Christmas

While the real Santa is a jolly old elf, some of his impostors who begin to pop up all around the non-frozen parts of the planet come Christmas time are a tad rough around the edges. In fact, some of these mall jockeys and liquored-up revelers are downright sketchy. We've compiled a list of ten of these questionable Santas featured on the excellent Sketchy Santas blog so that folks with common dec

Where you can find a smoke-spewing, Santa hat-wearing Christmas tree in the shape of Godzilla? In Japan, of course, at the Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall. Check out this monstrosity below as he prepares to stomp all over your holiday.

Most of us wouldn't be caught dead in a garish Christmas sweater. But one woman in Vermont specializes in making ugly Christmas pullovers. As far as she's concerned, the uglier the better.

In a show of technological savvy, Pope Benedict XVI turned on a massive Christmas light display in the Italian town of Gubbio by using a Sony Android tablet. It's a miracle...of technology!

On Monday, Sgt. Jamee Gains, an Oklahoma National Guard soldier returning from Afghanistan, gave her family the best early Christmas present possible: herself.

Rocklin, California is known for its Christmas lights, and this year one of the town's homeowners added a dose of comic strip favorites Calvin and Hobbes to the festivities with a creative lawn design.

Some dedicated heavy metal fan has cleverly synced his home's Christmas lights with the Slayer song 'South of Heaven,' complete with flashing devil horn-hands and an evil singing snowman.

Santa's reindeers work their antlers off every Christmas, but the rest of God's creatures have got it so much easier. Whether they're household pets, zoo animals or endangered species just chilling in a preserve, the following eight animal videos illustrate just how much humans consider their furry and/or feathered friends a part of their families. Sure, you may...

The holiday season is synonymous with timeless, classic films like 'It’s A Wonderful Life,' 'Miracle on 34th Street' and 'Holiday Inn.' Even more recent favorites like "A Christmas Story,' 'Love, Actually' and 'Elf' instantly put us in the mood to cozy up to the fire and sip a cup of Yuletide cheer.

But you know what really gets our chestnuts roasting? The outrageous drama, soap-operatic plot twists and ridiculous-sounding titles brought to us courtesy of the made-for-TV elves at Hallmark Channel, Lifetime and ABC Family.

Thanks to the allure of handheld devices, this family can't concentrate long enough to even pose for a Christmas card. Still, it's the thought that counts. Merry Christmas and Happy New ... um, hold on a minute. We just got a text. Check out the card below.

Greg Benson and Ryan Smith had such a fine time pranking Target employees that they decided to do it again. This time, the jokesters pestered retail workers at Wal-Mart with ridiculous shopping lists.

As if the indignity of dressing pets in silly outfits wasn't bad enough, some owners have taken to dyeing their animals in festive colors for the holidays. When will it end?

A Long Island University doctoral professor claims that Rankin/Bass' Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" inspires children to bully their peers. And here we thought it just raised awareness for misfit toys.

In this vintage clip from 1979, some kid -- some little nudnik -- derails the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle on live TV by seriously misbehaving.

Like many of our men and women in uniform, Marine Corps Master Sgt. Robert Allen will be away from his family this Christmas. To help deal with the separation, the 15-year veteran of the corps, who is deployed in Afghanistan, wrote a touching song about missing his wife, who is back home in Pawnee, Oklahoma.