Best of Funny Christmas Movies, TV & Music
Surviving another month in the “holiday spirit” echo chamber made me ponder, “Which of these movies, television episodes, and songs do I actually enjoy?”
Best Christmas Movie
Winner
Die Hard (1988) - ”Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.” It’s a tale of redemption set on Christmas. That makes it a Christmas movie. Deal with it.
Runner-up
Elf (2003) – Everyone likes this movie. If you don’t I recon you might be one of those damned communists.
Best Christmas Television Episode
Winner
South Park – Woodland Critter Christmas (Season 8, Episode 14, 2004) – Stan helps some adorable Woodland Critters give birth to their savior. Insanity ensues. This isn’t for the faint of heart, or for young children.
Runner-up
Futurama – Xmas Story (Season 2, Episode 8 1999) – 1,000 years in the future, a robotic santa (John Goodman) distributes gifts on Xmas. Robot Santa’s behavior standards were set too high in the factory and he judges everyone as naughty… And tried to murder them for their misdeeds.
Best Christmas Song
Winner
O Holy Night – Matt Mulholland - Be sure to read the description of this song, and stick around for the crescendo at the end; Mulholland has exceptional vocal range.
Runner-up
The Night Santa Went Crazy - Weird Al Yankovic
Happy Holidays!
“South Park” Turns 200
Tonight, South Park turns 200, episodes that is.
The masters of hyperbole have really done an incredible thing with South Park. It’s brilliant yet lowbrow, and mature yet juvenile. How it has managed to remain good over the years is a real tribute to the show’s writing staff.
Last week’s episode was a magnificent lampooning of Facebook users, and is well worth the 20 minutes it takes to watch it – “You Have 0 Friends.”
You can view every one of South Park’s episodes on southparkstudios.com.
If you are looking for some great ones, here are a few of my favorites:
More Crap (Learn the super secret dark past of U2′s Bono)
Make Love, Not Warcraft (The absolute best parody of gamers)
Bloody Mary (From AA to miracles, this one is viciously funny)
Douche and Turd (This is my favorite pop culture commentary on the American two party political system, they also take a good swing at PETA for good measure)
Woodland Critter Christmas (Introduces the most evil characters ever conceived)
Mr. Mouse goes Ballistic on Jonas Brothers
I loves me some South Park.
A few weeks ago they aired an episode centering on the Jonas Brothers. The episode outed Disney’s method of selling sex to tweens but shrouding it in pseudo-piety to make it “OK.”
Whatever your feelings on the message of the episode, seeing Mickey Mouse beat the hell out of one of the Jonas Brothers is a ton of fun.
Enjoy!
