Bill Gates's home video

Bill Gates made a home video to lighten up his speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Being Gates, it wasn't your average home video.

Pretending to be a documentary about his last day at work at Microsoft and his efforts to find a new job, the bulti-zillionaire is shown toodling around the campus of the company HQ in Seattle in a humble Ford Focus, with a briefcase perched precariously on the roof, Mr Bean-style.

Inside the company gym, he does a bench press and asks his personal trainer: "Am I ready to take my shirt off?"

"Not yet," says the trainer, who is played by Hollywood heartthrob Matthew McConaughey.

Later, Gates is seen playing the music video game Guitar Hero, and talking to Bono on the phone about a career in rock.

"We're full up in the band. All positions are filled. I can't just replace The Edge because you got a high score on Guitar Hero," says Bono.

Gates thinks about politics but gets more setbacks as he is seen offering himself as a running mate to Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and Barack Obama. (So, probably not going to be voting Republican, then.)

Thwarted, he turns out the lights in his office, picks up the box full of his belongings and goes out to the car, placing the box on the car roof. Then he drives off, sending the box crashing to the ground.

The video ends with Brian Williams, the NBC news anchorman, complaining that he won't be able to report on Gates anymore, a man "too cheap to spend more than $7 for a haircut".

Comments

[Adam Johnson]

Bill Gates may have become a billionaire with MicroSoft, but still, he missed his real calling; he should have become a professional comedian. He's worth a billion laughs.

Good luck on your "retirement" Mr. Gates. You're really funny and you're fun to watch.

Sincerely,
Adam Johnson

[Vegetable]

Ouch. A scathing comment from Adam!

[Madhav Desai]

Wonderful Genuis. This loss will be felt througout.

[Denny]

lol bless him
Hope he helps a lot of people in need around the world!
:D