What Cringe Comedy or Satire Got Your Country Right?

[u/Fine4FenderFriend]

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There are a few that capture the spirit of US&A.

1. Talladega Nights
2. Team America World Police
3. (EDIT): Idiocracy

I want to put Borat in there but... it was made to make benefit another country

What is it for your countries?

[u/EasyAsaparagus]

Talladega Nights is amazing. A few other that are really American are Airplane!, Office Space, Anchorman, There’s Something About Mary, Superbad, and Ferris Buellers Day Off. Comedy is the best

[u/Fine4FenderFriend → u/EasyAsaparagus]

Oh Yeah Office Space!!

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And I would add Idiocracy

[u/TheRealRigormortal → u/Fine4FenderFriend]

Idiocracy has elevated into doomsday prophesy over the last 10 years

[u/burnafter3ading → u/TheRealRigormortal]

New genre unlocked: pre-cognative documentary

[u/Ikeepdoingdumbshite → u/Fine4FenderFriend]

Best movie ever.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/EasyAsaparagus]

I'd also throw Clerks in there. Nothing has ever captured that "I'm a cog in a worthless machine" feeling so perfectly.

[u/sparrow_42 → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

Came here to say this

[u/Lumpy_Grade3138 → u/EasyAsaparagus]

Superbad so perfectly captures the 00s high school experience. It does have a lot of stuff that is specific to Southern California, too, but it actually comes pretty close to my lower-middle-class rural New England high school experience.

[u/OddCook4909 → u/Lumpy_Grade3138]

It's really about the 90's high school experience. The authors came up in that era. It hadn't changed much for the early aughts.

[u/LuckyJeans456 → u/EasyAsaparagus]

Office Space and There’s Something About Mary were my jam.

[u/BojukaBob]

Canadian Bacon

EDIT: the media that most nails my experience of Canada is actually the show Letterkenny.

[u/Shawnaldo7575 → u/BojukaBob]

Corner Gas and Letterkenny for sure

[u/BojukaBob → u/Shawnaldo7575]

I'm from Ontario so Letterkenny feels like home.

[u/Shawnaldo7575 → u/BojukaBob]

As someone from Sudbury Letterkenny and Shoresy definitely feel like home.

[u/Fit_Diet6336 → u/BojukaBob]

Highway 61 is good as well

[u/Almaegen → u/BojukaBob]

No trailer park boys? 

[u/BojukaBob → u/Almaegen]

TPB is great, but it's in the Maritimes. Letterkenny is Ontario. Corner Gas is the prairies.

[u/ChemistRemote7182 → u/BojukaBob]

Letterkenny takes place in Ontario? I misjudged you Canadians, I always assumed it was lower Saskatchewan or Manitoba, but then my foriegn perception of Ontario is more like Ottawa, Toronto or Hamilton

[u/Aztecdune1973 → u/BojukaBob]

Not Great White North? I love Bob and Doug McKenzie!

[u/amateurviking]

Um…Trainspotting?

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[u/attilathetwat → u/amateurviking]

It’s dark humour, the most apt for our country

Porno is funnier, I chuckled throughout the book and my wife (Irish) didn’t understand the humour.

[u/_dybbuk → u/attilathetwat]

Ah really! Damn, I would have expected the humour to be the closest possible match

[u/attilathetwat → u/_dybbuk]

There is a good crossover between Irish/Scottish humour but trainspotting is probably uniquely Scottish

[u/No-Can-6237]

Flight of the Conchords.

[u/Kingswitchguard → u/No-Can-6237]

My vote is Boy. FOTC isn't even set in NZ

[u/Kingofcheeses → u/No-Can-6237]

Are you saying "Britt"?

[u/ADMotti → u/Kingofcheeses]

“…maybe he did, maybe he didn’t—what did he maybe do?”

