You're a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown

This sketch presents a fictional stage production called "You're a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown" performed at the New York Actor's Studio. The parody reimagines the beloved Peanuts Christmas special with famous actors playing the classic characters, all speaking with profanity-laden Brooklyn attitudes. The sketch features Bill Hader's Al Pacino as a frustrated Charlie Brown dealing with Lucy pulling away the football, Martin Short's spot-on Larry David as a neurotic Linus ranting about his blanket, Taran Killam's Michael Keaton as Schroeder, Kate McKinnon's Edie Falco as Lucy, and Fran Drescher providing the voice of Charlie Brown's mother. The production includes an intermission and shows the shocked reactions of children in the theater audience throughout. The sketch brilliantly combines impressions with parody, creating a hilariously inappropriate version of the wholesome holiday classic.