In this episode of Naked Comedy!, David Zucker and Ellie Shoja sit down with screenwriter Dale Launer, the writer behind My Cousin Vinny, Ruthless People, and some of the sharpest comedy writing of the last several decades.

Dale shares how My Cousin Vinny grew from a simple legal “what if” into a comedy so accurate it’s now used in law schools across the country. He breaks down the importance of research, airtight plotting, authentic dialogue, and writing scenes that are “relentlessly entertaining” from page one.

The conversation also dives into Dale’s first collaboration with David Zucker on Ruthless People, why he originally did not want the Zucker brothers to direct it, the infamous wrong-number joke, writing for Danny DeVito, and what comedy writers can learn from rejection, ch ...