Christmas in Mars (1894)

Christmas nonsense was a British tradition about as strong as Christmas ghosts: "[Edward] Lear's books of nonsense were published in December to catch the gift market." (Lodge, Sarah. Inventing Edward Lear. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2019. 311.) It sometimes made its appearance in America as well, long before Dr. Seuss' "Dahoo Dores."

Christmas in Mars.

The snoo is on the whick-whack trees,
	The hilojackthums look forlorn;
The monkta-ra-ras sit and sneeze
	Their greeting to the Krismas morn;
The snick-dick and the waggle-finch
	Have ceased to snick and wag;
The cinch-buggazzam's lost his cinch,
	And the paxwax has a jag!

	So its tirra-lirra-lirra lum,
		And terry-rerry goo;
	And tirra-lirra lum some more
		And terry-rerry, too!

Old Sindy Claws has made his rounds,
	With yips and flums and gilly-goops;
All babies weighing umptee pounds
	Received their stockums full of snoops.
The older wops got ribbledibs
	And woozy wogs, all nice and seft;
The pretty yums got loads of fibs,
	And the naughty snooks got—left.

	So it's peasy-weasy wumsy wum,
		And chizzle-wizzle wee;
	And peasy-weasy wum two times,
		And chizzle-wizzle three!

The squeezerums, dressed up in whangs,
	The squeezeresses take to ride
In huggersnugs, with jingle jangs,
	And busskerbuss them as they glide!
And so the Krismas day on Mars
	Soon passes with its cheer and mirth–
The same glad time among the stars
	It is upon the gay old earth!

	So its hitty-ditty deedle dum,
		And kitchy-witch boo!
	Enough of nonsense is enough,
		And so good-day to you!

Brooklyn Daily Eagle [NY]. December 9, 1894: 11 col 5. [Citing Town Topics]
Watertown News [WI]. December 19, 1894: 7 col 5.
Ironwood Times [MI]. December 22, 1894: 4 col 5.
Democrat and Chronicle [Rochester, NY]. December 25, 1894. Herald and Presbyter: A Presbyterian Weekly Paper 81(50). December 14, 1910. 40.

The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories Volume Four has a couple entries that might be called ghostly nonsense or nonsense-horror, "A Cubist Christmas" and "Desuetude."

Is there any Christmas nonsense in movies, you might wonder? The mystical boinging in Blood Beat (1983) may deserve special mention.