Obamas Memorialize Fellow Chicagoan Harold Ramis

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, actor and director Harold Ramis walks the Red Carpet as he arrives to celebrate The Second City's 50th anniversary in Chicago. An attorney for Ramis said the actor died Monday... FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, actor and director Harold Ramis walks the Red Carpet as he arrives to celebrate The Second City's 50th anniversary in Chicago. An attorney for Ramis said the actor died Monday morning, Feb. 24, 2014, from complications of autoimmune inflammatory disease. He was 69. Ramis is best known for his roles in the comedies "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes." (AP Photo/Jim Prisching) MORE LESS
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday remembered actor and writer Harold Ramis, a fellow Chicagoan, for being one of the greatest satirists and comedic geniuses of his generation.

“When we watched his movies – from “Animal House” and “Caddyshack” to “Ghostbusters” and “Groundhog Day” – we didn’t just laugh until it hurt,” Obama said in a written statement. “We questioned authority. We identified with the outsider. We rooted for the underdog. And through it all, we never lost our faith in happy endings.”

The Obamas also sent well wishes to “all those who loved him, who quote his work with abandon, and who hope that he received total consciousness.”

Ramis died on Monday at age 69.

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