Gangster film It was one of the most notable gangster films of the decade. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci also starred in the film with Pesci earning an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards in all, including Best Picture and Best Director, making "Goodfellas" one of the most critically acclaimed crime films of all time. Following their collaboration in "Goodfellas", Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci would team up again in 1995's "Casino", based on Frank Rosenthal, an associate of the Chicago Outfit, that ran multiple casinos in Las Vegas during
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