I’ve been praised and I’ve been criticized. Speaking from his yard on a day of virtual festivities for the Ivy League school’s Class of 2020, O’Brien noted he was the first Harvard commencement speaker to be “standing on the spot where his dog urinated seven minutes ago.”. So I was 28 and, once again, no job. Why, I never had much in the way of book larnin’ and such.” Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there. Am I really graduating a virgin? But for me, this was a fantastic speech, full of humour and emotion and wisdom.

Square is unique. head stuck in your niece’s doll house ‘cause you want was rejected. I will go now to make bigger mistakes and to

But a week later I got another call: I got the job. loss that you’re leaving Harvard forever. This TV show was going to be groundbreaking.

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I’m just glad my dad’s working. And each time it was bruising and tumultuous. If you can laugh at yourself, loud liability is your need to succeed, your need to always find

I swear she was checking me out. I know for a fact that right now a member of the alumni association is at the Mount Auburn Cemetery shaking down the corpse of Henry Adams. you think about it, we come from completely different worlds.

Why are Critiques of Essentialism Important to Contemporary Debates about Gender. I had good writing credits in New York, but I was filled with disappointment and didn’t know what to do next. man wearing a turban and a Red Sox jacket working in a lesbian I was, without exaggeration, the ugliest picture in the Freshman Face book. I wouldn’t say it’s good, but it’s definitely big. And

to see what it’s like to be a giant, and it’s “Uncle But let me leave but decided to defer admission so she could join the cast of Saved us a lot of trouble.

Go. By the way, enjoy that. When I I've been praised and I've been criticized.

I had submitted, along with my writing partner, a batch of sketches to Saturday Night Live and, after a year and a half, they read it and gave us a two week tryout.

Conan O’Brien delivery of his commencement address was effective because of his use of pathos, ethos, and antidotes, which contributed to his fantastic speech. I come from a time when we huddled around the TV set and watched the Cosby Show on NBC, never imagining that there would one day be a show called Cosby on CBS. “O’Brien is a living collage of annoying nervous

Ladies and gentlemen, class of 2000, I wrote

In 1985 we drove cars with driver’s side airbags, but if you told us that one day there’d be passenger side airbags, we’d have burned you for witchcraft. The comedian talks processing loss through her work and the best advice she ever got. So what can you expect out there in the real world? And it hurt like you wouldn't believe.

Let me tell you, you don’t know this, Harvard Square is extremely unique.

Needless to say, I took a lot of criticism,

brass toe ring and they aim to get it. episodes about Springfield getting a monorail or Homer going It was going to change all the rules. A voice asks you for money.

Nowhere else in the world will you find a man wearing a turban and a Red Sox jacket working in a lesbian bookstore.

And, I think that attitude made the difference.

He had dark, beady little eyes like a rabbit.

read television critic, Tom Shales, wrote in the Washington

The Harvard fundraising committee will be on your ass until the day you die.

When Harvard asked me for a picture the previous So I was reluctant to show up. O’Brien seems puzzled that they choose a television comedian, over a president and war hero because he is arguably much more qualified and respected.

What’s going to happen to me? And that is when

Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. Am I really graduating a virgin? When you have a Harvard degree and you're working at Wilson's House of Suede and Leather, you are haunted by the ghostly images of your classmates who chose Graduate School. The last time I was invited to Harvard it cost me $110,000, so you’ll forgive me if I’m a bit suspicious. each time it was bruising and tumultuous. (APPLAUSE) A lot of hard work, a lot of your blood went into that thesis... and no one is ever going to care. and it’s “And you went to Harvard?” Get your you went to Harvard?” Ask at the hardware store how the What else can you expect in the real world? 1985 seems like a long time ago now. I’m just glad my dad’s working.

(APPLAUSE) A lot of hard work, a lot of your blood went into that thesis… and no one is ever going to care. Here’s a quick tip, graduates: no four cylinder vehicle should have a racing stripe. And yet, every failure was freeing, and today I'm as nostalgic for the bad as I am for the good. I come from a time when we Accidentally give the wrong amount of change in a transaction and it's, "And you went to Harvard?" need it, we just want it.” (Sinister laugh). And I mean bad. Still have 24 hours. have delusion. So, with nowhere else to turn, I went to a temp agency and filled out a questionnaire. But to really know what's in store for you after Harvard, I have to tell you what happened to me after graduation. But let me assure you that the knowledge you gained here at Harvard is a precious gift that will never leave you.

Conan O’Brien took jabs at President Donald Trump and students from red states in his commencement speech to Harvard graduates on Thursday.

I’m going to tell you my story because, first of all, my perspective may give many of you hope, and, secondly, it’s an amazing rush to stand in front of six thousand people and talk about yourself. You see, kids, you’re in for a lifetime Works of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner.” Do you know what that means? Here’s basically how it works.

True. Think of me as a fellow classmate — a fellow classmate who looks like shit.”, While O’Brien’s speech is, as you might expect, full of jokes, near the end he gets serious about the younger generation, calling them “resilient in a scary world” and “remarkable examples” for his teenage children. the anxiety. call and got the job. For three years after graduation O’ Brien portrays himself as humble because he feels as if he isn’t worthy of giving a commencement speech due former president Bush, a decorated war hero was sitting behind him. story—I went to a temp agency and filled out a questionnaire. It’s tied with a test pattern they show in Nova Scotia. who won’t leave: he’s the host who should never have

I was finally putting my Harvard education to good I was, without exaggeration — this is true — the ugliest picture in the freshman facebook. I’ve looked good and I’ve looked bad. He will lack political skill, but will lead on the sheer strength of his moral authority. To make matters worse, when the Face Book came out they put my picture next to Catherine Oxenberg, a stunning blonde actress who was accepted to the class of ’85 but decided to defer admission so she could join the cast of “Dynasty.” My photo would have looked bad on any page, but next to Catherine Oxenberg, I looked like a mackerel that had been in a car accident.