Word: conan
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...character of Triumph, the profane Don Rickles of the kennel set, has long been performed by “Saturday Night Live” scribe Smigel on the late-night show of Conan O’Brien ’85. Last night, Smigel was accompanied by a man bearing a large, expensive-looking video camera as he addressed the crowd...
...Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women." ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, California Governor, quoting a line from his movie Conan the Barbarian when asked to describe his governing philosophy
Harvard's Class Day speakers have included the likes of Mother Teresa, Walter Cronkite, Hank Aaron, Ralph Nader and Conan O'Brien. Last week the satirical British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as the faux hip-hop journalist ALI G, joined the distinguished ranks. Wearing a skullcap, matching track suit emblazoned "Professor of Erbology" and chains, Ali G addressed "da most cleverest of students in America" and their parents with a homily that, in his inimitably maladroit manner, touched on everything from sex, drugs and pornography to famous Harvard grads like "Lyndon Baines Johnson, or, as he is known...
...though, unlike recent Class Day speakers like Al Franken ’73 and Conan C. O’Brien ’85, Ali could not draw on his own memories of golden undergraduate years on the Charles, he demonstrated a remarkable knowledge of Harvard’s rich history...
...past four years, audiences at the College’s Class Day festivities have received their share of advice and jokes from larger-than-life characters from the entertainment industry—Ferrell, wry liberal Al Franken ’73, earnest musician Bono and late-night jester Conan C. O’Brien ’85. But if Ali G mounts the stage today, it would appear to mark the first time Class Day has been hosted by a literal character...