Comedian’s hilarious 60-second recap of ‘A Christmas Story’ is spot on

Our collective descent into holiday hell has begun, but comedian Mike Camerlengo found a way to escape the forced cheer — at least for a minute.

The comedian behind “60 Second Classics,” where he summarizes classic movies from the ’80s and ’90s with sizzling commentary, delivered a knee-slapping, short and sharp homage to the most famous Christmas F-bomb of all time: a minute-long summary of “A Christmas Story.”

In his trademark deadpan Bostonese, Camerlengo referred to Scott Farkus, the schoolyard villain played by actor Zack Ward, as a “cracked-out Andy Dalton” and Ralphie’s mother’s atrociously unattractive home cooking as “prison cabbage.” He also imagined that Ralphie’s neighbors assumed his old man was running a smut shop after he put up his “fragile” leg lamp.

Of course, the 1983 cult classic Christmas film isn’t the only victim in Camerlengo’s hilariously spot-on revisionist roasts. The New York-based, Beantown-bred comedian frequently highlights the high camp and ridiculous plotlines that every Gen Xer simply accepted as normal — because why wouldn’t ’80s megastar Michael J. Fox turn into a werewolf in “Teen Wolf”? Speaking of the 1985 movie, Camerlengo quipped about Fox’s character’s basketball team, “I guess we got a wolf on our team … and he’s f–king nasty.”

In his analysis of 1984’s “The Karate Kid,” Camerlengo wondered how Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) walked around a free man after ruthlessly assaulting a group of teenage boys.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by 60 Second Classics (@60secondclassics)

He doesn’t just tackle flicks, either. Camerlengo had a major hit with his analysis of Zack Morris and AC Slater’s now-iconic fisticuffs in the hallway of Bayside on “Saved by the Bell.” In September, he hilariously broke down the Windows 95 launch with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates like it was game tape from the 2018 AFC Championship.