What is "monkey business"

n. 1 (context US slang English) wasting time, or effort, on some foolish project. 2 An activity that is considered silly, or stupid, or time-wasting. 3 (context idiomatic English) An activity that may be considered illegal, questionable, or a vice, but not felonious.

n. mischievous or deceitful behavior

Monkey Business may refer to:

Monkey Business is a Czech funk band. It is one of the projects of its leader Roman Holý, the other being J.A.R..

Monkey Business is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film. It is the third of the Marx Brothers' released movies, and the first with an original screenplay rather than an adaptation of one of their Broadway shows. The film also stars Thelma Todd. It is directed by Norman Z. McLeod with screenplay by S. J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone. Most of the story takes place in on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Monkey Business is the fourth studio album by American group, The Black Eyed Peas. It was released on May 25, 2005, by the will.i.am Music Group and A&M Records. It was recorded in "two and three-month spurts" throughout 2004 while the group was on tour.

The album was certified three times Platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. and has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (or CRIA) has certified Monkey Business 6x Platinum, with sales of over 600,000 copies. The Australian Recording Industry Association (or ARIA) has also certified Monkey Business 6x Platinum, denoting sales of over 420,000 copies. The album's tracks earned the group four 2006 Grammy Award nominations and they also won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Don't Phunk with My Heart". According to IFPI, over 2 million copies have been sold in Europe.

Monkey Business is a 1952 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Ben Hecht, which stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, and Marilyn Monroe. To avoid confusion with the famous 1931 Marx Brothers film of the same name, this film is sometimes referred to as Howard Hawks' Monkey Business.

"Monkey Business" is a hit song by Skid Row. It was the first single from their second album, Slave to the Grind and marked their change from hard-hitting glam metal to overall heavy metal. The song is one of their best known songs. The single was released in 1991 and was written by bandmates Rachel Bolan and Dave "the Snake" Sabo. The song was the biggest hit on Slave to the Grind and although the song didn't make the top 40 it reached #13 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and still gets heavy airplay on rock radio stations. The video got heavy rotation on MTV and catapulted the album to double-platinum status. Along with " Youth Gone Wild" from their first album, it is considered their signature song.

The song also charted at number #19 on the UK Singles chart.

Monkey Business is an American yacht built for the use of the Turnberry Isle Resort Marina in southern Florida. It is best known for its role in scuttling the campaign of Gary Hart for President of the United States.

Monkey Business was a UK TV series that premiered in 1998, focusing on the various primates who lived at Monkey World, a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series featured Jim Cronin and Alison Cronin, directors of Monkey World, as they traveled around the world rescuing primates, often from abusive situations, bringing them to the Monkey World sanctuary. The goal of Monkey World was the rehabilitation of the rescued primates, who were then released to live within the Sanctuary in as natural a habitat as possible. The series was narrated by Chris Serle.

Monkey Business is a 1926 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 48th Our Gang short subject released.

Monkey Business (The Musical) is a 2009 family oriented musical with book and lyrics by Ronnie L. McGhee and music by Ronnie McGhee. It is copyrighted and published by Clocktower Hill Research & Publishing Group, LLC based in Rome, Georgia.

"Monkey Business" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the December 1932 issue of American Magazine under the title "A Cagey Gorilla", and in the United Kingdom in the December 1932 issue of Strand. It was included in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935).

ore courageous Captain Fosdyke. Montrose goes to the gorilla's cage and tries to befriend it with a banana, despairing when he recalls that it is an elephant that never forgets, not a gorilla.

A few days later, just before dinner, Montrose encounters a staff member from the Press department, who warns him that, to stoke publicity about the film, the gorilla will be "accidentally" released from its cage, causing panic and generating press attention. This indeed happens just moments later, and Montrose finds himself stranded in a distant part of the movie lot. For safety, and to reconnoiter, he climbs the steps attached to the back of one of the large sets, whereupon he sees that the gorilla has snatched a baby from its mother and lumbered off with the infant — to the consternation of a large crowd of onlookers. A moment later, he trips and falls, and then discovers that the gorilla is towering over him, staring at him with its "hideous face," having just climbed the steps behind the set as well.

Now the story's surprise ending is sprung, which is so preposterous that readers will realize at this point that the entire story must be a tall tale (which Mr Mulliner has no shortage of). As one might guess, Montrose dispatches the gorilla, saves the baby, vanquishes Captain Fosdyke, and wins Rosalie's undying admiration, all with just a few seconds' interaction with the beast — but how? The ridiculous (but amusing) secret is uncharacteristic of Wodehouse, whose surprise endings typically appear quite credible. He does, however, very subtly foreshadow the secret when he notes, with dry humor, near the beginning of the story that the gorilla's contract grants him a salary of 750 dollars per week, and "billing guaranteed in letters not smaller than those of ... the stars" of the movie.

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