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Christmas Airport Parade
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Umberto and Chartreuse Hamilton host a Christmas-week parade from Newark Airport, treating the passing passengers as featured attractions. Kenton Bean reports from the Delta lounge, where even Paul Rudd cannot get past his entrance rules. The procession includes an anxious flier, a relentlessly repetitive TSA employee, a runaway motorized suitcase, XpresSpa workers and a couple disagreeing about the mile high club. A gate agent mangles passenger names before Captain Sully introduces travelers returning from cosmetic surgery in Turkey.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 18
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Bag in the bin.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Liz Patrick
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Tom Hanks reprises his portrayal of Captain Sully from the 2016 film Sully.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Live from gate 78 in Terminal C. It's the Chibo Express Christmas week airport parade
- 00:08
It's chaos, it's mayhem, and everyone's afraid, it's the Christmas Week Airport Parade!
- 00:14
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
Good evening from Newark, which is how you say New York if you were on pills, which I am My name is agent chartreuse Hamilton,
- 00:22
TSA Agent Umberto
and I'm Umberto
- 00:25
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
What kind of name is that?
- 00:27
TSA Agent Umberto
Well, my parents were unsure about naming me Berto. So they told the nurse Umberto
- 00:31
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
Love. Umberto, who can we expect to see on the parade route this year?
- 00:35
TSA Agent Umberto
Well, some new appearances as well as some old classics. Here's one now. Up first, it's a nervous flyer whose edible kicked in too early.
- 00:43
Nervous Flier
Uh, 1,000 milligrams is low, right? Because that's just one gram, right?
- 00:49
TSA Agent Umberto
Wrong, but I'll have what he's having.
- 00:51
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
I already did. I'm on pills and potions, baby.
- 00:55
TSA Agent Umberto
Girl, I hate that you're my ride home.
- 00:58
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
Next up, it's a woman who's saving her stinky meal for the flight
- 01:01
Woman with Stinky Meal
I can't wait to eat my day old tuna melt and I got a middle seat
- 01:07
TSA Agent Umberto
nice let's check in with our parade correspondent Kenton Bean the overly aggressive Delta Lounge employee
- 01:14
Kenton Bean
thank you Umberto the Delta Lounge is glitz it's glam it's got the most beautiful buffet you've ever been to if you've never been to a buffet
- 01:25
Kenton Bean
no
- 01:26
Lounge Customer
I thought I had access to the lounge
- 01:30
Kenton Bean
No! You're not dressed appropriately. And Drake is in there.
- 01:36
TSA Agent Umberto
Drake is in the Delta lounge?
- 01:38
Kenton Bean
Well, it's either Drake or Josh. I can't tell them apart.
- 01:42
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
Thanks, Kenton. Next up, it's TSA employee who says the same thing 12 different ways.
- 01:48
TSA Employee
Bag in the bin. Put your bag in the bin. If you got a bag, go ahead and put it in the bin.
- 01:55
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
Sir, how are you gonna celebrate the holidays?
- 01:58
TSA Employee
Bag in the bin.
- 01:59
TSA Agent Umberto
oh look who's next it's a parade first woman who accidentally sat down on a motorized suitcase
- 02:05
Woman on Motorized Suitcase
create a barricade
- 02:11
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
you know let's check back in with ken kenton
- 02:15
Paul Rudd
i'm
- 02:16
Kenton Bean
You're not getting in!
- 02:18
Paul Rudd
I'm paul rudd
- 02:20
Kenton Bean
that Paul Rudd, that name sounds poor
- 02:28
Paul Rudd
i was voted sexiest man alive
- 02:34
Could someone hand me water?
- 02:40
Kenton Bean
Sexiest Man Alive? Well, what? Is Tim Allen dead?
- 02:46
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
It's an airport staple it's white woman who's somehow gonna make the flight about her
- 02:50
Woman Making the Flight About Herself
I might sing I might yell at a baby I'm definitely gonna watch a movie on my iPad
- 02:57
TSA Agent Umberto
no next up we have the least necessary employees in the terminal it's the Express spa sponsored by by comp ap masseurs.
- 03:10
XpresSpa Employee
What's up? We got a holiday discount going. It's gonna be 5% off for a dry-ass public massage.
- 03:16
XpresSpa Employee
And free unhappy endings.
- 03:19
XpresSpa Employee
Please, let us touch you.
- 03:23
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
They should get a job with TSA.
- 03:25
TSA Agent Umberto
Yes. Up next, it's a classic. It's a woman who wants to join the Mile High Club and her boyfriend who does not.
- 03:32
Woman Seeking the Mile High Club
Okay, so I'll sit in the sink. You kneel on the toilet, put your hands on the wall. I'll put my feet on the ceiling.
- 03:38
Reluctant Boyfriend
Why can't we just make love in our bed?
- 03:41
Woman Seeking the Mile High Club
Oh, my God.
- 03:43
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
Oh, you hear that? It's a gate agent who's having trouble with the names.
- 03:48
Gate Agent
Flight 663 boarding now for Miami. I need to speak with my cool little penis. I want to see my cool little penis as soon as possible face to face. Next on my standby list, I have China so dry. I have China so dry. I'm hoping I'm pronouncing that right. I have gyn-a-so-dry. Okay, please come to the counter, gyn-a-so-dry.
- 04:17
TSA Agent Umberto
Come on, speaking of names, Chartreuse, did your parents name you that because they love the color?
- 04:21
TSA Agent Chartreuse Hamilton
No, because they love charcuterie and they're illiterate.
- 04:25
TSA Agent Umberto
Oh, look, coming this way, it's the parade grand marshal, Captain Sully.
- 04:30
Captain Sully
Hello, Hello, everyone. I'm here to introduce the grand finale. So let's see if I can land this plane.
- 04:49
Captain Sully
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I thought there would be a round of applause out there.
- 04:54
Captain Sully
All All right. Now my rhythm's all off. Anyways, please welcome a group of passengers who just arrived from Turkey.
- 05:08
TSA Agent Umberto
That's right, Sully. They just got cheap cosmetic work done in Turkey.
- 05:12
Traveler Returning from Turkey
Oh, yeah. My wife is gonna love it. new footer!
- 05:21
TSA Agent Umberto
Well, that's a I'm on the Christmas week airport parade, but remember...
- 05:25
Keep us in your hearts, cause we're back in late March for the spring.
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