The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert gave the 2006 commencement address at Knox College over the weekend. At the start of it, he acknowledges that he is a man named Stephen Colbert, but he also plays a man on TV with the same name, and he's not sure which one they invited to speak:"On a beautiful day like this, I'm reminded of my own graduation 20 years ago, at Northwestern University. I didn't start there, I finished there. On the graduation day, a beautiful day like this. We're all in our gowns. I go up to the podium to get my leather folder with my diploma in it. And as I get it from the Dean, she leans in close to me and she smiles and the Dean leans into me, shakes my hand, and says "I'm sorry." I have no idea what she means. So I go back to my seat and I open it up. And, instead of having a diploma inside, there's a scrap - a torn scrap of paper - that has scrawled on it, "See me." I kid you not.
Evidently I had an incomplete in an independent study that I had failed to complete. And I did not have enough credits. And, let me tell you, when your whole family shows up and you get to have your picture taken with them - and instead of holding up your diploma, you hold the torn corner of a yellow legal pad - that is a humbling experience."
[via TV Tattle]
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