Nativity Play Director Goes Too Far
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2023
- Nativity Play Director Goes Too Far
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When the nativity Director goes too far...
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we had a situation like that in a nativity play at a primary school in my town - a little boy, playing the role of the innkeeper felt so sorry for Mary and Joseph, that he enthusiastically agreed to take them in...
to which "Joseph", thinking on his feet, replied: come on, Mary, we're not staying here, their standards are too low!
😂😂😂😂
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Obviously, in a world of slaves, shepherds and farmers a carpenter is what? Top 5%? So, he would not stay at just any inn.
Don't forget to give the parents 1 days notice about the costume.
Haha
Best bet, send a note home with them on Friday night that they need it for the following evening. Ensure that the local craft stores are already closed for the holiday period.
Ha ha yes, but your child forgets to give you the note
@@SusanaXpeace2u Of course. That's a given.
Omg, I can't 😃
I remember my mother having an absolute "Anne Flanagan" moment when the nativity play director demanded that my long hair be dyed blonde.
I was 6 or 7 and was supposed to play the angel because I was the only girl who could remember the lines.
But I had dark brown hair, which was an incredibly big problem from the director's point of view.
My mother yelled at him about how ridiculous his behavior was.
Then he became very quiet.
Hahaha of all people, you'd think he had heard of wigs before 😂
@@SamFAHntha Yes, he had already heard about wigs. He knew of its existence.
But they look so unnatural and in a “holy nativity play” authenticity and naturalness are very important. Obviously. 😂🤷♀️
As natural and authentic as a primary school child with dyed blonde hair...🙈
@@SamFAHntha Angels don't wear wigs!! But apparently they do dye their hair 😂
@@gabrieldias3479 And of course it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for an angel to have dark brown hair. Because... that's just not possible, that's not allowed, otherwise... idk a gate to hell will open there 😈
@@Rot24.mu00q Well congratulations on the part, our little satan spawn 😂😂😂
The "you can play a pig" absolutely sent me. Great sketch!
Yuppp 😂😂😂
Kosher
Me as well.
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Hog will make an excellent pig 😂
Where did it send you
2:35 I mean, I played an elephant in my church’s nativity play when I was a kid so a couple evergreens wouldn’t be the strangest thing that’s been added.
If anyone was curious elephants were my favorite animal when I was a kid and I wanted to be one instead of a camel. My Sunday school teacher made the argument that the Bible never specified what the Three Wise Men rode in on, only that they came from the East. So while it was an extremely slim possibility, there was a chance they rode in on an elephant.
God bless your Sunday school teacher.
The Bible never specified how many there were, either, or mentioned any names. Yet here in Spain they are three, have names, and are distinct skin colors "representing" one continent each. The third one, Baltasar, a black gentleman in representation of the African continent, is oftentimes depicted as riding on an elephant instead of a camel (ironically, said elephant is typically an Indian one). All this to say, your teacher had a point! 😂
How does Hog make playing both a mum and little child so believable? He is brilliant 🔥
She ;)😅
. . . spoiler alert. . .
@@CChrisHolmesSorry, what?
Hog plays a distressed child _so_ well that I genuinely wanted to comfort the poor thing
This takes me back 15 years to my youngest playing a sheep in the school’s Christmas play. I made a costume out of an inside-out hoodie with a fake sheepskin lining and a genuine sheepskin hat turned inside out with large pink and white felt ears attached. I never did remove the ears, and, occasionally, on very snowy days, it amuses me to cosplay as a sheep while shovelling the driveway.
Brilliant😂
Takes me back to my son saying he was going to play a Shepherd's Pie in the Christmas play.
Thankfully it stayed true to the original and he just played a shepherd!
Ah, being a DISH must run in the family...
@@SamFAHntha Lol, very good.
@@zanussidish5685 If there's nothing I love more, it's low hanging fruit 😂
Was the pie made of sheperd?
@@rajabuta In that case I would avoid the cottage pie.
Quite a few years ago I was asked to put on a Nativity play with the young children of the Sunday School. I gave all the children their parts and asked them to improvise. They all took to it wonderfully.
