Why the Nativity was the original sitcom

The Netflix film Klaus, which I watched for the second time with my six-year-old son last week, is in some ways a classic Christmas movie, in that it tells the origin story of Christmas without once mentioning the birth of Jesus Christ or any of the underlying beliefs or values of Christianity. Jolly old Saint Nick, decanonised here as “Klaus”, is a terrifyingly intense hermit who makes wooden toys in the dark, until he teams up with the new village postman, who spots an opportunity to make mone