On July 2, 1980, Paramount unveiled a film that would eventually become known as one of the great movie comedy satires. By Ron Pennington On July 2, 1980, Paramount unveiled in theaters Airplane!, ...

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 ...

The iconic 1980 film “Airplane!” from the ZAZ directing team, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker parodies the plot and characters from the 1957 disaster flick “Zero Hour!” The iconic 1980 ...

He and boyhood friends Jerry and David Zucker got their start with 'The Kentucky Fried Movie,' and they also were behind 'Top Secret!' and 'Ruthless People.' By Chris Koseluk Jim Abrahams, the ...

Forty years ago this month, three guys from Shorewood released a movie that helped reshape funny in America. When "Airplane!" debuted in July 1980, it put Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Can you fly this plane and land it?” asks a physician named Dr. Rumack after food poisoning fells the flight crew of a jet ...

“Airplane” is a movie that feeds off other movies and it begins, as did “1941,” by borrowing that ominous-sounding music that heralded each public appearance of the shark in “Jaws.” This time, as the ...

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 ...

Robert Hayes, Julie Hagerty, and Leslie Nielsen starred as a pilot, a flight attendant, and a deadpan doctor onboard the doomed flight. The comedy earned universal acclaim from critics and was named ...

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 son ...