Le Charly Show
2026 · 2m
Directed by Rose Bolos Lefebvre
A mine brimming with sapphires draws the attention of every media outlet, and the slightly special experts and journalists of the Charly Show are on hand to explain it all.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A fake news show about a sapphire mine staffed by 'slightly special' experts—this swings wildly at media credibility theater and collective delusion, and the absurdist commitment never winks at the audience. Most scouts would read this as straightforward satire; Felix reads it as a Trojan horse for something weirder.
Lefebvre positions herself within a lineage of deadpan institutional satire—there's echoes of WKRP and the mockumentary tradition—but the execution feels restraint-aware, each comedic beat measured against the formalist constraint of the two-minute frame.
The whole conceit lives or dies on the casting decision to lean into 'slightly special' without condescension; Lefebvre's choice to play it completely straight—no mugging, no wink—is what transforms this from sketch comedy into something actually unsettling.