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Before Bil Keane began the more well known panel The Family Circus in 1960, he had already been working as a cartoonist on his first syndicated comic strip, called Channel Chuckles, which had launched in 1954. As its name may suggest, the gags were mainly centered around television, either the appliance itself, television shows, or commercials. Televisions were becoming more and more common in American homes, making a television themed comic panel an easy sell. Ger Apeldoorn notes that the theme as well as the format likely also led many newspapers to run it on the TV listings page. The daily strips were just single panels, much like The Family Circus, but the Sundays, as we see here, consisted of several of the dailies collected together. The strip ran for a surprisingly long time, until 1976, meaning Keane was drawing both this and Family Circus for the majority of this strip's lifetime.
Not all of the gags in this particular "strip" are Christmas themed, but I really enjoy the ones that are. My favorite is the one at the bottom. I think more appliances should come with repair people. Sure, you can get the warranty or the protection plan or whatever, but that still means you have to take it somewhere to get it fixed. Just having a repair person in your house, on call, for when you know it will eventually break, would be so much more convenient.
Also, note the pre-Family Circus era Billy and Dolly in the center panel.