Sunday, June 1, 2008

In Honor of Graduation Season...

And in keeping with my tradition of shamelessly mining the humor of others to supplement my own original content, here is my favorite ever commencement address***--Conan O'Brien Class Day speech to Harvard's graduating class of 2000.

This was back when Conan--a Harvard man himself, of course--was at the very height of his comedic powers. The remarks start with a bang:

"I'd like to thank the Class Marshals for inviting me here today. The last time I was invited to Harvard it cost me $110,000, so you'll forgive me if I'm a bit suspicious. I'd like to announce up front that I have one goal this afternoon: to be half as funny as tomorrow's Commencement Speaker, Moral Philosopher and Economist, Amartya Sen. Must get more laughs than seminal wage/price theoretician."

Happy Sunday, everyone.

***Yes, I indeed recognize that normal people don't have "favorite ever commencement addresses." I've long since come to terms with that. Still...enjoy the speech.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

What about Will?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVu8jfhcO9k

bessye said...

Happy Sunday to you too.
Just wanted to say Thank you!
Thank you for your efforts and bravery.
And I also wanted to say,you have a nice blog. I enjoyed the way you have developed it. Very interesting material, also funny...
Wishing you and your beautiful bride a wonderful long life ahead.
I welcome you to visit my blog should you wish to.
http://creativemindworks.blogspot.com. In any case, I will continue to visit yours. Thanks again.

Georgia's Work at Home Journal said...

I still favor lifetime motivations in commencement addresses.
It gives the graduates something to look forward to in life and achieve

Unknown said...

Humour? Honestly??

Exnicios said...

I mean, what's funnier than superfluous u's?

Julianne said...

This is also my favorite commencement speech of all time - you are not alone.

I thoroughly enjoy your blog, keep up the good work here and they amazing work overseas :)

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