Conan returns to Harvard

I’m using Conan O’Brian’s Commencement Speech given to the 2000 graduating class at Harvard.
Conan himself is a Harvard grad, somewhat unknown fact, so there were a lot of inside Harvard jokes (“Nowhere else in the world will you find a man wearing a turban and a Red Sox jacket working in a lesbian bookstore”). Irregardless, the speech was effective. Anyone who knows Conan’s humor will not be surprised by how funny this speech was. He uses the humor to his advantage. For him, it is a vehicle to keep his audience engaged.
A perfect example of this is when he tells that he had wanted so badly to be a student speaker at his graduation that he wrote a speech, and, when he wasn’t asked to give it, he kept it, just in case. Here, he reads a section:

“I would like to make several predictions about what the future will hold. I believe that one day a simple governor from a small southern state will rise to the highest office in the land. He will lack political skill, but will lead on the sheer strength of his moral authority. I believe that justice will prevail and one day the Berlin Wall will crumble, uniting East and West Berlin forever under Communist rule. I believe that one day a high-speed network of interconnected computers will spring up worldwide, so enriching people that they will lose their interest in idle chitchat and pornography. And finally, I believe that one day I will have a television show on a major network seen by millions of people at night which I will use to reenact crimes and and help catch at-large criminals."

He invokes pathos through his description of his life as a cycle of success followed by crippling failure. His ethos is that he himself is a Harvard grad, therefore he has the authority to present some of the many possibilities that await one who will graduate from Harvard. His logos ultimately in arguing that Harvard grads will see crippling failures is in the fact, as he says, that they will always remain above the bell curve. He says the fact that they feel they will always remain comfortably above failure makes them crumble when they do encounter/experience any failure.
The speech is not epistemic. He is more likely to reinforce that which many of the Harvard students have been told. Yet, he builds on it by using his life as an example.
His closing is perfect. He reads what he says is a critique that has been written that year about him:

"Somehow, Conan O'Brien has transformed himself into the brightest star in the late-night firmament. His comedy is the gold standard, and Conan himself is not only the quickest and most inventive wit of his generation, but quite possibly the greatest host ever."

Then he admits, “I wrote that this morning. As proof that when all else fails, you always have delusion.”