Joe Pesci’s popped up in a few projects since “retiring” from acting in 1999—a Snickers commercial here, a Good Shepherd cameo there—but his leading role in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming The Irishman feels like a real comeback for the actor, who scored an Oscar for his turn in the director’s Goodfellas. Now, in advance of that film’s Netflix release later this year, Pesci’s returned in a new ad for Google Assistant.
There’s a meta component to the whole thing, with Pesci and his pals watching a different Google ad, this one a Home Alone parody starring an adult Macaulay Culkin that aired in December. Pesci, in a nod to one of Twitter’s best memes, hilariously explains to his buddies that Culkin’s character is “home alone” as they wait for Pesci’s single line, a voiceover recycled from the original film. “I nailed it, I did, I nailed it,” Pesci says, proud as proud can be.
Watch the full ad above.
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Loving the beard, Joe.
The ad, not so much.
I hope there never comes a day when Trump gets his own biopic. But if that day comes, believe me when I say there is no actor more equipped for the role than Joe Motherfucking Pesci.
He’s way too short for the part. It’d be difficult for any director. You’d have to use 6 inch boxes for every scene and booster seats for seated ones.
I’m still bitter that his retirement robbed us of the My Cousin Vinny sequel in England. Tell me the very idea of Vinny dealing with barrister’s wigs doesn’t get you laughing out loud.