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Cat Noir Comedy Podcast · Kevin Chilvers and Matt Sanders

Merry Christmas Mr Godwin

December 16, 2024·34 min·1 clip
A Christmas Carol parody budget so tight they cut the plot, characters, locations, and sound. All because of a bad gambling tip.
Budget-constrained Christmas Carol parody titled Merry Christmas Mr. Godwin. Narrator Danny Peaks introduces heavily cut version lacking most of Dickens' plot, characters, and locations due to gambling-related budget collapse. Ghost Edmunds appears on Mr. Godwin's Christmas Eve with muddy footprints, claiming to be an actual paranormal entity haunting him. Godwin questions the ghost's legitimacy through various contradictions: sees-through but leaves footprints, phases through walls but can't catch objects. Edmunds reveals Godwin will be visited by three additional ghosts with warnings of change. Godwin protests the unfairness, noting he's always been kind and generous, unlike actual Scrooge who is remembered as a miser despite his redemption arc.

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A stripped-back Christmas Carol spoof that turns absence into the punchline.

A Christmas Carol is trimmed into a self-aware holiday spoof, with Danny Peaks doing the narration while the script keeps drawing attention to how much plot, sound, supporting cast, and setting it has left behind.

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Why you'd press play

You want Christmas Carol energy with the budget hacked out from under it, and the story knows it.

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