Joe Pesci be starring in "The Irishman" with long time collaborators Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese. The film is planned for release in 2019 and will be distributed by Netflix. Pesci is a character in the 2005 musical "Jersey Boys", which tells the story of The Four Seasons, due to his involvement in the band's formation. He is similarly a character in the musical's 2014 film adaptation. In the film, the Joe Pesci character asks "Funny how?", a quote from "Goodfellas". Pesci was briefly a recurring character on "Saturday Night Live", played by Jim Breuer. Breuer's characterization was based on Pesci's
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