They've got to do a spoof on Modular synthesis doc called I Dream of Wires.

I'd love Another State of Mind, or any of the Decline of Western Civilizations, but I don't know if they'd go for them.
My Amityville Horror, Winnebago Man, Room 237, Gates of Heaven, Crumb, The People Vs. O.J. Simpson, Beyond The Mat would all be great. And I agree on Heavy Metal Parking Lot I'd love to see somebody re-create that. The Beaver Trilogy's already been re-created but I wouldn't mind more

Pumping Iron would be great.

It is another Errol Morris documentary, but I think Tabloid would be great to spoof.

Gimme Shelter is the one I'd most like to see them take on. I don't know who could play Jagger but I can see Hader as a taciturn Charlie Watts.
There's a lesser known documentary called "Super Size She" about a female bodybuilder and it is just screaming for a spoof it almost seems like one itself.
Also I loved "Cutie and the Boxer" and I think Hader & Armisen would have a blast playing those two parts.
I wish they'd find an excuse to bring in Will Forte for an episode - I loved his chemistry with Armisen on SNL.

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I'm not a documentary person, the only stuff I know is Exit through the Gift Shop, Inconvenient Truth, General Tso's Chicken, Wordplay, Supersize Me, Spike Lee's stuff, Werner Herzog, and Michael Moore. I was vaguely aware of the origin for the Kanuck documentary.
So I'd like to say the more popular the documentary, the cooler it would be.
I disagree about the fake band, I think that Fred Armisen is too hyper-tuned into the social norms of the concert world, so what's funny in his head isn't that funny to the rest of the world. His humor is very esoteric and I already felt like the Test Pattern episode was derivative of the Blue Jeans Committee.
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I'm up for everything but I would LOVE to see more from Dronez.
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I'd love it if they could expand the series to include something like the goddess-awful
Forensic Files.
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Meanwhile, my two absolute favorite documentaries,
Trekkies
http://www.imdb.com/board/10120370/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
and
Tribute
http://www.imdb.com/board/10297439/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5
are so wild they're practically spoofs already.
I also think that new Netflix abomination Making a Murderer is ripe for a sendup. It's so obviously slanted to a particular point of view there's no objective journalism there.

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In Search of Ancient Astronauts
Anything by Michael Wood, a British historian sometimes called "the thinking woman's crumpet." He's a bit of a Gilderoy Lockhart,and would make for a lovely sendup.

In Cold Blood
SOME kind of Capote takeoffthough neither star's quite pudgy enough to play him : )
Capote's life was filled with such pathetic comedy, already. I think it was Lee Radziwill who said, "His voice was so high only dogs could hear it" (!!)

Beyond that, what about the excruciatingly precocious
My Kid Could Paint That
(2007) ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Kid_Could_Paint_That
Or the insultingly, almost ineptly, fraudulent
Catfish
(2010) ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film)

Ha ha. Well, but it is though. And it's imminently spoofable.
It may very well be spoofable, but just out of curiositywhere are you getting the "documentary" aspect of "In Cold Blood" from? It has zero documentary elements at all. In the same respect "Everest" isn't a documentary-hybrid, either.

Can't be.
Ha ha. Well, but it is though. And it's imminently spoofable.

In Cold Blood is considered a documentary hybrid.
Can't be. As vague as the "documentary hybrid" category is, the films are, at their most basic, documentaries with fiction elements added to them, i.e. recreated scenes, etc.
"In Cold Blood" isn't that at all. It's a straight up narrative, scripted film based on a book that isn't nearly as accurate as it portends to be.

Sorry. Ring of Truth: the Onion Field.
In Cold Blood is considered a documentary hybrid.

"The Onion Field" and "In Cold Blood" aren't documentaries.
"Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" would be good, though, if they revisit documentaries by the same filmmaker. (Errol Morris.)

The Onion Field
Fast, Loose, and Out of Control
In Cold Blood

"Triumph of the Will" would be pretty hard to pull off, "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is already pretty comedic, but "Hoop Dreams", the films of Ken Burns and Werner Herzog, "Anvil", and "Catfish" are all really good ideas.

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-Dear Zachary is a real nail-biter though I have no idea how they could make that subject matter not depressing without changing the story a lot.
Ooooooohhhh.as much as I think that in comedy almost anything is up for grabs, this one might be a little sacrilegious to attempt.
But I agree that Fred Armisen is well prepared to take on documentaries as a liberal spoof. Michael Moore has so many docs, but it seems like "Roger and Me" would be the best / easiest to derive an alternate take on.
Some other favorites ripe for spoofing:
"Hoop Dreams"
"Grizzly Man" - I mean, come on, Werner Herzog should have been an obvious target in S1.
The "Up" series - every seven years, a new installment? Potential for comic gold there.
"Gimme Shelter"
"Olympiad / Triumph of the Will" the pomp, grandeur and gorgeous cinematography of Leni Riefenstahl
"Capturing the Friedmans"
Anything Ken Burns
"Stop Making Sense"
"Don't Look Back"
"Spellbound"
"Exit Through the Gift Shop"
"Catfish"
"Anvil: The Story of Anvil"
"Man on Wire"
"The War Room"

"Salesman would be pretty cool, as well as "Gates of Heaven" or "Vernon, Florida".

I think an exit through the giftshop parody would be great, and maybe zboys lords of dogtown kind of thing, and I also thought of dear zachary off the bat since it's soooo stylized but yeah I don't know how you would make that without being tasteless.