Hong Jiantao, one of the country's most popular smallscreen comedians, is busy making another sitcom. This time, he's playing for laughs as a stingy building manager.

Hong Jiantao, one of the country's most popular smallscreen comedians, is busy making another sitcom.

Hong Jiantao is having a love affair with the situation comedy. And this time, his former classmate from actors school, Ding Xiaohan, is directing. That gives him supreme confidence in the collaboration.

Midway in production, Hong is relishing his role in "My Home Land."

Another familiar face in the production is Gao Yalin, who played the daddy in the smash-hit sitcom "Children of the House." This time he plays a clerk at a property management company. In a remarkable coincidence, Gao Yalin is also an alumni of that same acting school.

Midway in production, Hong is relishing his role in "My Home Land."

Hong said, "Gao Yalin is a former schoolmate of both of us. We lived in the same dorm room in college. He's younger, like a little brother. So there's no competition between us. I'm the better one, at least in terms of age."