1. The Grinch is a character created by children's author and cartoonist Dr Seuss.
27 Facts About Grinch
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The Grinch is depicted as a green, furry, pot-bellied, pear-shaped, snub-nosed humanoid creature with a cat-like face and a cynical personality.
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Grinch has spent the past 53 years living in seclusion on a cliff overlooking the town of Whoville.
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In contrast to the cheerful Whos, the Grinch is misanthropic, ill-natured, and mean-tempered.
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Grinch then realizes that the holiday has a deeper meaning that he never considered.
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The Grinch is still portrayed as a bitter and ill-tempered character in artwork and other media.
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In contrast, the 2000 film adaptation provides a backstory in his upbringing: abandoned in infancy in Whoville and left in the cold, unnoticed by the revelers at a Christmas party, the Grinch is taken in by two Who women.
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Grinch is mocked for his efforts by everyone at school except Martha and so conceives an abiding resentment.
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Grinch was performed and voiced by Anthony Asbury from Season 1 to Season 2.
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The Grinch was portrayed on the stage when the story was turned into a 1994 musical by the Children's Theater Company out of Minneapolis.
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The Grinch is a minor character in the 2000 musical Seussical, which is based on multiple Seuss works.
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The Grinch's story was adapted for a 2018 animated film by Illumination Entertainment, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character.
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In many different movies, specials, and television series, the Grinch has been voiced and played by many different characters throughout many films.
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In Chuck Jones' 1966 television special, the Grinch was voiced by Boris Karloff before he died three years later in 1969.
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In Family Guy, the Grinch appeared as a cameo, being voiced by Wally Wingert.
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The Grinch was voiced by Corey Burton in Seuss Landing and Sneech Beach Area.
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In Ron Howard's 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas film, the Grinch's first live-action feature, he was played by Jim Carrey.
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The Grinch appeared as a cameo in Mad, voiced by Stephen Stanton.
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The Grinch appeared as a cameo in Robot Chicken, voiced by the series creator Seth Green.
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In Universal Pictures and Illumination's feature film The Grinch directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney, he was voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.
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In some Capital One commercials, the Grinch was voiced by David Kaye, In some of the Walmart commercials, the Grinch was voiced by Darin De Paul.
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The Grinch has become an anti-icon of Christmas and the winter holidays, as a symbol of those who despise the holiday, much in the same nature as the earlier character of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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The grumpy, anti-holiday spirit of the character has led to the everyday term "Grinch" coming to refer to a person opposed to Christmas time celebrations or to someone with a coarse, greedy attitude.
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Grinch made a brief appearance on the television in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
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Grinch is a parody of the Grinch and is voiced by Hank Azaria.
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Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham described President of the United States Joe Biden as "the Grinch Who Stole Christmas" on Fox News in 2021, criticising him for delays in the supply chain for US imports.
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Tabloid newspaper Metro as well as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak likened him to the Grinch and accused him of wanting to "steal Christmas".