Come the big day more children arrived than usual.
I gave the new children new parts such as the nosy neighbour next door, the postie with a letter addressed to the new King, and a reporter from the local newspaper "the Bethlehem Star".
They were terrific.
Years later I was stopped in the street by a burly 6ft6 soldier in uniform. "Oi you. I've been sent to report on suspicious activity around here". I nearly collapsed on the spot. Then he smiled.
My young reporter was now a grown man, but had not forgotten that day.
Thanks for sharing this. Absolutely lovely!
This exact thing ACTUALLY happened at my primary school. It’s a bit creepy how exact it is. My teacher announced herself as the lead part (it was a christmas play but a different story), and played it completely over the top, taking all the attention away from the kids. The parents were so confused and well, fuming 😅
"You can play a pig" is a really great play on words using Hog!! 😂😂
I didn’t even get that joke! 😂
So Hog can play a mom, a 5 year old, a teen and a middle aged man, all equally convincingly. I'm impressed 😂.
I noticed that too! I don't know anyone who can do that!
@@SarahDenike-kq8nj To be fair, I also like Arms as a little girl (ice cream van, ice cream van😂). And Foil as Oisin. They're all so talented ❤️.
Ice cream van?? Which one was that? I wanna see it now!
@@SarahDenike-kq8nj I think it was one about summer in Ireland. Can't recall the exact title.
@@GBDisangI know it was in one of their most recent compilations about the mccormick(?) family
As someone who once played a candle the whole cristmas play this feels personal 😂 Absolutely brilliant guys 🔥
I once played a TV and I have absolutely no idea how a TV belonged in the play 🤷🏾♀️
I was a tree
I once played the fence. An actual fence.
I once played a type writer. My sister was the house I lived in
You must have been a bright kid!! 🤣
My family was given a few MONTHS to plan my outfit as 'head' Angel. My Grandma (German and an excellent seamstress) took this to heart producing me the most intricate set of wings. They were heavy and really wide so it took some practice to learn how to hold and operate them. Primed and ready, a day before the show for dress rehearsal, it was confirmed that they wouldn't be allowed in the church as it may have been "too much" compared to the other costumes 😢. We were all under 10. Some kind of argument I wasnt subjected to ensued with the school about making everyone feel special and included.
In conclusion they were hung up as a Christmas decoration instead and I went completely wingless....
Thank you for the empathic discussion on the role of a 14-year-old heavily pregnant woman. 😂😂
In pre-school/kinder my youngest brother was one of the Wise Men. A kid in the audience was pulling faces, so my brother hurled his gift at baby Jesus’s head and ran to the front and pulled faces back… and he wouldn’t stop. It was a Nativity Play to remember 🤣🤣🤣
This was brilliant! Hog portrays confused little kids so well
I don't know how he does it? It's actually amazing 🤯
Maybe, he still is that confused youngster, inside?
Little baby hog! A hoglet :D (my maternal instinct kicks in very weirdly when he plays little kids 🤣)
@@ghuvleom4132 I don't even have a child yet, but I can relate to that. When he cried and whined, I just wanted to give him a big cuddle. Comforting him, hugging him.
Hog plays it incredibly convincingly.
@@Rot24.mu00q it’s all the child actor experience coming though.
Oh god, Hog almost starting to cry made me almost start crying 😭 Very convincing acting there!
😂😭🤣 In our nativity play, instead of having a massive choir of angels, six of us had to play the stable... Love the outro!
PLEASE BE KIDDING 🤣
@@SamFAHntha Three on each side, forming the side walls with our bodies and the roof with our arms, meeting in the middle. The challenge was managing to line up behind Mary and Joseph and the baby, not leaving them out in the cold 😂
@@linam764 And you're SURE you didn't walk into a yoga class instead? 😂
Ahahaahahha, all the preparation just for Darren to go „eee aaah“! 😂 He was perfect though.
It really is an excellent donkey bray
I, too, played the donkey in my church's nativity play, and I, too, had that exact same line. Thank you for undoing years and years of intense therapy by bringing all these memories flooding back...
