Documentary comedy is a form of comedy. The comic material used is presented in documentary style — usually based around a particular theme or issue — and with the same investigation and reporting methods used to gather the material.
Well-known documentary comics include Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace, Tony Hawks, Alex Horne and Mark Steel.
It is not to be confused with mockumentary, a form of spoof in which a documentary is played "straight" but based on fictitious material.
Famous quotes containing the words documentary and/or comedy:
“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)