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 ...

David Letterman may be one of the most iconic late-night hosts of all time, but he admits he was not cut out for the big screen. The comedian and talk show host, 76, spilled details on his audition ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surely it can’t be 35 years since the comedy “Airplane!” (1980) first arrived in movie theaters. In fact, it has been that long—and don’t call me Shirley. If that last remark elicits a smile, you are ...

“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 ...