A guide to all of this year's virtual celebrity commencement speeches, including three by Barack Obama
Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Getty Images Pour one out for the class of 2020, which will not only take its final classes over Zoom — and, in the case of college students, likely spend its final days of school away from campus — but will miss the celebration of an in-person commencement. While many schools will hold virtual ceremonies, and some have planned in-person festivities for the fall or spring, it’s still a pretty anticlimactic ending.
June 6: Barack Obama with Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, BTS, Taylor Swift, Bill and Melinda Gates, and others Barack may be making the virtual-commencement rounds, but YouTube’s “Dear Class of 2020” will be the only event during which you can also catch Michelle Obama. Along with the former president and first lady, speakers will include Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Bill and Melinda Gates, Condoleezza Rice, Malala Yousafzai, John Green, Sundar Pichai, and Robert M. Gates.
May 25: Jennifer Coolidge Legally Blonde actress and Emerson University grad Jennifer Coolidge gave her alma mater’s commencement speech with the help of a candelabra, some dolls, and a wig change. “Life is a storm, my young graduates. You will bask in the sunlight in one moment, and be shattered on the rocks in the next. What defines you is what you do when that storm comes.
May 18: Eric Andre Eric Andre kicked off Adult Swim’s commencement speeches series on May 18, telling students, “God and Satan are now one. Rewrite the Bible and the Constitution. Sublimate the sublime. Join a Sublime cover band.” May 15: Oprah Winfrey with Kristen Bell, Cardi B, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Jackman, Awkwafina, Simone Biles, Miley Cyrus, and others Who could inspire us more in these trying times? Oprah was the main speaker for Facebook and Instagram’s #Graduation2020 event on May 15, joined by guests Kristen Bell, Cardi B, Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Jackman, Awkwafina, Simone Biles, Malala Yousafzai, and others.
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