The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa

What this video is

Released November 27, 2007 as a digital download, 'Don't Shoot Me Santa' was The Killers' second annual Christmas charity single, following 'A Great Big Sled' (2006), with proceeds directed to the Product RED AIDS campaign co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver. The video subverts Christmas iconography through a desert-Western lens — a deliberate inversion rooted in the band's Las Vegas identity — presenting a…

Why it matters

Occupies a distinctive niche as an alternative-rock holiday novelty video that subverts seasonal visual conventions entirely. Its Western-desert aesthetic, puppet theater sequences, and horror-comedy tone established an influential template for The Killers' subsequent Christmas output and…

The director

Matthew Gray Gubler (b. March 9, 1980, Las Vegas, NV) is an American actor, director, model, painter, and author. He graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in film directing. Best known for playing Dr. Spencer Reid on CBS's Criminal Minds…