Every time we see a bad episode of Charlie Rose -- and Tuesday's listless, patchworked, and weirdly flirty triple header of Peter Matthiessen, Edward Albee, and Jhumpa Lahiri was a real doozy -- we are reminded of our favorite awkward Charlie show: his 2001 interview with international musical superstar and UN Ambassador to Fairyland Björk, an excerpt of which appears above. Charlie is so out of his depth here, coaxing conversation from the spacy and ethereal Ms. Guðmundsdóttir -- and yet never quite convincing you that he knew who the hell she was... "Tell me about sound," he says, and she just giggles. Man, it's like watching lithium dry. How exactly did this not become a SNL sketch?
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