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Jay Leno’s all-purpose commencement address

Comedian's speech to the Class of 2011 is more like an episode from "America's Funniest Home Videos"

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Graduation season is not quite over yet. For those of you who haven’t heard a commencement speech this year, Jay Leno obligingly performed an all-purpose one last night — intercutting familiar, clichéd phrases (“Hold your head high and your feet firmly planted,” “You wear your education on your sleeve”) with cringeworthy home videos of college-student escapades. See it here:

By Emma Mustich

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