Charlie Rose on Charlie Rose; the serpent swallows its tail

Somebody somewhere asked a few very imporant questions about The Charlie Rose Show. The first was, “what if Samuel Beckett wrote a play about the Charlie Rose show?” The second question, a two parter, “what does Charlie Rose really know about technology, and why doesn’t Steve like this?”

The answer to both questions was this video:  

I like the inventiveness of using the negative space on the Charlie Rose show to cover the edits. There are no really fancy editing techniques here, just some good old fashioned trickery.