Oh, man. I miss primary school plays! Loads of kids staring at the back of the hall and shouting their lines in monotone 😂 Good times!
I played Mary in year 2 and I kept swinging the doll baby out of nerves. Accidentally flung him into the audience… I was never cast as Mary again 😢
To Hog: "You can play a pig."
Meta. La Bullshat would be proud.
Tears of pride running down his face as he plays the male cow
As a theatre teacher in schools in Argentina I absolutely love how you mock on the not-so-real seriousness that a school play has. Thank you for showing the world how great actors and artists you are. Happy holidays.
No me digás! Aquí una teatrera en Mendoza. 👋🏻 Yo no soy profe, pero muches de mis compas sí lo son. Yo lo fui muchos años de otra materia, y aún así no me imagino el bardo de armar una obra con las criaturas... Os admiro! 💛
The wonky nativity stars just add to the whole thing so brilliantly, although I suspect that was more lack of craft skills than genius set-making! Such a humorous contrast to Foil's passion! 😂😂
Idk why, but just hearing that outro made it actually feel like Christmas for the first time this year, so thank you for that
I know what you mean 😅
For some reason my primary school decided to do the Christmas truce of 1914 for the year 3 Christmas play, and my part was one of the corpses laying in no man's land. I was carried away for a decent burial which is something.
The glasses were a great touch. Brought me back to school many moons ago with poor kids who had the standard prescription glasses. Laughing and choking into my cornflakes.
Ar-are you okay now? Did all the cornflakes go down? 😂
It even looks like each eye has a different thickness of glass 😄
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful...
This is Foil's audition tape 😂 Well done lads, great vid as usual
The Wiggles are gonna love him...
Herr Director loves to spend the budget very effectively...The real myrth in a bottle and 38'C in the gymnasium where all the children and their parents + teachers will be gathered, for the play, are the paramount of the authentic feel, for the Nativity Story ❣️👌😅
That elaborate beard, I couldn't take my eyes off it! 😅And then that HEE - HAW made me laugh out so loudly, I didn't even expect that from myself xDDD thanks for the mood guys!
P.S. And of course I was happy to see granny in the outro!😃Sketch with granny - please please please🙏
Yes yes yes! We NEED to see both Oison's mom AND Granny critique the play like it's broadway! Bahahhaa
Oh, poor Foil. Granny is only teasing you because she loves you. If she ever starts being nice to you, better run.
D'you reckon she's ever kidnapped anyone? Or is the real question how many people has she kidnapped, and why were they all played by Foil?
@@IntensivePorpoiseIt's not kidnapping when they come voluntarily and Foil is just too gullible getting lured in by biscuits and a fake smile. 😅
This takes me back to my Year 4 production where little 8 year old me was cast in the role of "some grass." My role was to sit on the benches at the side of the stage with the rest of the grass and sway at the appropriate moments. I got so horribly bored that I fell asleep during the dress rehearsal and fell off the bench. I was then swapped with another bit of grass so I could be in the corner and lean on the wall.
The Donovan brothers clearly need to take Richard Chandley's masterclass on how to be a proper tree
The donkey's line killed it.
I just teared up laughing.
I had a teacher a lot like this in primary school. I remember we were just starting to practice for our play when I found out my friends dog had gotten ran over. We were both upset but the teacher threatened to pull us out of the play for not smiling during the rehearsal. That was a bit much for 6 year olds
all that's missing now is tiernan callahan reporting live from bethlehem-- "tumultuous scenes here at the bethlehem premiere inn where a couple from nazareth was refused a room" 😂😂
Took me a minute to work out Alfred was wearing a keppi hat - thought he'd been very eager and already got his teatowel on his head, except it had clearly been on a very hot cycle. Of course as it turns out he'd have needed that other iconic headgear of the nativity - tinsel.
Lovely festive doomdah, though I can't help but feel an out-of-tune Away in a Doomdah would have been more in keeping with the sketch. Or maybe a recorder chorus playing Little Donkey. Oh man how we make parents suffer for the love of their kids.
