ladies and gentlemen here now I'm going to read you just a handful of the Joe Pesci films and
I think you get a sense of what I was talking about I believe his first film death collector
I'm not familiar with that work his second film Raging Bull how would you like that to
be your second uh Once Upon a Time in America Lethal Weapon 2 Good Fellas Home Alone Home
Alone like the biggest gross motion picture ever uh the super JFK and then he goes into
JFK another Blockbuster Powerhouse movie Lethal Weapon 3 uh and his current film the public eye
and Home Alone 2 which is I guess going to be released about the holiday season I would hope
our next guest an Academy Award winner and one of the busiest actors today uh a couple of the
films I mentioned Good Fellas home alone and the public eye his newest which opens
across the country October 16th ladies and gentlemen here he is Joe peshi nice to see
you
you could break the Kareem Abdul Jabar record I don't think so for long Ovation
how you doing good pleasure to meet you you know I I watched that good Fell's
movie man man was that scary what an evil scary nasty guy I've heard that about you
too are you enjoying yourself at Saturday Night Live having fun there not yet yeah okay not yet
have you have you any time in your career I know you've been in show business since you were like
5 years old yeah anytime in your career have you done stand-up comedy or comedy in front
of a live audience I've done comedy in front of a live audience uh you know sketch type comedy
in in what form were you a part of a group part of an i part of a group I was playing guitar and
singing and U my partner in the band was a a sort of a standup comic and he was an insult comic he
would insult the audience and I got tired of it after a while I started insulting him the
crowd liked it so we left in the ACT what year was this uh the 70s yeah and and you it was it going
to be like a Smothers brother sort of thing that sort of deal I think it was something like that
did you ever get in trouble insulting anybody in the audience um yeah sure what would happen were
you ever anybody ever come after you well uh I think there was one time which is probably known
uh that uh was a um sort of a wise guy I guess and like one like you in the movie good fellow
sort of like that yeah God and I think it was his wife or something I told her shut up see you know
and that's brainy stuff too Joe it's not you're run-of-the-mill and Sal it's shut up yeah well
I wasn't a comic pretty good Zinger I didn't know how to uh stop hecklers you know so it wasn't and
she was doing something in the middle of one of the things that I was just kept going on and on
loud and loud I didn't know what to say other than shut up and and somebody a friend of her
husband or her husband shows up and well yeah we got uh you know in the intermission when we got
off the stage the uh the club owner said and you know who that was no I don't know uh I don't care
yeah that kind of thing you know but the I don't care turned into well look I didn't mean anything
I mean come on can't they take a joke hey we're topnotch Comics here you know a guy there wants to
see if about taking the crease out of your slacks um now you know and I found this surprising when I
learned of it this afternoon and you mentioned it here yourself that you did kind of a musical act
you played the guitar and you sang and at one point in your career you actually recorded an
album maybe more than an Alum was just the one no I did uh there was there was some singles before
that yeah and the album was the last thing I did yeah and and was your thinking in those days that
you might just become a musical act or were you acting at all then I wasn't acting at all
other than the the sketches you know that I was doing I I couldn't get any work and what kind of
music were you singing uh it started off to be just rock and roll in the 60s and you know it
turned into more of a jazz kind of thing jazz blues now you know Joe we have the album here
could I buy it cuz I can't right here it's uh and then do you mind if we play a selection it
depends on what selection you play see uh you know I have no idea what we're going toist got
to get you into my life all right here we go this is this is theum this no no we're going to play
the whole thing no no no this is Little Joe is what you were calling yourself then little Jo
okay all right now we're going to hear a little of got to get you into my life here we go enjoy
ooh you were meant to be near me ooh I want you to hear me say we'll be together every
day got to get
you I don't know they found it somewh I'll give it to you congratulations now um your the first
film you were in was was was I right there it was death collector well death collector
was the first uh one that I had a speaking party were and were you uh in a movie like
death collector were you a bad guy or a good guy No Good Guys in that I was a bad good guy
yeah and then the second one was Raging Bull well now there's quite a big step how did you get that
part who who saw you had somebody seen you in death collector well they uh they were casting
for they were uh Robert dairo and uh and Martin scy and sis Corman were casting for Raging Bull
and they were looking for someone to play uh his brother and another part that was in Pete Savage
so they they uh they screened Raging Bull and they look I'm sorry they screened death collector and
uh for another guy to play Pete Savage and uh and Bob and Martin wanted to know who I was and
they were interested what were you doing when they were looking at this film I was managing
a restaurant in the Bronx it one of those great stories isn't it they called up at the restaurant
there was a phone call when I I was out during the day and a waiter gave me a message when I
had gotten back he said uh Robert dairo called you call him and I said get out of yeah so but
it it turned out to be Bob you know and it was that was that was great great part great film
and a great career Joe pesy is here you know it occurs to me we've been talking about all manner
of other things Saturday Night Live and other films you've done in your recording career we
have not mentioned uh the newest Motion Picture opening in a week or so whatever what did I say
it's opening um October 16th October 16th that's right it's called public eye public eye what what
is it about it's uh based Loosely on the life of uh a famous Paparazzi one of The Originals in New
York in the 40s uh Ouija was his name very famous crime scene photographer right right and uh it's
you know it's about the life that these uh artists live sometimes you know things they go through
to get their shots and things like that all right and we have a clip a few minutes of this film and
yourself Barbara Hershey in it right who else um some new actors really good oh what about a park
for me someday uh I think so okay fine I don't see why not Dave here we go let's take a look now at
uh the public eye uh with Joe peshi watch closely folks you know what we're
going to see here let's just take a look I heard this guy's walking
around a meat cleaver sticking out of his head get the hell out eye on
him throw a sheet over him oh thanks a lot thank
you excuse
me you better uncover him now
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is wait a
second what was the uh what was the deal with your character in in JFK what was the deal on
your hair there uh the it was It was kind of orange yellow orange right well what it was
was the uh the character I was portraying David furry had no hair at all uh in real life and he
he wore this terrible looking wig and and all the wigs we had made I could never make Oliver
Stone happy he said oh it's not bad enough it's not bad enough so I grabbed a stretch
wig a girl's stretch wig a red one put it on we chopped it all up and glued it down and he said
that's it that's it every time you would be in the scene you you ended up looking at your head
and you just thought well is I guess he's nuts I guess the guy is nuts he's crazy uh and you
you did some time as a barber yourself huh so you pretty much done it all uh Joe have a have
a great weekend thank you and good to see you thanks very much for your time pleasure meeting
you Joe P ladies and gentlemen hello I'm Joe pesi and I'm hosting Saturday Night Live this
week during my career I've worked with such great names as Mel Gibson and Robert dairo
now I've got these two idiots we're out of time I want to apologize to Jeff Stillson a
comedian who was supposed to be with us here uh this evening and we ran out of time and it's my
fault and I apologize to Jeff and also to the folks tuning in to see him and we'll have him
back just as soon as we possibly can my thanks to Joe peshy who was here and Phil Hartman as well
and tomorrow kids Jay Thomas Blue Rodeo and Manon rayome the goalie have a nice evening good night
everybody