Posted on 12/02/2002 3:20:07 PM PST by EveningStar
Matt Foley: [ approaches, dressed sloppily as Santa Claus ] Ho, ho, ho, ho! Now, my name is Matt Foley, and I am a Motivational Santa. Let me tell you a little bit about myself, so that you'll know where I'm coming from. First, off, I am 35 years old, I am thrice-divorced, and I live at the North Pole in a van down by the river! Kid: [ steps up ] I want a Super-Morphing Power Ranger! I want a Power Ranger!
Matt Foley: Well, you do, do ya?
Mother: [ tags behind her Kid ] My son Jason is just crazy about that show! [ smiles ]
Matt Foley: Well, whoop-de-freaking-do! It's all about presents to you kids, isn't it? You all wanna wake up Christmas morning, run down to the tree at light-speed, grab the biggest package that you see, tear it open, you pop it open, and you pull out a dream come true! Well, I got news for you kids. In the real world, you hang up a stocking, the next morning you find it filled to the brim with jack squat! You know why? [ picks up Kid ] Because there is no such thing as Santa Claus!
Mother: Sir! Sir, you're ruining Christmas for all of the kids! They love Santa!
Matt Foley: Mom, I wish you could be Santa's little helper, an shut your little cakehole! Heck, everybody wants a merry holly, jolly Christmas! Hey, look at me, I'm covered in elf dust! [ dances ] Yee-hoo! A rump-a-bom-bom!
Kid: [ angry ] You don't even look like Santa Claus! That's a fake beard, and you're way too fat!
Matt Foley: [ to his elf ] My golly.. hey, Rudolph, help me out here, I can't see too good. We got some kind of detective over there! Is that Ben Matlock?
Mother: Now, wait, you leave my son alone! Please!
Matt Foley: Hey, you know what? I think it's time for ol' Matt to tell you all a little story! Gather 'round, please. [ sits down in Santa chair, as the kids gather around him ] Alrighty here.. let's see.. [ reads ]
"'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the van Your ol' buddy Matt fell asleep behind the can. His children were nestled two time zones away, With his first wife and her husband, in sunny L.A. Matt woke up and realzied with a chill and a quiver That he was living in a van down by the river!"
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