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Until his decision to write a speech for this year's Ivy Oration, Michael Sugarman '98 says he restricted his humor to "making fairly simple jokes about people's mothers." However, he soon realized that the sheer number of proud mothers who were expected to attend Commencement week ceremonies would present him with a unique comedic challenge. "I mean, we're talking about upwards of 1,500 mothers for the senior class alone," Sugarman says...
...Crimson about some ex-Westinghouse Fellow Phi Beta Kappa Harvard Senior Fulbright Scholar who just won a Rhodes and is also a Crimson editor, there's another article on the same page about some sophomore who woke up naked in the back of the Hong Kong babbling about communism," Sugarman says...
While writing for a potential audience of several thousand people may be a new experience for the literature concentrator, doing comedy is not. By his own calculations, Sugarman estimates that he can imitate more than 50 voices--from that of a redneck to that of a 60-year-old chain-smoking Jewish woman...
...Sugarman's ability to imitate voices has served him well in the theater productions. In one Hillel play, he had to play a Russian cab driver, a character who Sugarman describes as somewhat "overzealous with his relationships with American women...
Aside form his amusing portrayals of off-beat characters, Sugarman has channeled his humor into other areas. His first year at Harvard, he briefly comped the Lampoon (a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine). However, he says that he eventually lost interest in the organization and has done no institutional writing since then...