I still want a Christina Aguilera doomdah.
Hog in the outro looks like a famous actor trying to hide from the paparazzi by wearing a hat and the hoodie.
And failing to disguise himself
@@foilarmsandhog😂
I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what happened because I was only looking at foils moustache
It's a particularly well done one, isn't it? 🤩
Particularly well done is an understatement 😛
Fair, you're only human
"I need a poo!' 😂😂 Foil, I LOVE the goatee, and seeing Richard's cap fills me with hope we'll see him again 🙏 Thanks again for another great gig on Sunday xx
Yeah, the beard was cool, 😆 I was totally sold by his performance here!
I'm cry laughing! This is great! A reworking of 'there's no room at the inn!' and it just escalates in silly!
I'm just sitting here marveling at the fact that Irish children can't roll their r's either. I wonder at what age they learn to pronounce that distinct Irish r... And Arms always reminds me of Andreas Scholl, the German countertenor.
My daughter, 11, is absolutely ecstatic to be the star. They have a big stiff fabric star shape with holes for arms and legs and a circle cut out in the top point for the face, and apparently she has been wanting to be the star for some time, but the part always goes to a very small child. She was quite concerned this year, in fact, because she realized that she was the only girl to not yet have been Mary, and she didn't WANT to be Mary, she wanted to be the STAR. I came down to the church basement while they were dealing out costumes, and she was, in fact, the star. She was the happiest star ever. She was running laps of the basement at top speed, yelling "I'M A STAR! I'M A SHOOTING STAR!"
Richard Chandley, how it began.
So inspired by Theodore Rushford, that at 5 years old he'd found his true calling!
@@Emma_W_ ...and after Theodore had realised it, he understood that his mission in this life is a career adviser. Although later something went wrong but who are we to judge?
@@LiliumSylvanum oh my god, it all makes sense!
Hog's "There's no room at the inn" while sobbing after being fired -- now that's a visceral scene.
Hahaha 😂 i was always a narrator in school ..guess i didnt make a good enough donkey . We needed tiernan callaghan to do a news report on this one lads lol. Also the donovan brothers ..i imagine them being a young version of Aldi and Lidl lol ..i mean they are part of christmas too hahahaha 😅 good one lads 🎉
Our school mimed the actual thing with 4 of us in a sort of brown monk's dress with hood acting as narrators. It was always the kids of more well to do parents that got mary and joseph. The nuns were awful snobs. My mum used to say they would have spat on jesus the carpenters son.
I came very close to choking with laughter when the donkey said his line 🤣🤣 Glad I hadn't finished my top 10 list yet 😅
And... ermmm... Foil, what's on your face? 🤣
BUSTED! You repeated your joke! 😂😂😂
@@SamFAHntha leave me alone 🙈 I HAD to make sure they saw my (their) joke ok! 🤣🤣
Vielleicht hätten wir ein oder zwei der Haarreifen vom Wochenende für euch da lassen sollen.;)
Die Mühe bei den Sternen hat sich echt ausgezahlt!;)
Frohe Weihnachten, Jungs! 🎄❤
What a great sketch to start a day! 😂😂 Hog nailed it as "no room at the inn" kid. 😅❤ Great new 'stache design for Foil, very precise 😂 And granny is irreplaceable, nice to see she even got dressed up for x-mas 😅 Hope she will star in the next sketch 😍
At our church Nativity play this year, we had a sheep who wouldn't be still & an angel who kept doing deep curtseys. Priceless
I want to see more Theodore Rushman sketches. Maybe he can direct a bunch of obnoxious 14 year old Irish lads in Romeo and Juliet. Or a bunch of 7 year olds in Annie. 😂
And replace our darling Richard? For shame Lauren! For shame!!!
I’m not sure who Richard is.
@@laurenconrad1799 CHANDLEY??? THE THIRD ONE???
