Ebenezer Scrooge

Yeah, exactly.

Should we talk about Ebenezer Scrooge? Do you guys have plans yet? Have you figured out what you're going to do for the new Ebenezer film? Oh, of course.

I will not see it.

It's only in theaters November 13th, which seemed a little early for me.

What if

you

wanted to fuck Ebenezer Scrooge? I mean, he looks

terrible, though.

Well,

you know what? The great Alastair Sim, who starred in the best version of A Christmas Carol, he played Scrooge.

Yep.

And he had that great line when he was starting to bend a little bit.

i love that heroes and jerks that's great and there's a lot of them there are a lot of bones yes sure right on well it's good to see you again i love your book that whole christmas carol section is like my favorite you know where you have just the long list of them you know we're gonna get into it's a wonderful life tonight now before we do that just like carol cain did to bill murray and scrooge i want you to hit me with the toaster so i'm gonna ask you some questions and i want you to hit me with the first thing that comes to your mind okay so let's do

it

Let's say, you know, we already saw Alex P. Keaton as Scrooge.

Now let's imagine that he's George Bailey.

What other 80s sitcom character would be his Clarence?

yeah, it's a pretty straightforward.

She

could be the Scrooge type person on the show.

There's songs, laughs, mischievous fun for children aged three and up and their grown-ups.

Now we move on to Scrooge, performed in 1951, live December 22nd.

The 1951 classic featuring Alistair Sims' unforgettable portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge is brought to life in an entirely new way with a live reimagined score performed by the FB Pocket Orchestra.

This is more than just a screening.

It's a fully immersive cultural event.

The trio of musicians, masterfully sync their performance with the film offering a rich blend of reworked music, atmospheric sound effects and seamless orchestration that elevate Scrooge's ghostly encounters to a new height.

Then we have The Very Naughty Elf on December 15-20.

The Very Naughty Elf is a fun, Interactive musical comedy.

Yeah, Johnny Depp

as Scrooge.

Johnny Depp as Scrooge, yeah.

And it got me thinking, right, so they can churn out these old Dickens films all the time, old Austin films all the time, because the copyright, after 100 years...

Is it 100? I thought it was 100 years, yeah.

You know, he did have the Madden football video games were all the rage for a long, long time and he would not fly.

He always wrote a bus across the country, uh, Johnny Depp and Ebenezer, November 13th, another retelling of A Christmas Carol.

He plays Ebenezer

Scrooge.

So there you go.

Because I think politicians, especially career politicians that have done nothing else, their perception of what a business owner is, is...

the old fat cats, the old Ebenezer Scrooge, where they're just sitting on loads of money and whatever else.

Whereas in reality, a lot of us are in a position where, like, I'll put it to you this way.

When I reached the VAT threshold for ITDG, I could not pay myself.

Yeah.

Dickens does that pun in A Christmas Carol, doesn't he? Is that right? When Scrooge is visited by, I think, the first ghost, which must be Jacob Marley, he says, probably it's because it was something I ate.

I'm just seeing this because something disagreed.

And he says something like, There's more of gravy than the grave about you.

No, I wouldn't want you to.

A Christmas Carol is coming up, and it'll be our first reading today with Steve Williford, who plays Scrooge.

And so I'm back into that on stage.

Last year I did backstage, and so I'll be back in the throes of that again.