The Funny Side of Christmas as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel 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
Christmas cracker as rival varieties came on the market. The other elements of the modern cracker—the gifts, paper hats and varied designs—were all introduced by Tom Smith's son, Walter Smith, to differentiate his product from the rival cracker manufacturers which had suddenly sprung up. Tom Smith merged with Caley Crackers in 1953. A memorial water fountain to Tom Smith and his family stands in Finsbury Square, London. The longest Christmas cracker pulling chain consisted of 1081 people and was achieved by The Harrodian School in Barnes, London, UK, on 10 December 2015. Passengers on commercial flights in the United States are explicitly