Jim Abrahams, who with the brothers David and Jerry Zucker arguably comprised one of the funniest trios of comedy writers in film history, died on Nov. 26 at his home in Santa Monica, CA. He was 80.

Mr. Abrahams and the Zucker brothers revolutionized film comedy with their straight-faced, fast-paced parodies of self-serious dramas like “Airplane” and “The Naked Gun.”

“We like to think of our humor as innocent,” Mr. Abrahams told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1988. There’s lots of innuendo but it’s childlike. I’d take a 7-year-old to see that. The toilet humor — they’d probably like that the best.”