Stephen Colbert gave a commencement address at Knox College on Saturday, June 3, 2006.
From the Knox College website:
[Pours water into a glass at the podium, splashes face and back of neck]
Thank you. Thank you very much. First of all, I’m facing a little bit of a conundrum here. My name is Stephen Colbert, but I actually play someone on television named Stephen Colbert, who looks like me, and who talks like me, but who says things with a straight face he doesn’t mean. And I’m not sure which one of us you invited to speak here today. So, with your indulgence, I’m just going to talk and I’m going to let you figure it out.
Read the rest of Colbert’s speech here.
It may take a minute or two for the speech to load, as I expect the college is getting more hits than they planned on – www.boingboing.net picked up the story, which is where I found it. It’s worth the wait.