Basically Theodore with a scarf 😂
@@SamFAHnthaOh now I remember! Honestly, Theordore feels like Richard after the military released him. 😂
@@laurenconrad1799 He does! He's so much harder, poor guy must've gone through a lot 😢😂
Too many great jokes to comment on, so I’ll just say thank you for reviving my memories of Nativity plays. I truly loved them. As a kid, I liked singing and acting.
Remember one nativity play, when me and my friend were playing archangels. Now when I think about it, I have no idea why kindergarten teachers decided to include these characters, but I liked my role :)
I wanna see this play just so I can join in on the parents booing at the lead actor 😂
Cause I'm sure they'll be oh so pleased to see him up there 🤣
OMG, I want to adopt the 5 and a half yrs old Hog, cuteness overload 😍
This feels a little more like personal experience
I don't know how these wonderfully talented trio keep coming up with such fantastic sketches. Always a joy.
Netflix and other streaming giants are dumb f**ks for still not having you guys on contract. You'd brighten up the comedy section and bring them billions of views. Love you from my heart. My life would be a darker place without you guys. You took me out of heavy depression this year.
That's very kind of you
It was good hearing them on Classic Hits Radio recently. You can find it online.
Thank you for this guys. It hasn't felt like Christmas for us this year with my wife having to be in hospital. After seeing this, I can honestly say - it feels even less like Christmas now! 😂 Seriously, this really cheered me up. Thank you!
Best wishes to you and your wife! ❤
Wishing the best for you and your wife!
@sarahsings8468 thank you. Blessings
You can play a pig! 😂 The perfect role for Hog.
I used to teach preschool and we would have LOVED a guy like this entertaining the troops, hahaha. SO good. Those kid faces and tears were too accurate and the stars cut as though a child might have have done them...perfection. A VERY entertaining skit and thank you!! Put a big smile on my face. Always fantastic, Gentlemen!! Happy Holidays to you and yours!! xoxoxo
Well *this* is certainly creating a Christmassy mood... 😂 - but wait, some happy days in Dublin wearing sparkly antlers already did that for me. 💖 Thanks for the gift of bringing us together there once again.
It sounds like so much fun 😊
I have tears streaming down my face!! I had to pause and rewind so many times. I played the star and I can confirm it was the worst part. 😂👏🏻😂👏🏻 Dare I say it….best video of the year!! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!
100% sending this to my sister. She played a star in our nativity. I was a narrator. It may have been 24 years ago but I feel it might still strike a nerve.
Richard Chandley III must have trained at Theodore‘s acting school, no doubt!😂
Chandley did perform an impressive donkey in an ad once if I recall correctly 😅
@@HeleendjeYup, Donkey Insurance.
You'd be an ass not to visit 😂
The acting in this is genuinely great! 😂
What a quick role change...from innkeeper to pig. Poor kid! Great sketch!
Arms looked both so convincing and at the same time horrible as the boy with glasses 😂. I had classmates looking just like this. The dirty glasses! I could not anymore! 😂 And I loved Hog as the Innkeeper. He was one step away from crying out loud. 😂 And Foil was great as over the top director. I knew he would give himself the lead role. And the beard! 😂 ❤
Thanks for this. Loved it! Can I ask for a sketch of the Snob At Christmas? I’ve missed him so. Imagine how wonderfully boring he would be with his imported wines and designer Christmas jumpers.
YAAY, FAH Christmas sketch! Is Theodore Rushford a friend of Richard Chandley? Baby Hog is adorable and rightly gets assigned a pig!! Seeing evil granny in the outro is delicious 🎄 PLUS a Christmas doomdah. You're spoiling us lads, so many treats in this one!
Howling! 🤣 Brilliant! Inspired! Please expand on this and give us the full play!
Omg, the chaos 😂
I'd risk prison time to see that
I got to play the inn keeper in my infant school nativity. Naturally my Dad instructed me in how to do a flawless Basil Fawlty impression. It's a shame I only performed for one night before taking ill.
Greetings from Sweden! You've been popping up in shorts for a while now so a couple of weeks ago I finally checked out the channel and I've now seen every single video! So many favourites! And then I find out you came to Sweden last year and Denmark just a few weeks ago (I've mostly lived in the south of Sweden so Copenhagen's been closer for concerts and stuff). If I had found you just a few weeks earlier aaarghh!! I hope we didn't scare you away and that you come back sometime so that I can see you live!
