![]() More recently, Fry narrated another story of Santa Claus in “Santa Forgot,” an animated promotional video for Alzheimer’s Research UK that uses the beloved figure glimpsed so vividly in Moore’s poem to raise awareness of dementia and the research dedicated to curing it. ![]() ![]() The poem, for those who’ve never spent Christmas in an English-speaking country, tells of a father awakened in the middle of the night by none other than Santa Claus, come to deliver his family’s presents. ![]() And so today, with its titular eve nearly here, we give you both of those Englishmen’s renditions of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”įry’s reading at the top of the post, which comes with orchestral backing, adheres closely to Clement Clarke Moore’s original 1823 text. It helps that they also produce performers of the highest caliber, especially of the oratorical variety: Monty Python’s John Cleese, for instance, or man of letters and all-around entertaining personality Stephen Fry. Maybe it has to do with their respect for tradition, maybe with their sense of occasion, maybe with their aptitude for pageantry, and maybe with their compulsion, for all that, not to take anything too seriously. ![]() You have to hand it to the English: they know how to do Christmas right. ![]()
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