According to an oft-misquoted line from author F. Scott Fitzgerald, “There are no second acts in American lives.” Literary ...

Along with his fellow filmmakers David and Jerry Zucker, he revolutionized film comedy with a straight-faced, fast-paced ...

With the death of Jim Abrahams, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker writing and directing trio, a look at some of the ...

Casino Royale, Disaster Movie, and Vampires suck are all among the worst parody and spoof comedy movies of all time.

Jim Abrahams, who has died aged 80, was one of three badly behaved American schoolboys who went on to reinvent screen comedy ...

Remember Detective Frank Drebin from "The Naked Gun"? The utterly serious cop with a knack for getting tangled in hilarious ...

From The Kentucky Fried Movie to The Naked Gun, the late Jim Abrahams never let bad taste get in the ... The performers were ...

Jim Abrahams, one of the creators of wacky, slapstick comedy classics such as Airplane and the Naked Gun series, has died at ...

Jim Abrahams, who co-created spoofs such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 80. His son Joseph told trade website The Hollywood Reporter, that the writer died of natural causes at ...

The comedy genius Jim Abrahams, one of the directors and screenwriters behind comedy hits such as "The Naked Gun" and ...

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.' ...