XmasFlix.com ► http Santa Claus, Punch and Judy (1948) Christmas Puppet Show. Puppets teach little children that it’s funny to beat others to the ground with a club. If you are wondering why your parents used a paddle on your ass, this is probably a good answer as to where they got the idea. Not to mention having fun with sticks on heads at school! Enjoy! Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular English puppet show featuring the characters of Punch and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the anarchic Punch and one other character. The show is traditionally performed by a single puppeteer, known since Victorian times as a “professor”. The Punch and Judy show can trace its roots to the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte. The figure of Punch derives from the Neapolitan stock character of Pulcinella, which was Anglicized to Punchinello. He is a manifestation of the Lord of Misrule and Trickster figures of deep-rooted mythologies. Punch’s wife was originally “Joan”. In the British Punch and Judy show, Punch wears a jester’s motley and is a hunchback whose hooked nose almost meets his curved jutting chin. He carries a stick, as large as himself, which he freely uses upon all the other characters in the show. He speaks in a distinctive squawking voice, produced by a contrivance known as a swazzle or swatchel which the professor holds in his mouth, transmitting his …
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@rostam69
By what measure do you claim kids are less violent now?
I am san ta. Yes san ta. I am a ro bot
I could do SO MANY JOKES with this. The only problem is that I have nor the time or the space to do so
What the heck ? All this violence its terrible CRAP
I used to watch this all the time when I was little! I love it and I still laugh so hard!
Extreme racism at 4: 53!
i have this on VHS! YES I’M OLD! i used to watch this all the time as a kid. it had this, the punch and judy show, and a few cartoons. i used to laugh my ass off. thanks so much for posting this.
luckily i wasnt born in the old n shitty days
@TheJomogogo I know – one requires intelligence or at least a kindergarten vocabulary to appreciate it…
@norxcal831 i thought it was funny and i’m 14
at 7:02 he’s having seizure
“That’s the way you do it.”
haha! ‘no i dont wanna!’ *slap* lol
i havent seen this in years!!!
i can’t believe i found this! I used to watch this all the time in the nineties; we had it on a christmas tape.
i liked this it wud funny!but that mite be cuz i’m 11…
Man olden times entertainment really suuuuucked WTF is this shit?
@omig – yeah, that’s just what I was thinking.
@rostam – What about those classic old cartoon characters? Like the roadrunner.
GREATNESS!!!!
We are very careful nowadays about the level of violence in kid’s show. This show is certainly more violent than the current puppet shows run by TV. But the kids were less violent back then than now. interesting piece.
english? pretty sure i didn’t her any english accents in this.
its really funny and i remember watching it when i was little but just watch it now.. its like “wow there are so many things wrong with this!”
i have two serious issues here.
What is punch doing to judy infront these children at 3.21
and 4:53 wtf
misspentyout,
actually punch would often wack off the head of scaramouche judy’s french ‘friend’
neurotrash(it sure figures)
ha ha ha it sure does not take much to make an english simpleton like you extraordinarily happy!!!!!!