The world just got a lot less funny.  Renowned actor and screenwriter Harold Ramis has passed on Monday, Feb. 24th, after a years long battle with auto-immune inflammatory vasculitis.  The award winning writer of four of the American Film Institute’s 100 Funniest Movies (Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day) who has been in and out of the news with genre fans eagerly watching the progress of a potential third Ghostbusters, joined Chicago’s famed Second City in 1969. As funny an actor as he was a writer and director, he has made people laugh from both sides of the camera.

He is survived by his wife Erica, two sons, Julian and Daniel, daughter Violet, and two grandchildren.