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Christmas Cast Party (Secret Santa)
The setup
The funny people
Meet the cast. 10
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I hope it's money.
Is it funny, Bobby? Is it funny, though?
The premise
Here’s the bit.
The MADtv performers gather as fictional versions of themselves for a Christmas gift exchange. Nicole Parker gives Ike a coupon for singing lessons, then has his voice isolated in a replay of the opening song. Keegan receives a fart machine and responds with an increasingly elaborate account of his childhood obesity and a pet parrot named Coco. An embarrassing photograph and Bobby’s laughter make him more upset as Crista keeps triggering the sound effects. Arden supplies a final flatulence joke, and Nicole brings the party to an uneasy pause.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Script
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- 00:00
greetings
- 00:18
Nicole Parker
Season's greetings, everybody you know everyone doesn't have a really great voice ike but it's the holiday spirit is what's most important and here at mad tv we have a little tradition that we do where every christmas someone picks a secret santa and then we have a party and we give out gifts and i think you're the first one up ike there's a card on the tree for you with your name on it
- 00:42
Ike Barinholtz
thank you nicole Hey, maybe next year we could celebrate Hanukkah.
- 00:46
Michael McDonald
Over my dead body!
- 00:50
Nicole Parker
Michael.
- 00:52
Ike Barinholtz
All right, guys, it seems like Michael hates the Jews. That's not true. He just doesn't like me.
- 00:57
Nicole Parker
Just open the card.
- 00:58
Ike Barinholtz
Okay, I hope it's money. And it is a coupon for singing lessons. Nicole, this is from you.
- 01:10
Nicole Parker
Yes, it is, and I'm not ashamed. Your voice sounds like a cat being neutered with a shrimp fork. Can we please just roll back to the beginning of the scene and isolate Ike's voice, please?
- 01:19
Ike Barinholtz
Don't do that.
- 01:20
Nicole Parker
Yes, please do it.
- 01:22
Ike Barinholtz
Silent night.
- 01:23
Nicole Parker
See what I mean? Okay, that's enough.
- 01:26
Ike Barinholtz
Holy night.
- 01:27
Nicole Parker
Okay, turn it off. Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
- 01:32
Ike Barinholtz
You know, Nicole, I'm reminded of an old holiday expression. Go yourself!
- 01:37
Hey,
- 01:38
Nicole Parker
Oh, yeah, we'll use the coupon, Ike! Okay, everybody. buddy why don't we get things going again why don't we pick another gift frank pick another gift
- 01:48
Frank Caeti
oh uh here's one for you keegan
- 01:50
Keegan-Michael Key
oh hey oh great i love getting gifts thank you oh thank you krista a fart machine i love these
- 02:12
Nicole Randall Johnson
Keegan, what's wrong?
- 02:13
Keegan-Michael Key
i i can't believe somebody would give me that when i was a teenager i weighed 750 pounds and uh
- 02:23
Keegan-Michael Key
get
- 02:26
Oh, my God.
- 02:28
Keegan-Michael Key
Where did that picture and why would you have it ready to show this is funny you guys think this is funny I had to live in my parents garage on a huge piece of cork board my only companion And it was a parrot named Coco who lived in that garage.
- 02:47
Keegan-Michael Key
And Coco, I love you, Jacob. And then I had a huge flatulence problem.
- 02:58
Keegan-Michael Key
And is it funny, Bobby? Is it funny, though? I'm burying my soul in the 200 people I've never met before and giggling. There There was no ventilation in the room. and I had admitted so much gas that I poisoned Koko to death. You insane. You insensitive bastards! Koko!
- 03:29
Nicole Parker
Krista, stop pressing the fart machine.
- 03:32
Crista Flanagan
I didn't.
- 03:33
Arden Myrin
I'm sorry, that was me. I ate too much eggnog.
- 03:38
Ew.
- 03:39
Arden Myrin
I'm sorry.
- 03:40
Nicole Parker
Okay. You know what, I think we could all use a little break from the Secret Santa thing, so we'll be right back.
- 03:45
Yeah.
- 03:45
Nicole Parker
Happy holidays.
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