Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Rock’s joke hinges on the cultural familiarity of Charlie Brown as an emblem of earnest, chronic disappointment. By saying he “identif[ies] with” Charlie Brown and then escalating to the detail that Charlie Brown “wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special,” Rock uses hyperbole to frame loserhood as not merely failing, but being sidelined in one’s own narrative. The humor comes from the absurd specificity (a children’s TV special as a measure of status) and from the shared memory that the Halloween story often spotlights other characters. It’s also a self-deprecating move: aligning himself with a universally recognized underdog to invite empathy while keeping the tone comic.