David Zucker’s name has long been synonymous with spoofs. Along with his brother, Jerry Zucker, and their friend, Jim ...

"Everybody's in it for the money now, and that feels like the only reason why they wanted to do a new 'Naked Gun,'" David ...

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 ...

Again, comedy is subjective, and there’s no such thing as a movie that’s equally funny to all audiences, but some of the ...

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. His ...

The world of cinema, and especially comedy, has lost one of its great stalwarts of recent decades. Jim Abrahams, one of the most important directors of the comedy genre, has died at the age of 80 at ...

Elihu Abrahams, 91, a theoretical physicist specializing in condensed matter, died in Los Angeles after a brief illness. Born in Port Henry, N.Y. to Simon M. and Mildred Mischkind Abrahams, he grew up ...

EXCLUSIVE: A week after veteran talent agent Jed Abrahams resigned as KMR Talent’s SVP and head of the agency’s New York office, he has joined Los Angeles-based management and production company The ...

Jim Abrahams, who arrived in Hollywood with two childhood buddies as a comedy-writing trio that found fame with deadpan parodies and a blitz of puns with “Airplane!” and the Naked Gun series, died Nov ...