Steve Carell plays a bummed-out Santa Claus tired of 2020 in a new Xfinity commercial released on Thanksgiving Day.
In the clip, Carell’s Santa struggles with the same issues we’ve all had amid the coronavirus pandemic, and he feels hopeless about doing meaningful work at the close of this very crazy year. His elves are all working from home, exercising and watching TV in solitude, while they wait for their boss to video call, a challenging adjustment to the technology that he hasn’t quite grasped. At one point, Mrs. Claus walks through the background of his shot wearing a bath towel, and Santa scrambles to block her from view.