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Welcome, trustees, deans, faculty, alumni,
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graduates, families, my fellow honorands, Justice Department spies, and that
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Uber Eats driver delivering mimosas.
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As I look upon this gathering of tomorrow's greatest minds, I'm confident saying there is There's no less flattering outfit than the cap and gown.
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We all look like the potions professor at Hogwarts.
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Up here on stage, it feels like an AA meeting for druids.
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I want to thank
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President Garber for his incredible stewardship of this graduating class.
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Fantastic job, sir.
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Really nice, really nice.
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Normally, normally I would give you an A +, but in keeping with upcoming
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Harvard policy, I'm adjusting your grade to a C -.
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Trust me, it's for the good of the school.
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I will keep my remarks brief because MIT's graduation is also today,
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and I want to give you a 15 -minute head start on your job hunt.
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Those nerds down the river won't know what hit them.
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Also, just a quick announcement after the ceremony.
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Tequila shots are on me at the Porcellian Club.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You're all invited.
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Just force your way inside and tell them Conan sent aren't you?
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They're an understanding bunch.
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As we gather here today at this beautiful tercentenary theater, I am struck by one thought.
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Only someone from Harvard would call this patch of grass a tercentenary theater.
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Just look at this yard, Percival.
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It is a veritable to a centenary theater.
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Harvard, why use a $5 word when a $50 word will do?
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It's really nice to be back at the very last place I used the word querulous in a sentence.
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Standing right over there by Widener, I asked someone, what does querulous mean?
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Fortunately, they knew the answer because it was a Yale student.
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Man, they're good.
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Oh, please.
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Please.
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Please, let us not denigrate our fellow Ivies.
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Let's admit that all seven are worthy institutions.
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Except for Princeton, those people are absolute tools.
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What the hell is going on over there?
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Yeah.
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As I stand here, I'm flooded with so many rich memories of this campus and especially of my dear, beloved, Mather House.
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Yeah, that's enough.
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Mather was named after former
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Harvard president Increase Mather, who was an infamous figure in the Salem witch trials.
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And if any of you spent more than an hour in Mather House, you know the witches got the last laugh.
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It's such an ugly building.
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OK.
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I'm sorry.
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Tear it down, start again.
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All right, here we go.
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Of course, we all make jokes about our school, but Harvard is still our nation's oldest and most renowned seat of higher learning.
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And today, you are the 375th graduating class.
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Did you know that the first graduating class in 1642 had only nine students?
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Yeah, and somehow even they were all legacies.
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That's hard to do.
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No university in our nation has produced more
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Nobel laureates or white -collar criminals.
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So whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.
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Harvard is indeed an impressive place.
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Today this university honors 13 esteemed colleges and I salute all of you, each and every one.
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Now, of course, don't push it.
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Of course, this includes the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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And let me tell you something.
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When Harvard dentists say you may rinse and spit, they say it in Latin.
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I wasn't going to do that joke, but the dental school said they'd give me free veneers if I gave them a shout out.
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No, I take my assignment today seriously.
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And in preparation for this speech, I asked the provost office for intel on all your concerns
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and I was told the following you're obsessed with doing laundry now
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that it's free you bemoan the lack of fresh berries you're upset you're upset
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that not all the dining halls have hot breakfast yeah
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and you are alarmed you're alarmed that the Kennedy School has stopped providing complimentary coffee.
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Yeah.
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If these are indeed your concerns, you sicken me.
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Half those complaints are things you'd hear from a brown bear.
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More berries!
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Before I continue, there is one thing I I must acknowledge, for your entire academic lives,
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you have been lectured to by lots and lots of old white men.
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And now, when you are minutes from getting out the door, Harvard is saying, not so fast.
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We found one more.
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He graduated 41 years ago.
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And he's not just white, but shockingly white.
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Indirect sunlight, you can see his bones.
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Well I may be old and white, but let me assure you, I still fit in seamlessly with the long list of Nobel laureates,
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heads of state and civil rights activists who have given this commencement address.
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Now sure, they did great things, but only I play a talking potty training gadget named Smarty Pants in the upcoming
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Toy Story 5 in theaters everywhere on June 19th.
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Did Winston Churchill do that?
