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A Christmas Song!

2008-12-22 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · comedy performance

Hank sings a comic Christmas song arguing that Jesus is the one man who gets nothing for Christmas, even though it is his birthday, then shows outtakes and briefly says the 2008 Project for Awesome went very well.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank complains about HD, then sings 'Jesus Gets Nothing for Christmas'

  • ★ Hank grumbles that HD video will only let everyone see his zit. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank's comic song says Jesus is the one man who gets nothing for Christmas, though he hasn't been bad and it is his birthday too. (joke) — 00:00:00 · Christmas

00:02:54 — Outtakes: flubbed lyrics and a ringing cell phone

  • ★ Hank says he hopes no one takes the song too seriously. (hedged) — 00:02:54

00:03:31 — A caller's link to a video; the P4A was awesome, more soon; sign-off

  • ★ Hank says the person whose call interrupted an outtake was sending him a link to a really awesome video, which he links by annotation. — 00:03:31
  • ★★ Hank says the Project for Awesome was pretty freaking awesome this year and they will talk more about it soon. (hedged) — 00:03:31 · Project for Awesome

Humor (dominant)

  • Grown-up Jesus's secret Christmas wish, after a childhood without presents. — 00:00:35 > «he really wants that 24-piece metric drill bit set.»
  • Jesus wants to end violence and war, but also has a less saintly wish. — 00:01:50 > «But he also kinda wants to try out Grand Theft Auto 4»
  • Jesus doesn't want to seem ungrateful about getting nothing. — 00:02:20 > «And the worst part is it's his birthday too»
  • Outtake: Hank flubs the Galilee line. — 00:02:54 > «he never got presents because Jesus didn't exist. Jesus didn't exist. Interesting.»

Threads in this video

  • result · P4A 2008 edition — Hank says the 2008 Project for Awesome was pretty freaking awesome and that they will talk more about it soon. (00:03:31)

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