International Law

The wit of Hugh Atkin

I've blogged before about the recent Australian law grad, Hugh Atkin, whose YouTube's videos are proving a hit here and around the world (see here), and now he is the subject of a short profile in today's Sydney Morning Herald:

IT TAKES a certain kind of wit to cut through the verbal fairy floss of US political campaigns.

Australian satirist Hugh Atkin, whose online YouTube videos of Kevin "Chairman" Rudd garnered a strong following during the last Australian election, has turned his attention to the US presidential race.

His latest offering, an online video called Clinton And Cruise - On The Campaign Trail, has featured on The New York Times and Guardian websites and has been watched by almost 100,000 people.

Atkin, 24, has spliced Tom Cruise's infamous Scientology video - which shows the wide-eyed actor espousing the benefits of the 20th-century religion - with US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's teary response when someone on the campaign trail asked: "How do you do it?"

Atkin's creation was enough to tickle the fancy of Times critic Virginia Heffernan who wrote on her blog The Medium: "[He] has hit two American nails on their two heads by digitally mashing them into one nail. Nice."

Read more here.

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).