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Santa In A Bar
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Two patrons and their bartender reminisce about childhood Christmases when a stranger in a red suit arrives for a whiskey. He calls himself Nick and explains that he has a busy night ahead. As the men make friendly small talk, he drops increasingly unmistakable clues about reindeer, his sleigh, Mrs. Claus and the North Pole. Their polite obliviousness forces him to announce outright that he is Santa Claus before leaving. Only then does one patron begin to wonder who their visitor might have been.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Let's just say I'm in the giving business.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Neil Campbell
Writer

Stoney Sharp
Director

Eva Anderson
Producer


A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Released on December 22, 2013, as part of UCB Comedy’s Pantsuit videos.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Speaker 1
Ooh, Pantoo!
- 00:03
Hear
- 00:09
Joe
You that? It's midnight.
- 00:12
Joe
Merry Christmas, Drew.
- 00:13
Trip
Merry Christmas, Joe.
- 00:14
Joe
Merry Christmas, Doggy.
- 00:16
Augie
Merry Christmas, fellas. Next one's on me.
- 00:20
Joe
You guys remember what Christmas was like when we were kids? It was pretty great, huh?
- 00:24
Trip
Yeah, I remember when I was a little kid, I'd always try to wake up before the rest of my family, so I could go downstairs and look at all my presents underneath the tree, but every time my mom would already be waiting for me with a big mug of cider.
- 00:37
Augie
Growing up in Brooklyn we didn't have a lot of money, but I remember one Christmas my little sister Rosemary wanted to get me a gift so badly that she drew a picture of an angel and put it in an old frame she found. God bless her.
- 00:53
Joe
We used to always have a real nice family gathering, and then the old man would take me hunting. Only day all year he'd go hunting with me instead of his drinking buddies.
- 01:03
Joe
Sometimes I really do miss that old son of a gun.
- 01:07
Joe
Yeah, Christmas sure ain't what it used to be.
- 01:19
Santa Claus
Barkeep. Barkeep, a drink, please.
- 01:21
Augie
What'll it be?
- 01:22
Santa Claus
Oh, whiskey neat would be just splendid, thank you.
- 01:25
Joe
Long night, pal?
- 01:27
Santa Claus
Oh, it's just getting started for me. I have to work all night.
- 01:37
Trip
Well, welcome to Augie's Pub. My name's Tripp, this here's Joe, and behind the bar is Augie. What's your name?
- 01:44
Santa Claus
Nick.
- 01:45
Joe
So So you say you gotta work all night, huh? What is it that you do, Nick?
- 01:53
Santa Claus
Let's just say I'm in the giving business.
- 02:00
Augie
So where are you from, Nick? I haven't seen you around these parts before.
- 02:04
Santa Claus
Oh, I live a bit north of here.
- 02:13
Joe
Barkeep, Barkeep, is that a picture of your dog?
- 02:16
Augie
Yep, that's Gracie. Greatest month I've ever lived. You got any dogs, Nick?
- 02:22
Santa Claus
No. I'm more of a I'm a reindeer man.
- 02:27
Trip
So See you're an out of towner. You do a lot of traveling.
- 02:38
Santa Claus
Yes, I travel all over the world. In my sleigh.
- 02:49
Joe
So you married Nick?
- 02:52
Santa Claus
To my beautiful wife of many years, Mrs. Claus.
- 03:00
Augie
So you said you're from north of here. Whereabouts exactly? Farmington? Jefferson?
- 03:06
Speaker 2
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
- 03:07
Santa Claus
Ho ho ho ho ho. I live at the North Pole, along with a band of elves who manufacture the toys I deliver for Christmas.
- 03:23
Santa Claus
Well, that was just great. Thanks for the company, Augie Turner, Joseph Wells, and Trip Backstrom. I'm afraid I must take my leave now, for you see, it is Christmas, which means I must spend I spend the evening delivering toys to all the children of the world because I am Santa Claus. Rudolph, Oh, Rudolph, your nose shines so bright.
- 04:00
Joe
Do Do you you think that could have been?
- 04:25
Speaker 1
Oh, pantsuit.
- 04:27
Speaker 3
Boxing Day, unlike the rest of Canada's history, is filled with romance, intrigue, mystery, excitement and adventure. It was founded by the 14th Prime Minister, Richard Boxing.
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