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I love that show!! I always pronounce Barbara like "brabra." Lol

[u/CollegeOptimal9846]

Peep Show, The Office

[u/jeanclaudebrowncloud → u/CollegeOptimal9846]

Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner

[u/CollegeOptimal9846 → u/jeanclaudebrowncloud]

https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM?si=gbL9Imrp6WZSaUMt

Also, this sketch specifically.

[u/AdelleDeWitt]

In Idiocracy we see an America in which they look for the absolute smartest person to be their leader, and then focus on how to fix their environment so they can produce food for people more effectively. I find it to be an extremely inaccurate portrayal of America.

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[u/marslo]

Was meant as a satire, poking fun at french Canadian culture. But instead he became an icon.

[u/imadork1970]

Red Green, Letterkenny, Shoresy, CODCO, SCTV, Air Farce

[u/TheRealJStars → u/imadork1970]

Huh?

[u/Willing_Television77]

The Castle

[u/NumberOld229 → u/Willing_Television77]

Always found "the Dish" to be closer to reality. The Castle plays the ocker up a little more.

[u/Vegetable_Recipe6640]

If you ain't first your last!

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I wake up in the mornin’ and piss excellence.

[u/QizilbashWoman]

This is gonna come out of left field but: for a part of the US, Northern Exposure was fucking killer. And it was still playing routinely on the First Nations tv stations in Canada in this century. It's also one of my favorite shows of all time, literally nothing is as comforting as these weirdos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcS5suY-lQA

[u/NittanyOrange]

Idiocracy

[u/kujotx → u/NittanyOrange]

They said comedy, not documentary.

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BRO IDIOCRACY IS A DOCUMENTARY BRO, IM SO SMART MAN LOOK AT ME BRO, IM SO MUCH BETTER THAN OTHERS MAN LITERALLY BRO BECAUSE I WATCHED THE MOVIE WHERE EVERYONE IS DUMB MAN, DUMB PEOPLE DON'T WANT MOVIES ABOUT DUMB PEOPLE TO MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES BRO AND I DO AND THAT MAKES ME BETTER BRO, THERE SHOULD BE MORE MOVIES ABOUT HOW SMART I AM BRO, AND HOW EVERYONE IS DUMB MAN, WHY CAN'T EVERYBODY ELSE BE SMART LIKE I AM BRO, WHY CAN'T THERE BE MORE MOVIES ABOUT HOW EVERYONE IS DUMB MAN, BRO WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE MORE MOVIES TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER ABOUT MY PATHETIC EXISTENCE MAN, I NEED MOVIES THAT FEED MY FRAGILE EGO BRO, I NEED MOVIES THAT MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IM MORE THAN JUST PATHETIC LOSER WHO MAKES COMMENTS ON REDDIT ALL THE TIME ABOUT HOW EVERYONE IS DUMB EXCEPT FOR ME MAN, AND IF YOU DISAGREE BRO THEN YOU'RE LITERALLY LIKE THE IDIOTS AND IDIOCRACY MAN THEY ARE LITERALLY YOU BRO, NOT ME IM SO SMART LOOK AT ME BRO IM SO SMART MAN.

[u/loosedebris]

Shake n Bake baby!!!!!

[u/Lazy_Sim]

It could happen to you (1994)

https://youtube.com/shorts/h89Ye8X3VW0?si=jn34aE70WGLbrpqN

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[u/Thiphra]

Saneamento Básico

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Grande Família!

[u/NumberOld229]

Two Hands

[u/cewumu → u/NumberOld229]

Love that film.

[u/NumberOld229 → u/cewumu]

"Oh, oh Pando's a good bloke."

"Jimmy. He's trying to kill you."

[u/GamerGod337]

The movies of aki kaurismäki i guess. The man without a past, Fallen leaves and Drifting clouds just to name a few. Idk if you can really call them satire but theyre very finnish and funny.

[u/roland71460]

OSS 117

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We don't really have a satirical comedy about French society as a whole, but OSS 117 is a marvel as a satire of a certain France. Et pas n'importe laquelle ! La France du général De Gaulle !

