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,
Robert De Niro (1987), "Heat" (1995), and "Casino" (1995). He has directed and starred in films such as the crime drama "A Bronx Tale" (1993) and the spy film "The Good Shepherd" (2006). Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. was born on August 17, 1943, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. He is of Irish and Italian descent on his father's side, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. De Niro's parents, who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts, divorced when