I can imagine plenty of people doing it poorly, I guess. I didn't see it as especially hammy - I think you could overlay the text from a real pretentious TED talk and the performance would still fit. It's easy to overplay stuff like this.
I'm with Millard. Just enough ham for me, not too much.
He's also good at the "I'm thinking of this right now [even though I've been practicing this speech for weeks]" type of schtick.
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