Actor/Comedian Steve Carrell from "The Office" and "The 40-year-old-virgin" as guest speaker at Princeton University's Class day for the class of 2012! June 4, 2012
Wasn't expecting to watch that whole thing. I have a lot of respect for Steve Carrell, he seems like a very cool guy and doesn't seem to be full of himself like a lot of other celebrities.
I love that the guy who introduced him says 'he has been the fuel for countless hours of procrastination' - meanwhile its almost 4am and I have a 2000 word assignment due tomorrow which Ive barely started. =)
I definitely thought he was about to make a "That's What She Said" joke when he said, "When you eat out..." Hahaha. Thanks for the video! Love this man!
no entiendo nada pero amo este hombre desde colombia !!! lo admiro lo apoyo con todo mi corazon STEVE JOHN CARELL is the best actor and is so perfect man.
It pisses me off to see all these people laugh at every single line he said, while only about 1 in 10 lines were jokes. No one got the point that he was trying to make.
I like this message a lot. It takes a very good person to admit they did a good thing because they wanted to be viewed as a good person. All actions are reductively selfish. Only good people want to be viewed as good people in that way. The very fact that he wants to be viewed that way proves that he is a good person. How many other rich folks do you think do things to be viewed as good people if they aren't actually good people? Well, probably a lot. I guess I'm wrong there. But he's right that this world will be a better place if people feel a sense of responsibility to be perceived as good people, even if they aren't.
Also, I should add, good people feel guilty about telling other people of the good things they do for this very reason. But, when a good person is overly-humble and doesn't tell other people of their charities and actions as a good-samaritan, they're actually doing the world a disservice. In this world we live in, we need good people to show their good deeds. That's leading by example. I'm so sick of this culture where being humble and modest is prioritized over being an honest role-model. We need people like Steve who are strong enough and confident enough to set aside their pride to say what's needed to be said.
Hey, I didn't know he was our Class Day speaker that year! My year ('08) it was another hilarious Steve...or Stephen, technically...by which I mean Mr. Colbert, of course 😏
Isn't Princeton like in the top 10 US universities? Like behind harvard, yale, MIT, standford etc? Still looks pretty Cool, if I was American it would be alright
I hope you realise that Ali G and Andy Samberg have told speeches at Harvard. It's not supposed to be about academics, they're leaving school, they hardly need an academic to speak, they're celebrating leaving university.
Why don't they just feed a village of people in Africa instead of sending a few kids to college? I think that you should take Steve's advice and just chill. Also, Princeton has one of the best financial aids in the country. If a kid is underprivileged and can't afford tuition, Princeton will take care of them as long as they are accepted. So your argument is moot. Do a little research on the universities instead. Hiring Steve is just icing on the cake for students who busted their asses.
My main point is that they obviously spent a ridiculous amount of money to hire such a known celebrity to perform a speech at this expensive university. Rather than hiring him, they could have probably sent a few underprivileged students to university.
That clearly wasn't your main point or else you would've said that. You were trying to make the point that you can get in even if you weren't nearly qualified enough and that isn't even true. Any more false points you'd like to make? And you don't know this, lots of people would easily just like to talk for university students. And alumni often donates money for a lot of different things, it could've costed the university nothing at all.
@catherinessmith You sound extremely ignorant. My sister came from a 2 bedroom basement apartment in a low income city (Elizabeth,NJ). We came from nothing, but she worked her ass off to get above a 2100 on her SAT's and received nothing worse than an A- on her transcript. She graduated salutatorian of a class of over 1,200 students. So, stop being bitter and lighten up .. They worked hard those four years. It doesn't hurt to laugh a little at class day and have a comedian speak to your class
lol same, I didn't find him that funny. No offense to Steve or anything, but he didn't give that much advice either. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steven Colbert even Conan dedicated at least 2-3 minutes of their speech imparting their real life lessons, and thats what I thought a commencement speaker was supposed to do.
Why is such a prestigious university such as princeton inviting a celebrity to preform their speech, not an academic? What a joke. I have lost the little amount of respect I have for this university- the only way you can attend is if you have a lot of money, no matter how much potential or brains you have.
