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Steve Carell Spoke at Princeton's Commencement; Stuck it to Technology

by | June 6th, 2012

It's too bad that comedians aren't constantly giving commencement speeches because they are great at it. Steve Carell is the most recent example of this phenomenon. He focused his speech on the youth's dependence on technology: "Have we lost touch with our simpler selves? I believe we have. And by we, I mean you." Perfection. Someone in the audience bootlegged the thing, so the quality isn't the best; however, on the bright side, you get to learn what the laugh of a Princeton graduate sounds like.

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Andy Samberg Gives Harvard's Class Day Speech in a Very Andy Samberg Way

by | May 24th, 2012

Last year Harvest Harvard had Amy Poehler (below) speak at Class Day and this year they had Andy Samberg. It's not fair. My commencement speaker was some old white dude, I think he was the House Minority Whip but he dressed nothing like Indiana Jones. (Where your hat at Steny Hoyer!?) Nonetheless, Andy Samberg did a great job being Andy Samberg, pulling out all of the Andy Samberg stops. He read that one timeless Yeats poem that sounds identical to Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It", seamlessly (not seamlessly, there were giant seams) worked in his three impressions, and talked all sexy-like to the moms AND dads [...]

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