Long-time PBS talkshow host Charlie Rose is many things to many people, but an ultra-minimalist, existential dramatic absurdist he is not. Until now."Something has happened to PBS favorite 'Charlie Rose,'" writes YouTube "Director" Andrew Filippone Jr. "The erudite conversations and sober intellectualism [of Charlie Rose] have been replaced." In this hilarious edit of his PBS segments, the famed interviewer surrounds himself with a theatrical darkness to stare down his most able adversary: himself.
Together, the two Charlies tackle the looming issue of the future of technology, all the while enduring cold, dark silences, much like those that define the dramatic works of 20th Century Irish playright Samuel Beckett. Sentence fragments ricochet through the script in the style of so many of Beckett's famous works, and absurdity rules the conversation with such spliced exchanges as:
Charlie 1: Google.
Charlie 2: No. We're not going to do that [...]
Charlie 1: Steve is not happy.
Charlie 2: What's going to happen?
[silence]
Ominous in delivery, post-modern in scope....and did I mention it was hilarious? Click here to watch.
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Chris Steib is qua qua qua.
He is not. Stop.
He is he, is not. Your father?
He is not, he is. Your mother?
Your...dog?
He is not Samuel Beckett. Stop.
Chris Steib is qua qua qua.He is not. Stop.
He is he, is not. Your father?
He is not, he is. Your mother?
Your...dog?
He is not Samuel Beckett. Stop.
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