Christmas Sing-a-long

Jen… Kate McKinnon

Sasheer Zamata

Dan… Taran Killam

Kenan Thompson

Chris Hemsworth

Cecily Strong

[Starts with a Christmas decorated house. Three couples are singing together.]

[The singing finishes]

Jen: Great job, guys.

Sasheer: We still got it.

Dan: This is too fun.

Kenan: Yeah, great party you guys. You two are the best hosts.

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Chris: Oh, that reminds me, would anyone like a date with bacon wrapped around it?

[Cut to everybody]

All: Oh, absolutely.

Chris: Great! Now, I’m gonna make those for next year. Alright, what do we sing next?

Dan: Um, Carol of the bells.

Kenan: Rudolf is fun.

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Cecily: How about Debra’s Time?

Chris: Honey, that’s a great idea.

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan]

Jen: I don’t think I know that song.

Sasheer: Hmm, I don’t know that song. What about ‘Oh, holy night’?

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Cecily: No, let’s do Debra’s Time.

Chris: Oh yes. Debra’s time is great.

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan]

Dan: I don’t think anybody knows that.

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Cecily: Let’s do Debra’s Time.

Chris: Great! Everybody ready?

[Cut to everybody]

Jen: I’m sorry, what song are we dong?

Cecily: Oh you’ll recognize it. Let’s just try it.

Dan: Okay.

Chris: Oh, wait, wait. Um, just turn off the lamp, Dan. Please.

[Dan turns off the lamp.

[Cut to Chris and Cecily. Chris starts playing the piano beautifully.]

[Chris and Cecily look very emotional]

Cecily: [singing] Checkbooks all are balanced,
Christmas bonus cleared

Ah! Relax Debra!

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan. They are confused.]

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Cecily: [singing] Christmas lights all tangled
exactly as I fear

Ah!

[Cecily stands up and Chris starts playing piano louder]

What did I think?

Get the presents,
do the wrapping
get the ribbons
do the packing
somehow you are
always lacking
always lacking
always lacking

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan. They are confused.]

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Oh god, Debra! When are you gonna stop this?

Quiet! Quiet!

[Cut to everybody.]

Chris: [pointing at Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan] [whispering] Go, go.

Sasheer: Go what?

Cecily: Jen, you missed your part.

Sasheer: I did?

Chris: Yeah, I pointed you. Why didn’t you guys all come in?

Kenan: We have no idea what the song is.

Sasheer: We all know ‘Silent Night’. Why don’t we just sing that?

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Chris: I don’t know Silent Night.

Cecily: Um, my husband doesn’t know Silent Night, and he knows everything, so…

Chris: Listen, you guys have to know thI is song. It’s a Broadway standard.

Jen: Well, what show is it from?

Cecily: It’s Christmas After All by Keith and Barry William.

Chris: Look, the show wasn’t all that great, but Debra’s Time was amazing. They use it in like, every commercial.

Cecily: Yea, yea, yea. Smuckers is the one, you guys probably know.

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan]

Kenan: Yeah, I just don’t.

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Chris: Well, hang in there. You’ll know in a minute. Dan, turn off one more lamp please.

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan]

Dan: It’s getting very dark.

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Chris: Yes, Dan, I know. That’s the way I wanted, that’s why I said do it please. Thank you. Everyone knows this part.

[Cut to everybody. Chris stars playing the piano and Cecily walks forward dramatically.]

Cecily: [singing] Presents have been opened

Chris: And Debra’s moving on

Cecily: The holiday’s so numb

Chris: And Mark has come and gone

[Chris starts playing the piano louder]

Or have I?

Cecily: Mark? What are you doing here?
Chris: I came back for you.

Dan: What’s happening? Who is Mark?

Kenan: He’s involved with Debra, I guess.

Cecily: No, I can’t do this.

Chris: Debra, this could work. Just put your suitcase down.

Cecily: [singing] I’m not ready

Chris: Just hold steady

Chris and Cecily: Mark comes back and Debra’s cracking, smack!

Cecily: That’s when Debra hits Mark.

Chris: Smack! That’s when Mark hits her back.

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan looking annoyed.]

Kenan: What?

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Cecily: Why are we doing this to each other?

Chris: Because we’re freaking falling in love. Do you guys know where we are in the song now?

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan]

Dan: [yelling] No! I can’t even tell when you’re you or when you’re Debra and Mark.

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Cecily: Oh, thank you. Honey!

Chris: Okay, okay. Maybe this will help. All the guys do this.

Debra, Debra, Debra, Debra

[Cut to Jen, Sasheer, Dan and Kenan]

Guys: Debra, Debra, Debra, Debra

Cecily: And girls do this.

It’s Debra’s Time. It’s Debra’s Time, at last..

[Cut to everybody]

Guys: Debra, Debra, Debra, Debra

Girls: It’s Debra’s Time. It’s Debra’s Time, at last..

Cecily: Jen, go out tone.

Jen: Got it!

Guys: Debra, Debra, Debra, Debra

Girls: It’s Debra’s Time. It’s Debra’s Time, at last..

Cecily: Big finish.

All: Don’t let it go too fast
Debra, Debra, Debra, Debra’s Time

Hah! Right back where we started. Smack!

Dan: Oh my god! I do remember.

Sasheer: I knew it from that Smacker’s commercial. Of course.

Kenan: I wanna see the Broadway show.

Jen: Is it running right now?

[Cut to Chris and Cecily]

Chris: Of course it’s running. It’s always running.

Cecily: You know what? It’s only 6:30. If we leave right now, we could all see it.

[Cut to everybody]

Jen: Um, it’s snowing pretty hard.

Chris: Then I’ll drive even faster.

[Cut to a car slipping over the snow and people inside yelling]

[The End]

Author: Don Roy King

Don Roy King has directed fourteen seasons of Saturday Night Live. That work has earned him ten Emmys and fourteen nominations. Additionally, he has been nominated for fifteen DGA Awards and won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

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