By Clay Risen Jim Abrahams, who with the brothers David and Jerry Zucker surely comprised one of the funniest trios of comedy writers in film history, layering on the yucks in classics like ...

Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who with brothers Jerry and David Zucker popularized the 1980s spoof genre with comedies such as “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” series, has died.

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 ...

Abrahams - who wrote and directed iconic spoof films Airplane! (1980) and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) died from natural causes on Tuesday at his home in Santa Monica, his ...

Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety.

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 ...

Cramer believes the Department of Government Efficiency could turn to Palantir for help cutting defense budget spending. "They like big things. Big expensive programs. Alex [Karp] is not like that ...

Jim Abrahams, part of the writing-directing-producing team behind such comedy touchstones as Airplane!, the Naked Gun films, and Police Squad!, died Tuesday at his Santa Monica home. He was 80 ...

and 'Ruthless People.' By Chris Koseluk 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!, ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery looks on from the bench with centers John Beecher (19) and ...

John Harbaugh improved to 3–0 lifetime in the NFL when coaching against his brother Jim as the Baltimore Ravens secured a 30–23 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — In the last hour of their parents’ 63rd wedding anniversary, John and Jim Harbaugh hustled to midfield, shed their coaching armor and yielded to brotherhood. They had spent ...