Andy Richter

So as everybody on earth in pluribus knows, your character's name is Carol.

So we thought, given the season, we'd ask you about Christmas carols.

Answer two or three questions, you'll win a prize.

One of our listeners, the voice of anyone, they might choose giving holiday greetings on their voicemail.

So Bill, who is Ray Sehorne playing for?

Alex Johnson of Seattle, Washington.

All right.

First question.

Just this year, a famous person tried to put their own trademark on a new Christmas carol.

Was it A, Tyra Banks' song, Santa Smize, B, Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Can You Smell What Santa Is Cooking, or C, Rick Astley's I'm Never Gonna Give You Gifts?

Yes.

Okay, I'm going with A. You're going with A. Tyra Banks' song, Santa Smize, You're Right.

Wow.

Name...

Named by the Washington Post as one of the five worst Christmas carols of the year.

All right, that was very good and instinctual and very good.

All right, next question.

In 1953, a child singer named Gayla Peavy recorded and released a song called I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.

Big hit.

What was the result?