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.
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…