Daniel Handler's High School Grad. Speech (1988)

[Blitzion214]

Where does he ever say he's homosexual? I don't know about "Ted Haggard", but what I'm saying is, today, it's not a big deal about being queer. Since it's not, why would any of them be hiding it? I don't think he's gay. But I agree, he is rich.

[changeofaddress1]

definitely gay. but he has more money than me so maybe there's something in being gay.

[Blitzion214]

@changeofaddress1 Because that TOTALLY explains why he has a wife...and no, he's not hiding it. In a society today where people are pretty much being BORN gay, I don't think anyone would give a shit.

[changeofaddress1]

i can't tell where you're coming from; do you agree that he's gay?

[Blitzion214]

@changeofaddress1 No. Again, he has a wife.

[changeofaddress1]

john travolta has a wife. tom cruise. richard gere. google 'ted haggard', the preacher. all queer as 3-dollar bills. yeah, the new generation of gays don't care what i think, but daniel is the same age as me; when we were young, if you were gay you got beat up. if you were suspected of being gay you got beat up. your father would disown you. your mother couldn't face her family or friends. he's gay. but rich, rich.

[Tanglenose98]

Crap, I want to go to that school. I'd be so honored.

[CaliforniaGirl457]

:0 they cheered for every word he said he must have been popular!

[pimasta314]

aw man, he's pretty cute. damn, this is from 1988.

[michaellovegrove]

was he like the creme da la creme of his high school or something??

[ashtonmadhatter]

It's Lemony Snicket!

[DuykRuyk]

I can't understand him. I wish those people in the background would stfu.

[videotakermaker]

my friends aunt went to the same school as daniel handler

[LadyLieDie]

Ha ha ha, how humorous! This guy kills me. Figuratively, of course.

[monsterboy31]

@siffil8 Oh. Thanks.

[Birdboy029]

@siffil8 Oh, okay. Thanks :)

[ProdigiousHdawg]

Wow, he was really attractive then! And it's really cool to see that he was just a high school kid like myself before he got published; it gives me hope that I'll be published someday, too. I love all of his writing!!!

[prehistoric28]

Old school footage. Nice footage here. Recommending a new book to all. "You Have A College Degree, Now What?"

[892lgy7382]

He was funny even then!! :)

[TuningAnApple]

Lowell kids tend to cheer at their own graduation (rejoicing the thought of leaving it is part of the reason) x'D

[isyouafish]

LOL! Every graduation I've ever been to only consisted of snoring and crying. Never cheering and yelling.

[JimTheCockatiel]

WTF IS THIS?

[monsterboy31]

@JimTheCockatiel If you'd taken the time to read the title of the damn video before just clicking wherever you wanted so you could criticize every YouTube video you could, you'd know.

[beatleslover6444]

LAWL I love how everybody cheered when the said his name:)

plus thats a large graduation class

[tubub]

The 80s always reminds me of growing up events like these... or about big industry. Probably because of what ive seen from the time period.

[beatleslover6444]

Wow. Pure genius.

I love this guy. I love his books. He is absolutely BRILLIANT.:)

[xsyyli]

lol, he added quite some humor to his speech. *greatly admires* XD

[bandgeekxx20]

that was an AWESOME speech! he was so cutee :]

[eddiecullen]

Wow! He was really HANDSOME!

I love his books, but it's so hard to get them in English in Spain!

[phoebeluvsfrance]

lol he is so old and a lot fatter now.... the humour was always there!

[BethGoth15]

He looked so geeky back then! So adorable!

[simz12341]

i love him but he is alot thinner :)

[BethGoth15]

He's like...my idol.

[simz12341]

have you read his other stuff ?? besides his lemony snicket ??

[BethGoth15]

Well, no lol. But my sister has. She's more of a bookworm than I am.

[simz12341]

he wrote a love story called adverbs i think and it is amazing you should check it out :P

[BethGoth15]

Oh yeah, I've heard of it. Doesn't some couple have sex in the woods or something?

[simz12341]

yes somthing like that :) but il not ruin it

[jackblackavenue]

I'm not spamming but if you want to learn more about Daniel Handler go to my channel and watch Jackson and Lexi's Book Nook. Great for researchers! Awesome for bored people!

[iamaseagull]

i love him so much.

[countfuzzball]

moose . linux-coders . org / graduation-speech-update.txt is my update to it. Thanks to siffil8 for giving me the translation!

[elrynx2]

4:40 was hilarious!

[oRECYCLABLExPEOPLEo]

LOL xD

[pimplesaresexy]

Anyone else read P.G. Wodehouse? This feels exactly like his stuff. Glorious.

[VioletBaudelaire14]

Lemony Snicket is awesome!!! It's funny how he looks so different here, but you can still tell it's him.

[CancerousPiesRTasty]

wow,he was kind of good looking back then.

noww...eh,not so much.

