Digg it!Imagine when the commencement speaker at your graduation suddenly picks you to be a part of his next movie with Ben Stiller. That can only happen if the speaker is an ultra cool, super funny, monumentally powerful director from Hollywood like the Farrely brothers.
These brothers and other celebrities delivered some of the most hilarious but certainly poignant speeches in recent history. A propoer send off to the future of the most powerful country in the world. Yeah!
10. JK Rowling
Venue: Harvard University
Year: 2008
One of the many memorable parts:
Thank you not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honor but for the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight…
Delivering a commencement speech is a great responsibility or so I thought until iI cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was baronness Mary Warnick. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enermously in writing this one because it turns out I cannot remember a single word she said.
Now, I am not afraid that this speech will inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
9. Adam Sandler
Venue: Manchester Central High School
Year: 2010
One of the many memorable parts:
High school is like always being at Disney World while the real world is very mean and scary.
8. Jimmy Fallon
Venue: College of Saint Rose
Year: 2009
One of the many memorable parts:
You are gonna walk out of here and you’re not gonna be in college anymore. The real world is freakin’ terrifying. Have you seen the movie The Graduate? The real world is not gonna be like that in the movie. When you leave here today, the parents will not gonna want to have sex with you.
You’re gonna out there whether you like it or not. The good news is that you are tottally ready for it.
7. Farrely Brother
Venue: Roger Williams University
Year:2007
One of the many memorable parts:
In our case it was mid to late 20s until we realize what we really want to do. You have to listen to an inner voice. There shouldn’t be many of them. There should be one. Listen to the non violent one.
At some point, whatever it is you want to do, you guys are off the rails. You can go in any direction you want. So do the craziest.
They also made it more interesting by selecting a random graduate to appear in their upcoming film, “Heartbreak Kid,” with Ben Stiller.
6. Conan O Brien
Venue: Harvard University
Year:2000
One of the many memorable parts:
Fifteen years ago I sat where you sit now and I thought exactly what you are now thinking: What’s going to happen to me? Will I find my place in the world? Am I really graduating a virgin?
I was actually once a student here once like you. I came here in the fall of 1981 and lived in Holworthy. I was, without exaggeration, the ugliest picture in the Freshman Face book.
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