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The numerous parody serials put on — in every sense of the word — by radio satirists Bob & Ray, as part of their own radio programs. The duo went so far as to invent fictional writers, producers, announcers and cast members, all of whom would frequently argue amongst themselves in the course of an episode.
Kids' Radio and BTV on Adventures in Odyssey.
The radio series of The Mighty Boosh briefly features Colobos the Crab, a televesion program of which Vince appears to be a fan, although the content is left both vauge and suitably absurd.
The Firesign Theatre: "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers" involves Former Child Star George Tirebiter watching some of his old movies on late night TV, such as the Archie Comics pastiche High School Madness and the war movie Parallel Hell.

Played with by Evermore's song "Hey Boys and Girls", from the concept album Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show. As part of the album's plot, it's a broadcast by the eponymous radio station. But it was also released as a single, and when it's played alone on the radio, with the opening line "We're interrupting transmission... welcome to the show" - it looks like Truth of the World just took over your radio station. The show-within-a-show has broken out of The Show and is now running the show...

Classic British radio comedy shows made by the BBC did this routinely. A stellar example would be sketch comedy show Son of Cliché which featured, as one of its many Shows Within A Show, a scifi comedy serial called Dave Hollins - Space Cadet. After the demise of the parent radio show, the scriptwriters rejigged this for TV as Red Dwarf.
The '60s ensemble comedy show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again had a long-running Show Within A Show called Professor Prune And His Electric Time Trousers, which featured an eccentric old buffer and his intrepid young assistants, travelling through space and time in the aforementioned Time Trousers.