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    The Show Tunes And Plaid Pants Of The 'Documentary Now!' Sondheim Send-up

    The IFC series Documentary Now!, which has been in fine parody form for three seasons, plays around with Stephen Sondheim's Company and Broadway conventions in a new episode.
    by Linda Holmes Feb 27, 2019 4 minutes
    Taran Killam as Benedict A. Juniper, James Urbaniak as Howard Pine and John Mulaney as Simon Sawyer.

    When it comes to niche programming, there is everything else, and then there is Documentary Now!

    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. It is less than zero. (And if there were a documentary about the making of the movie , there would be a episode about it.) It is for lovers of parody who are lovers of documentary who are lovers of whatever the particular parodied documentary

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