May 12, 2026 • 5 mins
We talk with Bobby Farrelly about "Dumb and Dumber," John Hughes' influence, and his new film "Driver's Ed" (out this Friday).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a bit of the new film from Bobby
Fairley called Drivers and My.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Dramas at Car got hijacks.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Do whatever you got to do, just get them back here.
How are you so sure about this? Basically everything I
do is made better by her being in my life.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm coming with I'm coming to No, absolutely not. What's
the worst that can happen?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Bobby Fairley joins us now here on news radio eleven
ten kfa B. Good morning, Bobby goil morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's great to be here. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're the last guy that needs to make new entertainment
for this next generation of people who are the age
I was when Dumb and Dummer came out, and there's
something about Mary and all the other great Fairly Brothers films.
So why a new movie here Drivers?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Ed? Well, you know what, there's no comedies nowadays for
high school kids. In my opinion, I haven't seen any.
So when I read this script Drivers, d I didn't
write it. I read it and I, oh, my god,
this is this is like an old school comedy from
John Hughes or you know, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
super bad, that kind of feeling where it was very funny,
(01:10):
but yeah, you like the kids in it and you
understand them, and it just captured a you know, a
slice of life in the day of a high school kid.
And so that's what it is that I responded to
the to the script here, and I thought it'd be
fun to make this kind of movie that's kind of
not getting made anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, that's that's quite true. Did you ever have a
chance to get to know or meet John Hughes? And
not a lot of people unless you were unless you
were John Candy. Uh, you got a chance to really
get to know John Hughes. Did you ever get to.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, Uh, we did. My brother Pete and I did
have the and it was a great pleasure, Uh, because
you know, John passed away young and so but he
was he was a genius and he made it look
so easy like he was just that guy who just
he was so prolific. Uh. He could just make movie
after movie and they were all good because they were real.
(02:03):
There was a there was his comedy work, because there
was something in all those characters that he created where
you you felt like, I know that guy. Yeah, he's like,
you know a kid I was in high school with
and he's just so good at what he did. So
we did meet him, didn't spend a lot of time
with him, but it was definitely an honor.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What was he like and what do you talk to
him about? When he produced some of the greatest movies
of all time, yet he was always described as a
bit of an enigma? What was he like?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He was a bit of an enigma, you know, looking back,
and I'm going off, I have nothing to base this on,
but you know, like growing up with kids, people that
they were a little odd and then and then later
on you'd say, huh, maybe that person was on the
spectrum to some degree, you know, maybe, and just we
(02:58):
didn't have that work. You didn't know what it was.
Just you we just say, oh, he's he's eccentric. Maybe
he was like that. I'm not sure, you know, I'm
really not, but he was the guy that he My
brother Pete and I were screenwriters and we had never
gotten anything made when we met him, and he said,
(03:18):
how come you guys are getting stuff made? And we
said we can't. We're having a hard time finding a
director to make our movie screenplay into a movie. And
he looked at us and said, you guys got to
direct it. We're like, well, we don't know anything about directing,
and he said, you wrote it, you know what to do.
Get a camera man, get a guy who does lighting,
get a guy who does sound, hire them, and then
(03:39):
get those actors to read the lines like you like
you and vision when you wrote it. And we're like,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So for those of us who watched Dumb and Dumber
and continue, anytime we're flipping channels and it's on, you
got to watch at least fifteen minutes of it, if
not all the way to the end. Do you still
watch that movie? And if so, what from that movie?
Really it'll make you laugh?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, it's like it's like you just said. If I'm
flipping through the channels and I see it and I go, oh, okay,
I'll pop in for a second, and it's the same thing. Yeah,
I'll watch ten or fifteen minutes and have so many memories, uh,
you know, flooding back to me. But but what, you know,
what I laugh at is just the relationship between Jim
(04:26):
Carrey and Jeff Daniels. They were two different. Jim was
in the zone funny comedian and Jeff Daniels was a
was a serious actor who we hired him to challenge
Jim in a different direction, like you're going to keep
up with this guy's acting, and they the way they
worked off each other, particularly the way Jeff worked off Jim.
(04:47):
He's just a genius. He made it look easy. He
if Jim went off in some weird direction, Jeff would
just go right with him and stay, you know, step
for step. And so when I look at it, I
just always remark marvel at the chemistry between those two
because it really was heart what made the story work
so well.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's not a day goes by that I'm not thinking
of or quoting some line from that movie Harry, your
fingers are freezing comes up quite a bit. But you know,
whether it's dumb and dumber. By the way, I got
you an extra ticket sold that there's something about Mary
because a friend of mine saw it and said, I
walked out. I said why, and she said, because they
were making fun of that mentally handicapped. I said, no, no, no, no,
(05:30):
please go back and watch the rest of the movie.
And I bet she's also watched Champions Now and realized
where your heart is. I can't wait to laugh at
Driver's ed in theaters this Friday. Bobby, it's such a
great chance to talk to you. Thank you so much
for the lifetime of entertainment. We'll look forward to seeing
drivers head this weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Thank you, Scott. Great talking to you.
