This December marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a half-hour television special that did something almost unheard of in American pop culture, both then and now. In the middle of ...

Stephen Colbert targeted President Donald Trump with a satirical animated cartoon for the holiday season. The Late Show posted the animated short on Instagram with the caption, "The Late Show presents ...

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Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did not annually commemorate his birth? Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the ...