Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker know their way around a comedic script.

From their college days in Madison, Wisconsin writing sketch comedy as "Kentucky Fried Theater," the trio—known in the biz as "ZAZ"—always had a knack for the humorous. Their first feature film released in 1977, The Kentucky Fried Movie, was comprised entirely of sketches based on their KFT routines. The team was paired with young director Jon Landis, who, on the heels of Kentucky's surprise success, was launched to stardom in the following years with megahits like Animal House and The Blues Brothers.

As it happened, ZAZ was just getting warmed up. Beginning with Airplane! in 1980, the trio would go on to pen a slew of hits throughout the decade, including Top Secret! the TV series Police Squad! and the film the series inspired: The Naked Gun.

By the '90s, however, the team more or less split up, focusing more on directing and producing independently. Aside from the decidedly less successful Naked Gun sequels, the trio hasn't written anything as a team in a couple decades or so. We're still holding out for another Airplane! sequel, one that erases the memory of the non-ZAZ disaster of a disaster comedy Airplane 2.