Ho ho ho. Fun At Christmas 🎅

Christmas & New Year are times of celebration - families and friends coming together, taking a break from the busyness of everyday life to reflect, relax and enjoy the specialness of presents, decorations, and good food and drink. A bit of festive cheer can also, of course, lift everyone’s spirits.

Christmas carols, and many Christmas & New Year songs and films, are often reflective or even a little melancholic. However, there is also plenty of humour to be found - especially in funny TV moments and well-loved comedy clips.

Take a few minutes to think about amusing things that may have happened to you or your family over previous Christmases and New Year celebrations:

• presents that needed to be re-gifted

• lumpy gravy

• everyone asleep after dinner (and snoring!)

• children or pets causing festive mayhem ...

Ask members to add to this list.

These shared experiences often raise smiles and laughter.

There are also funny TV & movie clips to explore ...

• 'White Christmas' – 'Sisters' drag scene

• 'The Vicar Of Dibley' – sprout eating competition

• 'Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special' – Angela Rippon "Let's face the music and dance" or Andre Previn

• 'The Two Ronnies Christmas Special' – four candles or 'Mastermind'

• 'The Good Life' - exchanging Christmas presents

• 'Home Alone' - Kevin planning his defence

• 'Irn-Bru Snowman' - funny advert

• 'The Royle Family' – exploding implants

• 'Buster The Boxer' – funny advert

• 'Mr Bean' – loses his watch inside a turkey whilst stuffing it

• 'Edgar The Dragon' – funny advert

• 'Gavin & Stacey' – Doris's best bits

• 'Mog The Cat Saves The Day' – funny advert

• 'Only Fools and Horses' – Batman & Robin or Antiques auction

• 'Love Actually' – Hugh Grant's dance

• 'Elf' – singing in the shower

• 'Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em' - nativity play

• 'Bridget Jones’s Diary' – turkey curry buffet

• 'Golden Girls' – the men of Blanche's boudoir

• 'Friends' – Monica's Christmas tree or Monica & Ross's dance

• 'Blackadder Christmas Carol' – Baldrick steals the Christmas presents

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YouTube playlist - to be added

And of course, there are Christmas Cracker Jokes. I’ve included my favourites in three sections below.

Finally, there are also Christmas songs that are intentionally — or unintentionally — funny. Here are a few examples:

Can members think of any others?