--- title: If Hannukah and Christmas Were People: Video description: For starters, Christmas would always be singing canonical: https://time.com/4140290/hannukah-christmas-as-people/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-08T15:58:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:28.292Z og:title: If Christmas and Hannukah Were People, They'd Probably Act Like This og:description: For starters, Christmas would always be singing og:url: https://time.com/4140290/hannukah-christmas-as-people/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: If Christmas and Hannukah Were People, They'd Probably Act Like This twitter:description: For starters, Christmas would always be singing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # If Christmas and Hannukah Were People, They'd Probably Act Like This by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 8, 2015 3:58 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 8, 2015 3:58 PM CUT Hannukah and Christmas inevitably get lumped together even though they have virtually nothing to do with each other. So comedy duo Soren and Jolles (made up of two Jewish women who happen to enjoy Christmas) decided to imagine what these two holidays would be like if they were people who knew each other. Naturally, Christmas is loud and fun and cheery and gets all the attention while Hannukah struggles to get recognized. “\[Hanukkah\] is nowhere near as big of a party as Christmas,” Tracy Soren [told](http://www.dailydot.com/lol/christmas-hanukkah-holidays-people-sketch/ "undefined") the Daily Dot. “It’s not even a high holiday for us.” In general, though, they love the holiday season. Soren added: “We wonder if the only reason \[Hanukkah\] is chillin’ with Christmas is so that we didn’t feel so bad as kids.” _Read next:_ [_What We Know About the Truth Behind the Hanukkah Story_](http://time.com/4136708/hanukkah-story-confusing/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4140290/hannukah-christmas-as-people/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4140290/hannukah-christmas-as-people/"},"headline":"If Christmas and Hannukah Were People, They'd Probably Act Like This","datePublished":"2015-12-08T15:58:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:28.292Z","description":"For starters, Christmas would always be singing","url":"https://time.com/4140290/hannukah-christmas-as-people/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Holidays"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4140290/hannukah-christmas-as-people/","name":"If Christmas and Hannukah Were People, They'd Probably Act Like This"}}]}] ```