Speech: Ellen DeGeneres' Commencement Speech at Tulane University
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John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Ellen DeGeneres' 2009 Commencement Speech at Tulane University.
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| 0:00.0 | A boom shake the room fire nation JLD here coming at you with a commencement address |
| 0:08.6 | from Ellen DeGeneres for Tulane University back in 2009 the year of Katrina and she |
| 0:15.5 | mixes humor with seriousness and a lot about her history that I did not know. |
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| 1:07.6 | All right fire nation let's dive into Ellen DeGeneres Tulane University's commencement |
| 1:13.1 | speech back in 2009. |
| 1:16.7 | Oh boy thank you so much thank you so much thank you president Cohen Mrs. President Cohen |
| 1:22.6 | distinguished guests undistinguished guests you know who you are honor faculty and creepy |
| 1:27.4 | Spanish teacher and thank you to all the graduating class of 2009. |
| 1:31.6 | I realize most of you are hungover and have a splitting headache and haven't slept since |
| 1:35.0 | fat Tuesday but you can't graduate till I finish so listen up. |
| 1:39.3 | When I was asked to make the commencement speech I immediately said yes then I went to |
| 1:42.9 | look up what commencement meant which would have been easy if I had a dictionary but most |
| 1:46.6 | of the books in our house are porchos and they're all written in australian so I had to |
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