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On Friday night, television personality Stephen Colbert concluded an appearance at the Kennedy School of Government by telling a sold-out crowd that he’d given them enough information to merit a graduate degree from Harvard.
“Well, I think we’ve all learned enough here today. Consider this your graduation ceremony,” he said, raising his arms. “Students of the Kennedy School of Government, you are free to go!”
The event, simply titled “A Conversation with Stephen Colbert,” took the form of an interview, conducted at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum by Chris L. Corcoran ’07, current president of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Kennedy School?...
At one point, a “Report” crew member handed Colbert a large portrait of conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly, who holds a Master’s of Public Administration degree from the Kennedy School. Colbert held it aloft and demanded that the school hang...
The climactic speech, in which he told Kennedy School students that they were free to go, was also highly staged, and even involved a number of takes—Colbert had difficulty remembering the monologue he was supposed to deliver. While laughing, he repeatedly asked a crew-member to remind...