On September 17, 2024 at his Writing Boots blog David Murray posted on Next! My reactions to political punditry – professional, and amateur – that somehow *always* makes things even worse. He embedded a smarmy decade-old five-minute YouTube video: Saturday Night Live Weekend Update: Jebidiah Atkinson on Great Speeches.
The Saturday Night Live Wiki page on Jebidiah Atkinson explains he is an 1860s newspaper critic who didn’t like Lincoln’s Gettysburg address or several other well-known speeches. And an article by Doug Stewart at Historynet on July 6, 2017 titled Unimpressed with The Address has more details.
Another 5-min video from Saturday Night Live titled Weekend Update Rewind: Jebidiah Atkinson Reviews Television Shows has him lamenting that all TV is excrement.
There is still another 6-min video titled Weekend Update: Jebidiah Atkinson on Holiday Movies where he attacks classic holiday TV specials: Charlie Brown Christmas Special, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, etc.
The thumb down cartoon was adapted from one at Openclipart.
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