Joel McHale honors Bill Nye during his Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony

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Bill Nye is honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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00:00Hello, everybody. Thank you again for reading my Wikipedia page. That was amazing.

00:05Thank you, reporters, guests, the homeless, Scientologists that are wandering these streets.

00:12Thank you for being here today.

00:15We are here to honor one of the most famous people on the planet who has done good.

00:22Bill Nye, everybody.

00:23I get to call Bill my friend, and let's walk it back to what Ross was talking about.

00:33Way back in 1987, Seattle, where we were, decided to take over the world.

00:41And Bill Nye created a part of that pie.

00:44It wasn't that he was caught up in it. He created it.

00:47You remember that, guys. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Sir Mix-a-Lot.

00:53We all love big butts now, right?

00:57Then we decided to set, you fly in our planes, you drink our coffee, and you use our computers.

01:04Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks.

01:06And Bill Nye is exactly a part of that conversation.

01:12He is one of the reasons why Seattle put itself on the map way back when, when none of you knew about it.

01:20And it was a sleepy little town full of book readers and depressed people.

01:24And then Bill Nye exploded onto the scene.

01:28Bill, I don't know how you did it.

01:31Like, Jacuzzi, Levalor blinds, popsicles, Band-Aids, Chapstick.

01:37You are a brand name.

01:39If you, and on top of that, it's what Jalen just said.

01:44My son said, we knew when the TV was wheeled in, we didn't have to do shit.

01:51And, because here's the thing that Bill did.

01:56Everyone's like, he made science cool.

01:58No, science was already cool.

02:00Bill Nye made science fun.

02:03Bill Nye could have been a comedian, just on his own.

02:08But he already, he has this other side of his brain that is bigger.

02:11Are there any other scientists here?

02:14See?

02:14No, there are no scientists here other than Bill Nye.

02:18Even though he barely went to an Ivy League school, Cornell will get there someday.

02:25It's an Ivy League school, everybody.

02:26He went to Cornell, became an engineer, knows way more than you guys, and still decided,

02:34for some masochistic reason, to walk into comedy clubs and make people laugh.

02:41And that is how he became Bill Nye the science guy.

02:45Guys, it's, we all know him before.

02:48Did you guys know who he was before this?

02:50That's right.

02:51Eat it, Ken Jeong.

02:52And that, you have to say, that guy from The Hangover.

02:56No, it's Bill Nye, guys.

02:59Everything, the fact that you're not wearing a lab coat is shocking.

03:02But you've got a look-alike.

03:04Who else has a look-alike?

03:06Jalen?

03:07No, he doesn't.

03:09Jalen is the bravest man here, though.

03:11He decided to wear a wool sweater.

03:16I don't know, I don't think you have to cut weight for the game or anything like that.

03:21But it's very impressive.

03:23All right, I will get out of here pretty soon.

03:27Here's what I want to say.

03:28So I was on the show, Almost Live, which Bill first appeared on, which John and Bill, thank you for having me.

03:37It was my first job.

03:38And Bill had already gone on and taken over the world at that point.

03:42But here's the thing about Bill.

03:44He is a kind man.

03:46He will look you in the eye and ask you how you are.

03:49And he really cares about it.

03:52He's not one of those guys that just sits there and talks and talks and talks like somebody who introduced me.

03:59And he really is a kind, good man.

04:04And people love him.

04:05And here's the part about Bill Nye, the science guy, where science does not come in.

04:11If his last name had not been Nye when he was born, I don't know if there would have been a Bill Nye, the science guy.

04:19There wouldn't have been if your last name had been something else.

04:22But it was Nye.

04:23So that is the magic that came in.

04:27You, Bill Nye, the science guy.

04:29Bill, you are kind.

04:31You deserve this a hundred times.

04:35You need more than one star.

04:37And you probably are the only person that can tell us the metallurgy of the actual metal used in his star on the Walk of Fame.

04:46It is my honor to be your friend and to introduce you for the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Bill.

04:53Thank God you are here, even you probably don't.

04:55I don't know if you believe in him.

04:56But anyway, you could probably prove it.

04:59Bill Nye, the science guy, one of the best people on the planet and deserves every star he gets.

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