September 17, 2024
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Kumail Nanjiani delivers commencement address at alma mater Grinnell College for Class of 2017

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthy

Kumail Nanjiani, who graduated from Grinnell College in 2001, returned 16 years later to deliver the commencement address at his alma mater. Nanjiani joked about how the even more famous Grinnell alums never even graduated.

Good luck out there with that “gaping maw of uncertainty!” Roll the clip!

Sean L. McCarthy

Editor and publisher since 2007, when he was named New York's Funniest Reporter. Former newspaper reporter at the New York Daily News, Boston Herald and smaller dailies and community papers across America. Loves comedy so much he founded this site.

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