- Mika ^_^
(PS do let me know if I got your name wrong haha!)
@@SamFAHntha Get my name wrong? What are you talking about?
@@87worms Oh so it wasn't then, great!
UA-cam stitched your first and last name together so I wasn't sure where your first name ended haha, hope that makes sense!
@@SamFAHntha It's just that I haven't seen you write my name anywhere?
@@87worms No I don't think I have! Except for that first reply there, that's the one I'm talking about anyways 😅
Whoever makes little child Hog cry, shall see my wrath
Hate to break it to you Leslie but I think it was little child Hog who made little child Hog cry 😂
'You can play the pig ' and the Donkey's elaborate part 😂😂😂
Too funny 🤣
Swede here! That was my line too at the Nativity Play.. in 1964. "Det finns inget rum på härbärget" (There's no room at the shelter) I probably sounded like that too! 😂 How time flies!
Hahahahahahaha. XD Seeing Hog crack as a kid is SPOT ON! Well played lads, well played.
A quiet week for Safe-hands-McKenna, I guess considering the average height of the actors and the absence of a stunt in the nativity play.
It's all me next week haha
@@foilarmsandhogohh exciting 😂😍
@@foilarmsandhogLooking forward to it Safe-hands. 😊
My friend was the star in a traditional Christmas musical my school did to raise funds. We had to perform the thing in quite a few parties and shopping malls and she had to just stand there the entire time with a huge star and could only participate in the group songs while the rest of us had solo songs and dialogue. I think that our teacher must have not liked my friend very much.
😢
Donkeys don't ask.
How true...
Loved this! It’s great when you play multiple characters! Me and Mel were angels in our nativity, we hated it and refused to go on stage 🤣
The video hasn't even begun but I burst out laughing at the stars 😂.
Aw come on, Hog worked hard on those 😂
I guess he's just SO funny that nothing he makes can escape it....? (just go with it please 😂)
Hahaha I know. I saw the story and the commitment made me laugh so much.
@@Tooba.Dodds. Makes me think of the durian fruit costume and how he spent 25 minutes sticking toothpicks into it. We are blessed to have him aren't we 😂
@@SamFAHntha definitely. His commitment to the craft knows no bounds. We truly are blessed 😇
Love that curtain with the stars!⭐️Gorgeous and so effective! Bravo Hog!👏🏻
I really like how the teacher went all out on his performance 😂
Is he a relative of Richard?
The poor kids will probably only be in a play again if they are being forced😅
Great sketch, I love school themes.❤
I knew he would take the main part 😁
Merry Christmas to you brilliant men!
'Questions? Very good." 😂😂😂
Reminds me why I quit acting class. I couldn’t take the drama.
Bit dramatic... are you absolutely sure you wouldn't have fit in?
The ceiling tiles add verisimilitude
I can only imagine Foil's unbridled joy at drawing that moustache. 😉
"As it really was" "you can play a pig"
It has already been established that there were two lobsters and a squid present a the birth of Jesus. It is only fair that he treats his guests with a song and tap dance act.
We had a teacher like that directing the Easter play(the Crucifix). Only the kids in his choir, his favourites in class, and the 3 kids of the previous head got good rolls. He nicked the headdress off of one kid's costume because it was perfect for his Jesus. The next day the mother handed him another headdress and demanded the first one back. The second play went a bit better, in that he was forced to do auditions due to a lot of complaints, so kids that were neither in his class or choir had a chance of getting a speaking roll.
The moment 0:38 when Foil goes from Rushford to Joseph is superb.
Poor baby, he really gave it all in that line 😢
Best of your Christmas sketches! I love when you guys play kids!
Now I have to get a bloody mug. I don't need another mug. Doesn't even come with coffee inside.
Merry Christmas to you three - here's to another year of laughs!
Brilliant! Could have used this guy yesterday for my son's Christmas show! Absolute carnage 😂