Microsoft, Yahoo ... Google

April 21, 2008 9:04 PM

"Charlie Rose" by Samuel Beckett. [SLYT post]. Strangely compelling.
posted by LarryC (23 comments total)

I can't go on. I'll go on Charlie Rose.
posted by Bromius at 9:11 PM on April 21, 2008 [6 favorites]

Well, that pissed on the grave of Beckett. And made me laugh.
posted by Football Bat at 9:18 PM on April 21, 2008

That was nicely surreal.
posted by flatluigi at 9:34 PM on April 21, 2008

Google.
posted by saslett at 9:39 PM on April 21, 2008

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Google.
posted by Wolof at 9:43 PM on April 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

my Goo... Google image results for "Steve is not happy".
Aaand we come full circle (<-google cache of huge old mefi thread)
posted by pantsrobot at 9:44 PM on April 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

The best thing about this from my perspective is how well it captures Charlie Rose's style for trying to crack his guest's emotional makeup, get in under their skins. The brilliant absurdity of him getting under his own skin!
Also gets us closer to the question of what Godot the tech industry is waiting for, and how much it does or does not have to do with Steve Jobs' pretty white computing devices.
posted by l33tpolicywonk at 10:11 PM on April 21, 2008

Charlie Rose is a third grade interviewer who's been phoning it in for a loooooong time. The fact that he's still one of the better interviewers on TV is like saying Jeb Bush is the pick of the litter.
posted by any major dude at 10:40 PM on April 21, 2008

Good idea, but could have been executed better. Too much repetitions is like not enough. 2/5.
posted by jchgf at 10:43 PM on April 21, 2008

Brilliant!
posted by painquale at 10:54 PM on April 21, 2008

I was meh until the repeated 'google' section, then I started cackling.
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 1:40 AM on April 22, 2008

Charlie Rose is the happiest man on TV.
posted by Dizzy at 3:19 AM on April 22, 2008

Microsoft and Yahoo.
posted by onlyconnect at 5:37 AM on April 22, 2008

Google?
posted by zerobyproxy at 5:44 AM on April 22, 2008

Yahoo.

(I laughed and laughed and laughed.)

Microsoft and Yahoo.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 5:52 AM on April 22, 2008

MetaFilter: No... we're not gonna do that.
posted by Poolio at 6:03 AM on April 22, 2008

Radiohead.
posted by elwoodwiles at 9:14 AM on April 22, 2008

Yahoo?
posted by silby at 10:12 AM on April 22, 2008

i loled
posted by Addiction at 10:36 AM on April 22, 2008

Darmok and Gilead at Tinagra
posted by and for no one at 10:37 AM on April 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Dude! If you're going to nerd it up, nerd it up right.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Thanks for the this. I, too, lol'ed.
posted by Locative at 12:24 AM on April 23, 2008

Microsoft and Yahoo. Microsoft and Yahoo at the table. Google at the door, Steve on hovercraft.
posted by and for no one at 9:55 AM on April 23, 2008

Microsoft, his arms wide.
Yahoo, his eyes closed. Yahoo at court. The court of silence.
Windows Vista, when the walls fell.
posted by painquale at 9:18 PM on April 26, 2008 [1 favorite]