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[TheMan]

Sorry if this is old news but I thought you guys would appreciate this. Anyway, I was listening to the latest Jeff Gerstmann podcast when the subject of Cliffy B came up, and Jeff casually mentioned that Cliffy is doing stand up. I checked youtube hoping that someone recorded a show and...here it is:



Props to anyone who has the balls to try stand up but, yeah. Not great.

 

[Bloobs]

Its a mad world

 

[winjer]

He became a bit of a joke in recent years. So this career move make sense.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Is this where washed up game designers go to die?

 

[Sushi_Combo]

He got Phat

 

[Kamina]

so he finally noticed that he isn’t cut for game development? Good for him.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

 

[Quantum253]

Crazy, when the accumulation of your career turns out to be a stand up comedy bit.
And right at the start already talking about some dudes junk

 

[CherryFalls]

Dude is a self confirmed cuck

 

[spons]

He's also a compulsive ass-eater.

 

[DryvBy]

Is this where washed up game designers go to die?

CliffyB: "What's the deal with C++? Why haven't we moved onto something better, like A++? Maybe because we moved away from the Asian market and no one cares about the grade table? I mean, am I right? Definitely left, but am I right?"

 

[semiconscious]

did anyone clarify with him the difference between being laughed along with & being laughed at?...

 

[DeepEnigma]

CliffyB: "What's the deal with C++? Why haven't we moved onto something better, like A++? Maybe because we moved away from the Asian market and no one cares about the grade table? I mean, am I right? Definitely left, but am I right"

See, now this was funny

 

[DryvBy]

See, now this was funny

And that's why I suck at being a dev lol

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Put him in the next GTA with a chainsaw act

 

[LazyParrot]

He's also written an autobiography. I've never read it, but someone I know tried and had to stop because he couldn't stand how ridiculously full of himself the guy was.

 

[Loke]

Shame this guy stopped doing what he was good at. He made some of my favorite maps from Unreal Tournament like DM-Tempest and DM-Codex.

 

[Edder1]

Crazy to think that this guy was responsible for one of the best trilogies of all time.

 

[KaiserBecks]

I was watching an old gears documentary the other day (the one that came with the collectors edition) and while everyone on the team was talking about difficulties regarding the development of the game, he was talking about his then 19 year old girlfriend and (a couple of minutes later into the video) how they broke up. Wtf? As if anyone who watches this cared about that? I think nobody denies his talent but the guy is just self-centered.

 

[Denton]

Didn't watch it, but if it is what he wants to do, good on him. Maybe he will become good at it and sell arenas one day.
Meanwhile, Unreal and Jazz are still awesome.

 

[Diddy X]

Huge nerd way past his prime, now in a evident life decline.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Wasn’t there another comedian that loved eating ass?

 

[newtypepilot]

stand up, the dark souls of comedy

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

CliffyB: "What's the deal with C++? Why haven't we moved onto something better, like A++? Maybe because we moved away from the Asian market and no one cares about the grade table? I mean, am I right? Definitely left, but am I right?"

"I mean, whaaaaat's the deal with cancel culture? I sexually harassed my assistant and yet my bank account was still charged for my subscriptions!"

*SLAP BASS SOLO*

 

[kiphalfton]

*uncomfortable laughter*

 

[Kikorin]

I cringed after the first min, but I can't hate Cliff because he did Gears after all. I mean the good ones.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Reminds me of this classic

Cliffy B says things about microtransactions

Hi Cliffy http://dudehugespeaks.tumblr.com/post/44243746261/nickels-dimes-and-quarters

www.neogaf.com

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Nothing more pathetic than making fun of someone for trying something new. Damn you people go back to your shanties.

 

[Edder1]

.

 

[Calverz]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Don’t make fun. Cliffy B got the biggest laughs in stand up history. The crowd even gave him a standing ovation his act was so funny.

The other day he went on stage and said one word “Lawbreakers” and then walked off.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

CliffyB: "What's the deal with C++? Why haven't we moved onto something better, like A++? Maybe because we moved away from the Asian market and no one cares about the grade table? I mean, am I right? Definitely left, but am I right?"

I didn’t watch the video but I’m going to assume you made that up. There is no way anyone would come up with that so called joke.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[TexMex]

He did an interview on Sacred Symbols recently and it was incredibly painful. The comments were universally negative. Coked up and shot out of a cannon, doing a 17 year olds version of a stand up routine.

Guy is a total piece of shit, not just his comedy of course he’s done much worse.

 

[*Nightwing]

CliffyB is the best

..and it takes balls to give stand up a shot. Only thing I love more than Cliffy B is trolling him

 

[MetalFreak]

Haven’t seen it but wish him well. He was responsible for Gears so I have some respect for the guy.

 

[jshackles]

Much more cringe than I was expecting, though some of his jokes were kinda funny!

 

[RagnarokIV]

 

[Optimus Lime]

Sounds like he's truly made the Dark Souls of stand up comedy. None of that $60 actually funny bullshit.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Don’t make fun. Cliffy B got the biggest laughs in stand up history. The crowd even gave him a standing ovation his act was so funny.

The other day he went on stage and said one word “Lawbreakers” and then walked off.

Better than his Radical Heights joke which resulted in everyone walking out and Boss Key Productions locking their doors so they couldn’t get back in.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

This dude's life sounds insane. Like he is mentally unstable, yet competent enough to get put into these positions of authority until he just drops it and moves on to something else. Obsessive until he's not. Sounds exhausting.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Crazy to think he was sort of on top of the world of gaming at one point

Indie comedy is hard and not really disrespecting that, just wild that he went from so high up to kind of irrelevant

 

[TidusYuna]

 

[consoul]

Oof. This would have been terrible as drunken best man wedding speech.

Haha dicks and beavers. That's my wife. Her ass has dingleberries. Japanese toilets make you gay. More dicks. I watch a lot of gay porn btw. I wiped my face with a shit stained towel.

Why would you do this?
Forget Stand Up, this is Sit Down comedy.

 

[Alexios]

Someone tell him it's ok to just be a millionaire and not pretend you can be productive. Just enjoy life. You don't need to do a fake job you don't need.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Having watched this, I don't think it's comedy. It's just CliffyB ranting on stage. Could you imagine having to work for this guy, and then at the end of your toiling, he gets credit for fucking Gears of War? In fact he managed to make it through a whole trilogy before he "stepped away". Guess someone finally found out what the guy is really like. Take a minute and think - this guy is 50 years old and he acts like a 15 year old.

 

[P:axMagellanic]

lol, this is wonderful.

 

[danklord]

Dude… huge.

 

[poppabk]

The only problem with it was that it was almost too funny.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

I miss the old Cliffy, the decline of him is a perfect example of what kind of energy has been lost in gaming in the western sphere, replaced by low energy, boring people who at best lack the same cocky talent and at worst, actively hate gamers and are mainly here out of a parasitical carpetbagger mentality.

Basically, Cliffy was the ultimate "bro" figure in gaming, there's been a desperate, desperate bid to "unbro" gaming has much as possible, Cliffy decided to bow to it than lean against it and here we are.