Name: Ellen Celebrates the Class of 2020 with a Commencement Speech from Home
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T07:28:38.000Z
Duration: 8 min 31 s
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I want to make you feel good for an hour-- at least an hour,

I'm bringing back some classic punchlines this week.

but desperate times calls for desperate jokes.

This is my second month of quarantine shows, and--

I'm going to be eating, like, 40 pieces of cake for no reason

There's no reason to change them, really,

Anyway, it turns out that it's May, in case you lost track out

You can tell it's May because people are wearing floral print

May is usually the beginning of graduation season.

But unfortunately, most of the country is social distancing.

If you are graduating this year, first of all,

am that you're not going to be able to have a graduation

I actually get asked every year to give commencement speeches.

and I can't do it, because it's the same time

in the eye with one of those graduation caps,

And I don't know how many people have had a cap in the eye,

And put your caps and gowns on if you have them nearby.

Class of 2020, parents, teachers, custodians, lunch

ladies, principals, and crossing guards--

Today is the first day of the rest of your life,

or maybe tomorrow, or the day after that.

The important thing is that you've studied incredibly

If you're graduating high school, congratulations.

High school graduation was my favorite graduation ceremony.

It was the only graduation ceremony, really.

And to the college grads out there, as I mentioned,

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Ellen Celebrates the Class of 2020 with a Commencement Speech from Home

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