On this week’s version of Saturday Night Live, Martin Short tried his hand at directing a Charlie Brown Christmas pageant.
“You’re watching Freeform’s 25 Days of Christmas,” the sketch begins. “We now return to the animated basic, A Charlie Brown Christmas.“
We minimize to the Charlie Brown youngsters dancing to iconic theme tune “Linus and Lucy” forward of the start of rehearsal, when Martin Quick enters and yells, “Cease dancing!”
“Um, who’re you?” asks a lady performed by Chloe Fineman.
“I’m Drake Tuttle, native theater legend,” Quick replies. “Your principal employed me to direct your pageant.”
“However Charlie Brown’s our director,” says the character of Ashley Padilla.
“And I’m sorry to say he’s useless,” Tuttle says.
This stuns the children, however Tuttle continues, “To me. He’s useless to me…Sorry, I shouldn’t have paused after ‘useless.’ That was my mistake.”
The director then introduces his choreographer, Le’Stat, performed by Bowen Yang, who insists that he’s a genius.
“All proper, first up, some housekeeping,” says Tuttle after some back-and-forth with Le’Stat. “There’ll be no little child performing on this pageant, solely good performing.”
Subsequently, Le’Stat asks the children to audition their hip hop dance abilities for him, just for them to bounce round simply as they’d earlier than, and as each Charlie Brown character has danced all through time.
Tuttle has some interplay with Pig-Pen (Mikey Day) — although he retains referring to him as “pig penis.” He additionally expresses his tolerance for teenagers on the spectrum after participating with a boy in a crimson shirt who loves his blanket (Marcello Hernandez). And the sketch ends on Kenan Thompson’s Snoopy, who when requested if he’s a boy or woman canine, asks, “Snoopy appear to be a b*tch to you?”
Quick hosted tonight, with Hozier as musical visitor. For video of the sketch, test again later.
