Growing up in Milwaukee in the 1950s, Jim Abrahams and brothers Jerry Zucker and David Zucker attended the same synagogue, high school and later college, where they enjoyed a reputation as class ...

and ‘The Naked Gun’ series,” National Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson said in a statement to Variety. “Together with Jerry and David Zucker, he transformed satire into ...

Following that film, ZAZ went their separate ways ... which reunited him with David Zucker. Abrahams is survived by his wife, Nancy Cocuzzo; his daughter, Jamie, and sons Joseph and Charlie ...