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Griffin gave the following "best man" white wine toast at the Frenchtown Inn (in Frenchtown, New Jersey) during the reception following my wedding to Stacey:

"When Marc asked me to be his best man, I started to think about why we were such good friends.

The answer. We have things in common.

Which is why I have decided to entitle this speech: 'Things Marc and I Have in Common.'

Marc has spent the last six to eight months organizing this event. Booking photographers, finding a hall, finding a church, making travel arrangements for guests coming in from Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and as far away as New Jersey. He planned carefully, thoroughly, and in advance. I had one responsibility. To write this speech. And I waited until last night to do it. I wrote this speech on the back of a Chinese take-out menu at eleven o’clock at night while lying on a cot in my hotel room.

And as I wrote this speech, I thought about everything that Marc and I have in common.

I like poker, beer, and cigars.
Marc likes Trivial Pursuit, pastries, and root beer floats.

I like sports. Watching football, baseball, and college basketball. I enjoy playing golf and tennis. Marc’s idea of exercise is taking the stairs to the second floor.

Marc is content to go to a bar and have one drink. Usually an amaretto sour. For me … well, some of you have heard the stories. Highlights have included lost cars and forty-year-old French women.

Marc likes Doctor Who, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and nineteenth-century British female romantic authors. I, on the other hand, am a man.

But seriously, upon closer inspection, those of us who know Marc know there is a lot more to him than his eccentric hobbies and his enormous DVD collection. Marc is honest and honorable. Marc is generous, loyal, and always friendly. Marc is the type of friend that you can always count on no matter what. (Except to change a flat tire. He’s the last person I’d call to help out with that one.)

Most people who are friends with Marc consider him one of the nicest people they know. I’m proud to call Marc one of my best friends.

Stacey, I’m sure you see a lot of the qualities that I just mentioned in Marc, too, and that is why you married him. I think I speak for all of Marc’s friends and family when I say that Marc is lucky to have you. In fact, those of us who knew Marc before you came into his life would have to say he is very lucky. There was not a lot going on before he met you. His love life was like the Mojave Desert during the dry season.

But the dry season is over now and you two make a great couple. I’ve heard a lot of people call you a sweet couple and they’re right.

So I’d like to invite us all to raise our glasses in a roast. I hope your future is happy and healthy."

Great speech! I loved it.

Thanks, man. You're the greatest.