You can find Colbert's entire commencement address here.
As usual, it's fantastic. I don't know if things like this and his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner are all written himself, or if he has other writers, but he is always hilarious.
Of course, he even jokes about this himself, saying "outsourcing is so easy that I had this speech today written by a young man named Panjeeb from Bangalore. If you don't like the jokes, I assure you they were much funnier in Urdu."
He also talks about the traditional aspects of the college experience:
Colbert: How great would it be if I could actually come back here - if I was coming back to my alma mater to be honored like this. I could share with you all my happy memories that I spent here in ... Galesburg, Illinois. Hanging out at the Seymour Hall, right? Seymour Hall? You know, all of us alumni, we remember being at Seymour Hall, playing those drinking games. We played a drinking game called Lincoln-Douglas. Great game. What you do is, you act out the Lincoln-Douglas debate and any time one of the guys mentions the Dred Scott decision you have to chug a beer. Well, technically 3/5 of a beer.
Colbert, plus a drinking game, I couldn't resist.
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posted by Jonathan @ 10:27 PM
Monday, June 05, 2006
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