A Round Up of 2011′s Best Graduation Speeches
Graduation season seems to have spurned a whole new genre of YouTube videos: The Graduation Speech. For the actors and politicians we’ve highlighted below, it’s clear this is an occasion worthy of some hefty reflection and carefully calculated jokes. If you have some time to spare this Memorial Day, take a minute to indulge in some free inspirational monologues.
And if you have another minute, could you please tell us what it might take for a famous person to talk at a school with slightly less pedigree?
The Ever-Delightful, Amy Poehler at Harvard
The Deeply Personal, Denzel Washington at UPenn
The Surprisingly Tech-Savvy, Tom Hanks at Yale
The Sound Sage, Bill Clinton at NYU
yo, poehler is so good.