Louis C.K. made his last appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, and gave Jay a proper send-off with some Grade A observations about love, happiness, and his long lost directorial debut that's about to see the light of day for the very first time.

Going to work while high on cocaine, LSD, and Ketamine is not recommended. Stopping your work in order to watch footage of someone else working while high on cocaine, LSD, and Ketamine, however, is highly recommended.

They may be a little late, but boy, do they have heart.

Turns out the Grinch is real, and he's actually a woman. Janice Tully, a woman from Hyannis, Massachusetts, was arrested yesterday for stealing a haul of donated toys meant for her neighbors' five children.

The War on Christmas continues—in Israel. According to the Associated Press, the speaker of Israel’s parliament rejected a request from Hana Sweid, a Christian-Arab Knesset member, to display a Christmas tree at the legislature’s building. The speaker, Yuli Edelstein of the center-right Likud party, initially cited logistical issues, but clarified today that he specifically denied the request because the Christmas tree threatened to offend the country’s majority Jewish population:

Continuing his recent publicity blitz, Edward Snowden delivered Channel 4 UK's annual "Alternative Christmas Message" yesterday afternoon. As you might imagine, the video is a bleak, Orwell-referencing reminder of the NSA and GCHQ's invasive data-mining operations around the world.

Santa has come and gone, leaving happiness and socks from that aunt you never see in his wake. What'd you find under the tree this year?

Ho ho, it seems we're spending this Christmastime deciding what color skin Santa Claus is allowed to have. Gather 'round the Yule log on your smart phones, younglings, and watch the old bigots on the permanent Naughty List try to invent another make-believe crisis of complexion. What race is Santa Claus? Well, if they really want to know then let's go ahead and tell them: Santa Claus is a magical human of African descent.

This could very well be little Laney Brown's very last Christmas.

Does your family have a weird holiday tradition? Come tell us in this post! And if you say your family doesn't have any weird traditions, we'll know you're lying.

When she found $1,000 on a chair in her section, Florida waitress Samantha Knight knew the right thing to do would be to track its owner down and return it to him. There was no way she could have known the man she chased after and handed the wad of cash to was the wrong person.

Still looking for that perfect last-minute Christmas gift? Boy, have I got something amazing to show you. You won't believe your eyes.

Whether you're home alone or miserable elsewhere, this is the time of year when the proper music is crucial to surviving the next several days. How is there not a Morrissey/The Smiths holiday album to get us through these dramatic and romantic times? Here's the next best thing.

A real-life Grinch was caught on camera last week swiping Christmas packages from the front porches of her neighbors' homes in Bothell, Washington.

Before she passed away of ovarian cancer two years ago, Brenda Schmitz secretly left behind a very important letter in the possession of a friend with the explicit instruction that it be mailed to a specific Des Moines radio station once her husband had decided to remarry.

For the 27th year, vandals in Sweden have burned down a giant goat made to symbolize the Christmas spirit.

Red balloons are magical — everyone knows that — but one California kindergartner learned that fact first hand after her red balloon helped make her Christmas wish come true.

Rachel was just one of the thousands of Reddit user's who signed up to participate in the site's annual Secret Santa gift exchange event — that is, until she learned her own Secret Santa was none other than Bill Freakin' Gates.

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In a last-ditch effort to find someone — anyone — to spend Christmas with him, 85-year-old James Gray turned to the want ads.