Does your comedy plot work as a plot?

Zoolander 2 was on TV last night. It’s a pisstake of The Da Vinci Code where the original swiped the plot of The Manchurian Candidate, which is one of the reasons it didn’t work as well for me as its structure has always been goofy.

Of course, neither is up to Josie And The Pussycats, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, where among other things the comic conspiracy plot relates directly to the industry it’s about.

But then

so I know it’s not a fair comparison.