'They're doofuses but they're funny'

Peter and Bobby Farrelly burst onto the scene in the 1990s, directing gut-busting tales like Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary. Their films ushered in a new breed of romantic comedy that was not afraid to use slapstick humor and gross-out gags to elicit laughs. The duo’s latest picture Hall Pass (released by Warner Bros Pictures) starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis, chronicles the comical adventures of two married men who are given a week off from marriage to pursue whatever affairs they desire. Over to Peter and Bobby... Wellwe have the same agent and we didn’t know Pete Jones but he was theoriginal Project Greenlight guy like 10 years ago. So someone sent us the scriptand we just thought it was hysterical. We liked it. It was very funny, justconsistently funny. He’s from Chicago and he has a real like Midwesternsensibility. It made the guys real likable. That was a big thing for us that wedid like the guys. They’re doofuses but they’re funny. We think thatthis movie works culturally everywhere. It’s the same issue,except for maybe Italy. Someone was telling us (in faint Italian accent),‘Yeah we have a name for hall pass in Italy, it’s called theweekend.’ We do it every weekend. We were shocked, and we were like‘What are you talkingabout?’ No Ihadn’t. Not used in this context, no. It’s interesting because theterm ‘hall pass’ comes from being in school and having to raise yourhand to go to the bathroom, and when you’re married you have to raise yourhand to go to the bathroom. You have to ask permission to doanything. Like the story hetold with the guy and the phone, we just try to take things that happen in reallife and work them into the movie. Then we embellish on them and exaggerate onall that, but we try to make it loosely based on stuff that happened. The closest one would beOutside Providence for high school. It was like that you know back then,it’s hard to believe, but that was what it was like. Follow us on Twitter for more stories