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May 15, 2004
What would Josh Lyman say ?
Wisconsin State Journal
Madison native Bradley Whitford, the speaker at UW-Madison's commencement ceremony, is best known for his role as acerbic deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman on "The West Wing." <
In five years of the show, Whitford - who won an Emmy in 2001 for his work - has been fortunate, he'd certainly tell you, to be able to read dialogue written by an awesome staff of writers. But what will he say without those writers? Left to his own devices, will the witty Whitford go off-the-cuff? Will he read from his own prepared text? Or will he fall back on some "West Wing" zingers he knows will hit home? <
If you're graduating today or going to the graduation and will hear Whitford speak, play the I'm Bradley Whitford and I'm Here to Speak at Your Commencement game, devised just yesterday by a bored-with-the-weather group of State Journal staffers. <
See if Whitford, during his speeches (two today, two Sunday, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Kohl Center), says any of these lines, lines his character has used on "West Wing." <
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"I'm having my own celebration with five cloves of garlic and the cast of 'The Exorcist'." <
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"We're a business, not a half-way house." <
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"Eve Harrington in penny loafers here just corrected me in front of the President." <
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"You went over my head, and you did it behind my back." <
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"It's 'Lord of the Flies' in there!" <
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"I've been subpoenaed." <
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"The Democrats aren't gonna nominate another liberal, academic, former governor from New England. I mean, we're dumb, but we're not that dumb." <
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"It bugs me when the president listens to anyone who isn't me." <
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"You're quite a nerd, Mr. President." <
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"You know, I realize that as an adult not everyone shares my view of the world, and with an issue as hot as gun control I'm prepared to accept a lot of different points of view as being perfectly valid, but we can all get together on the grenade launcher, right?" <
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"I was just flipping a nickel in my office - 16 times it came up tails." <
Posted by Jo at May 15, 2004 09:19 AM