Episode 3 – ‘Dumb’ Talk with Screenwriter Bennett Yellin Part 1

On this episode of Hollywood Obsessed, host Tony Miros chats with successful screenwriter Bennett Yellin, whose best known for co-writing one of the funniest comedies of the 1990's Dumb and Dumber! During their funny conversation, Bennett discusses growing up in Southern California in the 1960s, his love of movies, initially wanting to become a Disney imagineer, trying to do standup at The Comedy Store, meeting his writing partners Peter and Bobby Farrelly and how they went on to write the fifth greatest comedy film of all time! Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bennett Yellin received his B.A. in Fiction from U.C.L.A. Still not ready to enter the real world, he enrolled at UMass in Amherst for an M.F.A. in fiction. It was there — on the first day of school — that he met and befriended Peter Farrelly. On a lark, they tried writing a comedy together and this spec script ultimately got into the hands of Eddie Murphy and the Zucker Brothers, creators of Airplane and The Naked Gun. Both Murphy and the Zuckers asked the duo to write movies for them, and their career was off and running. Yellin wrote exclusively with Peter for years until they asked his brother Bobby to join them. The three went on to write a number of unproduced features together until they created Dumb and Dumber in 1994 and reunited in 2014 to co- write the official sequel chronicling the further idiotic adventures of Harry and Lloyd, Dumb and Dumber To. In 2007, the Farrelly Brothers branched out on their own and Yellin partnered with James Robert Johnson to create a professional writing duo that has endured for sixteen years. Among the plethora of projects they’ve tackled during their career — some produced, others not — the two have co-written Let’s Scare Jessica to Death for Paramount Pictures, the Fox situation comedy Unhitched, the direct-to-DVD thriller Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead, Paramount Pictures’ Hotel For Dogs 2, the Anchor Bay action-thriller In the Blood with Gina Carano, the 20th Century Fox family film, Santa’s Little Helper, and the Warner Brothers re-boot of the Police Academy series, Police Academy: Takin’ it to the Streets. More recently, Yellin and Johnston have co-written a live action family stage show adaptation of the hugely popular Angry Birds IP, and the two are currently at work creating an original pilot for a new animated show. To connect with Bennett go to https://www.facebook.com/bennett.yellin Bennett Yellin IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947395/ To connect with Tony Miros go to  https://www.facebook.com/tony.miros The Official Hollywood Obsessed Website - https://www.podpage.com/hollywood-obsessed/ Follow our Facebook Page – HOLLYWOOD OBSESSED PODCAST Follow our Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hollywoodobsessedpodcast/ To watch OUTDATED THE SERIES go to YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4LmcPePweM Titles VO Talent – Cam Frierson  - http://camfrierson.com/voice Music by QubeSounds from Pixabay