Dec 8, 2013

SNL Weekend Update’s 1860′s Newspaper Critic Jebediah Atkinson Blasts Christmas Specials

Several weeks ago, Saturday Night Live debuted the character Jebediah Atkinson, a comically harsh newspaper critic based on the real-life panning of Abraham Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address. The bit was so funny that the character returned tonight, sans a topical peg, to trash beloved Christmas specials like A Charlie Brown Christmas (“Charlie Brown, there’s a pube on your forehead.”), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,Frosty the Snowman, and others, plus Christmas movies like It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol.
Here’s the clip, from Saturday Night Live:

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