‘Twas the Night Before Christmas 21st Century Edition

Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin take an outrageous swing at the Christmas season, updating Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem with all the shock, awe, and corporate hijinks from today’s headlines. In Kluger and Slavin’s rendition, Christmas is no longer a time of sparkling snow globes and neighborly good will, but rather a celebration of profits, bonuses, and cutthroat competition–complete with disgruntled elves, outsourced Santas, union conflicts, Twittered conspiracies, randy reindeer, media hysteria, factory relocations, toxic merchandise, and a giant leveraged buyout that rocks the world from pole to pole.

Packing their verse with hilariously spun rhymes ( The workers grew grim, as they churlishly chored / while Santa grew haplessly, craplessly bored ) and even funnier illustrations (picture Santa jumping on Oprah’s couch and Mrs. Claus in a racy Maxim cover photo), Kluger and Slavin spike the holiday eggnog with smart and saucy sass–not to mention loads of laughs. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas 21st Century Edition, makes the perfect stocking stuffer or lighthearted gift.