* 1984 – Jonathan D. Lovitz, American actor, singer, and dancer

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

In an attempt to address this, the Government entered into the Narcotics Agreement of 1984 and the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty of 1986 with the United States, in order to reduce the use of their facilities associated with these activities.

Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Jewish nationalist ideology ( subsequently dubbed Kahanism ), the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures.

Michael Jordan entered the league in 1984 with the Chicago Bulls, providing an even more popular star to support growing interest in the league.

Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis wrote in 1984 that radical feminism " got sexual politics recognized as a public issue ", " created the vocabulary … with which the second wave of feminism entered popular culture ", " sparked the drive to legalize abortion ", " were the first to demand total equality in the so-called private sphere " (" housework and child care ,… emotional and sexual needs "), and " created the atmosphere of urgency " that almost led to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

In 1984 two Aerospatiale SA 355F Erureuil 2 helicopter entered service with the ministry of defence.

Minardi left the lower division at the end of 1984, although in 1986 a modified version of their final Formula Two car, the 283, was entered without success in two rounds of the Formula 3000 championship which had replaced Formula Two in 1985.

Foucault entered Paris ' Hôpital de la Salpêtrière – the same institution that he had studied in Madness and Civilisation – on 9 June 1984, with neurological symptoms complicated by septicemia.

* Moon Treaty, signed 1979, entered into force 1984

The firm entered the Prime Brokerage business in 1984.

From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the fantasy genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the " Bard " class in Dungeons & Dragons, Bard by Keith Taylor ( 1981 ), Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn ( 1984 ), and in video games in fantasy settings such as The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ).

Narayanan entered politics at the request of Indira Gandhi and won three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha in 1984, 1989, and 1991, as a representative of the Ottapalam constituency in Palakkad, Kerala, on an Congress ticket.

During the night of 2 – 3 December 1984, water entered Tank E610 containing 42 tons of MIC.

In one such operation, Operation Blue Star ( June 1984 ), the Indian Army led by the Sikh General Kuldip Singh Brar forcibly entered the Harmandir Sahib ( the Golden Temple ) to overpower the armed militants and the religious leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

In 1984 European election the PPR, CPN and PSP formed the Green Progressive Accord that entered as one into the European elections.

However, at a late stage CyBC decided that the song was ineligible to represent them as it had been entered into the 1984 Cypriot selection, where it had finished in 3rd place.

Osho had withdrawn from public speaking and lecturing during the upheaval, having entered a period of " silence " that would last until November 1984, and at the commune videos of his discourses were played to audiences instead.

She entered the 1984 Australian Open with a chance of winning all four titles in the same year.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the federal government became more centralist in ideology, and Canada entered a stage of " conflictual federalism " that lasted from 1970 to 1984.

Acarine mites, formerly known as tracheal mites are believed to have entered the US in 1984, via Mexico.

Under the auspices of a separate appropriation for Guard and Reserve equipment established in 1982 under President Ronald Reagan, 69 brand new C-130s entered the ANG ’ s inventory from 1984 to 1991.

His first credited Broadway musical was The Rink in 1984, a project he entered after the score by composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb had been written.

In 1984, the GPTC entered public radio for the first time, starting stations in Macon and Columbus.

Akai entered the electronic musical instrument world in 1984 when Roger Linn, the creator of the Linn LM-1, the Linn 9000, and the Linn Drum partnered with the Japanese Akai Corporation to create samplers similar to the ones created at Linn's own company, Linn Electronics.

In the 1980s Maccabi Haifa finally entered the ' Israeli ' champions ' club, clinching the title thrice ( in 1983 / 84, 1984 / 85 and 1988 / 1989 seasons ).

Nallon, a graduate of the University of Birmingham, began his career as a stand-up performer on the northern club circuit, before joining the Spitting Image team in 1984.

After quitting bartending, Quinn began his stand-up career in 1984.

However, the track and structure were never designed for stand-up trains, and the original sit-down trains were reinstalled in 1984, remaining in place until the attraction was removed in 1988.

