Brass Eye (1997)

Chris Morris moved from the nightly bulletin to the hectoring current affairs documentary, and made it dangerous. The episodes copy the genre's moral panic, grim reconstructions and urgent campaigns, then put real celebrities and an MP in front of the camera to endorse them, most famously a warning against a made-up drug called Cake. The 2001 special on pedophilia and media panic drew around 3,000 complaints. Choose it for parody with real targets, and expect it to be far harsher than The Day Today.