While everyone gets jolly around Christmas time, the season holds particular importance for children. With no worries of holiday bills or working off the festive belt line, it seems that thereโs no better time of year to be a kid! Christmas is after only Easter and Halloween for candy consumption. But Christmas can do one betterโฆpresents.
Jimmy Kimmel, renowned funny man and esteemed talk-show host decided to dive a little bit deeper into a childโs experience of Christmasโฆ
โฆby quizzing them spontaneously on the street. As Jimmy explains:
โChristmas is a lot of fun for most people but especially for kids. Kids love Christmas, they love the presents, they love the candy canesโฆ really mostly they love the presents! But I wonder if they know why we celebrate this day, so we went out on the street and we asked children to tell us the story of Christmasโ
The results are adorable and hilarious!
Who was born on the first day of Christmas?
This seems like an easy enough question? It may not be quite so straightforward, when children see so many narratives surrounding Christmas. Was it Jesus? Was it Santa? Someone else altogether?
โJack?โ
No young man, โJack the skeleton guyโ from The Nightmare Before Christmas is not the correct answer! Good guess though!
What about this one:
Who was the Virgin Mary?
If you say Jesusโ mother, you would be correct!
If however, you say โJesusโ Auntโ you would be incorrect, but in this case, adorable. One young girl is struggling with the holy family dynamic just a little bit.
Letโs try another question shall we?
Who was Joseph?
Apparently this question isnโt so straightforward eitherโฆ
This adorable young girl has a rather complicated take on the ins-and-outs of nativity relationships.
โJoseph, he was um, he got married to Mary but he got like, they didnโt really want to be together and they um, she started to go with God.โ
Iโm not really sure what any of that was supposed to mean, but there are a few more twists in there than I remember!
Filming on the street comes with a few dangers of its own!
This boy nearly gets run over, but not by a reindeer. Rather, a low-flying skater boosting it down Hollywood Boulevard. He doesnโt seem bothered however, he just casually looks over his shoulder, cool as ice.
Now maybe itโs time to see what this child knows about Christmas:
He mentions that according to the story, the Three Wise Men brought frankincense, myrrh and gold to the baby Jesus. When asked what frankincense is, our little guy didnโt have so many words, but a very concise gesture:
You should see his response when asked what gold is!
To be fair, itโs not every day you come across frankincenseโฆor myrrh. To be honest itโs not every day most of us come by gold either!
Watch below to see more hilarious responses from these and other adorable (and apparently impressionable) young ones!
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