 Airing first on December 18, 2004, shortly after U.S. president George W. Bush's re-election, "Blue Christmas" was written by Robert Smigel and Michelle Saks Smigel with additional material by Rich Blomquist, Stephen Colbert, Scott Jacobson, and Matt O'Brien, and voices by Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Erik Bergmann, and Robert Smigel.In the early 2000s, Chel White directed two stop motion animated children's television specials for Hallmark Channel.In reviewing the 2011 television holiday programs, Mike Hale of "The New York Times" called "Jingle All the Way (TV special)" "By far the best of the bunch.