Basic cable host Conan O'Brien delivers a commencement address for the ages
By tradition, college commencement addresses are supposed to be brief, serious, self-important and eminently forgettable because the diplomas are coming real soon. (Quick! Who spoke at your graduation?)
By all these counts, late-night comedian Conan O'Brien failed the other day at Dartmouth College.
Which is what makes his 23-minute oration so memorable and funny and human. Amid all the relevant and self-deprecating silliness, O'Brien also managed to share a significant slice of himself and to impart a valuable lesson to the more than 1,700 graduates, family, friends and, as O'Brien put it, those old folks who just like to come to these things.
Who cares about Dartmouth. That was just the setting for a memorable speech by someone now starring on basic cable.
There's a smidge of politics in his remarks. But even if there wasn't we'd highly recommend you give this video a view.
-- Andrew Malcolm
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Photo: Jason R. Henske / Associated Press (Conan's audience reaction).
Taking truth and amking fun of it....very funny
Posted by: instant tent 8-14' x 10' | June 14, 2011 at 09:44 AM
It is a very inspiring speech. Relevant to the young and the middle age.
Posted by: Diana Santiago | June 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM
I LOVED IT!
Posted by: i love it | June 14, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Whoa! Look at political edge, over here, takin' shots at Sec. Geithner. Yeesh.
Posted by: Wolf McGriff | June 14, 2011 at 06:39 PM