Bruce Kluger, David Slavin, co-authors, Twas the Night Before Christmas: 21st Century Edition

Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin have updated Clement Clark Moore’s classic poem of sugarplums and prancing reindeer to parody pop culture in Twas the Night Before Christmas: 21st Century Edition (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $9.99, October 2010). Santa’s workshop is bought out by a faceless corporation that trades holiday cheer for corporate greed in this modernized rendition of the classic Christmas rhyme. The story unfolds through a collection of memos, E-mails, Tweets, hilarious illustrations (picture Santa jumping on Oprah’s couch and Mrs. Claus in a racy Maxim cover photo), as well as sidesplitting verse.