One of the funniest comedy duos to ever feature on Saturday Night Live has been Steve Martin and Martin Short. These two geniuses of comedy timing are without peers in the celebrity world. Anytime they have ever done a skit together on SNL it is always a good time with plenty of laughs to go around and this SNL Christmas skit is no exception.
Martin Short plays the part of Ebenezer Scrooge in this comedy retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Steve Martin takes on the role of whom I believe to be the Ghost of Christmas Present.
Just like in the original story, Ebenezer Scrooge wakes up after having his nightmarish visits from the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future the night before. With a renewed heart he seeks to begin celebrating the true nature of Christmas by sharing his wealth with the common people and he starts by enlisting the help of a poor orphaned lad played by Sarah Sherman.
Scrooge asks the young lad if he knows of the large holiday Goose for sale down the street. The young street urchin knows exactly which one the old Ebenezer is speaking of. Scrooge instructs the young lad to go fetch it for him so that Tiny Tim and his family can have a Christmas feast. But when Martin Short throws a gold coin down to the young boy his eye is put out and a bloody comedy scene begins.
Tiny Tim and another orphan played by Marcello Hernandez show up on the scene and more hijinks insue. The townsfolk played Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney also get in on the hijinks. By the end of this skit all the towns people are dead, horribly injured or at the very least covered in blood. This is probably one of the goriest holiday snl skits ever put together but I would rank it among the funniest Christmas themed sketches ever put together.
This is one 5 minute clip you don't want to pass up. Grab yourself a cup of got coco and enjoy.
