The Canadian Comedy Boychicks of 'YidLife Crisis' Satirize Christmas Songs—in Yiddish

As if 2016 hasn’t been surreal enough, Christmas and Hanukkah coincide this year. Taking notice of the holiday mash-up are Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion, the boychiks over at YidLife Crisis, a Yiddish-language webseries that follows the shenanigans (or rather, mishegas), of two bilingual, liberal Jews with a penchant for merriment.

Enter their “Crisismukkah” special, a fake commercial for a holiday album. Wearing ugly Hanukkah outer layers modeled on Christmas sweaters on a set that looks like Santa and Chanukah Harry jointly vomited kitsch into a living room, Jamie and Eli present us with the music that will really bring celebrants of different holidays together: The YidLife Crisis Guide to the Holiday Classics.

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