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Christmas Special 2025 with Howard Read

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Howard bans pigs in blankets, baubles, and candy canes for a very specific family reason.

Tiernan starts by greeting listeners with Christmas cheer. He also nods to Hanukkah, Bodhi Day, Kwanzaa, Yule, and a few invented celebrations, then immediately invents Boxing Boxing Day and Catapultmas for extra seasonal damage. The opening joke is a giant stocking. It is so big that Tiernan can climb inside it, which only makes him more certain that a larger stocking should bring a larger present from Father Christmas. Linda refuses to cooperate. That leaves Tiernan talking to the room and carrying the gag along by sheer will, while the festive nonsense keeps rolling. The episode then settles into its proper rhythm. The chat moves fast, keeps turning over fresh nonsense, and treats every daft idea as if it needs a proper working-out. The questions become the engine. Tiernan counts his way through festive admin, jokes about nearly reaching five questions, and keeps resetting the pace whenever the banter starts to drift. Elijah's question about a squished tangerine in a stocking gives the episode one of its cleanest comic problems. The answer possibilities come thick and fast. Christmas mass might have squashed it, a reindeer might have kicked it during transit, or there may simply be too many children and too many tangerines for the system to hold together. That is the show's favourite move. It takes one ordinary detail and keeps pushing at it until the detail starts behaving like a larger mystery. The logic stays playful but oddly strict, as if the team genuinely needs to know how the tangerine got there and what this means for the rest of the festive supply chain. The humour comes from that seriousness. Nobody lets the nonsense stay at one level when it can be examined from another angle. The back-and-forth stays warm. It never turns polished or cautious, and it does not need to. The pleasure is in the momentum, the quick pivots, and the way one joke opens a trapdoor for the next. You can hear the presenters enjoying the act of following a silly idea all the way down, especially when the idea concerns fruit, stockings, or the strange habits of Christmas goods in transit. The episode keeps that energy up without trying to tidy it. By the end, the special has wandered into even stranger territory. Santa reappears in sock form, a Christmas stocking goes missing, and a replacement wall for Comedy Club for Kids HQ arrives as if that is a normal gift request. Then 12 million stinky hippos show up to ruin the mood in the most appropriate way possible. The closing stretch is pure festive misrule. It is loud, daft, and happily unconcerned with behaving like a proper ending. That loose structure suits the material. Listener prompts, digressions, and quick punchlines matter more than a single tidy arc. The episode keeps returning to the same underlying idea: take a small festive oddity and treat it like a matter of urgent public interest. It never stops being playful, and it never asks the audience to admire its cleverness. It just keeps going, which is usually where the funniest bits live. The special also makes room for the chaos to feel welcoming. The tone stays bright rather than mean. Even when the nonsense gets ridiculous, it still sounds like a conversation meant to be shared with kids rather than performed over their heads. The result is a Christmas episode that feels handmade, unruly, and very much in its own lane. If you like comedy that escalates by accident, this one keeps paying that off. If you prefer a holiday show that behaves itself, this is not that show, and that is the point. The whole thing runs on festive questions, rapid-fire teasing, and the conviction that even a bad sock can become a full Christmas event if everyone commits hard enough.

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A Christmas special that turns a giant stocking gag into over-serious holiday nonsense.

Christmas Radio Nonsense leans hard into festive questions, made-up holidays, and a giant stocking gag that keeps swelling in size. Tiernan keeps the pace moving through listener prompts and deliberately daft logic, treating each absurd idea like it deserves a straight answer.

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A Christmas question spree that treats nonsense like hard evidence.

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