Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who helped create comedy classics such as “Airplane!,” the “Naked Gun” movies, and the TV series “Police Squad!” has died. He was 80. Abrahams passed away of natural ...

Along with his fellow filmmakers David and Jerry Zucker, he revolutionized film comedy with a straight-faced, fast-paced style of parody. By Clay Risen Jim Abrahams, who with the brothers David and ...

Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who with brothers Jerry and David Zucker turned the comedy genre on its ear with such zany efforts as Airplane!, Police Squad! and The Naked Gun films, died Tuesday.

The world is a little less funny today. Shorewood High School graduate Jim Abrahams, a co-creator of the zany "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies, has died at age 80. His death was confirmed in an ...

I'm about to ask three guys how they made a funny movie 43 years ago that still gets quoted today. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "AIRPLANE!") KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: (As Roger) We have clearance, Clarence. PETER ...

“Can you fly this plane and land it?” asks a physician named Dr. Rumack after food poisoning fells the flight crew of a jet heading from Los Angeles to Chicago. “Surely you can’t be serious,” says Ted ...