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He did not.
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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel?
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Well, she did audition, but testing showed she frightened children.
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Yes, I graduated 40 years ago, but I promise you your lives here were no different than mine was in 1981.
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Like you, I too had to put an extra -long cord on my dorm phone
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so I could cook my lean cuisine while talking to my friends about Mr. T.
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Like you, I know the pain of losing my place on the Ms. Pac -Man leaderboard
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because I was too busy buying an erase cartridge for my Smith Corona typewriter.
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Yes, we are all bound by these ancient common truths.
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Now, of course, I understand the unprecedented difficulties you face today, including AI.
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Yeah, I know.
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I know.
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Luckily, AI is not a problem at Harvard.
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Here, professors have been able to quickly flag students' use of AI thanks to the sophisticated AI software they use to grade papers.
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It all works out.
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Yeah.
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And don't worry despite your fears trust me
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when I say AI cannot replace
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you yes yes yes it'll be too busy replacing those creeps
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from Princeton anyway of course perhaps the biggest issue facing this institution is
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that the federal government of the United States is suing our university yeah
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many people think i've come today to defend harvard well sorry those people are wrong
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not only am i not against these lawsuits i'm here to announce that i'm joining them
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i too am suing harvard i'm suing harvard for the cast iron bunk bed
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that greeted me upon my arrival at hallworthy 16 my freshman year a bed
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that has since been confiscated by the hague is an instrument of divine cruelty.
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I'm suing Harvard for allowing me to sign up for a 9 a .m class at the Science Center
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and a 10 a .m.
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class down at Soldier's Field.
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For God's sakes, I was a child!
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I'm suing Harvard for my less than spectacular undergraduate sex life.
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for me having a three -way man adding a second mirror to my dorm.
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I'm suing Harvard because once I had to listen to the Harvard Crocodillo's do an eight -minute rendition of Splish Splash, I was taking a bath.
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My god, each one took a solo, and it was awful. And finally, I'm suing
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Harvard because, and this is absolutely true, in the spring,
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of my sophomore year while trying to grab a quick lunch at adam's house i was served a meal
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i was served a meal called captain ben's fish spaghetti to this day
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i have no idea who captain ben is
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or why someone would combine government issue cod with spaghetti harvard i'll see your ass
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Yes, I'm confident that my claims will have more merit than those filed by the President of the United States.
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As you are aware, the current administration feels
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Harvard admits too many foreign students and who knows, they may have a point.
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After all, what has any foreigner ever added to our American culture?
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With the possible exception of music, literature, art, cuisine, fashion, architecture,
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dance, scientific breakthroughs, and the core of moral codes and ethical beliefs.
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Seriously, if foreigners hadn't gummed up the works,
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right now we'd all be listening to delightful Calvinist reggae,
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eating savory Church of England's ziti and dancing the forbidden and sexually charged Lutheran Lombada.
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But let me assure you I did not come here simply to toss off some jokes about my alma mater.
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I mean that was the main reason.
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But I really do, really do love this school.
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It changed my life.
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The day I told my bedridden grandmother, a woman who had never had the opportunity to go to college that I had been accepted to Harvard
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and seeing her weep is one of the happiest days of my life.
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Of course, it turned out I was sitting on her leg, but I knew in addition to the pain she felt real joy.
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And I felt joy as well, especially when I sat here at my commencement in 1985.
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I understand, I really understand how much hard work it took for all of you to get to this point.
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And you should feel enormous pride just as I did.
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On my commencement day, I was content if my Harvard degree was the first thing people knew about me.
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But what I have found, after all these years, is that I am fine with Harvard being the last thing anyone knows about me.
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This is not a diss on this institution in any way.
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I just believe that status, even when it's hard won, can be double -edged.
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When I started my career hosting a late -night talk show, there was no internet at.
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The only thing the media knew about Conan O 'Brien was that he went to Harvard.
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That association may have been fine if I were a burgeoning philosopher or physicist, but for a comedian, that was a death knell.
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People thought the name of my show would be Late Night with He Thinks He's Better Than You, which I would have gone with,
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but it didn't fit on the shirt.
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All these years later, Harvard is far, far from the very first thing people think of when they hear my name.
