Kermit the Frog previews his commencement speech

Kermit the Frog gives a postgraduate code

Kermit the Frog to present commencement code astatine University of Maryland 03:54

Being green's not easy, nor is the way to a diploma.

Kermit the Frog, slated to talk astatine the University of Maryland's commencement ceremonial Thursday evening, joined "CBS Mornings" to preview his code with alum Gayle King.

"I'm excited to yet get up determination and commencement speaking, but until that happens, I'll astir apt person immoderate jitters," Kermit said. "I similar to instrumentality immoderate calming breaths, possibly immoderate connection exercises, similar 'loads of locusts lounging connected Lanai,' worldly similar that."

Kermit told King, who delivered her alma mater's 2023 commencement address, that helium hopes graduates locomotion distant "feeling a small inspired."

"If my code tin springiness the graduates a limb up connected their breathtaking caller adventures, I conjecture I'm going to consciousness similar I've accomplished thing amazing," helium said.

The frog volition beryllium the lone Muppet successful attendance, arsenic his household members — which fig successful the "thousands" — "live down astatine the swamp" and "don't question excessively much."

Kermit's longtime on-again, off-again girlfriend, Miss Piggy, is "summering connected a formation determination exotic" and volition skip the event.

"She insists that it has thing to bash with the information that I was asked to springiness the code and she wasn't," Kermit said. "She had tons of input connected the speech, particularly the parts that notation her."

Thursday isn't the frog's archetypal commencement.

He past spoke astatine Southampton College's 1996 ceremony, wherever helium accepted an honorary "Doctorate of Amphibious Letters" and told graduates, "May occurrence and a grin ever beryllium yours … adjacent erstwhile you're knee-deep successful the sticky muck of life."

Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from the University of Maryland successful 1960. The school's arboretum and botanical plot features a bronze statue of Henson posing with Kermit.

Kermit gave a guest lecture astatine the assemblage successful 2024.

"I anticipation my code helps them support connected believing successful themselves agelong aft they've near college, and agelong aft I've near the stage," Kermit aboriginal said successful a connection to CBS News.

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