“Airplane!” is one of the most beloved and influential comedies to ever hit the silver screen. Surely you want to know more about it. The new book “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ...

(JTA) — Growing up in Milwaukee in the 1950s, brothers David and Jerry Zucker entertained themselves by performing skits for their family during Hanukkah parties. In a recent conversation, David ...

“Airplane!” became the highest-grossing comedy in history (until it was beat a few years later by “Ghostbusters”). The trick to “Airplane!” — and one of the reasons it remains so funny nearly four ...

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 ...

In Airplane! Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is a Vietnam veteran who is haunted by a mission that he led in which many people died. When the movie opens, he is being dumped by his girlfriend, Elaine ...

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 ...

LIFT (L to R) Kevin Hart as Cyrus and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Abby in Lift. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Netflix has dropped the final Lift trailer for its forthcoming ...

Jim Abrahams — the legendary comedy writer, director and producer — has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 80. Abrahams' son Joseph told the outlet that his father died of natural ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, the trio who wrote and directed Airplane!, about their new book Surely You... New book examines the making of the 1980 comedy ...