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White Christmas
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Pitched as the next film from the makers of recent Black holiday hits, the trailer follows a mother who loses her house to foreclosure just before Christmas and drags her unwilling son Rashid home to stay with her mother, Mama Ruth. The narrator then runs through everything audiences expect from the genre, only with an all-white cast: friends gossiping while they snap peas, a grandmother who brandishes a handgun, a dinner guest with a chain over his turtleneck, girlfriends at a restaurant warning that men will stray as the waiter looks on, a preacher whipping a choir into a rendition of Oh Happy Day and a leather-clad vocal group dancing for squealing fans. Mock critics weigh in with blurbs ranging from delighted to dismayed, and the closing credits bill Paul Rudd three times over, the last card landing on the bank officer from the opening scene, who wonders whether they are going to get in trouble.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 12
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
White Christmas, the first Black holiday movie for a white audience.
And Essence calls it the Macklemore of movies.
Are we going to get in trouble for this?
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
A fake movie trailer from the December 7, 2013 episode hosted by Paul Rudd. SNL Archives files it as a commercial and lists the songs "O-o-h Child" by The Five Stairsteps and "This Christmas" by Donny Hathaway.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Speaker 1
Coming this December, from the makers of Best Man Holiday, Black Nativity, and Madea's Christmas, comes the holiday event of the season.
- 00:10
Daughter
Please, it's Christmas. Just give me one more month.
- 00:14
Advisor
I'm sorry, ma'am, but you're in foreclosure.
- 00:17
Daughter
What am I supposed to do?
- 00:20
Speaker 1
White Christmas, the first Black Holiday movie for a white audience. A woman who's lost finds her way home.
- 00:28
Rashid
I don't want to stay here!
- 00:30
Daughter
Rasheed, we are going to stay with Mama Ruth and I don't want to hear another word.
- 00:35
Speaker 1
When there's nowhere else to turn, family will always be there. everything
- 00:40
Mama Ruth
Hello!
- 00:42
Speaker 1
you'd You'd expect from a black holiday movie. But with white people in it, women snapping peas, a gun-toting grandma,
- 00:51
Mama Ruth
We gonna have to pop a cap on Jesus' birthday. Hallelujah!
- 00:55
Speaker 1
and a guy wearing a necklace over a turtleneck.
- 00:58
Friend
girl men are dogs they are gonna go out and they're gonna leave you for a white girl
- 01:04
Friend
oh i know that's right
- 01:06
Speaker 1
finally white audiences can have a black holiday movie all their own with joyful gospel from white people
- 01:14
oh happy day the happy day! Oh, happy day! Oh, happy day! We're in Jesus' arms! We're in Jesus' arms! Feel the spirit and soul has
- 01:45
Speaker 1
White Christmas has it all usa today says finally a holiday movie for white people Town & Country Magazine says, For the first time, I talked to the screen and it felt great. Vibe Magazine says, Can't we have anything? And Essence calls it the Macklemore of movies. White Christmas. Starring Paul Rudd. Paul Rudd. And Paul Rudd. White Christmas. The Black Holiday Movie for the rest of us.
- 02:24
Advisor
Are we going to get in trouble for this?
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