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The Ladies Man: Happy Holidays

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The setup

Leon Phelps, the Ladies' Man, delivers a lonely-hearts Christmas message and then serenades the ladies with a bawdy holiday song, backed by two dancers in red dresses.

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A Happy Holidays title card gives way to Leon Phelps in his armchair, wishing viewers a merry Christmas and explaining that he thinks of the season as a time to comfort lonely and sad ladies, a speech he derails with insults and a warning about being fooled by a man in disguise. He then stands to perform a song he wrote for the occasion, pitching sleigh rides, cognac and candy-cane jokes while two dancers in red dresses drape themselves over him. The segment closes on a repeat of the title card.

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