[PIXIECHUA]

WOw. he was so popular

[talaandanna]

haha what a cool guy

[countfuzzball]

moose . linux-coders . org / graduation-speech.txt is my interpretation of the speech.

I've only gotten around to posting it now.

Remove all of the spaces. :-)

[nana12cc]

He's so confident, his books were great

[stormingtears]

haha he's so confident... he knows he's funny.

[neo9790]

I'm a senior at this school. Everything he says is still the true to this day

[Xbox360shenmue]

shit vid

[mileysnumber1fan123]

omg he looks so young

[callmeswahili]

I couldn't hear a word of what he was saying but I'm sure it was funny. Will someone make a version with subtitles?

[13Elphaba13]

OMG he has gained so much weight!

[WarmongerT101]

Not what I expected after 4 years of intense research,his identity was right in front of me.

[countfuzzball]

"we would be handed cards, which some called 'schedules' and then we would go to algebra, which some called 'pain'." Damn, he's good!

[YunnieLuff]

damn he's hot x]

[Zeddtar]

This the man that gave himself the nickname Lemony Snicket!

[BenjaminAConner]

he looks better in Orange

[misslc415]

holy shit nothing changes at lowell. its exactly the same 20 years later.

[HoshiHikari]

...If he's gone through this highschool...who was dragged by his ankles when he asked what the sound outside was, as a child? This man MUST be an imposter!

[vanillachipmunk]

hahaha

[HoshiHikari]

Someone gets it! =D

[bestokes117]

he's actually pretty hot.

xD

[TOOTHFAAIREE]

at first he was talking about the special schedule at lowell.. lowell inside jokes

aww i wish someone like him would fire up my graduating crowd!!

[lane2cute95]

what is he speaking

[Occono]

I can't really make out everything...still awesome though

[beccaislikewhoa]

Hahaha! Daniel Handler's my favorite writer! That's so awesome that someone found this video and actually posted it! XD

[OperawithErik]

I LOVE YOU DANIEL!!!!!!!!!

[tw1stedtrans1stor]

we don't have these in england :) why does he wear an orange robe and everyone else wear pink?

[Smithra]

I think it's a camera thing. In the last few seconds of the video, there's a brief instant where everyone's sitting down and they all look orange. Lighting or old footage or something makes them appear to be wearing pink, when they're all wearing orange. If that's not the correct answer, then I have no idea. Most HS graduations have everyone wearing the same color (usually blue or black, in my experience)

[tw1stedtrans1stor]

thankyou!

[trayseeleeaung]

its actually red. Red and white are Lowell's colors, the camera just makes it look orange.

[sfazncitygurl]

Everyone is actually wearing cardinal red. That's the school colors of Lowell where he went to high school.

[MrSexay]

Talks pretentiously, but still a good writer.

[mikeyisred]

he kinda sounds like emmett from queer as folk. awesome.

daniel handler is such a talented writer. a real hero.

[imhuntingforwitches]

Whoa...he was hot back in high school!

You can definitely tell he was popular haha.

[longdali82]

hahaha I love this. Is he on Lowell's "Wall of Famous Alumni" yet??? (He wasn't when I went there, amazingly enough)

[jblanc27]

way to make lowell proud!!!

[TheIndustrialPark]

You can tell he was really well liked in school. :P YAY!!!

Love: B.S.

[lolotogo]

i love that i go to lowell

[Artoveli]

Wow, so strange to see him at this age! He was funny even then. Er, not that people generally wake up one morning to find that suddenly they are funny...

[HylianGuard]

He Isnt even funny?

[AaronYingProductions]

wow he gained so much weight! Now he is really chunky, and before he looked sort of hot

[exunda]

My hero.

[YuSari1]

Ha Ha He IS A True Idol

[Naumannater]

MY FAVORITE AUTHOR!

[vegasvoice]

Oh Mr. Handler/Snicket, how you amuse me. He reminds me of a young Dan Akyroyd here for some reason.

[Birdboy029]

He hasn't changed at all!

[vewier6577852]

Wow! Lemony Snicket at 18!

[Loveislifeless]

XD O Lowell, how we love/hate thee...

-Salute- Freshmen of Lowell High, present and accounted for! (Color wars rally was cancelled for the second time this year... -sigh-)

Speaking of which, Daniel Handler just recently re-visited Lowell... <.<; I taped the whole meeting, but haven't found the time to put the videos up here. Maybe this weekend... eheh.

[123lyndal]

he looks so different!!!!

[jguan]

Wow, seems like Lowell hasn't changed much since 88.

[LizzieSpinelli]

This is crazy! Where did you find this?! It sounds and looks just like him. It's crazy. Was he valedictorian or what, but you can surely tell that he was a popluar kid... I wonder if any of those students imagined him as a best selling children's book author.

[Glukkonitis]

You can tell by the enthusiastic applause.