Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety. He was 80.

Mike Cheslik’s Hundreds of Beavers evokes the golden age of cartoon slapstick and fuses it with video game-style grind to create a riotously absurd comedy on a shoestring budget. ComingSoon’s Hundreds ...

Writing comedy is hard. (Just ask Seth Rogen.) I've been trying to nail the tone of this comedy script I've been working on, ...

This newly restored screwball comedy is a buoyant romp. The director revisits and refines the techniques used here in his later work in other genres. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Slapstick tends to involve lots of physical comedy, broadly appealing humor, and comic violence, so the idea of a slapstick action movie really isn't too out-there. Sure, lots of action movies don’t ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Slapstick comedy often gets a bad rap as mindless popcorn entertainment rather than serious art. Great Lakes Theater’s production of “Noises Off,” now at the Hanna Theatre through ...

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