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Cleaning Crew

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The setup

On the night before the holiday break, an office cleaning crew insists on performing original Christmas songs for the staff, and each number is stranger than the last.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A boss lets his employees go for the holidays until the cleaning crew announces it has prepared a Christmas show. Too polite to refuse, the staff sits through a song about a very naughty Santa. They offer shaky praise, which the cleaners take as an invitation to perform more, escalating through increasingly suggestive numbers even though an employee's children are watching. The staff tries to steer them toward a more traditional Santa, but the crew keeps going and promises that the next song is even dirtier.

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Highly quotable.

I could listen to that for hours.

Kids, that's not true about Santa.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Part of the December 3, 2016 episode (S42E8) hosted by Emma Stone with musical guest Shawn Mendes.

ScriptEnglish · 95 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors.

  1. 00:00

    Well, gang, thanks for working so late on the night

  2. 00:02

    before our big Christmas break.

  3. 00:04

    I know you're all anxious to get back to your families,

  4. 00:07

    so I'll see you in two weeks, all right?

  5. 00:10

    Oh.

  6. 00:12

    Oh.

  7. 00:13

    What's that?

  8. 00:14

    Oh, okay.

  9. 00:15

    Sit down for a sec, everybody.

  10. 00:17

    Evidently, our wonderful cleaning crew here

  11. 00:19

    has put together a Christmas show.

  12. 00:23

    Really?

  13. 00:23

    And they want to do it now?

  14. 00:24

    I was hoping to catch the 9 o'clock train.

  15. 00:27

    Oh, oh, I'm so sorry.

  16. 00:28

    we can just clean your mess and say or do nothing.

  17. 00:32

    Of course we will stay and watch your show.

  18. 00:34

    You do so much for us.

  19. 00:36

    Thank you, Miss Christine.

  20. 00:37

    Why, thank you, Miss Thing,

  21. 00:39

    about to perform with your other two Miss Things.

  22. 00:42

    You don't know their names, do you?

  23. 00:45

    It's a tradition in our country to share song.

  24. 00:48

    So we'll write one just for you.

  25. 00:50

    With you in mind.

  26. 00:51

    Sounds great.

  27. 00:55

    Okay, we are ready.

  28. 01:00

    Hey there, Santa, you being a bad boy?

  29. 01:03

    Like you do, like you do, like you always dare do.

  30. 01:06

    You came down the chimney and you pushed me on the floor.

  31. 01:09

    What'd he do, what'd he do? What did Santa do to you?

  32. 01:13

    Santa said, be quiet as a mouse.

  33. 01:16

    Don't tell anybody or I'll burn down your house.

  34. 01:20

    Bad boy Santa, bad boy,

  35. 01:22

    Santa,

  36. 01:23

    Santa's a bad boy.

  37. 01:30

    Um...

  38. 01:32

    That

  39. 01:32

    was, uh, something.

  40. 01:34

    Yeah, it was.

  41. 01:35

    So, thank you, yeah.

  42. 01:36

    -"It was, uh, okay or bad? You hate it."

  43. 01:39

    -"Your face looks confused. You know who is Santa, right?"

  44. 01:43

    -"He stand in your house and he go, ho, ho, ho!"

  45. 01:46

    -"Yes, he does. Sure does. Very cute, ladies."

  46. 01:50

    -"Thank you for sharing your beautiful cultures with us.

  47. 01:52

    I could listen to that for hours."

  48. 01:55

    -"Oh, really, Christine?"

  49. 01:56

    -"Oh, good. We have more, yes."

  50. 01:58

    -"Okay. Well, just one more. Deal?"

  51. 02:00

    -"It's a deal."

  52. 02:01

    -♪ Wake up, Santa, get out of my bed

  53. 02:06

    It's time to deliver those presents

  54. 02:08

    -♪ I know you want to go again

  55. 02:12

    But it's time to deliver those presents

  56. 02:15

    -"Santa, no! What did I say?

  57. 02:18

    Put on your pants and get back in your sleigh."

  58. 02:21

    -♪ Santa, Santa, just make...

  59. 02:26

    fast!

  60. 02:33

    Um,

  61. 02:35

    Okay, that was number two.

  62. 02:37

    -"You don't like?"

  63. 02:39

    Well, here in America,

  64. 02:40

    we don't really think of Santa that way.

  65. 02:42

    -"Like in fun, sexy way."

  66. 02:44

    Like a big, frisky fat man?

  67. 02:46

    Yeah, like a goofy elf, and he's horny all the time.

  68. 02:50

    Kids, that's not true about Santa.

  69. 02:52

    Oh.

  70. 02:54

    Oh, God, Dan, I forgot your kids are here.

  71. 02:57

    Yeah, I have them this weekend.

  72. 02:58

    I get them one a year.

  73. 03:00

    Supervised. Hi, Carla.

  74. 03:02

    This isn't great, Dan.

  75. 03:04

    Okay, I think we've all had enough,

  76. 03:06

    so let's do just one more to make sure, huh?

  77. 03:09

    But they didn't ask to do one more.

  78. 03:11

    Oh, yeah, we have one, though.

  79. 03:13

    The elves, lined up

  80. 03:15

    Outside my door, each one more worked up than the one before.

  81. 03:20

    Santa told the elves they could have a turn.

  82. 03:23

    But, Santa, you never learn.

  83. 03:26

    Give me a break! Put the camera away!

  84. 03:29

    Plus, I think you're too drunk anyway.

  85. 03:32

    Santa,

  86. 03:33

    Santa, Santa

  87. 03:35

    What is your

  88. 03:36

    why did I...

  89. 03:37

    tell you about my chimney?

  90. 03:42

    It only goes one way.

  91. 03:47

    Well, I

  92. 03:49

    I don't see how you could top that,

  93. 03:51

    but let's do two or three more just to make sure.

  94. 03:54

    Okay, but this next one is a little bit dirty.

  95. 03:57

    I'll take it.

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