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Funny Business (film)
Funny Business may refer to: * Funny Business (TV series), a 1992 documentary television series about the craft of comedy. * ''Funny Business'' (film), a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Clifton Ko * Funny Business (musical), a new musical debuting in Toronto, ON. * Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, And the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game, a book by BBDO CEO Allen Rosenshine Allen G. Rosenshine (born March 14, 1939) is an American advertising executive who previously served as chairman and chief executive officer (1985-1986, 1989–2006) of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). He was also the founding chairman (1 .... * "Funny Business", a season 1 episode of ''The Loud House'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funny Business (TV Series)
''Funny Business'' (also known as ''Laughing Matters'') is a BBC television documentary series about the craft of comedy. Originally airing in the UK on 22 November 1992 the series consisted of six 50-minute episodes, with each one focusing on a different aspect of humour and show business entertainment. The Series Producer was Sarah Williams and was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions (formerly Tiger Television Productions) for the BBC. The series was also broadcast in Germany and New Zealand and later released on video. Episodes Series 1 (1992) Visual Comedy: A Lecture by Rowan Atkinson M.Sc. (Oxon.) This episode was directed by David Hinton. The writers were Rowan Atkinson, Robin Driscoll, and David Hinton. The show featured appearances by many comedians, including Rowan Atkinson who made an appearance both as the presenter/narrator and as an aspiring comedy actor named Kevin Bartholomew. Atkinson demonstrated many of the principles of comedy ( slapstick, mime, etc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funny Business (film)
Funny Business may refer to: * Funny Business (TV series), a 1992 documentary television series about the craft of comedy. * ''Funny Business'' (film), a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Clifton Ko * Funny Business (musical), a new musical debuting in Toronto, ON. * Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, And the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game, a book by BBDO CEO Allen Rosenshine Allen G. Rosenshine (born March 14, 1939) is an American advertising executive who previously served as chairman and chief executive officer (1985-1986, 1989–2006) of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). He was also the founding chairman (1 .... * "Funny Business", a season 1 episode of ''The Loud House'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Hong Kong
The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including its worldwide diaspora). For decades, Hong Kong was the third largest motion picture industry in the world following US cinema and Indian cinema and the second largest exporter. Despite an industry crisis starting in the mid-1990s and Hong Kong's transfer to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997, Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage. In the West, Hong Kong's vigorous pop cinema (especially Hong Kong action cinema) has long had a strong cult following, which is now arguably a part of the cultural mainstream, widely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifton Ko
Clifton Ko (; born 6 August, 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, actor, producer and scriptwriter. Background Clifton Ko graduated from Kwun Tong Maryknoll College, and entered TV and film industry in late 1970s, firstly worked with director Clifford Choi. In this period he wrote Choi's ''No U-Turn'' (1981) and ''Teenage Dreamers'' (), and John Woo's comedy ''Once a Thief''. In 1982 Ko entered Raymond Wong (film presenter), Raymond Wong's the newly founded Cinema City & Films Co., and directed his first film ''The Happy Ghost'' in 1984. The film series, like all his major works, is a slapstick comedy with moral teaching, family value, and optimism. Ko, together with the company, is prolific in making "Chinese New Year movies". Important titles include family comedy series ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World'' (beginning in 1987); ''Chicken and Duck Talk'', a collaboration with comedian/writer Michael Hui; and ensemble comedy series ''All's Well, Ends Well'' (beginning in 1992); and ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funny Business (musical)
Funny Business may refer to: * Funny Business (TV series), a 1992 documentary television series about the craft of comedy. * ''Funny Business'' (film), a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Clifton Ko * Funny Business (musical), a new musical debuting in Toronto, ON. * Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, And the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game, a book by BBDO CEO Allen Rosenshine Allen G. Rosenshine (born March 14, 1939) is an American advertising executive who previously served as chairman and chief executive officer (1985-1986, 1989–2006) of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). He was also the founding chairman (1 .... * "Funny Business", a season 1 episode of ''The Loud House'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Rosenshine
Allen G. Rosenshine (born March 14, 1939) is an American advertising executive who previously served as chairman and chief executive officer (1985-1986, 1989–2006) of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). He was also the founding chairman (1986-1989) of the Omnicom Group, the second largest advertising agency in the world. Biography and career Rosenshine graduated from Columbia College (New York), Columbia College in 1959. He joined BBDO in 1965 as a copywriter and became the BBDO New York creative director in 1975. In 1980, he became president of the New York agency and in 1985, he was named chief executive officer of BBDO Worldwide. In April 1986, He spearheaded what is dubbed as advertising's "Big Bang," a merger that created the Omnicom Group, the world's largest three-network conglomerate consisting of BBDO (Ranked No. 6) and a merged Needham Harper Worldwide (No. 16) and Doyle Dane Bernbach (No. 12). He served as chairman of the Omnicom Group for three years before famo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
