 In the realm of television, White directed two shorts for NBC's Saturday Night Live for Robert Smigel's Saturday TV Funhouse, "The Narrator That Ruined Christmas" (season 27, episode 9) and "Blue Christmas" (season 30, episode 8).Both are parodies of the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" television special (1964).Airing first on December 15, 2001, "The Narrator That Ruined Christmas" was written by Robert Smigel, Michael Gordon, Louis CK and Stephen Colbert, with the voices of SNL cast members Chris Parnell, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Doug Dale, and Robert Smigel.