However, a significant age gap existed between him and the other cast members; he was only 17 when he joined the show, having been recruited by Joel Hodgson from his "Creative Stand-Up and Smartology" comedy classes.
[2] In an April 2019 episode of Bill Corbett's Funhouse podcast, Weinstein elaborated on his experience at Best Brains, claiming that MST3K producer, Jim Mallon, was openly hostile toward him and used the age disparity between him and the rest of the cast as a pretext for paying him significantly less for his work on the show than his cohorts.
[4][5][6][7] He was head writer for NBC's late night show Later with Greg Kinnear and America's Funniest Home Videos.
He is currently the president of Stinkburger Inc.[7] He appeared in the 2010 science fiction computer game DARKSTAR - The Interactive Movie as Captain Cedrick Stone of the Galactic Discovery II.
On October 30, 2007, Joel Hodgson announced he was starting a new show with the same "riffing on bad movies" premise as MST3K called Cinematic Titanic, together with former MST3K cast and crew members Weinstein, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl.