Joe Piscopo was cast on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) in 1980 as part of an overall replacement of the original cast. However, his team of players were not up to par in comedy and all were quickly replaced, except for he and Eddie Murphy . Together they dominated the show for the next three years. Since then he's appeared in movies & TV infrequently. In the '90s he was treated for thyroid cancer.

He's the guy in the trench coat in Billy Joel 's Keepin' The Faith music video.He sat out of show business briefly while he underwent treatment for thyroid cancer from 1981 to 1982.He has four children: Joey Piscopo , born in 1979 (with Nancy Jones ); Alexandra, Michael and Olivia (with Kimberly Driscoll .Graduated from Jones College in Jacksonville, Florida. Attended West Essex High School in New Jersey and was a member of the drama club "The Masquers".He worked with Eddie Murphy on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), they became very good friends, Murphy even bought a home in his neighbourhood in 1982. They produced a short film for SNL about his street behaviour fitting in with the New Jersey suburbs.His wife, Kimberly Driscoll , gave birth to their third child, daughter Olivia, on 29 November 2004.Did some outrageous Miller Lite commercials in the 1980s.Is mentioned, along with Vanessa Redgrave and Eddie Murphy in the song Jammin' Me, by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers .Fan of the New Jersey Devils.He graduated from West Essex High School in Caldwell, New Jersey in 1969.