deitrich's shows, the former being the Voice of London, a part of the facist regime controlling the city, and the latter being a comedy [[Sketch Show]].
* Porn movie ''Fly Girls'' is about the guerilla shooting of a porn film on a plane. The actors and actresses all play parodies of themselves. It's actually really funny.
* ''Scandale'' (1982) was a hastily-made B-movie which parodied a 1981 Québec provincial scandal. Civil servants were caught using the legislative assembly's video equipment to view and duplicate porn. There was a brief claim, quickly debunked, that the underpaid civil servants were making porn using legislature facilities... so the film runs with this to create ''Pornobec'' as a Show Within a Show, with the final product accidentally submitted to the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in place of whatever film the Ministry of Culture intended to promote. The movie they're supposedly making serves mostly as a way of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] by inserting as much porn as possible without the real picture being reclassified from « comédie érotique » to a pornographic film. The whole feature was written in a month, shot in about a month on 16mm film and rushed into distribution before the original scandal was long forgotten. There was a VHS release (in French only) and a heavily-cut version (the [[Moral Guardians|Ontario Censor Board]] in this era being far more draconian than its Québec counterpart) ran in both languages in the wee hours on the new Canadian pay-TV channels which launched in Feb 1983. There is no DVD. A three-minute cabaret number "Callgirl" sung by regionally-notable mainstream rock star Nanette Workman was the only redeeming moment of an otherwise dreadful film; that one brief Show Within a Show is on sites like YouTube, but finding the original feature film in its entirety is pretty much a lost cause.
* ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' begins with a play about the eponymous Baron, performing his [[Tall Tale|tall tales]] in a burned out city; when the real Baron von Munchausen shows up to "correct" their portayal of him and his erstwhile companions, to whom the actors bear a striking resemblance.
* ''[[The Tall Guy]]'' features [[Jeff Goldblum]] as a struggling actor who quits his job as sidekick to popular, and abusive offstage, comedian Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson in a hilarious [[Self-Deprecation|self-parody]]). He auditions unsuccessfully for parts in several plays, and finally lands the lead role in a musical version of ''[[The Elephant Man]]'' entitled, according to his agent, "'Elephant', I think; with an exclamation point, presumably".
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