Jimmy Fallon didn’t surprise students in Parkland, Fla., on Sunday, so much as he made good on a promise he’d made to some of them following a meeting with them during the March For Our Lives protest for gun reform. Fallon showed up on Sunday to deliver a special commencement address to the Class of […]
Continue ReadingComedian and Baywatch star Hannibal Buress just gave a great commencement speech — sort of. The stand-up was visiting Stephen Colbert over… MORE
Hannibal Buress is the latest comic to give a killer commencement speech this graduation season appeared first on The Laugh Button.
Kumail Nanjiani, who graduated from Grinnell College in 2001, returned 16 years later to deliver the commencement address at his alma mater. Nanjiani joked about how the even more famous Grinnell alums never even graduated. Good luck out there with that “gaping maw of uncertainty!” Roll the clip!
Continue ReadingMaria Bamford graduated from the University of Minnesota with a creative writing degree in 1993, and returned 24 years later to deliver a creative and meta commencement address to the class of 2017. In her speech, Bamford described exactly how she ended up getting invited and paid to speak. “Was my alma mater lowballing me? […]
Continue ReadingWill Ferrell, a 1990 graduate of the University of Southern California, returned to USC today to deliver the commencement address to the class of 2017. What has he learned in the past 27 years since college? “After my first show [on Saturday Night Live], one review referred to me as ‘the most annoying newcomer of […]
Continue Reading