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I have made 10 ,000 hours of content and none of it screams
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Ivy League education.
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That's right, I'm the man who went on Hot Ones and rubbed hot sauce on my nipples.
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I shopped for weed with Kevin heart
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and ice cube i got drunk in an american girl doll store i've done many things no man should do
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and all of this was before i became a pixar potty training toy
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now some of you may think well that's comedy conan how does that apply to me
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And to you I say, how dare you interrupt?
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I'm giving a commencement address.
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Yes, my challenges were unique to me.
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But I found that any single achievement,
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like a Harvard diploma, becomes less important to me in all the very best ways when I embrace certain principles.
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The first is that I endeavor to always remind myself that I have done absolutely nothing alone.
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Walt Whitman wrote, I contain multitudes.
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Well, I contain a breakfast sandwich and an iced coffee from Tate.
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But whatever I have achieved has been with the help of an infinitely packed clown car of multitudes.
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If I could invite everybody, alive or dead, who has contributed to my being your commencement speaker today,
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All of Cambridge and half of Alston would be crammed shoulder -to -shoulder with friends,
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family, well -wishers, writers, producers, haters, fans, and a billion -chance encounters.
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Recognizing that my accomplishments are not just my own has given me much -needed balance throughout my life,
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and it really helps to spread the blame around when things go south.
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Another thing I learned to do that has saved me repeatedly is to pivot.
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I have had to course correct so many times in my career
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that my path is a crazed tangles of zigs and zags.
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I famously lost a job that meant the world to me
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and then years later I saw the entire format of late night television, something that I had dedicated my career to, start to evaporate.
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So, at the suggestion of a very smart friend, I started a podcast.
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I actually had disdain for the project until, with the help of guests, collaborators, and an assistant addicted to gummies,
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I made something I love just as much, if not more, than my late night show.
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I have had to pivot like this so many times that I've come to really love pivoting.
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And I use the word pivot much more than I should in conversation and commencement speeches.
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And now I pivot to my next truth.
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I always recognize the enormous role of luck in my life.
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Refusing to see how luck has played a role in anyone's success is simply ignorant.
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Many people are happy to mistake a lucky poker hand for their own brilliance, and fighting that human instinct has kept me sane.
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I honestly believe that community, spontaneity, and a real commitment to humility has helped me build a rich life
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that means much more to me than any diploma.
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And believe me, I'm not saying the goal is to renounce accomplishments, but rather to metabolize them.
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If you carry your victories lightly, other qualities—kindness, originality, courage, humor,
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and humanity—have room to emerge.
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Maybe, maybe— Maybe the greatest lessons I've learned along these lines have been through my 24 travel shows.
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I have degraded myself in Cuba, Ghana, Korea, Armenia, half of Europe, Argentina, Thailand, Mexico, and Greenland,
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where I visited a real estate office and tried to buy the country.
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When I travel to another land, every quality I have discussed,
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community, adaptation, and a sincerely humble approach are all necessary.
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When you don't speak the language, no one truly cares where you went to college and you have no choice but to make friends.
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It's on these travels that I learned a great lesson, let yourself be bad at things.
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I have been a bad dancer in every country I have visited,
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but the people laugh because it turns out everyone everywhere is related to at least one terrible dancer.
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For me, humility on these trips can easily lead to humiliation, which is also a useful tool.
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Three weeks ago, I visited Amsterdam, dressed up as Van Gogh, and forced my way into the Van Gogh Museum,
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where I started loudly demanding a cut of the merchandising because I made no money during my lifetime.
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Guards forcibly ejected me.
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I was roundly mocked by patrons from my pathetic display, But I did see a lot of smiles and not one person said
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Now that's a Harvard grad
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In Tokyo, I met with a teacher of Japanese etiquette who volunteered I wasn't her type.
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And when I asked her why, she just said, face.
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In Ghana, after accepting a royal invitation, I was kicked out of the Ashanti Palace by the Queen Mother because her favorite soap opera was starting.
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I understand that I am preaching modesty and connection at a time when this is not in style.
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We are living through a period of extreme narcissism.
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Our current leadership in Washington believes that empathy is a weakness and that our nation stands supreme and alone.
