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The Bert Show

We Can't Believe These Drunken Commencement Speeches

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

The Bert show.

0:01.0

You know, there was a time, though, when you were asked to be a commencement speech,

0:05.3

it was a huge honor that a speaker would take seriously.

0:10.3

I mean, you are handing the next generation your wisdom you take that seriously

0:15.5

nowadays he's celebrity showing up all hammered they don't care about the kids

0:19.7

just drunk hammer it is nerve when you think about how many tens of thousands of people you're going to be speaking in front of.

0:28.5

So I think the nerves hit so then they hit the bottle and you know what they're slurring their words on stage.

0:33.6

And now it goes with courage.

0:34.5

Yeah, yeah, and now it goes on your permanent record because we've got video.

0:37.9

We got phones.

0:38.8

Goes on your permanent record now.

0:40.4

And that's what we're doing here is these people who just decided to get

0:44.2

snockered for these commencement speeches. So I'm going to play the speech and

0:50.2

you guys are going to guess who the drunkard is okay these are all celebrities yes

0:55.5

they are so this is the hard to guess if they were yes it would be like the

0:59.8

security guard downstairs nobody would nobody that. All right, so this commencement speech went viral.

1:08.2

It's from Penn 2011.

1:11.2

But I said, no, no, no, you're a group of high-minded intellectuals.

1:16.7

They're not interested in that.

1:18.2

Or maybe not. I thought about a private moment I had backstage with Angelina Jolie in a dressing room after the

1:36.3

Oscars. But I said no I don't think so this is an Ivy League school I mean

1:46.2

Angelina Joe Lee have naked in a dressing room who wants to hear about that? No one, no one, no one, no one, no one. No one. This is Penn. That stuff would never go over well over here.

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