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!

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.

The "you can play a pig" absolutely sent me. Great sketch!

How does Hog make playing both a mum and little child so believable? He is brilliant 🔥

Don't forget to give the parents 1 days notice about the costume.

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.

Hog plays a distressed child _so_ well that I genuinely wanted to comfort the poor thing

As someone who once played a candle the whole cristmas play this feels personal 😂 Absolutely brilliant guys 🔥

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.

So Hog can play a mom, a 5 year old, a teen and a middle aged man, all equally convincingly. I'm impressed 😂.

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!

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!! 😂😂

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.

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 🤣🤣🤣

Oh god, Hog almost starting to cry made me almost start crying 😭 Very convincing acting there!

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....

This was brilliant! Hog portrays confused little kids so well

Thank you for the empathic discussion on the role of a 14-year-old heavily pregnant woman. 😂😂

😂😭🤣 In our nativity play, instead of having a massive choir of angels, six of us had to play the stable... Love the outro!

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.

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...

Ahahaahahha, all the preparation just for Darren to go „eee aaah“! 😂 He was perfect though.

This is Foil's audition tape 😂 Well done lads, great vid as usual

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! 😂😂

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.

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.

Idk why, but just hearing that outro made it actually feel like Christmas for the first time this year, so thank you for that

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🙏

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful...

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.

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! 🎄❤

I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what happened because I was only looking at foils moustache

OMG, I want to adopt the 5 and a half yrs old Hog, cuteness overload 😍

"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

Hog's "There's no room at the inn" while sobbing after being fired -- now that's a visceral scene.

The Donovan brothers clearly need to take Richard Chandley's masterclass on how to be a proper tree

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 😍

I don't know how these wonderfully talented trio keep coming up with such fantastic sketches. Always a joy.

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.

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

The donkey's line killed it. I just teared up laughing.

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!

Oh, poor Foil. Granny is only teasing you because she loves you. If she ever starts being nice to you, better run.

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.

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.

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" 😂😂

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 🎉

I'm cry laughing! This is great! A reworking of 'there's no room at the inn!' and it just escalates in silly!

The acting in this is genuinely great! 😂

Howling! 🤣 Brilliant! Inspired! Please expand on this and give us the full play!

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!!

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

Hog in the outro looks like a famous actor trying to hide from the paparazzi by wearing a hat and the hoodie.

Whoever makes little child Hog cry, shall see my wrath

"Donkeys never ask, Darren, they just go" Well there's a mantra for the new year, if ever I heard one 😂 Peak silly, my favourite type of FAH sketch. Happy Thursday!

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 ❣️👌😅

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 🤣

Guys, you are just like a Caravaggio painting to me: powerful, unique and magnificent -thank you for what you do! Hog as a little kid almost bursting into tears is so cute.. Love when you are acting as multiple characters.. And..you surprised us once again, we expected Granny in the sketch today!

Love that curtain with the stars!⭐️Gorgeous and so effective! Bravo Hog!👏🏻

Richard Chandley, how it began.

I knew he would take the main part 😁 Merry Christmas to you brilliant men!

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 :)

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 🤣

What a quick role change...from innkeeper to pig. Poor kid! Great sketch!

Poor baby, he really gave it all in that line 😢

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.

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.

At our church Nativity play this year, we had a sheep who wouldn't be still & an angel who kept doing deep curtseys. Priceless

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.

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 ^_^

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.

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. 😂

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!

Hahahahahahaha. XD Seeing Hog crack as a kid is SPOT ON! Well played lads, well played.

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? 🤣

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.

You can play a pig! 😂 The perfect role for Hog.

Brilliant! Could have used this guy yesterday for my son's Christmas show! Absolute carnage 😂

Richard Chandley III must have trained at Theodore‘s acting school, no doubt!😂

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!"

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!

Great editing, it really feels like there were multiple Foils, Arms and Hogs in the room! :) Poor kids! (and Hog's knees!)

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.

This feels a little more like personal experience

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! 😂 ❤

I can only imagine Foil's unbridled joy at drawing that moustache. 😉

'You can play the pig ' and the Donkey's elaborate part 😂😂😂

Reminds me why I quit acting class. I couldn’t take the drama.

Foil got to play both star roles in this sketch I see...

Really superb, true originals............Foils facial masterpiece, Hogs buttle, and arms lovely hat hehe I could go on and on.....truely great lads.

Aww yesss, you finally did it! It works so well! And yay a Christmas Doomdah!

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.❤

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 video hasn't even begun but I burst out laughing at the stars 😂.

You guys really nailed this one, imho. Foil was spectacular. Brilliant. ✌️

This sketch is objectively one of the best ones this year and I lost it several times while watching but my priorities are elsewhere IS GRANNY COMING BACK?

The moment 0:38 when Foil goes from Rushford to Joseph is superb.

Now I have to get a bloody mug. I don't need another mug. Doesn't even come with coffee inside.