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Jim Abrahams RIP

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I show my teens a lot of movies, and I’ve found that comedies tend to hit like a ton of bricks compared to dramas. There’s Something About Mary? No, there isn’t. The Hangover? Why? But for whatever reasons they absolutely fell apart throughout the entirety of Airplane! In that spirit, let’s take a moment to remember the late Jim Abrahams:

Jim Abrahams, a frequent collaborator of Jerry and David Zucker and the writer-director of such films as Airplane!Top Secret!, and Hot Shots!, died of natural causes at the age of 80, his son Joseph confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on November 26. Abrahams got his first break in the industry co-writing with the Zucker brothers, who were his childhood friends, the sketch-heavy The Kentucky Fried Movie in 1977. The trio (who came to be dubbed “ZAZ”) went on to write and direct Airplane! in 1980, a disaster-movie spoof starring Leslie Nielsen that has cemented itself as an American comedy classic and armed dads near and far with one of the most quotable jokes in cinematic history. Abrahams worked with the Zuckers on Police Squad! (1982), Top Secret! (1984), Ruthless People (1986), and The Naked Gun (1988) before going on to direct Big Business (1988) and write and direct the Hot Shots! films in 1991 and 1993. 

I haven’t shown them the Naked Gun films or the Hot Shot films (Hot Shots Part Deux is an underrated classic of the genre), and of course the shtick got old after a while as all things do, but I don’t know that I’ve ever laughed so long and so hard at the product of one group of creators as I have at Abrahams-Zucker-Zucker. I am serious; don’t call me Shirley.

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