Justin Timberlake Accepts Award from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals

The singer, actor, and former boy band member stays good-natured while being roasted by members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Singer, actor, and former boy-band member Justin Timberlake was at Harvard on February 5 to accept the Man of the Year award from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, just before the début performance of HPT's 2010 musical, Commie Dearest!.

The Crimson and the Boston Globe both published accounts with photographs. (The Globe version has an entire slide show.) The Crimson also posted a video of Timberlake speaking at a press conference the same day.

Those wishing to watch Timberlake’s roast in its entirety will have to navigate to YouTube, where low-quality videos (possibly filmed with a cell-phone camera) have been posted. Part One includes an impersonation of Madonna (Timberlake’s one-time collaborator) and jokes about Timberlake’s trademark falsetto and two risqué Saturday Night Live digital shorts in which he appeared. In Part Two, Timberlake gets dancing with HPT actors playing the other members of  ’N Sync and spoon-feeds pudding to one playing his ex-girlfriend, Britney Spears.

The previous week, HPT crowned actress Anne Hathaway (click to view photos) its 2010 Woman of the Year.

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