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Santa In A Bar

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The setup

Santa stops for a Christmas Eve drink, but the men at the bar keep missing his increasingly obvious hints.

Community rating

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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.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Released on December 22, 2013, as part of UCB Comedy’s Pantsuit videos.

ScriptEnglish · 38 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    Speaker 1

    Ooh, Pantoo!

  2. 00:03

    Hear

  3. 00:09

    Joe

    You that? It's midnight.

  4. 00:12

    Joe

    Merry Christmas, Drew.

  5. 00:13

    Trip

    Merry Christmas, Joe.

  6. 00:14

    Joe

    Merry Christmas, Doggy.

  7. 00:16

    Augie

    Merry Christmas, fellas. Next one's on me.

  8. 00:20

    Joe

    You guys remember what Christmas was like when we were kids? It was pretty great, huh?

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 01:03

    Joe

    Sometimes I really do miss that old son of a gun.

  13. 01:07

    Joe

    Yeah, Christmas sure ain't what it used to be.

  14. 01:19

    Santa Claus

    Barkeep. Barkeep, a drink, please.

  15. 01:21

    Augie

    What'll it be?

  16. 01:22

    Santa Claus

    Oh, whiskey neat would be just splendid, thank you.

  17. 01:25

    Joe

    Long night, pal?

  18. 01:27

    Santa Claus

    Oh, it's just getting started for me. I have to work all night.

  19. 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?

  20. 01:44

    Santa Claus

    Nick.

  21. 01:45

    Joe

    So So you say you gotta work all night, huh? What is it that you do, Nick?

  22. 01:53

    Santa Claus

    Let's just say I'm in the giving business.

  23. 02:00

    Augie

    So where are you from, Nick? I haven't seen you around these parts before.

  24. 02:04

    Santa Claus

    Oh, I live a bit north of here.

  25. 02:13

    Joe

    Barkeep, Barkeep, is that a picture of your dog?

  26. 02:16

    Augie

    Yep, that's Gracie. Greatest month I've ever lived. You got any dogs, Nick?

  27. 02:22

    Santa Claus

    No. I'm more of a I'm a reindeer man.

  28. 02:27

    Trip

    So See you're an out of towner. You do a lot of traveling.

  29. 02:38

    Santa Claus

    Yes, I travel all over the world. In my sleigh.

  30. 02:49

    Joe

    So you married Nick?

  31. 02:52

    Santa Claus

    To my beautiful wife of many years, Mrs. Claus.

  32. 03:00

    Augie

    So you said you're from north of here. Whereabouts exactly? Farmington? Jefferson?

  33. 03:06

    Speaker 2

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. 04:00

    Joe

    Do Do you you think that could have been?

  37. 04:25

    Speaker 1

    Oh, pantsuit.

  38. 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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