I’m certain the reason Stephen Colbert attended Northwestern University was because it’s in Evanston, Illinois, where I was born. That’s what I told Colbert when I saw him in New York in 2007, and he agreed with me.
Colbert gave this year’s commencement speech at Northwestern. Here are edited highlights…
Alumnus Stephen Colbert Addresses the Class of 2011 from Northwestern News on Vimeo.
… and this is the whole thing.