Vân Sơn (nghệ sĩ hài)

Vân Sơn came to comedy by way of dance. In Saigon he joined the Hương Miền Nam troupe as a dancer in 1977, drifted into its comic parts, and was working as an independent comedy performer by 1985. After reaching the United States in 1990 he started performing in California with Bảo Liêm, a partnership that ran through his company's shows until the late 2000s. He also dubbed Hong Kong films with Quang Minh.

The decisive step came in 1994, when he opened his own production house, Trung tâm Vân Sơn, and from then on he produced the shows he starred in. The numbered Vân Sơn variety programmes and the Hollywood Night series grew out of that house. Hoài Linh and, later, Bảo Chung also worked with him as stage partners, and the company has shared projects with the other big diaspora houses, Thúy Nga and Asia. He performs in Vietnamese, and outside the stage shows he took a film role in Vật Đổi Sao Dời, directed by Charlie Nguyễn.