The Dalai Lama erupted into laughter as an Australian television presenter fumbled an attempt at cracking a bizarre joke about pizzas.
You couldn't make it up.
Karl Stefanovic, journalist and television presenter of the Today show, was granted a brief rare interview with the Tibetan leader.
Only instead of asking him questions about world peace and solving famine he decided to blurt out a gag, which then had to be partly translated.
'So the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop...'
Mr Stefanovic, thinking he gets it, continued the joke by adding 'and he says, "Can you make me one with everything?"'
The play on words were met with an uncomfortable blank stare until eventually the Dalai Lama burst out laughing, not at the joke, but the presenter's attempt to explain it.
His Holiness might have diffused the situation in a cool way but it failed to save the presenter from embarrassment.
He later tweeted: 'OK worst gag of the year with best guest short list. Even I am cringing.'
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