… And no sooner do I get the previous post up and running than I see this piece from the Charleston City Paper:
Colbert to MUSC Grads: Fail … Carefully
Posted by Greg Hambrick on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM
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[H]e summed up the student experience, gross medical mysteries and all.
“In the last four years you’ve gone from ‘I don’t want to see that,’ to ‘Hey, come look at this,’” he said.
There’s also that introduction to the requisite cadaver.
“That was awkward I have to imagine,” Colbert said. “But you got used to it. Pretty soon you were calling him Ricky. Making him your Facebook photo.”
There’s those relationships that just will never be the same.
“Your pick-up line may be ‘I love you baby,’” he said. “But inside you’re thinking, ‘Proximity to you triggers the release of phenylethamine from my hypothalamus which in turn triggers extra cellular dopamine and suffuses me with a sense of arousal and well being, reinforced by my evolutionary response to your facial symmetry, part of a hard-wired drive to produce adaptive offspring, baby.’”
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Click on the link to check out a few additional photos from this event. (And how cute is it that they sang “Happy Birthday” to him?)
Sounds like those lucky grads got a big dose of the “real” Stephen. What a great reward for their years of study!

Oh! So much good stuff in this article!! That stuff he told them about the cadavers and the pick up line is absolutely hilarious! And that’s so sweet that they sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to him. =) In short, this whole commencement speech dealie makes me mushy inside. <3
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DOPAMINE! :)
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The article mentioned that Stephen got an honorary degree– anyone know what he got? Does this now make him Sir Dr. Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, MD? At the very least, it should make “Cheating Death” a far more interesting and borderline litigious segment… ;)
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Hahaha @ making Cheating Death a “borderline litigious segment.” Hee!!
I believe the degree they gave Stephen was an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
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