--- description: At last, George Clooney appears on Downton Abbey title: Watch The 'Downton Abbey' Christmas Spoof with George Clooney image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch The _Downton Abbey_ Christmas Spoof with George Clooney by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 23, 2014 11:46 AM CUT by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 23, 2014 11:46 AM CUT What would _Downton Abbey_ look like if Lord Grantham never existed? Well, it would have 100 percent more George Clooney… er, Lord Hollywood, as he’s now known. While participating in the “[Text Santa](http://www.itv.com/textsanta "undefined")” charity event on British network ITV, the _Downton Abbey_ cast put together a comedic _It’s a Wonderful Life_ homage to show what would have happened had Lord Grantham not touched the lives of those at Downton Abbey. Clooney isn’t the only major casting addition made to the holiday sketch’s alternate _Downton_ universe. It also appears Jeremy Piven has decided to take up residence at the Abbey. [This article originally appeared on EW.com](http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/12/22/george-clooney-downton-abbey-appearance/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3645274/downton-abbey-christmas-spoof-george-clooney/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3645274/downton-abbey-christmas-spoof-george-clooney/"},"headline":"Watch The Downton Abbey Christmas Spoof with George Clooney","datePublished":"2014-12-23T11:46:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:05:40.357Z","description":"Even Maggie Smith is impressed","url":"https://time.com/3645274/downton-abbey-christmas-spoof-george-clooney/","keywords":["Television","downton abbey","Charity","christmas","George Clooney"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3645274/downton-abbey-christmas-spoof-george-clooney/","name":"Watch The Downton Abbey Christmas Spoof with George Clooney"}}]}] ```