Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

Cast as a deliberately crude “roses are red” parody, the rhyme uses comic misdirection to land on a provocative punchline about Christmas and Jewish identity. The humor depends on exaggeration and incongruity: it implies that Christmas is so culturally dominant that, without it, everyone would default to being Jewish—an absurdity that also gestures at Christianity’s historical roots in Judaism. Read charitably, it can be taken as a satirical jab at the commercialization and cultural ubiquity of Christmas rather than a theological claim. Read less charitably, it risks reducing Jewishness to a punchline, reflecting the boundary-testing style of mid-to-late 20th‑century British television comedy.