Satire Bucket List

A study group at a community college and the paintball episodes; six seasons and no movie yet.

Malcolm Tucker swears his way through Whitehall; Armando Iannucci before Veep.

Sir Humphrey runs the minister; Margaret Thatcher's favourite programme.

A novice nun's charity turns into a beggars' Last Supper; banned in Spain, Palme d'Or in Cannes.

Dinner guests who cannot leave the room, for weeks; Bunuel in Mexico.

A small-town firemen's ball where everything goes wrong; Forman's satire banned "forever" in 1968.

Demi Moore injects a younger self out of her spine; Fargeat's body-horror satire.

Robert Pattinson dies and is reprinted on an ice planet; Bong Joon-ho's English-language satire.

A Hitler Youth boy with an imaginary Hitler played by Taika Waititi hides a Jewish girl.

A luxury cruise, a Marxist captain, a storm at dinner and an island where the cleaner rules.

The 2008 crash explained by Margot Robbie in a bath; McKay makes finance a comedy.

Ryan Reynolds' foul-mouthed mercenary breaks the fourth wall; the R-rated superhero hit.

Jake Gyllenhaal films crime scenes for the morning news in LA; a sociopath's success story.

A London supercop in a Gloucestershire village where accidents happen; Wright's action parody.

Five students at a cabin and the office that runs the horror; Whedon and Goddard's meta-slasher.

Aliens in a Johannesburg township; Blomkamp's apartheid allegory as documentary sci-fi.

TPS reports, a red stapler and a printer beaten to death; the cubicle comedy.

A dead Detroit cop rebuilt as a machine; Verhoeven's satire wrapped in an action film.

A masked killer who has seen every horror film; Wes Craven reinvents the slasher.

Zombies in a shopping mall; Romero's consumerism satire with the gore of Tom Savini.

Peter Sellers as a gardener whose TV platitudes are mistaken for wisdom in Washington.

A disaster movie played straight by Leslie Nielsen; "don't call me Shirley".

Mel Brooks in black and white with Gene Wilder; "Puttin' on the Ritz".

Brooks' western parody with a Black sheriff and a campfire scene of beans.

A newsreader who is "mad as hell" becomes a ratings hit; Chayefsky predicted television.

Chaplin caught in the gears of a factory, the last stand of the silent comedy.

The Marx Brothers run the country of Freedonia into war; the mirror scene.

Lubitsch's Warsaw actors outwit the Gestapo; a comedy about the Nazis made in 1942.

San Diego's 1970s news team meets a woman who wants to read the news.

Sacha Baron Cohen's fake Kazakh reporter crosses America and it answers him honestly.