WALLA WALLA — English entertainer and former Monty Python member Eric Idle delivered the commencement speech Sunday at Whitman College in Walla Walla where his daughter Lily was among the 375 graduates.
The college gave Idle an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree.
Idle called his speech “There’s no time like the pleasant.”
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