The comedy show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on Adult Swim featured Wiseau prominently in the fourth season episode titled Tommy.[110] Recruited as a "guest director", Wiseau is interviewed in mockumentary style, along with the show's leading actors, during the production of a fake film titled The Pig Man. Two scenes from The Room are featured during the episode. Adult Swim broadcast the movie three times from 2009 to 2011 as part of their April Fools' Day programming. In 2012, they showed the first twenty seconds of the movie before switching to a broadcast of the then-defunct programming block Toonami for the remainder of the night – the popularity of this prank led Adult Swim to bring the block back on May 26 of that year.[111]
On June 18, 2009, a RiffTrax for The Room was released, featuring commentary by Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy, formerly of Mystery Science Theater 3000.[112] This was followed up with a live theater show by RiffTrax on May 6, 2015,[113] which was shown in 700 theaters across the U.S. and Canada. The show screened once more on January 28, 2016, as part of the Best of RiffTrax Live series.[114]
On his 2009 DVD My Weakness Is Strong, comedian Patton Oswalt parodied The Room with a fake infomercial. The spoof also features a cameo from Jon Hamm.[115]
In 2010, the film was mocked on the Internet comedy series Nostalgia Critic, which highlighted the film's bad acting and writing but encouraged viewers to see the movie: "It truly is one of those films you have to see to believe."[116] The episode was taken down following claims of copyright infringement from Wiseau-Films. It was replaced by a short video titled "The Tommy Wi-Show", in which host Doug Walker, dressed as Wiseau, mocked the threatened legal actions. The main review was later reinstated.[117] Both Greg Sestero and Juliette Danielle have praised the review, and Sestero later made several cameo appearances on The Nostalgia Critic, starting with the episode "Dawn of the Commercials", where he reprised his role of Mark.[117] Both Wiseau and Sestero appeared in separate episodes on Walker's talk show, Shut Up and Talk.[118][29]
In 2011, Greg DeLiso and Peter Litvin directed and produced a video titled "The Room Rap", telling the story of The Room's production while mocking the green screen work and sub-par acting found in the movie.[119] The video was listed in the Acknowledgements of Greg Sestero's 2014 book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made.
In Wiseau's 2014 sitcom pilot The Neighbors, the character Troy watches The Room in a scene.[120]
In 2015, Sestero starred in the 5-Second Films feature Dude Bro Party Massacre III, directed by Michael Rousselet, the patient zero of The Room cult movement.[63][121]
In the 2016 Marvel comic book Spider-Man/Deadpool #12, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) receives a DVD copy of The Room as a Christmas gift from Deadpool, but complains that she actually wanted Room, starring Brie Larson. She also goes on to state that Tommy Wiseau is actually an alien criminal wanted by the Guardians of the Galaxy.[122]
The Sunday, July 5, 2015, installment of Amy Dickinson's advice column Ask Amy unwittingly featured a hoax letter that derived its situational premise from The Room and, even after being edited for publication, retained phrases from the film's dialogue;[123] Dickinson addressed the hoax in the following Saturday's edition of July 11 of the National Public Radio comedy and quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, where she appears as a regular panelist,[124] and in her July 20, 2015 column.[125][126]
Comic #1400 of the online comic xkcd, which appeared July 28, 2014, presented a satirical equivalence between Wiseau and still-unidentified hijacker D. B. Cooper, with comparisons between the money, age, and speaking style of the two, and speculated on a connection between Wiseau's background and Cooper's fate.[127]
