Lawrence O'Donnell claims he's trying to get Joe Pesci on at 10 to read the Mooch Tapes

[Miles Archer]

Hard to tell if he was kidding...he seemed serious. Would be classic if it actually happens. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Just now with Ari Melber on MSNBC.

[Sedona]

1. There's a tape?

[Miles Archer]

2. I used the term loosely to describe the transcript

It was a phone call, so there is a chance that Ryan Lizza taped it, but no one's come forward with it,

[OliverQ]

13. Lizza said he has a tape recording of it.

[OnDoutside]

3. The 6pm show is like a breath of Fresh Air with Ari, after GVS. He's currently ripping into Scaramuc

ci.

[bellmartin]

4. Oh, my god, I had JUST read those quotes to my wife, as Joe Pesci!!! Lawrence and I think alike!

You can't possibly read those quotes and not think of Tommy from Goodfellas. It's an easy impression to do, and it had both of us almost rolling on the floor. I recommend it to everyone who needs to see the humor in yet another horrific aspect of these people.

The only problem for Lawrence is that unlike here at home, FCC rules couldn't possibly let Joe Pesci read those unedited on TV. It would be very much like seeing Goodfellas actually edited for TV. It's forced to make so many changes that the results come across as surreal.

So, unless they also cut an unexpurgated version of Joe Pesci reading those quotes, I recommend that you practice your own impression and give it a whirl with the actual quotes. I promise you, it will not make you like Scaramucci or Trump more.

[bellmartin]

5. Goodfellas (edited version) is playing on AMC right this very minute!!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. It's not the FCC's call but MSNBC probably has internal standards & practices self-censoring it.

And actually even a broadcast station might skate on the FCC restrictions, being that the quotes are news.

[bellmartin]

10. Oh, good point, I'd forgotten the cable flexibility.

I can't picture it, though (although I remember in my younger days being absolutely amazed by a network running similar language in the documentary Scared Straight).

[panader0]

6. Instant classic. I hope it happens.

[longship]

7. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a simple baseball bat.

Joe bless you all!

[Brother Buzz]

8. He'll be there if he can find his fuckin' shinebox

[Kahuna7]

11. I was cracking up. How delicious would that be if Pesci took him up?

[Miles Archer]

12. Well, Pesci DID get De Niro to do that SNL walk-on...

...which was one of the best bits of the series.

De Niro sizes up Colin Quinn as De Niro: "Who YOU supposed to be?"

Quinn: (nervously): "Colin Quinn, Remote Control?"

It was a big deal at that point because De Niro hadn't yet hosted, and I'm not sure he'd even been on the show at all.

The clip's on Daily Motion, which unfortunately won't embed in this post: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3w087z

[grantcart]

14. McCarthy's loss is Pesci's gain

[MiddleClass]

15. That would be great, I can't wait, I hope he does

Lawrence O'Donnell was around Hollywood with the West Wing,

and as a Washington governing consultant, and how it's really done