I can’t say it better than (TV’s) Frank Conniff:

Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane!, Police Squad, Top Secret, etc… I mean, come on! All of these projects and more gave us not just laughs, but huge belly laughs. Jim Abrahams was an inspiration to me and I will be forever grateful for all the great comedy he gave us. Rest In Peace.

  • P_P
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    84 hours ago

    Surely, you can’t be serious!

  • Flying Squid
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    I feel like there’s a good German word for being sad that a funny person died, but I don’t know any German.

    • @CheeryLBottom
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      He’s just a little horse/hoarse

      I’ve of my favorite movies of all time

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    He should have picked an earlier day to quit sniffing glue.
    On a slightly more “serious” note, he made the funniest movies I ever watched in my life, including the best opening scene of any movie ever.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOS7dKuwcQ

    Movies like these made a generation of Germans (like me) admire and want to move to the USA…
    He’s probably one of the reasons I was eager to learn English and listened to American Forces Network radio all night long.
    But all of that is 30-40 years in the past now…

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    Unlike his previous stuff this last prank of his is not funny at all. Sad even. Just proves he’s past his prime.

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    7 hours ago

    HEADLINE NEWS ACROSS THE WORLD - JIM ABRAHAMS HAS DIED!

    Thanks Jim for giving us this absolutely stupid sense of humour, RIP

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    I kept reading that as JJ Abrams, and thinking there’s no fucking way he made that many great movies.