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Add to that, everyone here today has a phone in their pocket
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that is algorithmically programmed to celebrate you and you alone by making you the protein -maxing hero of your own special journey.
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Much has been written about how isolated and siloed we've become, but for me, the antidote is quite simple.
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By de -emphasizing what makes us special, in your case, a prize degree, we can really find one another, Not as an exercise in virtue,
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but as a path towards greater laughter, love, and real growth.
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And believe me, I struggle daily with my own pretensions.
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I am aware
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that I am telling
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you to transcend your glories as I stand on this stage accepting a doctorate I didn't really earn
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while dressed like a 12th century pope.
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Big surprise, I have a giant ego.
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I mean, come on, the titles of my shows have been A Late Night with Conan O 'Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O 'Brien,
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Conan, where did I think of that one?
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Conan O 'Brien Needs a Friend and Conan O 'Brien Must Go.
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I fought like hell to have today's ceremony named Conan O 'Brien Presents, The Harvard Commencement, starring Conan O 'Brien.
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Yeah, let's get that done.
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So when I realized that my message today would be about the rejection of honor and status,
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did I consider for a second turning this doctorate down?
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Did I say, no, President Garber, my achievements are not my own.
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I must decline.
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Hell no!
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Not for a second.
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My grandfather, who everyone called Hoofer, and who had to drop out of the seventh grade to support his parents,
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was a traffic cop in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Yeah, and he had a saying, take what you can get and ask for more.
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Very wise man.
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Hoofer is an essential passenger in my clown car of multitudes.
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And in his honor, I will grab this doctorate and then ask
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President Garber if there's also a cash component.
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You see, I, like you, am still very much a work in progress.
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But the ideals, I stress today, have made my life infinitely richer and happier.
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So maybe my wish for you is not that
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Harvard becomes the last thing people know about you, but instead that
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Harvard becomes the least important thing people know about you.
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Because your real education starts now, with friends you've made and friends you've yet to meet,
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with stunning successes and miserable defeats, and with a humble acceptance that your greatness comes from the mess around you, not despite it.
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From the depths of my heart, I congratulate you, Class of 2026, not for any piece of paper you receive today,
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but because of your hard work, determination, humanity, and the boundless community that you have and will create.
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Let us all resolve on this great day to go forward together and see
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Toy Story 5 in theaters everywhere June 19th.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Conan O’Brien Delivers the Commencement Address”. Questo video contiene 259 frasi e 3051 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 24:51. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 123 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 76% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| sue verbo | /sjuː/ | fare causa, citare in giudizio |
| theater sostantivo | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | teatro |
| meal sostantivo | /ˈmiːl/ | pasto |
| lesson sostantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lezione |
| ceremony sostantivo | /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/ | cerimonia |
| institution sostantivo | /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/ | istituzione |
| achievement sostantivo | /əˈt͡ʃiːv.mənt/ | realizzazione, prestazione |
| upcoming aggettivo | prossimo, imminente | |
| humanity sostantivo | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | umanità |
| alarm sostantivo | /əˈlɑɹm/ | allarme |
| enormous aggettivo | /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ | enorme, grandissimo |
| gather verbo | /ˈɡæðɚ/ | raccogliere, bottinare |
| dental aggettivo | /ˈdɛn.təl/ | dentario, dentale |
| humble aggettivo | /ˈhʌmbəl/ | umile, modesto |
| assure verbo | /əˈʃʊɹ/ | assicurare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| turn out verbo | risultare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Trust me, it's for the good of the school.
- Let's admit that all seven are worthy institutions.
- I'm giving a commencement address.
- Conan, where did I think of that one?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has produced · has stopped · have been lectured |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was named · was told · have been lectured |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | woman who had · man who went · humiliation, which is |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 44 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you're, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, bath /bɑːθ/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: institution /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, institution /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, humble /ˈhʌmbəl/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, humour /ˈhjuːmɚ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: achievement /əˈt͡ʃiːv.mənt/, enormous /ɪˈnɔː.məs/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, pocket /ˈpɑ.kɪt/, defend /dɪˈfɪnd/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, dancer /ˈdænsəɹ/, format /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/, passenger /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come sue, theater, meal.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.