The 1984 season saw two stand-up roller coasters open in the United States.

Also in 1984, 350 miles east of Six Flags St. Louis, Kings Island at Mason, Ohio opened the TOGO-designed King Cobra as the world's first purpose-built stand-up roller coaster.

In 1984, at the age of 22, Garlin moved back to Chicago, to perform with the comedy troupe The Second City, into which he had been accepted, as well as to pursue a stand-up comedy career there.

In 1984, he had his first stand-up show at the Théâtre Fontaine.

He moved to France permanently in 1984, and formed a touring band with François Ovide ( guitar and trombone ), Denis van Hecke from Aksak Maboul ( cello ), Mireille Bauer ( formerly of Gong ) ( stand-up drums and percussion ) and Blegvad's brother, Kristoffer Blegvad ( backing vocals ).

Outside of his academic pursuits, Levitin has worked on and off as a stand-up comedian and joke writer, performing at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco with Robin Williams in 1984, and at comedy clubs in California ; he placed second in the National Lampoon stand-up comedy competition regionals in San Francisco in 1989, and has contributed jokes to Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, as well as the nationally syndicated comic strip Bizarro, some of which were included in the 2006 compilation " Bizarro and Other Strange Manifestations of the Art of Dan Piraro " ( Andrews McMeel ).

The world of musical comedy ( Edition 4, 1984 ), Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-80207-4

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

" Kemp has compared his speech to George Carlin's 1984 comedy routine on the differences between baseball and American football and has written that his " tongue was firmly planted in cheek " when making the speech.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

* Protocol ( film ), a 1984 comedy film

Gelbart also co-wrote the golden-era film spoof Movie Movie ( 1978 ) starring George C. Scott in dual roles, the racy comedy Blame It on Rio ( 1984 ) starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, and the 2000 remake of Bedazzled with Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser.

Beiderbecke's music was featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by Alan Plater: The Beiderbecke Affair ( 1984 ), The Beiderbecke Tapes ( 1987 ), and The Beiderbecke Connection ( 1988 ).

Eastwood next starred in the period comedy City Heat ( 1984 ) alongside Burt Reynolds, a film about a private eye and his partner who get mixed up with gangsters in the prohibition era of the 1930s.

Howard was working on Splash ( 1984 ), a romantic comedy fantasy about a mermaid who falls in love with a human.

He also had a sizable hit with the sex comedy Bachelor Party, also in 1984.

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

Leonard Rossiter ( 21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984 ) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series and film Rising Damp ( 1974 – 80 ), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ( 1976 – 79 ).

It has no connection, other than the character's name, to the earlier film Eddie Monsoon: A Life ?, a comedy play written by Saunders ' husband Adrian Edmondson in 1984 for the TV series The Comic Strip Presents ....

In 1984, a 112-minute long French-Italian comedy, Le bon roi Dagobert ( Good King Dagobert ) was made, based on Dagobert I.

She also co-starred in the short-lived television series a. k. a. Pablo in 1984, a situation comedy series for ABC, with Paul Rodriguez.

The Garden's marquee is seen in the 1984 comedy film, Top Secret!

Douglas ' acting career was propelled to fame when he produced and starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone.

All You Need Is Cash was one of the first of its kind, inspiration for the Rob Reiner comedy film This Is Spinal Tap in 1984.

In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series As Time Goes By.

From 1984, they appeared as comedy relief on the weekly Channel 4 music programme The Tube, for which French had the honour of being the first person to use the word " blowjob " on British television.

In 1984, Candy played Tom Hanks's womanizing brother in the hit romantic comedy Splash, generally considered his breakout role.

He starred in the 1984 film The Census Taker, a 1984 black comedy directed by Bruce R. Cook.

The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 action comedy film released by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget B-movies with campy concepts.

Operating from a base in Toronto, as well as one maintained in California, he directed high profile actors Al Pacino in ... And Justice for All ( 1979 ), and Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn in the romantic comedy Best Friends ( 1982 ), and he produced The Dogs of War ( 1981 ) and Iceman ( 1984 ).