This is a bit of the new film from Bobby
Fairley called Drivers and My.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Dramas at Car got hijacks.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Do whatever you got to do, just get them back here.
How are you so sure about this? Basically everything I
do is made better by her being in my life.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm coming with I'm coming to No, absolutely not. What's
the worst that can happen?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Bobby Fairley joins us now here on news radio eleven
ten kfa B. Good morning, Bobby goil morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's great to be here. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're the last guy that needs to make new entertainment
for this next generation of people who are the age
I was when Dumb and Dummer came out, and there's
something about Mary and all the other great Fairly Brothers films.
So why a new movie here Drivers?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Ed? Well, you know what, there's no comedies nowadays for
high school kids. In my opinion, I haven't seen any.
So when I read this script Drivers, d I didn't
write it. I read it and I, oh, my god,
this is this is like an old school comedy from
John Hughes or you know, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
super bad, that kind of feeling where it was very funny,
(01:10):
but yeah, you like the kids in it and you
understand them, and it just captured a you know, a
slice of life in the day of a high school kid.
And so that's what it is that I responded to
the to the script here, and I thought it'd be
fun to make this kind of movie that's kind of
not getting made anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, that's that's quite true. Did you ever have a
chance to get to know or meet John Hughes? And
not a lot of people unless you were unless you
were John Candy. Uh, you got a chance to really
get to know John Hughes. Did you ever get to.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, Uh, we did. My brother Pete and I did
have the and it was a great pleasure, Uh, because
you know, John passed away young and so but he
was he was a genius and he made it look
so easy like he was just that guy who just
he was so prolific. Uh. He could just make movie
after movie and they were all good because they were real.
(02:03):
There was a there was his comedy work, because there
was something in all those characters that he created where
you you felt like, I know that guy. Yeah, he's like,
you know a kid I was in high school with
and he's just so good at what he did. So
we did meet him, didn't spend a lot of time
with him, but it was definitely an honor.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
What was he like and what do you talk to
him about? When he produced some of the greatest movies
of all time, yet he was always described as a
bit of an enigma? What was he like?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He was a bit of an enigma, you know, looking back,
and I'm going off, I have nothing to base this on,
but you know, like growing up with kids, people that
they were a little odd and then and then later
on you'd say, huh, maybe that person was on the
spectrum to some degree, you know, maybe, and just we
(02:58):
didn't have that work. You didn't know what it was.
Just you we just say, oh, he's he's eccentric. Maybe
he was like that. I'm not sure, you know, I'm
really not, but he was the guy that he My
brother Pete and I were screenwriters and we had never
gotten anything made when we met him, and he said,
(03:18):
how come you guys are getting stuff made? And we
said we can't. We're having a hard time finding a
director to make our movie screenplay into a movie. And
he looked at us and said, you guys got to
direct it. We're like, well, we don't know anything about directing,
and he said, you wrote it, you know what to do.
Get a camera man, get a guy who does lighting,
get a guy who does sound, hire them, and then
(03:39):
get those actors to read the lines like you like
you and vision when you wrote it. And we're like,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So for those of us who watched Dumb and Dumber
and continue, anytime we're flipping channels and it's on, you
got to watch at least fifteen minutes of it, if
not all the way to the end. Do you still
watch that movie? And if so, what from that movie?
Really it'll make you laugh?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, it's like it's like you just said. If I'm
flipping through the channels and I see it and I go, oh, okay,
I'll pop in for a second, and it's the same thing. Yeah,
I'll watch ten or fifteen minutes and have so many memories, uh,
you know, flooding back to me. But but what, you know,
what I laugh at is just the relationship between Jim
(04:26):
Carrey and Jeff Daniels. They were two different. Jim was
in the zone funny comedian and Jeff Daniels was a
was a serious actor who we hired him to challenge
Jim in a different direction, like you're going to keep
up with this guy's acting, and they the way they
worked off each other, particularly the way Jeff worked off Jim.
(04:47):
He's just a genius. He made it look easy. He
if Jim went off in some weird direction, Jeff would
just go right with him and stay, you know, step
for step. And so when I look at it, I
just always remark marvel at the chemistry between those two
because it really was heart what made the story work
so well.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It's not a day goes by that I'm not thinking
of or quoting some line from that movie Harry, your
fingers are freezing comes up quite a bit. But you know,
whether it's dumb and dumber. By the way, I got
you an extra ticket sold that there's something about Mary
because a friend of mine saw it and said, I
walked out. I said why, and she said, because they
were making fun of that mentally handicapped. I said, no, no, no, no,
(05:30):
please go back and watch the rest of the movie.
And I bet she's also watched Champions Now and realized
where your heart is. I can't wait to laugh at
Driver's ed in theaters this Friday. Bobby, it's such a
great chance to talk to you. Thank you so much
for the lifetime of entertainment. We'll look forward to seeing
drivers head this weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Thank you, Scott. Great talking to you.
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