The Funny Side of Christmas The Funny Side of Christmas The Funny Side of Christmas is a Christmas special broadcast by BBC1 on 27 December 1982. Presented by Frank Muir, it comprised one comedy sketch each from 10 contemporaneous English comedy series: "Butterflies", "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin", "Last of the Summer Wine", "The Les Dawson Show", "Only Fools and Horses", "Open All Hours", "Smith and Jones", "Sorry!", "Three of a Kind", and "Yes Minister". The sketches below are listed in the order in which they appear in the programme. It's Christmas Day, and no sooner than Reggie has settled in to relax
Christmas music best-selling single of all time as of 2018. Popular Christmas music produced from after World War II until the present day has generally remained thematically, lyrically, and instrumentally similar to the songs produced in the early 20th century. Since the dawn of the rock era in the mid-1950s, much of the Christmas music produced for popular audiences has had explicitly romantic overtones, only using Christmas as a setting. The 1950s also featured the introduction of novelty songs that used the holiday as a target for satire and source for comedy. Exceptions such as "The Christmas Shoes" (2000) have re-introduced Christian