Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1995–1996 Oscar winner "Raging Bull", the first movie to star both De Niro and Pesci), and "Li'l bit" (a shortened version of a line from "Goodfellas" (where De Niro accuses another mobster of being a "little bit out of line" for insulting Pesci's character), another film starring the two actors). The real Pesci and De Niro appeared on one episode, criticizing Breuer for playing caricatures of their film characters. Quinn suddenly says he is not De Niro, but "Colin Quinn from "Remote Control"." Breuer's and Quinn's weak defense of themselves insults Pesci, who asks De Niro if they were just insulted,
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1995–1996 to which De Niro responds, "I heard things." The two of them then proceed to beat up Breuer and Quinn. At the end of the show, Pesci tell the cameraman to turn off the camera, and when they didn't turn it off, Pesci and/or De Niro would take the bat and shatter the camera lens. A cel-shaded rendering of an episode of The Joe Pesci Show appears in a scene of the movie "Waking Life" where the television is scanning through several channels. A 1990s sitcom about a bald-headed, foul mouthed gangsta rapper played by Tim Meadows who usually appeared