In a nod to the comedian’s hilarious and very popular Saturday Night Live sketches in which he portrayed George Washington delivering (not so) rousing speeches to his soldiers about the wonders of what lies in store for the United States – bewildering systems of measurement and odd word spellings designed mostly “to make Europeans throw little tantrums” – Bargatze took Emmy viewers back to the early development of television in the 1920s: He portrayed inventor Philo T. Farnsworth who regaled his underlings with dreams of a future TV world where shows inform and educate, and in which The History Channel won’t talk about history but about aliens.
“Just as there will be no learning on The Learning Channel,…
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