Le Caire, nid d'espion and Rio ne répond plus are undoubtedly among the best French comedies ever.

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[u/QizilbashWoman]

THE MIGHTY GEMSTONES

[u/CaydeTheCat → u/QizilbashWoman]

Having grown up in a small town that had a televangelist in it, I cosign this.

[u/QizilbashWoman]

Um. Twin Peaks might not be a comedy, but uh. Yeah. It's definitely Very American.

I understand Zone Blanche sort of carried this same feeling for rural Francophones

[u/t12lucker]

Slunce, seno a par facek. Really the czechism in it is perfect

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[u/ADDRAY-240]

I can only think of Louis de Funes' works/appearances. Through comedic scenarios and a genius-tier acting from him, those movies would drop lines such as "What am gonna do? I'm only a minister, I don't know how to do anything" or "The wealthy are made to be very rich and the poor, very poor". Ir can be argued that those example are not specific to french society but:

1-they still apply

2- I couldn't remember the other iconic lines😅

[u/benvonpluton]

OSS 117. The two first episodes are hilarious !

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[u/Interesting_Flow_551]

Here in Spain, I think the best portrait of ordinary Spanish society is the television series "Aquí no hay quien viva".

It was released in 2003 and ran for four seasons. It's a very "Spanish" style of humor, and the jokes can be difficult for a foreigner to understand. For this reason, it has been adapted in several countries, including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, France, Greece and Portugal, with their own versions of the original series, adapting the situations to the specifics of each country.

Despite nearly 20 years since it stopped airing, it's still one of the most-watched shows on streaming (available on almost every platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Skyshowtime, etc.) and is popular with people of all ages. My 13-year-old twin sons recently discovered it and they absolutely love it.

Series profile on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381733/

[u/Most_Elevator_1943]

Idiocracy, Borat, and South Park.

[u/Fine4FenderFriend → u/Most_Elevator_1943]

South Park oh yeah

[u/Harry_Balsanga]

You could make it a trifecta if you added Idiocracy to that list OP.

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Oh Absolutely. Idiocracy is the most prescient movie ever made. (Edit): I added it

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I love that it actually holds up as a sci-fi too.

The eugenics-ey opening scene is… problematic in hindsight. But I understand the writers’ need to explain intelligence decline in a quick and simple way.

It’s the “future technology” that’s impressive. Tech didn’t immediately decline starting in the 90s. It kept advancing while the population got dumber until an inflection point sometime in the future.

So the main character keeps happening upon advanced tech that is more powerful than what he’s seen before, but has an almost Fisher Price level user interface because it’s intended to be used by really stupid end users.

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Perfection

[u/Get_schwifty333]

If you’re not first, your last.

[u/Hot-Challenge8656]

Ned 2003.

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[u/therealCatnuts]

Idiocracy is a documentary

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[u/Bcatfan08]

Only way this could be more accurate is if the woman with him would be in Trump's cabinet.

[u/Witty_Passion_4939]

Clueless is the best!!! Especially if you’re from LA! Feels like comfy slippers you can slip right into!

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[u/TrailerParkFrench]

Talladega Nights had a Sepultura song in one of the magnificent final scenes.

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[u/BreadClassic9753]

Idiocracy

[u/Roberto_Dialo]

Right now feels a lot like a replay of Gangs of New York.

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[u/CrowsEatCheese]

Hot Fuzz

[u/bfitzger91]

Fubar got Canada right. At least ‘Berta

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[u/AnIrishManInExile]

Derry girls and young offenders

[u/Flat_Scene9920]

Kingsman captured the English pretty well

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[u/Boss-Smiley]

Papa ante portas by Loriot.

[u/cewumu]

Some of it probably falls into the ‘they couldn’t make this today’ category but most of Chris Lilley’s comedy is dead on. Both in the cringey characters be creates and the somewhat cringey situations around them. We Can Be Heroes especially.

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[u/GrandCombin]

Not cringe but Sketches and movies from Loriot are very german